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TAKE the CHALLENGE! An amazing 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-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: The Shadow of Skeletor PRODUCTION NUMBEREPISODE TITLEDIRECTORWRITERSPREMIERE DATERE-WATCH-A-THON DATE MU80“The Shadow of Skeletor”Steve ClarkRowby GorenSeptember 17, 1984Feb 14Synopsis: The heroic warriors intercept Beast Man while on his way to Eternia’s Dark Moon. With Man-E-Faces impersonating Beast Man, they find out Skeletor’s…
We have the Power!
This episode has some nice elements to it, but overall I find it a bit boring. I feel like it’s a wasted opportunity to bring in all of the original Evil Warriors (with Whiplash swapped out for Tri-Klops) and have them do talk about all the destruction they did as opposed to seeing it. I do wish we had the original 5 together more, it always felt grander. Whiplash does make a good substitute for Tri-Klops though - 15 episodes into S2 and we already feel we know him better.
The other thing I’ve never liked with this one - I’m more than happy to suspend my belief when watching He-Man, it’s supposed to be fun, but him turning into a “Human Whirlwind” is a bit too much even for me.
Not too shabby of an episode, however, He-Man's ability to become a whirlwind has to be the dumbest power ever.
Really like this one. Rare episode off of Eternia. And one of only two episodes to have Man-E.
Love that little moment where it's a bait and switch where Adam feels he has no choice but to turn into He-Man in front of everyone, exposing himself and Duncan doesn't even attempt to discourage him enough other than "But Teela will see you." Dude, you're one of the three others who share the secret!
Man-E puts on a fursuit
"We're all here!" really guys why didn't you invite Tri-Klops? What did he ever do? 😭
I know that's definitely not him voicing King Barbo, but I think he sounds a bit like Peter Cullen putting on an accent. Anyone else hear it?
A giant cannon being aimed at a moon reminds me too much of a certain meme that blew up that involves Dr. Eggman from Sonic making announcement about pissing on the moon. (it makes just as much sense as in context)
Congrats to Man-E for once winning that Oscar the real Patrick Stewart awarded him
This episode has some nice elements to it, but overall I find it a bit boring. I feel like it’s a wasted opportunity to bring in all of the original Evil Warriors (with Whiplash swapped out for Tri-Klops) and have them do talk about all the destruction they did as opposed to seeing it. I do wish we had the original 5 together more, it always felt grander. Whiplash does make a good substitute for Tri-Klops though - 15 episodes into S2 and we already feel we know him better.
The other thing I’ve never liked with this one - I’m more than happy to suspend my belief when watching He-Man, it’s supposed to be fun, but him turning into a “Human Whirlwind” is a bit too much even for me.
I'd like to think that Tri is that one guy in a gang everyone never feels like hanging with for no reason at all and they keep pretending that they keep forgetting to invite him to parties. Skel probably has a very arbitrary reason.
4 stars. Hemans whirlwind power is dumb, as is man-e-faces disguise power (he changes his face not his whole body, - this IP always struggled with just what man-e is supposed to do and what role he plays.)
Apart from that the episode itself is grand and fun. S2 has been kicking ass so far, I always had in my head that it was weak, either my memory is wrong or it falls off a cliff in the second half.