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A fantastic group of Masters of the Universe fans have united to take a 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!
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Today’s Episode is:
The Arena
| PRODUCTION NUMBER | EPISODE TITLE | DIRECTOR | WRITERS | PREMIERE DATE | RE-WATCH-A-THON DATE |
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| MU81 | “The Arena” | Ernie Schmidt | Warren Greenwood | September 28, 1984 | Feb 15 |
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| Synopsis: An alien being called Om visits Eternia, just as Eternos City comes under attack from Skeletor and an army of Goblin warriors. Om freezes the conflict and places the most powerful warriors from both sides in a duel: He-Man and Skeletor. | |||||
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OUR REVIEW:
Ripping off a story from Star Trek: The Original Series titled (you guessed it) "Arena" and likely pulled from a Micronauts comic run as well, this inferior clone does have its moments, like when the Goblin Warriors lay seige to the palace. Still, it is hard to enjoy this episode while we are constantly reminded that Star Trek did it better. (6/10)
Comment, Review and Discuss below:
Tomorrow’s Episode is: “Attack from Below”
Good average episode. Nothing to really say except I noticed a music track I don’t think has been used up in the show ’til now when He-Man and Skeletor start fighting. A faster paced variation of the main theme.
Thank you! I’ve had the same beef with this episode for years.
I don’t dislike this episode but it definitely could be better – we get probably the longest He-Man/Skeletor fight of the series, but before that He-Man is basically a background character for 13 minutes.
Obviously we still have 50 episodes to go, but in some ways this feels like it could have been the series finale – an army of good guys vs bad with a good chunk of the main good guys, a battle with He-Man and Skeletor for the fate of the planet, and Orko making everyone laugh at the end in the throne room with the everyone including a bunch of additional Eternians. Memorable parts but not the best.
4 stars. Never watched star trek so didn’t realise this was a rip-off episode. The series most epic episode by far.
The reaction to an alien being discovered makes no sense tho – eternia is full of them, including the Queen!