The Scepter and The Sword

Masters of the Universe Revolution

S01E05

The Sailor Moon transformation returned for the last episode. They avoided it the last 4 episodes but they gave him some lion motif with the symbol from the CGI cartoon. That was a mistake, the symbol they've been using from the original battle armor is what they should have continued to use. His mullet looked terrible. Teela got even more powerful as He-Man gave her some of the power of Grayskull like he does with Battle Cat. So technically he saved her from being consumed by the 3 ancient gods & she got yet another outfit. Are they really going to make toys out of all these variant looks?

Evil-Lyn is made a cosmic enforcer? That was incredibly stupid. Not only was she evil her entire life, doing bad things as Skeletor's girlfriend for decades, she killed everyone in heaven, but because she fought along the other guys, she gets made a cosmic enforcer!? Then they made her the blue cosmic enforcer from the comic book who was already named Apokrifa. This cartoon does not respect any existing ideas. They should just make blackternate Andra an enforcer too, after she becomes president of Eternia of course. That scene with everyone worshipping her was really out of place & stopped the whole episode as everyone bowed down to the diversity hire.

Granymyr the Monstrous gets to go to heaven too because he fought one robot? Seeing Monstroid was cool, I think the other monsters might be from the old Christmas special, but this show isn't that good for me to care enough to confirm.

Everyone is excited about Despara because they want to see She-Ra. Despara is available to be the next Big Bad before she's revealed as Adora & King Hiss is also still available as a Big Bad, but no, this terrible show decided to make Hordak survive an impalement through the heart, another stupid decision.

We get a shot of heaven that basically says "look at all the people that this awful show murdered." What's the point of dying if they can all come back & punch things!? - also stupid but I guess it's necessary in order to have yet another person rescue He-Man. What's the final count in only these 5 episodes? He-Man was saved by Randor, saved by blackternate Andra & saved by Keldor. tHaNkS Kevin Smith!

The Dogs of War

Masters of the Universe Revolution
S01E04

Everyone keeps acting like Evil-Lyn is a good guy & blackternate Andra rescues Adam because she's the best at everything, and suddenly Orko's magic is so powerful he can defeat Leech, Grizzlor and Mantenna all by himself, even though we just watched them kill Rokkon in the last episode! Just ridiculous.  Orko is as strong as She-Ra now. And it looks like Teela, not He-Man, is going to save the day again, just like last season. And like last season: what has He-Man actually done?

The only good part of this episode was Mattel fixing failmations demotion of Skeletor from the Lord of Destruction into a lowly "acolyte" of Hordak. The retcon is that Hordak couldn't understand & wield magic so Hordak needed someone else to do it. Not bad, I always hated that diminishing of Skeletor by the She-Ra cartoon. Then Skeletor killed Hordak, which was actually very good. It would have been better if Skeletor had restored himself using Havoc magic to get rid of the Skeletek parts. but still, seeing Hordak be killed by Skeletor is something I always wanted to see. It's also good to see Teela looking feminine like the old cartoon.

Mother board was killed too and Man-at-Arms looks like Gladiator but he called himself Man-at-War instead of War Wraith, another missed opportunity. But I'm not really a fan of Man-at-Arms like some people are.

All the little Easter eggs don't impress me as much as they seem to do everyone else who keep overlooking the plot mistakes & problems.

More Thing in Heaven and Eternia

Masters of the Universe Revolution
S01E03

There is no Heaven on Eternia, it's called Preternia. Do they even keep track of their own show? instead of showing us a character that's never been animated we get Rokkon who was in the old cartoon. Rokkon doesn't create full rock armor, his armor is on the back parts, not covering his face & he turns into a large asteroid, but I shouldn't expect these people to know anything about He-man. They think because they put Saryn & Tytus in a wall mural that viewers will forget all their other mistakes, ugh. Last season Teela was able to defeat Evil-lyn - who had the full power of Grayskull - without training to learn Zoar magic but for no good reason she needs to train in Snake magic from Evil-Lyn, who has absolutely zero connection to Snake magic. Instead of showing Skelecons at Snake Mountain, we get anonymous people in those dumb robes.

So they are using the Keldor story after all, that's good. It was good to see He-Man using his axe with the battle armor. But the easy way that Screech got into the castle was dumb, maybe because Teela was using Ka instead of Zoar? But I shouldn't try to explain away their mistakes. Where is Blast Attack and Trap Jaw, the actual tech bad guys, instead we get cyborgs of characters who were in the 80s show. Evil-Lyn is still annoying and Teela is suddenly an inexperienced amatuer taking advice from a murderer, it's too much of a difference from last season.

blackternate Andra created the battle armor, what else can she do? Why bother asking Gwildor for help, I'm sure fake Andra can do it. All right, finally He-Man is going to go on the offensive & attack Snake Mountin, but that was disappointing too. The fighting at Snake mountain was short and from far away because they spent more time showing Gwildor and Orko meeting, this cartoon is for adults, that's not what people are interested in. Who was sitting on the edge of their seat thinking "I hope we get to see Orko & Gwildor on screen together!" (nobody)

Ascension

 Masters of the Universe Revolution
S01E02

So they brought the Keldor, Miro story from 200x into it, that was cool, and Shatner was great. But Adam just crowns him without any kind of verification of his story? 

Keldor was on some random surfboard instead of it being a Jet Sled, that was a missed opportunity. blackternate Andra is one again the best, of course only she could have shot the big robot in the right spot. Nobody else could do it. This was another wasted opportunity, instead of making the robot a huge Twistoid, it's some random forgettable robot.

Genocide queen: Evil-Lyn killed everyone in heaven and she's punished by being exiled to Trolla, but she's on Eternia violating that! Teela barely reacts to seeing the war criminal & instead of just imprisoning her on sight with magic starts chatting with her like they are friends. More girl-boss stupidity left over from last season.

I also thought it was presumptuous of Granynyr to assume he was going to heaven. At least he's not fat in this one. I admit the reveal of Motherboard as Skeletek was a surprise. So I was also surprised by Keldor being Skeletor, but I would have preferred the Keldor storyline. So stealing the crown is pretty lame because nobody is going to honor that, Keldor, brother of Randor, son of Miro was made king not "whoever wears this crown" so this plan seems dumb, unless it's to make people lose faith in Adam's decision making skills?

Even for Kings

Masters of the Universe Revolution
S01E01

This episode starts out ok, we finally get to see Rio Blast animated but he has the corny lines "even cowboys get the pews. as in pew pew pew" because it's written by kevin smith. black-washed Andra rides into battle smiling because she's a Mary Sue & she can't get hurt even though she's just human, so it's all fun for her. She also built a hulkbuster armor suit which King Randor wears into battle in Subternia. Then later in the very same episode Randor tell Adam that he can't go on adventures as king, even though we literally just watched the king go on an adventure. 

Teela & He-Man are flirting now, which makes this Teela seem like a completely different character from what we saw in Revelation. Last time, she didn't even care that Adam was dead, she was still a bitch to him in heaven(!) Instead of using the Blaster Hawk, they have some new birdplane. Teela is going to restore Preternia using Zoar, Ka & Havoc magic. It would have been nice if they mentioned Horokoth but the Havoc is from the CGI show so no complaints there.

Cyborg Skeletor & Motherboard are terrible ideas. I was never a fan of Hordak so I'm not excited about Hordak, but that's just me. I don't know how they are going to explain Keldor showing up, considering how the Revelation comic book returned Skeletor to his mini-comic origin of him being from a race of people from another world.

Just a "meh" episode, it would have been better if Scareglow stayed normal & actually fought He-Man instead of turning into a weird crab (that made no sense at all), while the other guys fought the shadow demons & other creatures. 

Comes with Everything You See Here

Masters of the Universe: Revelation
S01E10

He-man finally showed up in the very last episode of this garbage show. of course he's a Man so this show did it's best to make him as ineffectual as possible, because this has been the Teela & Evil-Lyn show from the beginning.

According to his show, you can keep the power of Grayskull once you get it. Dark-Lyn dropped the sword, Prince Adam picked it up & turned into He-Man but Dark-lyn remained, just stupid. Is there an infinite amount of power? Does He-Man only call for a percentage? Did Dark-Lyn's power decrease? The show doesn't care about things like that.

Then He-Man gave the power to Skeletor. so now there were 3 champions of Grayskull all at the same time. How incredibly stupid. but of course, the two men together still couldn't beat grrrl power. Sorceress Teela defeated her. The Sorceress who was always just "the guardian of Grayskull & didn't have as much power as The Champion" saves the day, because vagina. Remember, this is the Teela & Evil-Lyn show.

Orko is now some ribbon magician?? that was strange. Evil-lyn then keeps him from going back to subternia, how? Then she's forgiven even though she killed everyone in Heaven!! Just when I though they dropped that dumb tech storyline Trap-Jaw & Tri-Klops are able to overpower Skeletor even though he's back at full strength, for motherHorde? ugh.

After an entire episode where Man-At-Arms was tHe mOsT dAnGeRoUs mAn iN eTeRnIa, Andra turned out to be stronger than him, again because vagina. She was made the new Man-At-Arms even though she was only in one battle for the king, I guess because Clamp Champ is dead & this time, blck vagina. 

What a terrible show. The action we all hoped to see was lacking, a cool looking He-man that we all hoped to see was in only 2 episodes, all the characters that we hoped to see didn't appear & the few that did, were mocked or killed. If you think this was good, you should be embarassed that you have such poor taste in storytelling. 

Hope, for a Destination

Masters of The Universe: Revelation
S01E09

In addition to the terrible writing there is the terrible voice acting from whoever they hired to be Marlena. They named the Avions & Andreenids, but not all those other weird races from the 1st episode. That would have been more impressive: that races we were not familiar with came to help, but that should be expected from this awful show. 'hey, Prince Adam why don't you turn into He-Man again even though you don't have the sword' well, why doesn't Skeletor?

Dark-Lyn whines about Skeletor & even though she would be dead or a sex slave somewhere had he not saved her, according to this show & comic universe, Evil-Lyn is now an agent of chaos & nihilism. Boring. She’s just an angry little girl.

Then they insult Goatman & Pig Boy. Beastman being a beta orbiter is annoying. Then they turn him into a warthog, basically. Human girls Andra & Teela can beat Spikor, Webstor & Clawful? Because grrrl power or whatever. I don’t even care anymore.

The Gutter Rat

Masters of The Universe: Revelation
S01E08

Ugh, this show just gets worse. Not only is He-Man able to call the power of Grayskull without the sword, invalidating everything about the sword. Now Evil-Lyn grabs the sword & calls the power. Why doesn't she just call it without the sword the way Prince Adam did? or Skeletor can call it away from her, now that he had the power once. Nobody thought this through.

Just as kevin smith said, the 2nd half of the 1st season of MOTUR is all about Evil-Lyn. So far, 3 episodes without He-Man. That "Savage Prince Adam" in ep 6 was not He-Man. Sure, everyone made Evil-Lyn into Skeletor's girlfriend as kids. The problem is that this show makes her seem like she hates him, so why would he suddenly fall for her seduction. he has all the power, he could just make her get undressed. Just more stupidity

Oh look, Randor & Marlena are getting divorced, can't have a happy marriage between straight White people. And blackwashed Andra gets a high-ranking position for no reason. Can this show get any dumber?

Yes, if Evil-Lyn is the Sorceress of Grayskull she can't also be the champion. That would mean that the Zoar Sorceress could have been the champion, what do you need Prince Adam for? Then Dark-Lyn destroys "heaven" so they killed Clamp Champ & blackwashed King Grayskull. Only blackwashed Andra is left. Forced diversity killed 2 blacks on this show

Reason and Blood

Masters of The Universe: Revelation
S01E07

Savage He-Man grabs a battle-axe & murders multiple transformed residents of Eternos city. if they change back, then this was a huge mistake, like the killing of Fisto & Clamp Champ.

Now Teela can do magic, with zero training, she teleports them to the Mystic Mountains. Why did they end up there? She didn't know Point Dread was there or that Randor was there. Then Savage He-Man is going to kill his own dad??! We get a touching speech by Randor to Prince Adam, the only good piece of writing in this series so far, but somehow Randor was able to recognize his dead son as a savage but never recognized him as He-Man? More stupidity from this show.

Listening to Mark Hamil be unable to maintain the raspy Skeletor voice is distracting.

It was cool to see Pigboy & Goatman on screen.

Cleaved in Twain

Masters of The Universe: Revelation
S01E06

It took me over a year to watch this continuation of the 1st season because the first 5 episodes were bad. Well this one is even worse. The writing is terrible. The lame jokes are not funny at all. "I'd like to fist him" - that was stupid, this was written by someone who doesn't like Masters of the Universe, so they mock it. Official media from the brand owner should never mock the brand itself, it basically insults the customers for consuming/buying it. The fact that these last 5 episodes did not break into the top 10 list on Netflix when it premiered is clear that the casual fans who watched the 1st 5 episodes didn't bother to return to watch more of this garbage. So what's wrong with this episode?

Instead of using existing evil warriors that have never been in a cartoon, everyone is turned into a ram's head creature, (just dumb) including Clamp Champ & Fisto, then they are killed. Instead of elevating the existing black heroic warrior, they prefer to kill him to focus on the blackwashed girl character who is nothing like the original Andra. The cartoon even said "they deserved a better death" in the actual episode. It comes across as a direct insult to the viewer. 'you're watching this bad show? They deserved a better death, but because we know you will settle for this poorly written garbage we didn't bother to try, so we just killed them off' sucker.

Fake Andra stops Fisto's punch with her own techno fist? Her arm bones would have shattered. He-Man transforms without the sword? It negates the entire struggle for the sword & control of Castle Grayskull. This terrible idea also tells every kid who spent time playing with their action figures using that storyline, that they wasted their time. Thanks Kevin!

I'll suffer through the rest of this train wreck because I'm not contributing to the views, maybe one a week.

The Forge at the Forest of Forever

It was cool to see He-Ro, Vikor, Wun-Dar & Kuduk Ungol. It's too bad she wasn't on a Battle Raptor instead of that chicken dinosaur (I've never liked chicken dinosaurs). 

King Grayskull is a blond White man so black-washed King Grayskull was distracting. There was no reason to blackwash White King Grayskull. But Netflix didn't actually want to show more black characters because Clamp Champ was only in the whole show for 1 minute. They just want to erase the White characters by making two characters black. 

I forgot about Roboto's heart, but they reminded us & it looks nothing like a heart. So they never should have reminded us. But they killed him, so I guess it doesn't matter anyway. He-Ro was supposed to forge the sword, but we can't have a White man help save the day.

Skeletor was ok, until he turned into The Joker to say "ya did good Lynny" wasn't there any voice direction on this show??

I don't know why they decided to do this Greek mythology thing of being able to travel to "Heaven" but for some reason they decided that this place is called Preternia. It doesn't make any sense. Preternia is the past, not Elysium. Anyway, they go to "Heaven" & Teela is still self-centered even when talking to dead Prince Adam. She just can't stop. 

It doesn't matter that they are in Heaven, Teela has to save Adam, of course. He-man leaves Elysium & you think that the show is going to be normal again now that Teela "saved the day" but she didn't, because she lets Prince Adam get murdered. So if you thought He-Man was going to be back, the show wanted you to get that notion out of your mind now. 

So the final body-count on this awful show:

Faker dead
Moss Man dead

He-Man dead
Orko dead
Roboto dead
Prince Adam dead

Kevin Smith wasn't lying when he said he wasn't a fan.

Land of The Dead

I'm no longer excited to see things in this show, because they are going to be ruined.

Even in the 80s show it was well known that Orko was a skilled magician on Trolla, his magic didn't work correctly on Eternia without his wand, that he lost when he arrived. But this is MOTU Revelation & every male has to be broken down. Revelations Orko was an incompetent buffoon his whole life. And why would a Trollan nursery rhyme mention Scareglow?

Then Teela's fear is that He-Man told "everyone" his secret, but it was only 3 people. She can't stop being self-centered for 1 episode. And somehow even Scareglow is scared of her. He should be, once a female character is turned into a Mary Sue, there's no stopping her. If this show is trying to say that Teela is super-human because she is magical by birth, that would explain a lot, but it doesn't make sense considering that there is supposedly no magic (even though there seems to be plenty). And when Teela-Na took over from Kuduk Ungol to became sorceress she had no magical ability.

Roboto finally took off that dumb poncho, but instead of using his laser-axe or twin laser gun, he's just shooting blasts out of his wrist. so that was another disappointment. And he can't defeat the shadow demons without Andra's help. Not even the male robot is safe from Netflix feminism.

I don't know why they decided to change Subternia to be the "land of the dead" it isn't. It's where Whiplash's people the Caligars live & where Lord Dactys & the Speleans lives. But this is written by people who don't know anything about He-Man.

Seeing the Eternia Playset was cool, I can only hope they don't try to ruin it next episode by saying it was built by slaves or it's 3 patriarchal phallic symbols.

The Most Dangerous Man on Eternia

The let-downs continue. Yay Mer-Man, oh he's easily beaten by Man-At-Arms. Yay Roboto, oh he's now a clone of Man-At-Arms. Yay, Tri-Klops vs Beastman, oh Tri-Klops doesn't use his sword, I guess he thinks swords are magic??

"My sun & my moon"? The Game of Thrones reference was really creepy & incestuous. Mark Hamill was good as Skeletor in Episode 1, but in this episode he reverted to The Joker; it was really distracting. Then we get Evil-Lyn turning into Harley Quinn talking about how she wasted her life being with Skeletor.

Just like in some Batman & Superman comics, everyone is insulting the two most important characters. Both He-Man & Skeletor are insulted & disrespected throughout this episode by everyone. Teela disrespects her own father calling him a "broken old man" and she calls him Duncan instead of dad. Even in the flashback, He-Man is rescued by Man-at-Arms & Teela! Again, a normal human, Teela, beating an Aquatican - under water! The show has nothing but contempt for the straight men.

There's no magic left, but Orko is wasting it on light & Evil-Lyn is using her magic like it's normal. And the injured/scarred eye is overdone on this show.

They also keep talking as if they were vigilantes going on adventures. Teela was the captain of the guard, she was a soldier, not an adventurer. He-Man was not some guy going on random adventures, he was protecting Castle Grayskull & the entire Universe, but they talk about it like it was some thing they did for fun. Whoever wrote this obviously doesn't know what this IP is about.

Poisoned Chalice

This show is turning out to be a roller-coaster of excitement & let-downs. Something cool shows up on screen only to be ruined.

It was great to see Stinkor, but then he exhaled his stench which is not how his power works. 

It was great to see Blast Attack finally in a cartoon! Tri-Klops being a cult leader of tech worshipers was interesting but I didn't like Whiplash being turned into a cyborg. They should have used Twistoid or Strongarm instead; that would have made more sense.

They don't even mention how much time had passed since the 1st episode.

Not only did they turn White redhead Lieutenant Andra, black, she's now an engineer. She has nothing in common with Andra except the name, she should have just been the woman from Veridas. Then black-washed Andra started talking like she was from She-Ra & the Princesses of Power. After all the queer-baiting in the rest of this episode, it's clear Revelations is a "spiritual" successor to that show & not the original He-man cartoon from the 80s.

I don't like seeing 2 humans able to over-power robots, cyborgs & mutants. Teela & Andra don't have super-strength so they should have been using strategy not brute force. They did it with Stinkor too. Teela's Swiss Army staff was also annoying. Cringer's name is even more appropriate because that speech about He-Man leaving Eternia in Teela's care was super cringe.

The Power of Grayskull

It started out good. 

Faker tricking the sorceress, Spikor, Night Stalker. Skeletor attacking Castle Grayskull with an army of Skelcons & Hover Robots. Clawful with 13 Landsharks, Trap Jaw with 3 Rotons, Tri-Klops with 22  Jet Sleds and Beastman with 13 Bashasaurus (Someone didn't do enough research on that one)

Finally we are going to see an epic fight with Fisto, Clamp Champ, Man-at-arms, Teela & He-man fighting Skeletor's army! Nope, the fight was over in about 2 minutes. Hardly any fighting.

He-Man is heroic & sacrifices himself to save the universe & apparently dies. Queen Marlena is distraught, crying because her son is dead. When King Randor finds out that Man-at-Arms knew Prince Adam was He-Man, he banishes Man-At-Arms & threatens to kill him!

This apparently is the perfect time for Teela to make the death of someone else - all about her! She starts whining that nobody told her, even though she just heard how Randor didn't know. Then she whines that her life has been hard with monsters & magic, even though that is normal on Eternia. Because when someone dies, what matters is how it affects her. Teela storms off like an angry little girl. 

This selfish Teela will probably have another childish meltdown when she learns that the Sorceress is her birth mother.