Masters Cast: Masters of the Universe He-Man and She-Ra Podcast

I just wish we could get it on more of schedule and not so randomly. Even if it’s just quarterly, or whatever, it would be nice to know it’s coming. I hope you keep doing this for a long time to come to come. It’s nice to have a little piece of the old school he-man.org left in this podcast. Always use your forum names too. Those of us that know, know. I miss the 2000s, being on the forum, but at least you guys are still doing this.

The first handful of years with the podcast are incredibly difficult and frustrating to listen to; as most podcasts are want to. However, with Masters Cast, one thing in particular stuck out with me that made it even more difficult other than the usual podcaststers trying to find their footing: Katy, and occasionally all hosts in question never seemed to watch the entire series they discuss. If you took a drink every time Katy says, "I didn't get that far," you'd die from alcohol poisoning. Why have he come into the discussion if she didn't finish the series? When it came to the Mike Young series, it seemed as if both Shadow and Katy didn't watch the series in its entirety before recording (actually Katy definitely did not). This is a huge no-no and even novice podcasters don't usually make this incredible error. New Adventures of He-Man, again, gets a lot of unnecessary hate in their "review" episode. If you really want to hear hypocrisy and to hear nits getting picked, this is the episode. It's almost impossible to listen to. Josh, as much as I enjoy some of his input and other points, is the biggest grump and picker of nits on the show. Holy smokes, does he complain a lot! He claims he isn't a purist, but the way he talks and complains about some of the smaller points of *insert topic here* makes it sound like he is because everything points back to the 80s show as the GOAT. Thankfully, some of these nuisances have been cleaned up a bit with time. Katy is actually watching the shows/movies in question when necessary and other novice mistakes are being cleaned up. Josh, sadly, still is a grump, but he's not intolerable. Only real complaint at this point is something more consistent and regular with show releases. For a podcast that is nearly 20 years old, having 80-ish episodes is WAY too little. It amazes me that they are still able to maintain some sort of following with the podcast, because most end up dying within a year after not producing a fair number of episodes.

As someone new to the fandom because of SPOP, I am enjoying the hosts insight and opinions on the new She-Ra cartoon as I do not have the knowledge of the old shows from the 80s. the way the gang analyzes everything is fantastic and I am going to try to watch some of the old series to understand more. I appreciate the diversity in the hosts, everyone is fun and it is hilarious when they butt heads and argue over even silly details in the series. True fanboys and girls! Though I do not understand the King Grayskull stuff as I've never seen He-Man's show. He comes up A LOT.... Please get through season two as three is coming up soon and I'll be interested to hear about more Easter eggs

Admittedly I didn’t listen to every episode of the podcast so I’m not aware of the highs and lows the show reaches. I listened to a handful and just hit the wall. As much as I wish I could be positive about this show I feel like every time some of the people on it open their mouths when their internet connections actually want to work it just makes my teeth stand on edge. The host of the show, The Shadow, is someone I’d be constantly bickering with if I actually met him, I’m sure. In the episodes I listened to he seems to want to bludgeon anyone with a contrary opinion to his. He seems to excel at complaining and ranting about how he would do things better if he was in charge. His snide and whiny voice doesn’t help his case. As for the rest I honestly really only remember Katy and Lioncourt. Katy made me literally cringe every time she had to explain a contrary option to Shadow because her voice literally gets so high that a dog whistle probably is audible compared to her. And I realize that podcasts are meant to be entertaining and fun but she laughs so much in this teenager sort of way at practically everything that I truly had to shut off the show at points and regroup from being so frustrated at that. I’m sure she is a great person but her personality just doesn’t mesh for the subject matter in my opinion. Lioncourt is the show’s MVP all the way for me. I enjoy his insight into Masters and find I agree with him more than not. Probably why I know I’d bicker like hell with the host since they disagreed as much as I do. His presence alone elevates the show into better than it should be status and would be the reason I’d keep listening in small doses since I have to make my way through the rest of the cohosts. I understand they might have been the first Masters podcast and that is worthy of note. But in an age where there’s many places to go to listen to Masters fans, their show just feels like it’s an amateur attempt to keep going rather than a thoughtful and insightful show. Too much giggling and arguing and frustrating for someone like me. I’m sorry.