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TAKE the CHALLENGE! An amazing collection 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“ one episode per day, for 130 days straight. They are the RE-WATCH-A-THON-ERS! Be sure to check out the RE-WATCH-A-THON celebratory memento shirts and mugs (long sleeve shirts options are available too). Today’s Episode is: Keeper of the Ancient Ruins PRODUCTION NUMBEREPISODE TITLEDIRECTORWRITERSPREMIERE DATERE-WATCH-A-THON DATE MU47“Keeper of the Ancient Ruins”Bill ReedLee RobertOctober 18, 1983Jan 12Synopsis: Man-At-Arms and Professor Smallen get captured by ancient robots in the middle of desert ruins. Teela and He-Man must help them.…
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This episode is meh but that part when He-Man and Trap Jaw fight clashing sword against gun make me wonder how more sword fights they could have included if this show was made a few years later.
This episode is entertaining - definitely one I have memories of as a kid, but there's nothing overly special about it. I like that they use Trap-Jaw here, but he doesn't feel like he can carry an episode the way Mer-Man, Evil-Lyn, or Whiplash can in a solo outing. You're also right about the bird, that part is just weird.
That shot of He-Man vs Trap-Jaw is one of my favorite stills of the whole series - that's how we played with our toys, and that's what we always wanted to see on the show is action like that. They give us a few breadcrumbs but they really kept it limited I'm in sure in large part of the censors. But anytime I look at this shot I can't help but to smile - I know they used this as the cover art to the Season 1 Part 2 DVD release.
Good episode, not much to say. Like it when one of the main evil warriors has an episode away from Skeletor or any other of their main co-workers for them to have some spotlight. Did Tri-Klops ever have his own main antagonist episode? Because I know he appear the least out of the main six I mean nine episodes? Really?
The scientist guy is yet another one of the many characters that don't look like they belong in this show. He looks specifically like he's from a movie of Disney's 70s-80s dark age
Also I know the robots are saying goodbye at the end but one of them sheds a tear. Yeah I guess it could be emotion, but it just looks weird. *Insert topical snarky comment about AI here*
Also it with his moments here, it gives me even more thought to my "Cringer and Battle Cat aren't mentally the same" fan theory from yesterday's episode.
I mean REALLY when Adam transforms into He-Man here, notice it for once doesn't show his usual trademark iconic transformation animation on screen and just lingers on a shot of Cringer. I feel like that has to be some evidence with the way it's framed.
NGL I think it's gonna be hard for me to get through the rest of the Watch-A-Thon without this fan theory mindset. Nothing definitely proves it, but at the same time, from what I've seen (or have at least paid attention to and remember) I don't think there's anything definitely disproving it either.
This episode is meh but that part when He-Man and Trap Jaw fight clashing sword against gun make me wonder how more sword fights they could have included if this show was made a few years later.
I don't think it would be much different. Lou Scheimer was strongly against violence in kids shows.
I always liked this episode. The pacing is a little slow but I like the idea of ancient technology being robots. Robots in ancient history sounds so strange to us but it's not strange to Eternia. I like seeing Trap Jaw as the main bad guy and I'm actually okay with the giant rooster bird considering the power of the Sorceress is bird related too. 7/10
3 stars. Average episode. Storm was rediculous but the ancient robots were a nice idea that harkens to the original great wars concept. Trapjaw for such a fan favourite didnt seem to get any killer episodes...