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A great group of He-Man fans have accepted the quest 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-THON-ERS!
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Today’s Episode is:
Day of the Machines
| PRODUCTION NUMBER | EPISODE TITLE | DIRECTOR | WRITERS | PREMIERE DATE | RE-WATCH-A-THON DATE |
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| MU68 | “Day of the Machines” | Lou Kachivas | David Wise | September 19, 1984 | Feb 2 |
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| Synopsis: Man-At-Arms is becoming discouraged about his inventions. Skeletor sends a small demon into Man-At-Arm’s main computer, which causes every machine in the palace to have a mind of its own. | |||||
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OUR REVIEW:
While Man-At-Arms oddly forgets his own safety protocols while testing a rocket near the palace, this logically challenged (but fun) episode where Skeletor hatches a plan to capitalize on Man-At-Arms' failure is well paced and really quite entertaining. (8/10)
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Tomorrow’s Episode is: “The Gamesman”
Day of the Machines is another favorite episode of mine. I like that Skeletor regularly spies on Man-At-Arms to see all his tech secrets. Now we know Skeletor’s tech isn’t all Trap Jaw inventions. I think Byte is great and I love that Byte was created using the lifeforce of another creature. The best part of course is when Man-At-Arms and He-Man are shrunk in size. I know it’s not the same exactly but it makes me think of Honey I Shrunk the Kids which is another favorite movie of mine when I was younger. Overall I give it 8/10.
This episode was okay. All I can say is Transformers G1 did it better. I know writer David Wise basically took the same basic premise and made one of the more memorable episodes of that show. KREMZEEK! Didn’t he also use it again for Ninja Turtles later?
This episode Bytes.
That floating chair Man-At-Arms rode in was awesome. He looked like Doctor Octopus.
3 stars. Serviceable episode. Really demonstrates the turn the show takes in season 2 to be more sci-fi and less sword & sorcery.