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Today’s Episode is:
The Huntsman
| PRODUCTION NUMBER | EPISODE TITLE | DIRECTOR | WRITERS | PREMIERE DATE | RE-WATCH-A-THON DATE |
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| MU63 | “The Huntsman” | Lou Zukor | Larry DiTillio | November 21, 1983 | Jan 28 |
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| Synopsis: Adam and Teela try to stop a hunter from hunting down the very last unicorn. | |||||
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OUR REVIEW:
One of the better moral driven episodes that struggle to entertain, this one starts out better than it finishes, ending a little too cleanly for our taste. Cringer can be fun when he gets the spotlight. (5/10)
Comment, Review and Discuss below:
Tomorrow’s Episode is: “The Remedy”
It’s strange to put the last unicorn alive story on Eternia. There has to be more exotic creatures over there to hunt than horses with horns.
King Randor makes hunting illegal even though we’ve seen him eat meat.
This is definitely a middle of the road episode – fairly forgettable amongst the 130. I don’t dislike it, but I also think they went a little too strong on the “hunting is evil" message vs “be a responsible hunter." And I say this as a non-hunter. Obviously the Baron hunting the last unicorn is problematic, but I liked how overall he wasn’t over the top evil, just didn’t want interference and changed his tune by the end.
You’re also right on Cringer, I really like the episodes when he’s the comic relief over Orko, Orko usually becomes the focus in that area when he’s around.
Thought this episode was decent, nothing too special. But something I noticed with both this and yesterday’s one is Adam is more himself than He-Man for most of the runtime. I kinda like that as if the writers kinda wanted to mix it up. Also is this like the first time Adam actually attempts using his royal prince authority to be like to someone “Hey, you shouldn’t do that."?
3 stars. Cornball ending aside, I liked this villan and how he was a little different then the “i want the power of blah blah" ones we normally get. Also liked that we got to see Adam acting as a royal.l for once.