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Of He-Man’s first 25 episodes, only two were skipped over by RCA/Columbia in their wildly popular line of VHS and Beta tapes, and both fell into such obscurity that the only reason fans knew of the episodes before DVD because of PAL home video releases, which means that the recent German Blu-rays are the first place they’ve been seen as intended in 40 years.
The first of these episodes, “Reign of the Monster”, is the first episode to feature Stratos.
This sounds like a good idea since Stratos’s character has been painfully undeveloped so far. The problem is, Marc Scott Zicree’s script is a briskly-paced action yarn that has even less time for Stratos than it has for ANY characterization. This episode is pure plot, and the end result is that the only really interesting things are the quality effects animation and the design of Molcrom.