Hi folks! Welcome to our weekly recap of Masters of the Universe: Revelation. This week’s episode is named “The Gutter Rat” and here the story shifts, with just two episodes to go, let’s dive right in.
1. A thankful King…
This episode begins exactly where the previous one ended, with the embrace between King Randor and Adam, the patriarch is pleased to have recovered his son, so one by one, he thanks the team that brought him back and tells Adam how proud he is of him.
He thanks Cringer, the noble Battle-Cat, for his bravery, he also thanks Teela for getting her son back and apologizes for abandoning her at her worst moment; finally he thanks Andra, whom the king didn’t know, and offers her any wealth that she wishes, she expresses her gratitude to the team for making her feel part of a family and simply asks to continue there, the king gives her an official welcome to the Masters of the Universe, recognizing her as Lieutenant Andra.
2. But the Queen is still angry
Then, after looking for refugees the queen comes back to the camp and she starts crying when she realizes that her son Adam is back and alive again, although she seems a little upset with the king and take Saddam to the castle asking him to tell her his story.
She reveals that she is hurt because of the king’s self-aggrandizing, she even thought about leaving him, But that would mean what the people on the Kingdom would also be abandoned by her queen, thankfully Adam is back she can enjoy her son again.
On that same line Teela and Adam reflect about the secret of He-Man and how it damaged their relationship and many other people, those same secrets left her orphan and now she will never have a proper relationship with her mother, the Sorceress.
3. Pitying Evil-Lyn
Lyn comes to Duncan’s prison and mocks him because he once was the most dangerous man in Eternia and now he’s trapped in there with a monster, in turn, he mocks her because, although she believes to be a stronger than ever, she still serves Skeletor, Duncan even tells her that the one that should be a slave is Skeletor, because it is Evil-Lyn who wields the power as the Sorceress and she is the one that channels the power for him. This is the inflection point where Evelyn finally chooses to take the power to herself and rebel against her ex-lover.
So it happens later in later in the episode this is the right time to talk about Lyn’s past, she was living in a poor planet and her parents were about to eat her, so she runs away, hiding in the sewer, until she grows up poop defend herself Good as she can but one day she is being chase it by bad guys and it is Skeletor who rescues her, she hates him but the owes him her life.
4. All, the power will be yours, then what?
She goes to confront Skeletor, and he shows her The Celestial Apex: the universe is pure chaos without any order, so when the planets align, he may finally have the power to, once and for all get rid of He-Man. And that’s it, that’s his grand plan, his endgame, Skeletor wants to wield a power so big, so cosmic that it is unimaginable, and the only thing he wants to do with that is to kill his arch nemesis.
Even then, he is clearly lying, as Lyn tells him, Skeletor wouldn’t know what to do once He-Man is dead, he is so lacking of imagination that he didn’t even think about killing Adam’s family to make him suffer, now is the time to turn against him.
5. The “Gutter Rat” is now God-Lyn (You weren’t expecting that, were you?)
And even that is pathetic, Skeletor relinquishes the power at the lightest, probably most uninterested proposal from Lyn to have sex, that’s when she takes the Sword of Power and turns into a goddess, who by the way looks like a character coming out of Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure
Her first action as a goddess, is to Literally kill the entire idea of the heaven, killing everybody that has ever lived and was resting in Preternia, as she sees it, she liberated everybody from the ever-tiring idea of reaching some level of goodness to access a new life, now everything is chaos and finally everyone could be their best selves there in Eternia.
At the end, the team starts brewing a plan to stop her when Skeletor literally knocks at their door ready to help them, come on, what a cliffhanger.
And that’s it for this episode, it had a pretty nice plot twist that I was not expecting, the children have stopped playing and now it’s time for the grown-ups to play, and of course, the grown-ups are the women of the show. What did you think of this episode? Leave your comments below and join us next week for our take on the next episode, “Hope, for a Destination.”
