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A terrific group of He-Man fans have accepted the challenge to watch all 130 Episodes of the 1983 Filmation Cartoon Series “He-Man and the Masters of the Universe“ for 130 days straight, one episode per day. They are the RE-WATCH-A-THONERS!
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Today’s Episode is:
Double Edged Sword
| PRODUCTION NUMBER | EPISODE TITLE | DIRECTOR | WRITERS | PREMIERE DATE | RE-WATCH-A-THON DATE |
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| MU42 | “Double Edged Sword” | Gwen Wetzler | Robby London | October 4, 1983 | Jan 7 |
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| Synopsis: The Kingdom of Eternia has always been run on the power of Eternium, powerful gemstones. But the power supply is running low and it’s up to He-Man and his friends to find more. | |||||
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OUR REVIEW:
While more entertaining than the previous moral driven episodes, this middling light-on-attractive-backgrounds tale does have a playful He-Man that is fun to watch... although his humor becomes borderline cruel by time the episode wraps. (5/10)
Comment, Review and Discuss below:
Tomorrow’s Episode is: “The Mystery of Man-E-Faces”
I agree that is definitely a “fun" episode, despite it’s moral. This kind of reminds me of valley of power where He-Man just keeps mouthing off to his opponent, almost like Eternian smack-talk.
I also really liked the pairing of Trap-Jaw and Mer-Man, I wish they got another (full) episode of a team-up, their dynamic works well together. And while it dumbs down Mer-Man’s character more than usual, I love how Trap-Jaw gets him to help him by saying he’ll turn Eternia into 2/3 then 1/3 water.
Also nice to see Panthor, even though it was a whopping 2 seconds.
Did you see Pathor had the key? That was amazing.
Hey kid, your little friend is dead. Psych! Lmao!
I know right? He-Man you evil bastard!
There are some sadistic elements like chaining Mer-Man and Trap Jaw’s necks to the table that I wish we got more of. I know it’s Filmation but everything felt extra neutered for laughs or for whatever like when the old dude gets paralyzed. Maybe I shouldn’t expect any different but it was super annoying this time.
Liked this one. Feels very standard but in a good way. Enough interesting stuff happening.
gotta love how probably the most powerful energy source in Eternia is just found by a random kid blasting around with a laser.
Mer, Beastie and/or Jaw as a duo is always a treat for me in an episode. Yeah they seem like standard cartoon villain henchmen, but their dynamics are entertaining enough.
question: Why did despite from the beginning being portrayed as Skeletor’s main posse, Tri-Klops only appears in ten episodes I think?
That is a great question. Maybe it’s because Tri-Klops was voiced by Lou Scheimer and after voicing Orko and King Randor and Trap Jaw it was too much for him.
3 stars. Fun episode that moves at a clip, but not enough to make it stand out.