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Magic gave birth to Eternia, the first planet

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in all of creation. But now the magic is gone.

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Without magic, Eternia will rot and die. And

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as goes Eternia, so goes the entire universe.

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I built a life of truth. Away from magic. Now

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you want me to save magic? Yes, to save Eternia.

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If I don't do this, everybody dies. No! Whatever

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became of Eternia, we'll face it together. No

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one else dies. But the Sword of Power was destroyed.

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Not destroyed. Divided. Whether you serve Greyskull

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or Snake Mountain... We all gotta work together

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now. Or else Eternia dies. What were we ever

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fighting for? Being a hero swallows you whole.

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Well, that's a risk I'm willing to take. Still

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know the tune? Some things you can never forget.

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I have the power! Hello, this is Optimus Solo,

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and welcome to the 125th chapter in our Powers

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of Greyskull series. With me for this journey

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into the Masters of the Universe franchise...

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as he has been with every other chapter, is TFG1

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Mike. Hello. Call your champion. Hello. Okay.

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And today we are bringing you a very special

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episode, so we thought it was fitting to also

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have a very special guest. So crossing over from

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the planet of Cybertron is none other than Steve

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Megatron. Hello, Steve. Yo. Oh, and a bottle

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of... Oh, no, that's something else. All right,

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today we have... Oh, and a bottle of rum. I need

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a bottle of rum right about now. I mean, it couldn't

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hurt you. All right, today we have the privilege

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of bringing you a very special sneak peek look

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at the new Netflix series from Kevin Smith, Masters

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of the Universe Revelation. Now, this is going

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to be a two -part episode, guys, in which today

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we're going to give you all of our non -spoiler

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thoughts and discussions to help you get excited

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for the series release on July 23rd. And then

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right after the series goes live on Netflix on

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the 23rd, you'll be able to come right back here

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and get a completely spoiler -filled discussion

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from us as well. So you get both worlds. But

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first, since this is Steve's first appearance

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on the Powers of Greyskull series, we thought

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we would give him a chance to introduce himself

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as well as his history with the Masters of the

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Universe franchise. So Steve, the floor is yours.

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Ah, the floor is mine. T -Man? That's about all

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I can do in his voice right now. I kind of grew

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up with the toys and watching some of the original

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show as well as the the new adventures of He

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-Man because I remember owning the sword from

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that and a lot of the figures from that line.

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Don't knock it. I mean, a lot of the designs

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were pretty neat. I mean, the show may have been

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terrible, but I wouldn't know. That's what I'm

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knocking is the show, not the toys. I liked the

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crossover movie, The Secret of the Sword. Yeah,

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that was good. but I owned that on VHS. So I

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watched it ad nauseum and I owned the Skeletor

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staff and the, uh, the He -Man, uh, power sword

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from that. And, uh, I thoroughly enjoyed the

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designs and the characters in that movie. So,

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uh, I, I hadn't seen like, I mean, I've seen

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bits and pieces over the years of the various

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series and I've always been a fan of it. It's

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just not been one of those, like, It's not been

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a Transformers or a Star Trek for me. Yeah, right.

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Makes sense. But it's been one of those ones

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that's kind of my second or third tier series

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that, yeah, I'll watch it and really enjoy it

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when I see it, but it's one that I normally didn't

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seek out. Right, right. Makes sense. So that

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is Steve's background. You should know Mike and

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my background, hopefully, by now. I mean, after

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10 years, you'd think that they would know. Yeah,

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we've been through it all. We've been through

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the Filmation He -Man, the Filmation She -Ra,

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the New Adventures, the 2002 series, the live

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-action movie. We've done a little bit of everything

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until Netflix came along, and now we're trying

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to catch up with some of that. So with that being

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said, we hope you guys are ready, because it's

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time once again to go back to Eternia. The palace

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is under attack! It's just fireworks. Take it

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from someone who's seen Battle Cat. All right.

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So before we get into some of the non -spoiler

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talk, obviously there has been a lot of hubbub

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and nonsense on the Internet, as it is always

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whenever there's a movie that's being teased

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or a new series that's being teased or, heck,

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even toys that are being teased. People lose

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their minds. And obviously the person involved

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in this is a big personality and a celebrity,

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a famous person who's done a lot of work in pop

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culture, really, with all the Jay and Silent

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Bob stuff. Kevin Smith. So there's been a lot

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of nonsense that's been circulating around that.

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So Michael, let you go first. Cause I know you

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wanted to address that a little bit. I just wanted

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to address and dismiss it very quickly. Like

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my opinion of this show had, it never had anything

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to do with Kevin Smith. My opinions of what the

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content is, what the show that they ended up

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giving us. Kevin Smith, to me, is a hype man

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at this point in his career. That's all he is.

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He'll say whatever he has to say to get people

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to watch whatever he's doing. Yeah, I think there's

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one thing, though, that we need to be careful

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of, and that is the fact that the Internet world

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takes little bits and pieces and runs with stuff

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without knowing the context, without understanding.

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Yeah, without just doing the actual work to understand

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what's being said and what's being done. So I

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am not about to take little snippets and little

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things that have been said in interviews over

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the year and blowing them completely out of proportion

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like this. Okay, the man is older than us. All

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right. I don't know. He's older than you, right,

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Mike? Okay, so to put this into perspective,

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okay. Mike's already losing his mind. No, no,

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no, I'm fine. To put this in perspective. Everybody

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on the internet blew up because in one of his

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reaction videos to one of the trailers or whatever,

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or one of the hype videos or whatever it was,

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he said, oh, I've been a Masters fan since 1981

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or 1982. Right. Who cares? Technically, the toys

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came out in 82, but whatever. It is what it is.

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But then people would go back to an old episode

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of Comic Book Men where he specifically said

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on that, I'm not really a He -Man fan. Right,

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but that's the part that gets blown out of proportion,

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see, because here's the thing, alright? If you

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listen to all of his interviews, he says that

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his parents did not allow him to buy the toys.

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So he had to play with the toys or be exposed

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to them through his friends, because he had already

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had a lot of different action figures from different

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series, and his parents were like, you're too

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old at this point to be doing that, so you're

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cut off from that. So I can easily see him saying

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he wasn't a fan as far as a super fan. He didn't

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have the toys. He didn't have that. But that

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doesn't mean he's not aware of what He -Man is.

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It doesn't mean that he was oblivious to what

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was going on when he was growing up. Right, exactly.

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I equate it, though, to when I was... Okay, so

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when He -Man was out, when He -Man came out in

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October of 83, he was 13 years old. Right. That,

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to me, is the same way I was with Power Rangers

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when it debuted in 1993, when I was 13 years

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old. I had one Power Rangers toy, and I didn't

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have it until after the movie came out two years

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later. But I never had any of the toys. Yes,

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I watched the show, whatever. So I get it. He

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was getting to the point of being a teenager,

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growing out of cartoons, growing out of toys.

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I understand that. It's just I wish some people

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that do these things would at least get their

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facts right before they go to hype it up. But

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I guess that's my point is, like, okay, we're

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diehard Transformers fans that have done reviews

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of every Transformers episode almost throughout

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time and stuff like that and He -Man stuff. So,

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yes, we're going to know the dates. But the common

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person isn't just going to be able to recall

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what year a random -ass cartoon came out. So

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give him a break is my point. If I was trying

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to name what year Bobby's World started, I don't

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freaking know. I might say the wrong year, too,

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because I'd be guessing back to a point in my

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life. And if I got it off by a year or two, so

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what? I get it. The year was wrong and some of

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his facts were wrong, but that's because he's

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a common fan. He's not a diehard geek superfan

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of that. franchise you know what i mean so like

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we all have a weird way of seeing things through

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our eyes instead of through like the masses eyes

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oh i know and and then there's the also the other

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thing that yeah he may not have been a huge fan

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of it back then right but working on a project

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is a totally different world So when you get

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to actually work on it, then you become engrossed

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in it, and then you're like, oh, yeah, I'm a

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super fan of this. I love this. This is great.

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Right, right, right. Because you're like 110

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% in, and plus writing and directing and creating

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this addition, this continuation, yeah, he's

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going to be super engrossed in it. Right. I could

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have a quote right now on Twitter or in some

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podcast we've done or some interview or whatever

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that I hate Power Rangers, I'm not a fan, blah,

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blah, blah, blah, blah. Ten years from now, maybe

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I am into it. You know what I mean? Maybe I've

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had some reason to get... I guess the best example

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would be anime. I'm probably on the Geekcast

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Radio Network saying I don't like anime, blah,

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blah, blah. Then, Cinema Geeks, we did Miyazaki's

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Spotlight and went through all of his filmography,

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and I loved a lot of it. So you could easily

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take a quote of me saying I don't like it and

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then being like, oh, you're going to do a spotlight

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on this guy? But things change. It's a constant

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evolution. Right. So let's get off of the, the

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need to create drama where there's not need of

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drama. And if you just go into this with an open

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mind, you're going to see that the love that

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he wasn't, if he wasn't a fan, he must've surrounded

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himself with a bunch of fans because there is

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all kinds of nods and, and stuff like that. So

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calm down people. That's all I got to say is

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calm the heck down. The other thing I wanted

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to talk about really quickly was, From syndication

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to streaming, how far Masters has come in the

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franchise's history? Because it went from five

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days a week on television to two parts on Netflix

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or technically five seasons of DreamWorks, She

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-Ra, kind of thing. The evolution of the cartoons

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has come so far. Now, I personally love the fact

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that I can go to wherever and stream whichever

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series. That's fine. But it just, man, the times,

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they have changed. Yeah, and that's not necessarily

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unique to Masters of the Universe, obviously.

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No, no, no. Yeah, but normally cartoons back

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in the day, like late 80s, I would say the syndication

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game was kind of going out of, you know. It was

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very rare after 1989 you would have five days

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a week Masters or Thundercats or Transformers.

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Obviously, Transformers ended two years earlier

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than 1989, but I'm just saying it's interesting

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to see how far where the cartoons are being...

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consumed has changed over the last and everything

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and everything that is old is new again too because

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they're they're going back to that 80s pool and

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resurrecting either continuing a show or completely

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rebooting it like for instance uh i mean we've

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had you know multiple he -man transformers ninja

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turtle shows and gi joe and they've even gone

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and done thundercats and now there's a silver

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hawks reboot coming And then there's actually

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a second He -Man and the Masters of the Universe

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coming from Netflix Mattel later this year that's

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totally separate from this, which is this is

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supposed to be a continuation of what we had

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as kids. Right, right. And that brings me to

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my kind of first point here is I wanted to ask

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you guys, and I know, Mike, you'll be able to

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kind of maybe go into a little bit more detail.

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Seeing that this is a continuation of the Filmation

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series, without getting into spoilers and all

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that stuff like we're not doing today, but how

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well do you feel like this takes the Filmation

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series and just takes the next step and continues

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on like there was nothing in between almost?

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It doesn't. Come on, Adam. How about we sit this

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one out till the bad guys go away? Sitting's

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for quitting, Cringer. The sorceress needs her

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champion. By the power of Greyskull. The reason

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why I say that, that it doesn't, is that He -Man

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and the Masters of the Universe was done at a

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time where no one, and most 80s shows are like

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this, no one cared about continuity -driven stories.

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Look at Tales of Eternia, our, what was that,

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the first, how many episodes did we do of that?

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We did that up to episode... 45, maybe? Yeah,

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yeah, yeah. 45, 55, something like that. So basically,

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we watched all 130 episodes. There may have been

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a couple of two -parters in there, maybe just

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one, I think. But, like, every episode was its

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own story. And nowadays, we want continuity -driven

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television. We want a whole season based on this

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or a whole season based on that. So when they

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say to me that it's going to be... a continuation

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of the old show. Okay, it's a continuation with

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the characters. It's a continuation with the

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fact that it's on Eternia, not Earth or anywhere

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else. It's not on Primus or whatever. I get the

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fact that you're saying that it's continuity

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-driven versus non, but I still think it does

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pick up what they had set up in that series.

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The characters are still... Like the characters.

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The vehicles are still like the same vehicles.

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The other races and species are the same species.

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So to me it is a continuation. Because they're

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not changing anything that's already happened.

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So they're taking what existed in that series.

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And continuing a story with that setup. I guess

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is my point. They're not going back and changing

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a gender of a character. changing the backstory

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of a character the secrets that are alluded to

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in the filmmation series are still present in

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this series and we'll get into that probably

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a little bit more in the spoiler episode but

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all of that stuff is being continued into like

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they're they're picking up threads that weren't

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finished in that series and kind of going with

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that so that's what i get mad about again kind

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of going back to that first thing where the the

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internet gets freaked out and stuff like that

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they're saying oh they changed my he -man or

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oh they did this or oh they did that they haven't

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changed anything guys No, they haven't changed

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anything. They've continued a story, and when

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you continue a story, you write new chapters,

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and you write new events, and characters make

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new decisions. All of that does not take away

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what existed in the 80s. They haven't changed

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anything. No, and here's the thing, and I've

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said this on many other shows, I've said this

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on all things Transformers and anything else.

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Generation 1, Masters 83... Masters 90, 2002,

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it's all still there. All of that is still there.

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I think the thing with the saying it's a continuation,

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and again, I'm going to say I heard this from

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Kevin Smith because I heard him say this, it

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picks up right where the old series left off.

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No, it technically doesn't because the last episode,

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episode 130, was the cold zone. That was most

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definitely a one -off episode. No, he means like

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where the characters were, like which characters

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are there, where they're at, like who knows what,

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like that type of thing. It's not going to say

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like it's going to pick up right from the same

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storyline as far as like, you know, whatever

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was going on in that previous episode, but it's

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picking up. in the same setting and in the same

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elements. Like you don't have to, you don't have

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to relearn what's going on on Eternia. It's the

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same thing that was going on those last few episodes

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that you saw before the same people know the

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same things, that type of thing. And I got way

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more of a 2002 vibe off this than visually, maybe

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visually, maybe a couple of plot. No, there's

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one plot point where that, yeah. But, Mike, you

00:18:32.839 --> 00:18:34.380
can probably appreciate this, too, and then I'll

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give Steve a chance to jump in, though. But even,

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like, I like the attention to detail and the

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selection of which species are there. Like, even

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though they're background characters and even

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though they're not going to get any lines and

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they're not going to get named or whatever, they

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did some careful work on putting species in the

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background that existed in Filmation. You even

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get the... Oedipus version, the pre -Stinkor

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version, walking around. If you look carefully,

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you get some of the same types of, whether it

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be cat people or different... I can't name all

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the species off the top of my head, but that

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type of stuff that existed. I thought that was

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cool because they could have just completely

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created all these new species that we never saw

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in Filmation. That would have rubbed me the wrong

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way. I'm not saying that there aren't some unique

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new things there, but they did their best to

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put in a few things that we had seen through

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Filmation in the background, which I liked. And

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then, obviously, you almost see more vehicles

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that existed as toys in the 80s than you did

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in the Filmation series. I feel like there's

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even more vehicles in this. Even though it's

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only five episodes, you get a lot of the stuff

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that people might have had as toys when it came

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to vehicles back in the day. I'm not saying that

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the Filmation series didn't have a bunch of vehicles,

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but I liked that they kind of paid attention

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and gave you a bunch of cool -looking vehicles

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that did exist as toys. Um, and then obviously

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I think they do a lot of not necessarily, they're

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not making fun of the cheesy eighties humor and

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dialogue necessarily, but they're acknowledging

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that it existed and they're kind of playing off

00:20:07.980 --> 00:20:10.759
of it in a way, like almost in a respectful way,

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but then still having fun with it without making

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fun of it, which I thought was good. So it doesn't

00:20:14.539 --> 00:20:16.759
turn into like a, you know, like a robot chicken

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or something like that where they're just like

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poking fun at stuff that happened in the eighties

00:20:20.299 --> 00:20:22.509
cartoons. but they're acknowledging that it was

00:20:22.509 --> 00:20:25.210
cheesy dialogue at times. So I kind of like that.

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They even brought the shadow beast back. So Mike,

00:20:28.069 --> 00:20:29.329
you can react to any of that and then we'll get

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Steve a chance to kind of jump in here. I'm just

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going to say a few things and then Steve can

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jump in. The thing about what they put into this

00:20:37.769 --> 00:20:40.509
series, these first five episodes, like you were

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saying about all the vehicles and all the homages

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and all, we've had almost 40 years since the

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original. The original, they put in sky sleds

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or rotans or whatever the hell, you know, wind

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raiders, all of that, because, again, at the

00:20:57.430 --> 00:21:00.109
time, they were trying to sell toys. Forty years

00:21:00.109 --> 00:21:05.190
later, as you already mentioned, Netflix is going

00:21:05.190 --> 00:21:07.230
to have two series. They're going to have this

00:21:07.230 --> 00:21:08.730
one, and then they're going to have He -Man and

00:21:08.730 --> 00:21:10.049
the Masters of the Universe, which is probably

00:21:10.049 --> 00:21:12.549
going to be... for the kids and for the whatever

00:21:12.549 --> 00:21:14.809
it's I'm not, I don't know. I've never actually

00:21:14.809 --> 00:21:16.829
seen anything about the other one, but it's one

00:21:16.829 --> 00:21:21.849
of those things where this series is the, Hey,

00:21:21.950 --> 00:21:24.430
guess what? You wanted this. We're giving it

00:21:24.430 --> 00:21:27.009
to you. You want all of this stuff. You want

00:21:27.009 --> 00:21:29.470
all these homages that make sense into a story

00:21:29.470 --> 00:21:32.109
that works. We're going to give them to you and

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we're not going to bash you over the head. Like

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when. What's one of the vehicles that shows up

00:21:38.440 --> 00:21:40.359
in this? I'm not good with all the vehicle names.

00:21:40.519 --> 00:21:44.839
Anyway, like the Sky Sled or the Wind Raider

00:21:44.839 --> 00:21:48.180
or whatever. Whenever a vehicle showed up in

00:21:48.180 --> 00:21:50.960
these five episodes, I'm like, hey, we didn't

00:21:50.960 --> 00:21:53.720
see that 40 years ago. That's awesome. That's

00:21:53.720 --> 00:21:56.259
cool. And again, the animation, I believe, I'm

00:21:56.259 --> 00:21:59.299
not looking right at it, but I believe it's powerhouse

00:21:59.299 --> 00:22:04.059
animation that's doing this. Man, this is awesome.

00:22:04.200 --> 00:22:06.880
Yeah. Maybe it was just that the vehicles looked

00:22:06.880 --> 00:22:08.359
that much cooler. Even if they existed in the

00:22:08.359 --> 00:22:10.220
Filmation one, it's like they pop more in this

00:22:10.220 --> 00:22:12.619
one. So I just thought it was a whole lot of

00:22:12.619 --> 00:22:15.299
fun. And I swear some of those didn't. They existed

00:22:15.299 --> 00:22:16.980
as toys, but they didn't appear in the original

00:22:16.980 --> 00:22:18.700
Filmation series. Or if they did, it was just

00:22:18.700 --> 00:22:20.380
briefly where it's here. They're almost featured

00:22:20.380 --> 00:22:22.599
more. And they'd look really cool with the powerhouse

00:22:22.599 --> 00:22:25.900
animation, what they did with that. So I guess

00:22:25.900 --> 00:22:28.279
that takes us right into visuals. So, Steve,

00:22:28.420 --> 00:22:30.779
what did you think of the visuals? Anything specifically

00:22:30.779 --> 00:22:32.579
that caught your eye or kind of what were your

00:22:32.579 --> 00:22:35.000
takes on the visual part of the series? Well,

00:22:35.000 --> 00:22:38.079
for one, I love the fact that they used traditional

00:22:38.079 --> 00:22:43.059
animation instead of going CG with it. To me,

00:22:43.059 --> 00:22:45.539
I think that's kind of a lost art. And I realize

00:22:45.539 --> 00:22:48.700
that it's probably still digitally done nowadays,

00:22:49.119 --> 00:22:51.720
but it's different. It's not that aesthetic where

00:22:51.720 --> 00:22:53.359
they feel like they have to blow the whole budget

00:22:53.359 --> 00:22:58.740
on CG animation. And I just loved how much it

00:22:58.740 --> 00:23:00.900
popped, how much the colors, how vibrant it was,

00:23:01.019 --> 00:23:04.380
how much the shine on certain aspects, the attention

00:23:04.380 --> 00:23:08.299
to detail. And if you look carefully in certain

00:23:08.299 --> 00:23:10.700
aspects, you could see certain tech and you could

00:23:10.700 --> 00:23:15.519
see certain little Easter egg details in the

00:23:15.519 --> 00:23:19.579
episodes. Yeah, absolutely. Even the water. There

00:23:19.579 --> 00:23:22.730
was a sequence with water that just like... looked

00:23:22.730 --> 00:23:26.329
perfect. We always bitched about the water in

00:23:26.329 --> 00:23:32.089
Filmation. Yeah, this is real water. They did

00:23:32.089 --> 00:23:34.410
really good with a lot of it, though. And I thought

00:23:34.410 --> 00:23:36.990
they did good, too, because it's like a completely

00:23:36.990 --> 00:23:39.710
updated, modern, you know, visually almost more

00:23:39.710 --> 00:23:43.849
akin to what we got in 2002. But yet, they found

00:23:43.849 --> 00:23:47.920
ways to kind of... pay homage to the original

00:23:47.920 --> 00:23:50.140
series. They even got Skeletor's Looney Tunes

00:23:50.140 --> 00:23:52.859
face in there. They did a couple things like

00:23:52.859 --> 00:23:54.119
that where it was like, oh, that was something

00:23:54.119 --> 00:23:55.880
that I remember from the filmmation, but you've

00:23:55.880 --> 00:23:58.000
updated it and made it kind of look cool. I thought

00:23:58.000 --> 00:23:59.640
it'd be interesting to kind of go through some

00:23:59.640 --> 00:24:01.319
of the characters, guys, and just real quick,

00:24:01.400 --> 00:24:03.160
which ones kind of stood out the most to you,

00:24:03.220 --> 00:24:04.700
which ones you thought worked well visually,

00:24:04.799 --> 00:24:07.359
and which ones maybe you didn't. I, for the most

00:24:07.359 --> 00:24:10.740
part, was a big fan of how most of them looked.

00:24:10.759 --> 00:24:12.839
I think the sorceress looked perfect. She definitely

00:24:12.839 --> 00:24:17.509
caught my eye. I think the only character that

00:24:17.509 --> 00:24:20.630
I was a little disappointed from a visual standpoint

00:24:20.630 --> 00:24:26.569
was Adam slash He -Man. Yeah, to me, he just

00:24:26.569 --> 00:24:29.690
didn't quite look right compared to all the other

00:24:29.690 --> 00:24:31.930
ones that I just felt like were spot on. Evil

00:24:31.930 --> 00:24:35.490
Lynn's spot on. Sorceress is perfect. So what

00:24:35.490 --> 00:24:36.950
did you guys think? Mike, what do you think of

00:24:36.950 --> 00:24:39.069
the visuals of the actual design of the characters?

00:24:39.450 --> 00:24:41.470
I'll let Steve go first. I've been talking too

00:24:41.470 --> 00:24:45.950
much. Go ahead, Steve. Well, for me, I loved

00:24:45.950 --> 00:24:51.009
the, well, whenever Skeletor was on screen, although

00:24:51.009 --> 00:24:53.950
just because I was a watcher of the original,

00:24:54.150 --> 00:24:57.630
the voice change was a little jarring. At first,

00:24:57.730 --> 00:25:01.789
yeah. At first, but Mark Hamill did very well

00:25:01.789 --> 00:25:07.170
with what he had. Behold, the Lord of Destruction,

00:25:07.369 --> 00:25:12.890
Skeletor! And then, yeah, of course, Sorceress,

00:25:12.910 --> 00:25:18.869
Evelyn, Man -at -Arms, Teela. A lot of those

00:25:18.869 --> 00:25:24.890
were pretty strong. Yeah, I thought so, too.

00:25:24.950 --> 00:25:26.769
Like I said, I maybe have a small gripe with

00:25:26.769 --> 00:25:28.730
He -Man or Adam, but Mike, what did you think?

00:25:29.190 --> 00:25:37.829
I think Adam fits the animation style. I think

00:25:37.829 --> 00:25:41.390
He -Man is more classic action figure than classic

00:25:41.390 --> 00:25:45.009
filmmation, and that's fine. I have no problem

00:25:45.009 --> 00:25:48.589
with them doing classic action figure look for

00:25:48.589 --> 00:25:53.410
He -Man. Adam, yeah, I wish his clothes were

00:25:53.410 --> 00:26:01.490
a little different, like a little less... A little

00:26:01.490 --> 00:26:04.589
less wool. Like, I swear to God, his magenta

00:26:04.589 --> 00:26:07.069
sweater or sweatshirt or whatever that he's wearing,

00:26:07.329 --> 00:26:12.289
it looks like it's a giant piece of a cat's hairball

00:26:12.289 --> 00:26:16.430
at times to me. But the design overall for He

00:26:16.430 --> 00:26:19.089
-Man, I liked it. I thought it was interesting.

00:26:19.130 --> 00:26:21.309
I think it was the head or the face of Adam and

00:26:21.309 --> 00:26:22.950
He -Man that just were a little off to me. The

00:26:22.950 --> 00:26:26.470
body is all fine. Yeah, I think the head and

00:26:26.470 --> 00:26:30.740
face on He -Man are fine, but Adam just... He

00:26:30.740 --> 00:26:36.460
looked like a puffer fish. Right. Kind of thing.

00:26:36.960 --> 00:26:39.960
And it just, I don't know, whatever. Overall,

00:26:40.259 --> 00:26:42.240
though, the animation is great. The character

00:26:42.240 --> 00:26:44.700
designs are great. Every other, like, if one

00:26:44.700 --> 00:26:46.140
little, if you don't like one little character

00:26:46.140 --> 00:26:48.000
design, you know, it's not like it's the end

00:26:48.000 --> 00:26:50.099
of the world kind of thing. No, no, no. But,

00:26:50.160 --> 00:26:52.700
and I find it absolutely hilarious that they

00:26:52.700 --> 00:26:58.000
gave He -Man his own magical girl transformation.

00:26:59.720 --> 00:27:01.720
I swear, it looks like a scene out of Sailor

00:27:01.720 --> 00:27:05.640
Moon. I really like the transformation. That's

00:27:05.640 --> 00:27:07.519
not a spoiler. We can talk about the transformation

00:27:07.519 --> 00:27:09.420
briefly. I didn't have it in my notes. But I

00:27:09.420 --> 00:27:11.640
like the fact that during the transformation,

00:27:11.740 --> 00:27:17.119
they show each part of his outfit. come on to

00:27:17.119 --> 00:27:21.640
him. Whether it be the wrist things, there's

00:27:21.640 --> 00:27:23.420
a name for those that I'm blanking on, or the

00:27:23.420 --> 00:27:26.160
chest piece or different stuff. I thought that

00:27:26.160 --> 00:27:27.660
was cool how it kind of showed it all coming

00:27:27.660 --> 00:27:31.480
together. Did you watch that scene very carefully?

00:27:31.980 --> 00:27:35.559
Yeah. I thought so. I watched it twice. Technically,

00:27:35.559 --> 00:27:38.380
you're looking at a naked He -Man as he gets

00:27:38.380 --> 00:27:41.539
dressed. They basically do that with Sailor Moon.

00:27:41.900 --> 00:27:46.680
Right. Yeah, I like the transformation. I think

00:27:46.680 --> 00:27:48.700
the one thing that we kind of didn't get to yet

00:27:48.700 --> 00:27:49.900
that I'd like to go over and then we'll get into

00:27:49.900 --> 00:27:52.539
the voice work a little bit. But going into the

00:27:52.539 --> 00:27:54.980
very first episode, you know, this is a five

00:27:54.980 --> 00:27:57.119
episode part one type thing. So going into that

00:27:57.119 --> 00:28:01.279
first one, they did an opening bit that has narration

00:28:01.279 --> 00:28:05.500
and then it has still images. This isn't animation

00:28:05.500 --> 00:28:07.559
animation, so to speak. It's more like a still

00:28:07.559 --> 00:28:09.960
image look. It's a stop motion kind of thing.

00:28:10.000 --> 00:28:13.920
Yeah. Well, it's not almost even stop motion.

00:28:14.019 --> 00:28:16.059
It's more like an actual painting almost that

00:28:16.059 --> 00:28:17.900
they're putting on, and then they had some movement.

00:28:18.079 --> 00:28:22.400
But I loved the open narration, and I thought

00:28:22.400 --> 00:28:25.359
those still images that they threw up there were

00:28:25.359 --> 00:28:28.599
freaking amazing. Like, the scenes that they

00:28:28.599 --> 00:28:31.589
put together with both groups, like... kind of

00:28:31.589 --> 00:28:33.309
going at each other and some of the different

00:28:33.309 --> 00:28:36.069
sequences that they put on there i like i could

00:28:36.069 --> 00:28:37.829
frame each one of those pictures that they put

00:28:37.829 --> 00:28:40.490
up there i thought that was incredible um it's

00:28:40.490 --> 00:28:45.230
the old promotional art it is the it is the old

00:28:45.230 --> 00:28:48.369
box promotional art that they used to use like

00:28:48.369 --> 00:28:52.210
epic yeah i remember 10 years ago when we were

00:28:52.210 --> 00:28:54.730
starting this out when we started this show out

00:28:55.470 --> 00:28:59.430
I found that exact image of the battle of the

00:28:59.430 --> 00:29:01.869
hero side, and that's one of the Tales of Eternia

00:29:01.869 --> 00:29:05.549
images. No, I love that. I think that's great.

00:29:05.970 --> 00:29:07.569
And I also thought, Steve, that they did a good

00:29:07.569 --> 00:29:09.529
job of balancing the information that they were

00:29:09.529 --> 00:29:11.609
presenting and setting the stage for that episode

00:29:11.609 --> 00:29:15.789
without going overboard. Oh, yeah. It was totally

00:29:15.789 --> 00:29:20.109
great how they did that. That being said, I was

00:29:20.109 --> 00:29:22.529
slightly disappointed that we didn't get an actual

00:29:22.529 --> 00:29:27.039
theme song. Yeah. I that's one thing I always

00:29:27.039 --> 00:29:30.259
loved of the old 80s and 90s stuff was the themes.

00:29:30.559 --> 00:29:32.180
Right. I wish they could have done something

00:29:32.180 --> 00:29:34.579
like an alternate version of the theme or some

00:29:34.579 --> 00:29:36.319
ode to the theme or something. I know there's

00:29:36.319 --> 00:29:38.380
music. I get that. But it's like I didn't feel

00:29:38.380 --> 00:29:40.480
like it was actually ever a theme song. So I,

00:29:40.559 --> 00:29:43.619
you know, I'm junkie. I was like, oh, that's

00:29:43.619 --> 00:29:46.599
too bad. So so here's the thing. Since you brought

00:29:46.599 --> 00:29:50.980
this up, Bear McCreary is doing the score. Bear

00:29:50.980 --> 00:29:54.900
McCreary is. legend in the in the soundtrack

00:29:54.900 --> 00:29:59.940
business even though we don't have an actual

00:29:59.940 --> 00:30:04.859
theme song opening like my name is adam and i

00:30:04.859 --> 00:30:07.559
turn into this and oh no skeletor is going to

00:30:07.559 --> 00:30:09.319
explode it and the music is even though we don't

00:30:09.319 --> 00:30:12.079
have any of that i know that once this thing

00:30:12.079 --> 00:30:17.400
hits netflix on july 23rd there's going to be

00:30:17.400 --> 00:30:20.299
a score released digitally somewhere at some

00:30:20.299 --> 00:30:22.819
point where we will actually be able to hear

00:30:22.819 --> 00:30:25.220
the overall theme. Because I remember Kevin Smith

00:30:25.220 --> 00:30:28.619
screaming his lungs out about how awesome the

00:30:28.619 --> 00:30:31.980
Bear McCreary score is. I think it's more so

00:30:31.980 --> 00:30:33.799
it's not because they didn't want to put it in

00:30:33.799 --> 00:30:37.559
there. It's more so the time that's given to

00:30:37.559 --> 00:30:42.519
each episode. And it's more so that society today.

00:30:44.099 --> 00:30:49.619
doesn't want to sit through, not us, but in general,

00:30:49.779 --> 00:30:54.359
the people who stream stuff today, they don't

00:30:54.359 --> 00:30:57.500
want to sit through a minute and a half intro

00:30:57.500 --> 00:31:00.480
theme. They don't want to sit through... Yes

00:31:00.480 --> 00:31:03.220
and no. I'm going to call you out on this, Kev.

00:31:03.380 --> 00:31:07.339
No, no, no. I want to do this really quick because

00:31:07.339 --> 00:31:09.240
I want to make sure I'm right because I know

00:31:09.240 --> 00:31:12.150
with Knight Rider I'm right. MacGyver. MacGyver

00:31:12.150 --> 00:31:15.170
had a whole opening theme with the cast and the

00:31:15.170 --> 00:31:16.490
this and the that. Yeah, it's my alarm clock

00:31:16.490 --> 00:31:20.009
sound. Okay, and that's geeky. You're a geek.

00:31:20.069 --> 00:31:22.329
That's fine. It's not a problem. But what I'm

00:31:22.329 --> 00:31:25.930
saying is, where television was 40 years ago,

00:31:26.089 --> 00:31:29.730
where we had the opening to, you know, and only

00:31:29.730 --> 00:31:32.349
three others know my secret, and it had the music

00:31:32.349 --> 00:31:35.710
behind it and whatever else, that was like 30

00:31:35.710 --> 00:31:41.769
seconds to a minute more. That they could use

00:31:41.769 --> 00:31:45.309
for story. I kind of like that. They just go

00:31:45.309 --> 00:31:47.930
into the title card. I have no problem with the

00:31:47.930 --> 00:31:49.869
score. Like the guy does a good score. Like I'm

00:31:49.869 --> 00:31:53.470
not talking about that. I don't need the talking

00:31:53.470 --> 00:31:56.490
introduction. I'm just saying I miss the, that

00:31:56.490 --> 00:32:00.569
there's nothing, there's no ode to like something,

00:32:00.710 --> 00:32:02.450
something that gives me that feeling that we're

00:32:02.450 --> 00:32:04.109
going into it. That's all I needed. So like,

00:32:04.130 --> 00:32:05.849
I don't need like a full fledged, like the whole

00:32:05.849 --> 00:32:07.970
word part narration. They're already doing their

00:32:07.970 --> 00:32:09.710
own narration. I just would have liked some,

00:32:09.769 --> 00:32:13.250
Or at least maybe not in that first episode since

00:32:13.250 --> 00:32:15.809
you are doing all that talking, but in episodes

00:32:15.809 --> 00:32:17.250
two through five, you could have had some little

00:32:17.250 --> 00:32:19.630
quick ditty or something. I have no problem with

00:32:19.630 --> 00:32:21.910
the sound. He does do a good score. I'm not talking

00:32:21.910 --> 00:32:24.170
about score. I'm talking about theme songs. And

00:32:24.170 --> 00:32:27.130
I think what we're missing here is that, yeah,

00:32:27.210 --> 00:32:29.730
maybe the common person doesn't like to sit through

00:32:29.730 --> 00:32:31.329
theme songs, but you'd be surprised at how many

00:32:31.329 --> 00:32:34.650
people like theme songs. No, I'm not saying they

00:32:34.650 --> 00:32:38.190
don't. This is a series that at least half...

00:32:39.430 --> 00:32:42.009
Halfway is being created for fans of the original.

00:32:42.509 --> 00:32:45.609
This isn't... Yes, they are trying to gain a

00:32:45.609 --> 00:32:47.210
new audience and get a new following and stuff

00:32:47.210 --> 00:32:49.750
like that, but it would be ignorant to say this

00:32:49.750 --> 00:32:51.410
is not also made with the thought that, hey,

00:32:51.430 --> 00:32:53.650
we're appealing to a big fandom that's already

00:32:53.650 --> 00:32:55.910
existing. And those people would be appreciative

00:32:55.910 --> 00:32:58.900
of a theme song, I think. But either way, I don't

00:32:58.900 --> 00:33:00.400
have any problem with the music. But let's get

00:33:00.400 --> 00:33:02.319
into the voices because Steve already mentioned

00:33:02.319 --> 00:33:05.559
a little bit with Mark Hamill as Skeletor. And

00:33:05.559 --> 00:33:07.640
so let's get into that, what worked and what

00:33:07.640 --> 00:33:09.920
didn't. So Steve, starting with you, any voices

00:33:09.920 --> 00:33:12.140
that you thought really fit well or any voices

00:33:12.140 --> 00:33:14.619
that you kind of were like, maybe not so much?

00:33:15.720 --> 00:33:17.980
Well, honestly, I thought it was kind of funny

00:33:17.980 --> 00:33:21.740
that we had, for the most part, a DCAU reunion

00:33:21.740 --> 00:33:27.319
with... Kevin Conroy, Susan Eisenberg, Mark Hamill,

00:33:27.380 --> 00:33:30.480
Phil Lamarr. And then you, of course, get Dietrich

00:33:30.480 --> 00:33:34.779
Bader and then Kevin Smith's buddy or buddies,

00:33:35.019 --> 00:33:39.440
Justin Long and Jason Mewes. And then, of course,

00:33:39.500 --> 00:33:43.079
Kevin Michael Richardson from other Batman properties.

00:33:43.920 --> 00:33:47.220
What I did love is we got Alan Oppenheimer back,

00:33:47.500 --> 00:33:51.480
even if he wasn't the leading role. Right, right,

00:33:51.480 --> 00:33:53.700
right. I thought it was very cool to fit him

00:33:53.700 --> 00:33:57.259
in there. I thought that was very cool. For the

00:33:57.259 --> 00:34:00.940
most part, the only ones that were jarring to

00:34:00.940 --> 00:34:05.000
me were Skeletor was jarring because it wasn't

00:34:05.000 --> 00:34:07.019
Alan Oppenheimer, but they were going for a little

00:34:07.019 --> 00:34:10.340
bit darker, grungier. And so Mark Hamill makes

00:34:10.340 --> 00:34:15.239
sense. He plays villains well. Merman, I felt

00:34:15.239 --> 00:34:18.519
like they could have put some kind of a... Almost

00:34:18.519 --> 00:34:21.900
like a gargoyle or a Zoidberg type thing, you

00:34:21.900 --> 00:34:24.179
know, on his voice. You know, almost they could

00:34:24.179 --> 00:34:29.179
have used Billy West. Yeah. And had him do like

00:34:29.179 --> 00:34:32.920
his Zoidberg almost with Merman and, you know,

00:34:32.920 --> 00:34:34.880
just amp it up a little bit. Yeah. And that's

00:34:34.880 --> 00:34:36.900
nothing against Kevin Conroy or he, you know,

00:34:36.900 --> 00:34:39.099
he performs it well. He acts it well. I just

00:34:39.099 --> 00:34:41.119
feel like his voice would fit a different character

00:34:41.119 --> 00:34:43.960
better. Yeah, well, and either that or they could

00:34:43.960 --> 00:34:46.039
have amplified it with some like gurgling and

00:34:46.039 --> 00:34:48.300
bubbling and, you know, something that's water,

00:34:48.679 --> 00:34:51.840
you know, amplifying his voice. Other than that,

00:34:51.920 --> 00:34:53.639
like, I really didn't have a problem with anybody

00:34:53.639 --> 00:34:55.539
else. I did have some characters that kind of

00:34:55.539 --> 00:34:58.199
drove me nuts on the screen. Which, yeah, we'll

00:34:58.199 --> 00:34:59.800
probably get more into the actual characters

00:34:59.800 --> 00:35:02.820
on that second part just because I think it's

00:35:02.820 --> 00:35:04.480
hard to do without spoiling some things. Yeah,

00:35:04.480 --> 00:35:07.530
you are correct. But yeah, strictly voice -wise,

00:35:07.590 --> 00:35:10.030
and then I'll let you react, Mike, too. I agree

00:35:10.030 --> 00:35:11.889
with him. Merman was the one that I was the most

00:35:11.889 --> 00:35:13.590
thrown off on just because I loved the water

00:35:13.590 --> 00:35:16.230
sound that they did with him in Filmation. So

00:35:16.230 --> 00:35:18.929
I was like, oh, come on. And I think Kevin Conroy

00:35:18.929 --> 00:35:21.170
could have been like three or four other characters

00:35:21.170 --> 00:35:24.070
that would have been perfect. The ones that stood

00:35:24.070 --> 00:35:27.329
out the most to me as being absolutely fantastic,

00:35:27.610 --> 00:35:30.510
spot on, like I can almost not hear anybody else

00:35:30.510 --> 00:35:33.510
do their voice now. Liam Cunningham as Man -at

00:35:33.510 --> 00:35:37.599
-Arms. was freaking amazing. I thought that voice

00:35:37.599 --> 00:35:40.300
fit that character perfect. And Lena Headey,

00:35:40.320 --> 00:35:43.840
mostly recently probably known for Game of Thrones

00:35:43.840 --> 00:35:47.860
as Eva Lin, was perfection as well. I thought

00:35:47.860 --> 00:35:52.420
Eva Lin was perfectly voiced. For me, the only

00:35:52.420 --> 00:35:55.059
other ones that I would point out is just because

00:35:55.059 --> 00:35:59.500
they're so identifiable, it took me a little

00:35:59.500 --> 00:36:01.380
while to get used to Sarah Michelle Gellar doing

00:36:01.380 --> 00:36:06.019
Teela. And Alicia Silverstone, to me, doesn't

00:36:06.019 --> 00:36:10.340
fit Queen Marlena. So those two, I don't know

00:36:10.340 --> 00:36:11.920
if it's just because I know their regular voices

00:36:11.920 --> 00:36:14.079
and that's all they're really doing here is giving

00:36:14.079 --> 00:36:15.900
us their regular voice. Not that there's anything

00:36:15.900 --> 00:36:17.340
wrong with that, but when your voice is that

00:36:17.340 --> 00:36:19.400
distinct, it kind of throws me off a little bit

00:36:19.400 --> 00:36:20.880
to put you into that character because I'm just

00:36:20.880 --> 00:36:23.619
like, well, Buffy's talking to me right now or

00:36:23.619 --> 00:36:25.719
whatever type thing. So I was thrown off by those

00:36:25.719 --> 00:36:28.960
two girls. Um, but other than that, like I said,

00:36:29.000 --> 00:36:30.940
I think evil in men at arms are perfect. Um,

00:36:31.079 --> 00:36:33.719
give me more high on the Oppenheimer. Um, and

00:36:33.719 --> 00:36:37.420
I actually might think that Orko is, even though

00:36:37.420 --> 00:36:41.219
it's a different voice, I think it's really quite

00:36:41.219 --> 00:36:44.619
well done and better than 2002. May the man rest

00:36:44.619 --> 00:36:47.599
in peace. Uh, yeah, the guy that did the 2002

00:36:47.599 --> 00:36:50.360
voice was a little too high pitched, but this

00:36:50.360 --> 00:36:52.460
is well done. Yeah. Griffin Newman, who does

00:36:52.460 --> 00:36:57.889
this one. was very much Lou Scheimer filmation

00:36:57.889 --> 00:37:00.730
type thing. Let's go around the room really quickly

00:37:00.730 --> 00:37:02.409
before I give my thoughts on the rest of the

00:37:02.409 --> 00:37:05.070
voice cast. We always, at least I always, want

00:37:05.070 --> 00:37:10.469
two voices for He -Man and Adam. How do we feel

00:37:10.469 --> 00:37:15.469
that Chris Wood stood up to two sort of different

00:37:15.469 --> 00:37:18.050
voices for the character in comparison to, say,

00:37:18.349 --> 00:37:23.750
Cam Clark from 2002? Yeah. I think I like his

00:37:23.750 --> 00:37:27.130
He -Man better. I like his voice for He -Man

00:37:27.130 --> 00:37:29.650
better, but Prince Adam's kind of a character

00:37:29.650 --> 00:37:31.409
that his voice isn't supposed to be that great.

00:37:31.809 --> 00:37:35.130
He's supposed to be kind of the puny kid, teenager,

00:37:35.309 --> 00:37:37.050
whiny type thing, almost like a Luke Skywalker

00:37:37.050 --> 00:37:40.570
version of a character. So I get what it's supposed

00:37:40.570 --> 00:37:42.590
to be. I've never been a big fan of it in any

00:37:42.590 --> 00:37:45.050
of the series. I think Cam Clark did it best,

00:37:45.210 --> 00:37:48.170
but I do like Chris Wood's He -Man voice, so

00:37:48.170 --> 00:37:52.210
I'll give him that. Yeah, I mean, I'm fine with

00:37:52.210 --> 00:37:55.510
it either way. It didn't bother me. I don't need

00:37:55.510 --> 00:37:57.070
it to be two different people necessarily. I

00:37:57.070 --> 00:37:58.989
think it's fine that he's doing two different

00:37:58.989 --> 00:38:02.949
voices in the same actor. I mean, it's one of

00:38:02.949 --> 00:38:06.989
those things where I feel that if they're going

00:38:06.989 --> 00:38:11.190
to play the quote -unquote Shazam card where

00:38:11.190 --> 00:38:14.630
Adam is a teenager and He -Man is the adult,

00:38:14.829 --> 00:38:16.829
that the voice needs to be a little different.

00:38:16.889 --> 00:38:20.510
I will say that Chris would. did a good job of

00:38:20.510 --> 00:38:23.809
doing that because his He -Man voice sounds nothing

00:38:23.809 --> 00:38:27.250
like his Adam voice to me. I mean, as far as

00:38:27.250 --> 00:38:33.329
the pitch between, like, you know, who's younger,

00:38:33.449 --> 00:38:34.769
older, younger, older, I'm trying to remember.

00:38:35.030 --> 00:38:38.190
Anyway, you know, certain voice actors can do,

00:38:38.389 --> 00:38:42.449
like, take Phil Lamarr, for example. He can pitch

00:38:42.449 --> 00:38:45.269
down his voice and sound like a little boy in

00:38:45.269 --> 00:38:48.130
Justice League Unlimited kid stuff when they

00:38:48.130 --> 00:38:51.389
get turned into kids. So you have kid Jon Stewart

00:38:51.389 --> 00:38:54.969
kind of thing. With Chris Wood, I find this absolutely

00:38:54.969 --> 00:38:56.750
hilarious. I completely forgot who Chris Wood

00:38:56.750 --> 00:39:01.050
was. Chris Wood was Mon -El in Supergirl. Yep.

00:39:01.500 --> 00:39:03.699
So he's only 33. So I thought the fact that he

00:39:03.699 --> 00:39:06.099
was able to do the He -Man voice as well as he

00:39:06.099 --> 00:39:07.699
did was pretty good because he's a little bit

00:39:07.699 --> 00:39:11.739
more aged to do an Adam in a way. So, yeah, I

00:39:11.739 --> 00:39:13.440
thought it was decent enough. Like, I don't know

00:39:13.440 --> 00:39:15.159
where I would rank him, you know, with John Irwin

00:39:15.159 --> 00:39:17.599
and Cam Clark and stuff like that. But it didn't

00:39:17.599 --> 00:39:20.380
throw me off necessarily or it wasn't a negative.

00:39:20.699 --> 00:39:24.539
As far as the rest of the voice cast, the only

00:39:24.539 --> 00:39:30.860
one. I completely missed that it was... I don't

00:39:30.860 --> 00:39:33.019
know what it was. I guess she didn't say as if

00:39:33.019 --> 00:39:35.099
enough, but I completely missed that Silverstone

00:39:35.099 --> 00:39:41.960
was Marlena. But the only one I don't like, and

00:39:41.960 --> 00:39:44.840
I know we don't live in a world where one voice

00:39:44.840 --> 00:39:47.300
actor can do three roles anymore, at least not

00:39:47.300 --> 00:39:49.619
when you get to the age that Alan Oppenheimer

00:39:49.619 --> 00:39:54.159
is. I am sorry. There is no way in hell anybody

00:39:54.159 --> 00:39:57.449
can tell me that Friggin' Milton from Office

00:39:57.449 --> 00:40:01.230
Space is a good Cringer. I hated Cringer's voice.

00:40:01.630 --> 00:40:05.150
I didn't mind it. It's the only thing with the

00:40:05.150 --> 00:40:07.630
voice acting. It was slightly annoying, but I

00:40:07.630 --> 00:40:10.750
didn't care enough because he's kind of a tertiary

00:40:10.750 --> 00:40:17.389
character. As far as Hamill with Skeletor...

00:40:17.389 --> 00:40:20.889
You can hear a lot of Joker there, but I didn't

00:40:20.889 --> 00:40:23.920
mind it. It's evil Mark Hamill. It's the Joker.

00:40:24.059 --> 00:40:28.480
It's whatever. It's okay. It's not. It's, but

00:40:28.480 --> 00:40:31.619
he acts it so well. He does. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:40:31.659 --> 00:40:35.119
No, absolutely. But it, you know, here's a little

00:40:35.119 --> 00:40:38.420
teaser for next episode, folks. When we give

00:40:38.420 --> 00:40:40.440
you the spoilers section, you're going to be

00:40:40.440 --> 00:40:44.260
hearing from the Joker. So, but it's just one

00:40:44.260 --> 00:40:48.409
of those things. As far as Buffy is Tila. I'm

00:40:48.409 --> 00:40:50.269
like, when is Xander going to show up? When is

00:40:50.269 --> 00:40:52.250
Giles going to show up? That's all I could think

00:40:52.250 --> 00:40:54.630
of is that we're living in a Buffy. Like, Buffy

00:40:54.630 --> 00:40:57.030
somehow got transported into Masters of the Universe.

00:40:57.289 --> 00:41:00.530
I like Teela's arc. I like the story that they

00:41:00.530 --> 00:41:03.349
told with her. And I like where they might eventually

00:41:03.349 --> 00:41:07.110
go with it. But I don't think Sarah Michelle

00:41:07.110 --> 00:41:11.210
Gellar was the best choice for her voice because

00:41:11.210 --> 00:41:16.369
Sarah Michelle Gellar's voice is, like, it isn't.

00:41:16.590 --> 00:41:19.010
like getting susan eisenberg to come in to change

00:41:19.010 --> 00:41:21.030
her voice or it isn't like getting and i'm not

00:41:21.030 --> 00:41:23.530
saying we needed tara strong but it isn't tara

00:41:23.530 --> 00:41:26.369
strong coming in to come up with a voice for

00:41:26.369 --> 00:41:28.989
right right that would have been better but and

00:41:28.989 --> 00:41:30.769
it's weird because it's like i and i'm not saying

00:41:30.769 --> 00:41:32.809
that these sarah michelle geller and alicia silverstone

00:41:32.809 --> 00:41:36.269
haven't done a voice or two in their lifetime.

00:41:36.590 --> 00:41:38.750
But for me, when you're looking at this cast

00:41:38.750 --> 00:41:42.010
and you have people like Mark Hamill and Diedrich

00:41:42.010 --> 00:41:44.730
Bader and Stephen Root's done a lot of voice

00:41:44.730 --> 00:41:47.389
acting, Kevin Michael Richardson, Conroy, Henry

00:41:47.389 --> 00:41:49.309
Rollins, Oppenheimer, like these guys, Phil Amar,

00:41:49.429 --> 00:41:51.550
Cree Summer, like these guys are voice actors

00:41:51.550 --> 00:41:56.469
through and through. And it seems like for some

00:41:56.469 --> 00:41:58.869
reason they threw in Sarah Michelle Gellar and

00:41:58.869 --> 00:42:01.289
Alicia Silverstone almost as like the celebrity

00:42:01.289 --> 00:42:05.789
draw. But it's just a weird, pick for me. I don't

00:42:05.789 --> 00:42:08.389
know. There were so many other people they could

00:42:08.389 --> 00:42:10.349
have gone with that had less recognizable voices

00:42:10.349 --> 00:42:12.210
or that are able to disguise their voice more.

00:42:12.409 --> 00:42:14.510
I'm not saying either one of them did a... Well,

00:42:14.510 --> 00:42:16.690
I do think Alicia Silverstone kind of did a bad

00:42:16.690 --> 00:42:18.610
job, but I'm not saying Sarah Michelle Gellar

00:42:18.610 --> 00:42:22.250
does a bad job. It was just jarring that it's

00:42:22.250 --> 00:42:24.750
Sarah Michelle Gellar's voice. I couldn't get

00:42:24.750 --> 00:42:27.769
away from it for a while. I think it was unnecessary.

00:42:28.309 --> 00:42:32.699
It wasn't like a current... animated movies where

00:42:32.699 --> 00:42:34.760
they just put all celebrities in the cast like

00:42:34.760 --> 00:42:36.780
let's get as many well -known names and throw

00:42:36.780 --> 00:42:38.599
it on a poster so you want to come see you know

00:42:38.599 --> 00:42:41.159
the rock and and whoever else talk like this

00:42:41.159 --> 00:42:44.039
is a voice actor cast and then for some reason

00:42:44.039 --> 00:42:46.420
these two are thrown in in these parts so that

00:42:46.420 --> 00:42:50.159
was kind of odd to me but um this will be the

00:42:50.159 --> 00:42:51.880
hardest one and kind of one of the last things

00:42:51.880 --> 00:42:53.699
we'll talk about probably with this non -spoiler

00:42:53.699 --> 00:42:56.320
discussion but uh dancing around it as much as

00:42:56.320 --> 00:42:58.900
we can without giving spoilers How did you guys

00:42:58.900 --> 00:43:02.099
feel of the general tone of the series? Like

00:43:02.099 --> 00:43:06.539
the, you know, the rating type thing, like what

00:43:06.539 --> 00:43:08.159
they were going for, the tenor of the series,

00:43:08.260 --> 00:43:11.000
like the writing, the action, like, how did you

00:43:11.000 --> 00:43:14.519
feel like that worked for you or not? Steve?

00:43:15.619 --> 00:43:19.239
I honestly had no idea what to know, like what

00:43:19.239 --> 00:43:25.219
to think when it started up. And then they, Without

00:43:25.219 --> 00:43:29.539
getting into anything, they kind of throw the

00:43:29.539 --> 00:43:32.820
book out the window, as it were. It totally goes

00:43:32.820 --> 00:43:35.719
in directions you would never imagine. And Kevin

00:43:35.719 --> 00:43:37.260
Smith kind of alludes to that a little bit. He's

00:43:37.260 --> 00:43:38.820
like, it's going to start just like it was, and

00:43:38.820 --> 00:43:42.059
then we're going to throw a big wrench in. Yeah,

00:43:42.059 --> 00:43:46.159
and he threw a big wrench in. And I actually

00:43:46.159 --> 00:43:50.719
didn't mind it. It shook it up. It wasn't in

00:43:50.719 --> 00:43:54.260
a bad way. I've seen Transformers series do.

00:43:54.750 --> 00:44:01.210
terrible uh over the years and uh we'll get into

00:44:01.210 --> 00:44:04.530
that in another episode but the like for instance

00:44:04.530 --> 00:44:07.309
the machinima series like that was just yeah

00:44:07.309 --> 00:44:09.369
they had star power but the rest of it was terrible

00:44:09.369 --> 00:44:14.670
um now it's i feel like this one matured it In

00:44:14.670 --> 00:44:17.150
a way that wasn't Devastator's balls mature.

00:44:17.510 --> 00:44:19.849
It wasn't like we're just throwing, and that's

00:44:19.849 --> 00:44:21.710
not mature. I mean, it's for an older audience,

00:44:21.849 --> 00:44:24.190
but it's immature. But they didn't just throw

00:44:24.190 --> 00:44:26.690
stuff in there to get, yeah, there's I think

00:44:26.690 --> 00:44:29.730
a cuss word or something in here somewhere to

00:44:29.730 --> 00:44:31.969
probably elevate its rating or whatever. But

00:44:31.969 --> 00:44:35.289
they did it in a way that I didn't feel like

00:44:35.289 --> 00:44:36.889
I was watching something that I wouldn't be able

00:44:36.889 --> 00:44:41.309
to show my whatever age kid. Obviously, we all

00:44:41.309 --> 00:44:42.590
have different ages that we show people stuff,

00:44:42.730 --> 00:44:45.389
but I feel like a young boy could watch this,

00:44:45.449 --> 00:44:47.070
and you don't have to worry about him being exposed

00:44:47.070 --> 00:44:49.510
to something that he shouldn't be. But it's not

00:44:49.510 --> 00:44:52.590
kiddy. It's not like something for little kids.

00:44:53.329 --> 00:44:57.269
Yeah, and Kevin Smith had an interview recently,

00:44:57.409 --> 00:44:59.789
like a day ago or something, where he said that

00:44:59.789 --> 00:45:03.809
he wanted to basically do what the Marvel Cinematic

00:45:03.809 --> 00:45:06.760
Universe did for... but do it for He -Man and

00:45:06.760 --> 00:45:09.380
then have Easter eggs thrown in, you know, for,

00:45:09.460 --> 00:45:12.960
for fans of the original and, um, you know, just

00:45:12.960 --> 00:45:17.099
kind of try and, uh, take the childhood and reserve

00:45:17.099 --> 00:45:20.920
it in a really appetizing way is what he says.

00:45:21.039 --> 00:45:23.219
So, so they basically don't ruin it. They don't

00:45:23.219 --> 00:45:24.960
break your childhood. They give it back to you.

00:45:25.219 --> 00:45:30.420
Yeah. The one thing I find interesting is that

00:45:33.099 --> 00:45:36.619
In the press materials for this, Netflix instructed

00:45:36.619 --> 00:45:39.860
us to not reveal certain things, hence why we're

00:45:39.860 --> 00:45:42.679
going to have a spoiler -filled episode. One

00:45:42.679 --> 00:45:44.980
of the things that they mention, they show in

00:45:44.980 --> 00:45:47.860
the final trailer, so how is that spoiling it

00:45:47.860 --> 00:45:49.920
if they show it in the final trailer? Yeah, they

00:45:49.920 --> 00:45:51.400
probably didn't have the final trailer done at

00:45:51.400 --> 00:45:54.019
that point. That's fine. That's fine. I'm just

00:45:54.019 --> 00:45:56.860
saying. I watched that final trailer like twice,

00:45:56.860 --> 00:45:59.039
and I'm like, but it's right there. It happened.

00:45:59.420 --> 00:46:04.030
Well, and what's funny is I... Going into this

00:46:04.030 --> 00:46:08.110
to watch it initially, before I let you guys

00:46:08.110 --> 00:46:13.369
in on the fact that, hey, we got this. I was

00:46:13.369 --> 00:46:16.170
reading the press release or the information

00:46:16.170 --> 00:46:19.789
of notes, and then they have these lists of do

00:46:19.789 --> 00:46:23.909
not tell. These are embargoed until after the

00:46:23.909 --> 00:46:27.400
launch. I was like, oh, so you basically gave

00:46:27.400 --> 00:46:30.639
me the entire plot rundown. Right. Without needing

00:46:30.639 --> 00:46:34.239
to watch it, yeah. I was like, oh, that's unfortunate.

00:46:34.539 --> 00:46:36.139
But I was like, now I'm going to look for it.

00:46:36.300 --> 00:46:38.579
Right. The fun part of being able to watch this

00:46:38.579 --> 00:46:41.460
ahead of time, though, is there's so much misdirection

00:46:41.460 --> 00:46:44.179
in the trailers and in the promotional material

00:46:44.179 --> 00:46:46.219
that people think they know what's going on,

00:46:46.300 --> 00:46:50.150
and they have no idea. I mean, maybe some smarter

00:46:50.150 --> 00:46:51.650
fans have guessed certain things and this, that,

00:46:51.670 --> 00:46:53.789
and the other, but a lot of the casual fan is

00:46:53.789 --> 00:46:55.550
being thrown off by a whole lot of misdirection,

00:46:55.590 --> 00:46:57.769
and it's funny to watch them react that way.

00:46:59.710 --> 00:47:03.809
Mike, go ahead. It's funny that this isn't, and

00:47:03.809 --> 00:47:06.210
I'm trying to do crossover here since we have

00:47:06.210 --> 00:47:08.389
a Transformers person, even though we're all

00:47:08.389 --> 00:47:11.769
Transformers people, but since we have the Transformers

00:47:11.769 --> 00:47:14.420
guy on the He -Man show for the first time. What's

00:47:14.420 --> 00:47:17.519
so funny is our good buddy Rodimus Primal, who's

00:47:17.519 --> 00:47:19.400
going to be helping us on one point of the ports

00:47:19.400 --> 00:47:21.440
of the Top 100 Transformers Characters Countdown

00:47:21.440 --> 00:47:27.900
later this year, he was speculating about Airazor

00:47:27.900 --> 00:47:30.380
and Laserbeak. And he's like, ooh, maybe that's

00:47:30.380 --> 00:47:34.219
Silverbolt, the maximal Silverbolt. And I'm like,

00:47:34.340 --> 00:47:41.050
yeah, no, it's not. Kind of a thing. Go ahead.

00:47:41.349 --> 00:47:44.250
No, go ahead, sir. I just want to say, I'll give

00:47:44.250 --> 00:47:45.929
all you guys a chance real quick to say anything

00:47:45.929 --> 00:47:47.769
else that you want to talk about non -spoiler

00:47:47.769 --> 00:47:49.690
-wise, but I don't have too much more that we

00:47:49.690 --> 00:47:52.130
can go over in my notes that wouldn't be spoilery.

00:47:52.969 --> 00:47:56.880
Good Lord, I can't talk spoiling it. But as you

00:47:56.880 --> 00:47:58.519
do that and give your final thoughts, I'm wondering,

00:47:58.699 --> 00:48:00.340
you know, just I know there's some recency bias

00:48:00.340 --> 00:48:03.739
here. We just watched it, et cetera. But especially,

00:48:03.840 --> 00:48:06.119
Mike, since we've been through all of the stuff

00:48:06.119 --> 00:48:08.579
so far, with the exception of going in depth

00:48:08.579 --> 00:48:12.500
with the Netflix She -Ra, where do you feel like

00:48:12.500 --> 00:48:14.940
currently Revelation sits, even though we've

00:48:14.940 --> 00:48:16.900
only gotten, you know, the first part of it?

00:48:17.699 --> 00:48:20.840
I'm not making that determination until I watch

00:48:20.840 --> 00:48:23.280
the whole thing. I am not ranking it amongst

00:48:23.280 --> 00:48:26.119
the rest of it because. This is only part one.

00:48:26.199 --> 00:48:29.619
I need the whole story. I want it all. You're

00:48:29.619 --> 00:48:33.820
greedy. For me, I have really enjoyed this so

00:48:33.820 --> 00:48:38.400
far. I am on board 100%. I am a big fan. I actually

00:48:38.400 --> 00:48:40.159
think, depending on where they go with this,

00:48:40.199 --> 00:48:42.539
this has a chance of being better than the 2002

00:48:42.539 --> 00:48:46.699
series. Maybe only for the reason that the 2002

00:48:46.699 --> 00:48:50.099
series never got to end. So if this goes full

00:48:50.099 --> 00:48:52.099
on and does the story that they want to tell

00:48:52.099 --> 00:48:53.820
and has a fitting ending and whatnot, it is...

00:48:54.110 --> 00:48:56.469
It could be the best from beginning to end series

00:48:56.469 --> 00:48:59.389
that we've gotten. Obviously, I'm always going

00:48:59.389 --> 00:49:02.469
to have a special spot for G1. Or G1, good lord.

00:49:02.570 --> 00:49:04.690
For the original Filmation series, I'm talking

00:49:04.690 --> 00:49:06.969
everything here. But for the original Filmation

00:49:06.969 --> 00:49:08.329
series, I'm always going to have a special spot

00:49:08.329 --> 00:49:11.449
there. But if this is a continuity -driven story

00:49:11.449 --> 00:49:13.309
and it has a beginning, a middle, and an end

00:49:13.309 --> 00:49:15.130
and stuff like that, and the visuals are so amazing,

00:49:15.349 --> 00:49:18.429
this could easily be near the top of my master's

00:49:18.429 --> 00:49:20.969
watch. And it's obviously better, in my opinion,

00:49:21.030 --> 00:49:23.909
than the new adventures. But Steve, anything

00:49:23.909 --> 00:49:25.630
that you did not get to talk about, you know,

00:49:25.650 --> 00:49:30.349
non -spoiler wise before we move on? No, I just

00:49:30.349 --> 00:49:32.690
I really enjoyed what they did with it and kind

00:49:32.690 --> 00:49:35.750
of evolving the series into something that I

00:49:35.750 --> 00:49:38.989
can enjoy now without having to put on nostalgia

00:49:38.989 --> 00:49:43.179
glasses to enjoy. Yeah, absolutely. So I know

00:49:43.179 --> 00:49:45.119
you guys are awaiting the release of this series

00:49:45.119 --> 00:49:47.699
so you guys can watch it as well. I'm just saying

00:49:47.699 --> 00:49:50.280
my only words would be go in with an open mind.

00:49:50.719 --> 00:49:54.619
Forget the the toxic toxicity of the fandom.

00:49:55.059 --> 00:49:57.599
You know, give it a chance, because if you go

00:49:57.599 --> 00:49:59.860
in with an open mind and just watch it for what

00:49:59.860 --> 00:50:02.179
you want to watch it for. I think this is going

00:50:02.179 --> 00:50:04.440
to work very well for people. Yes, there's going

00:50:04.440 --> 00:50:06.519
to be fans that are all up in arms. There's going

00:50:06.519 --> 00:50:08.599
to be people losing their minds and saying Kevin

00:50:08.599 --> 00:50:11.300
Smith ruined their childhood and why did he change

00:50:11.300 --> 00:50:13.880
He -Man and all this stuff. Ignore those folks.

00:50:14.139 --> 00:50:17.079
Watch it with a mature mind. It's a good series.

00:50:17.340 --> 00:50:20.940
And hopefully you'll tune back in after you watch

00:50:20.940 --> 00:50:23.400
it for us to go big time into spoilers. Right,

00:50:23.480 --> 00:50:26.639
Mike? Right. And the thing of it is, is the last

00:50:26.639 --> 00:50:28.440
few things I want to bring up before I run through

00:50:28.440 --> 00:50:33.739
the outro. Is that at some point, and I will

00:50:33.739 --> 00:50:36.079
be waiting for all four of these to come out,

00:50:36.119 --> 00:50:40.619
but this actually is also getting a prequel comic

00:50:40.619 --> 00:50:43.820
book. It's going to be four issues. The first

00:50:43.820 --> 00:50:47.519
issue was released on July 7th. So once all four

00:50:47.519 --> 00:50:50.059
issues are coming out, we will have a crossover

00:50:50.059 --> 00:50:53.829
with the pull bag. And I assume once I send you

00:50:53.829 --> 00:50:55.849
the issue at some point or another, Kev, you'll

00:50:55.849 --> 00:50:58.070
want to do it because it's related to this. And

00:50:58.070 --> 00:51:03.449
I enjoyed this. It's just I don't. Like I said.

00:51:04.829 --> 00:51:08.590
I'm a binger. I need to binge things. I don't

00:51:08.590 --> 00:51:12.130
like I need to control my entertainment. I don't

00:51:12.130 --> 00:51:15.250
like doing the whole wait and see if it's good.

00:51:15.329 --> 00:51:18.750
Like I haven't as of this recording. I will not

00:51:18.750 --> 00:51:21.570
and have not watched Loki until all six episodes

00:51:21.570 --> 00:51:23.289
of that. A lot of people are like that. I get

00:51:23.289 --> 00:51:29.469
it. So we are also getting a, on June 10th, 2021,

00:51:29.570 --> 00:51:32.690
it was revealed that an after show titled revelations,

00:51:32.690 --> 00:51:34.989
the masters of the universe revelation after

00:51:34.989 --> 00:51:38.269
show would premiere alongside the series on July

00:51:38.269 --> 00:51:41.510
23rd. So in the vein of like Chris Hardwick doing

00:51:41.510 --> 00:51:45.369
right. talking dead and and talking bad and all

00:51:45.369 --> 00:51:47.710
that it's going to be hosted by kevin smith rob

00:51:47.710 --> 00:51:51.150
david and tiffany smith so they're going to do

00:51:51.150 --> 00:51:52.789
an after show for this which is going to be interesting

00:51:52.789 --> 00:51:54.789
because it means we get to do more episode like

00:51:54.789 --> 00:51:57.289
we can watch that and we can comment on their

00:51:57.289 --> 00:52:00.309
commentary oh lord i just think with what they

00:52:00.309 --> 00:52:02.230
did in the first episode of this part and what

00:52:02.230 --> 00:52:04.289
they do in the last episode i'm very interested

00:52:04.289 --> 00:52:07.070
to see where they go from here because people

00:52:07.070 --> 00:52:08.769
are definitely going to have some reactions to

00:52:08.769 --> 00:52:11.429
those two things and people are going to be very

00:52:11.429 --> 00:52:13.469
pissed off, but I'm holding out hope that, you

00:52:13.469 --> 00:52:14.630
know, once you watch all the parts, everything

00:52:14.630 --> 00:52:17.809
will make sense. Absolutely. Any other final

00:52:17.809 --> 00:52:19.889
things you want to say, Steve, before I run through

00:52:19.889 --> 00:52:23.769
the outro? No, I think I'm good. All right. Thank

00:52:23.769 --> 00:52:26.409
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00:52:26.409 --> 00:52:28.829
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00:53:12.730 --> 00:53:16.170
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00:53:17.050 --> 00:53:20.449
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00:53:20.449 --> 00:53:27.039
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00:53:27.039 --> 00:53:28.739
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