I hate to hear that they treated Teela like that. I always saw her as a strong character, though I will admit they did a better job of showing that in the 2002 series. Still, I don't remember a whole lot from He-Man, plotwise. But even after all these years, I still pretty clearly remember the one episode dedicated almost entirely to Teela and Evil Lyn. Teela didn't whine about it. I mean, they both probably said "oh, no" or something at first, as people do when bad things happen; but they didn't wallow and got down to the business of surviving and getting out of that desert. Teela was the one who found the water, FFS, so I credit her with keeping the both of them alive. I know Evil Lyn contributed to the effort, too(probably), but for some reason the scene of Teela kicking the cactus open sticks out while other scenes in the same episode do not. And she was always strong without being horrible to other people - "You were dead? What about my survivors' guilt or whatever? Your son just died? Well, what about my feelings?" Ugh!
And someone said above that they killed off Orko, and nobody's going to comment on that? I believe part of his background is that he used to be super powerful and competent until something separated him from his people and turned him into a comic relief character. If they wanted Orko to be more than comic relief, which I totally understand, he already had the kind of background they could have done a lot with to make him into a more substantial character in his own right. The material was there. How fucking lazy. Just fuck.