Headscratchers / He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (2002)

• Is it just me or did Eternia accept Randor's appointment as king way too easily? I mean, sure Randor is a nice guy and all but they pretty much only have his team to confirm his appointment as king. The people are fine with going from council-run to a monarchy?
  • They may not know he was appointed by the Elders, but since the Council wasn't there anymore, the better choice was the man who led the troops to save everyone from Keldor's rule.
  • Well it was a monarchy before the Elders and the people trust their wisdom.
• The Broken Aesop in the episode "The Courage of Adam". Here when Adam tries to prove he can be useful as well he's captured almost immediately which implies that Adam is useless as Adam and really needs his alter ego form to be of any use. I mean shouldn't He-Man be a last resort. While the episodes point was He-Man will always be needed, it shows it very poorly.
  • Did you miss the prevous episodes where we learned that Adam has spent his life goofing off, ignoring the potential return of the Evil Warriors, and not taking his combat training seriously? The rest of the team are warriors from the last time Keldor tried to take over and Teela, who has taken her training damn seriously, and even they get hit pretty hard anytime He-man isn't around, and even sometimes when he is. It wasn't a Be Yourself episode, it was an Accept Your Responsibilities And Live With The Consequences. Adam has nobody but himself to blame for his incompetence.
  • Maybe but this is a repeat of a similar event in the original series where he was trying to prove he can be of use and can be a hero when he tries to save his father as himself, not as He-Man. In this version he's doesn't have the incompetence excuse you claim because it the She-Ra Spin-Off we see he can fight and Teela has been teaching him. Not to mention in the 2002 episode he can keep up with Teela in the game so it's not as though he not completely untrained. And my point was the message was poorly executed not that it wasn't clear.
    • Yes, Adam can sort of keep up with Teela while playing around. Actual combat? Totally different. Adam DOES have some skills but they are nowhere close to enough to fight the Evil Warriors. The entire point of the pilot is that He-Man is a necessity, Adam alone is not enough. And even in the old deries we see Adam was still slacking off, though it's entirely possible that finding out he had a sister determined to stay in a war zone got him to buckle down and actually train so he'd be of use. On Eternia he has a whole army backing him, so he's just the big gun.
    • Actually he showed he could fight before he found out he was looking for his sister. What makes no sense to me is the fact in the first version, other heroes have the same training he's had and can handle the Evil Warriors to a degree. you think they would make it look like he might have won. The way things were going I think the King would've put He-Man on the throne instead of his son due to his need for the disguise.
• Why did the Faceless 1 basically allow Evil Lynn to take the Ramstone?
  • She sucker punched him with magic and knocked him out. His guard was down because she was his daughter, he doesn't want to hurt her, and she was somewhat honest when she said she had no interest in the stone.
• In the new series Zodak pretty much admitted that he allowed himself to be beaten so that King Hiss would be freed and Zodak would have the chance to finish him off once and for all. This results in massive damage to several kingdoms, several people being eaten alive by King Hiss, and the slow death of the Sorceress by King Hiss' venom (and yes, that's where the story was going, they admit it on the commentary) and there are no consequences and nobody calls him on it.
  • There was an Aesop at the end of the episode that said don't act like Zodak, it was cut from the US release... and he did get called out and apologized. Really just Easily Forgiven.
• Why doesn't Orko just get a new wand? That way he can actually do helpful magic instead of risk magic that often backfires.
  • Probably he needs a Trollan-made wand and a wand made in Eternia wouldn't be compatible with his magic. That said, in the last issue of the short-lived Image comic, he does get a new wand (thanks to a message left for him by the Oracle)... though since the comic was cancelled before he ever got to use it, it's hard to say how much his magic would have improved.

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