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Volume two of the controversial MOTU: Revelation has dropped and all things considered it’s a marked improvement over the first five episodes. I admit I got caught up in the drama of volume one’s divisiveness, not always siding with either Kevin Smith’s camp or the ‘Clownfish’ camp. Truth be told I think both parties handled themselves just as poorly. The second volume only proved Clownfish ‘right’ in one respect while at the same time totally exposing their ‘scoop’ as a half-truth and everything else projection and paranoia.
But let’s not dwell too much on them or the merits of Smith’s honesty. What matters is part two was a much better half and really what the show should have been all along.
But was it ever truly needed?
Part two hinges on Skeletor being alive to make everything move along, Evil Lyn was redeemed at that point, having lost her love in Orko and vowing to do right by his memory, the power sword had been reclaimed and reforged and Adam restored magic to Eternia. You could easily have ended the series there and then.
So why not do that? All you have to do is remove any references to Teela being the Sorceress and you have a perfect send-off.
Ah, but I didn’t stop there. I decided to pull a similar trick with the FIRST episode, to show that the ‘revelation’ need not have affected Teela negatively at all. I truly feel that if she loved Adam as much as she did, considering him her hero and always believing in him, she would truly understand why he kept this secret from her and would be more readily accepting of being left in the dark . Adam surviving, fresh off of saving the universe, allows Teela to see how much he was willing to sacrifice, in this case, the power sword, and certainly wouldn’t kick him while he was down.
In time, I might revisit the first episode and add a few more things to it, but I wanted to give this version a bit of closure, in many respects finally giving the classic MOTU series a ‘true’ series finale without you needing to go through an edgelord adolescent’s idea of what a ‘mature’ MOTU series looks like
For Eternia!
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