She-Ra Is Did!!!
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lunabee34First the recap of the remaining episodes:
Secret underwater party is best episode! Mermista is hot in that pantsuit. I love that she and Sea Hawke spend the whole time tying up people who are mad at him for setting their boats on fire, and then it turns out Mermista set a boat on fire just to see what it was like! OMG, I love the two of them. I also really love Scorpia finding her confidence and singing, and I see some hints of a potential romance with Perfuma which I am waaaaaay digging. When Scorpia sacrifices herself for them, I bawled and bawled. This show just destroys me.
Every single thing about Netossa working to get Spinerella back gets me right in the id. What a fantastic story arc. More crying in the scene when she saves her: You're my weakness! (and that is how you deal with yourbrother wife being your weakness, Dean Winchester).
I like the revelation that magic is Horde Prime's weakness, love Meelog, and love the continuing revelations that the First Ones are just as destructive and colonizing as Horde Prime.
Love that the refugees they met on the fuel planet are now leading intergalactic rebellions against Horde Prime.
Once Perfuma starts taking Catra to task to hurting Scorpia, I definitely think the show is indicating she has feelings for Scoripa. I love it so much. Perfuma is so strong, but she always chooses kindness and love (and she's right; Scorpia misses!). They would be so good together.
Beau's dad's are always adorable. I love that they learned to shoot arrows.
I absolutely love that for once, Entrapta is working solely for other people and not to satisfy her intellectual curiosity. Without the work she does to disrupt the chips, they would all be lost.
Catra jumps into fire for Adora with no hesitation. MY HEART! She pulls a Ron Weasley, but then she goes back. I don't blame Catra for having a hard time being around Shadow Weaver; it's one thing to say you should ignore your childhood abuser and another to blithely do it.
Glimmer and Beau's I love you moment. Sea Hawke and Mermista's I love you moment. Glimmer announcing that her mom taught her to be brave, her friends taught her to be kind, and she gets her stubbornness from her dad --Okay, now I'm crying again.
Absolutely love the shots of everyone from throughout the series like Huntara, the kitchen staff, and Lonnie & Co. at the end to show us what they're doing to fight Horde Prime.
Love Hordac saving Entrapta.
Love Adora's vision of the future with her and Catra together and Beau and Glimmer together and everyone being happy and impeccably dressed. A+ outfits.
Love Shadow Weaver doing the right thing for once and saving Catra and Adora.
Love Entrapta's glee at seeing Hordac again. I missed you! *loves*
AND THEN CATRA TELLS ADORA SHE LOVES HER AND THEY KISS AND IT HEALS THE FUCKING UNIVERSE! OMG, SHOW, I COULD NOT ASK FOR A BETTER THING THAN WHAT YOU HAVE GIVEN ME. And then Scorpia hugs Catra, and I'm done. I don't need anything else.
And now for some meta.
I think it's really interesting that only four characters die throughout the course of the series (Mara's death predates the show). Adora kills Horde Prime at the end. The other three deaths are sacrificial and of mom figures. I think Light Hope is the least mom figure, but she's definitely Mara's sole caretaker, and she's in a position of authority over her and tries to be over Adora. I think that at the end when she tells Adora to do it, she sacrifices herself so that Adora CAN destroy the sword; if she hadn't let up for a split second, Adora wouldn't have been able to do it. And she reverts to her uncorrupted self momentarily before dying. Glimmer's mom just straight up saves her baby (and the world, but mostly her baby), and it is heroic and amazing, and I kept hoping they'd find a way to rescue her because she isn't dead; she's just trapped in some other dimension forever, and it kills me. Shadow Weaver is a horrible, terrible, abusive parent, but she acts as both Adora and Catra's mom. And in the end, when she could press forward and try to take the magic for herself, she turns back, saves them both, and tells Catra she's proud of her. It doesn't erase what she did. It doesn't make her abuse okay. But it means something, and it was a powerful moment.
I absolutely love that the thesis of the show turns out to be that Adora doesn't have to sacrifice herself, that she isn't expendable, that she doesn't have to do everything alone and keep everyone else safe. The people she loves can come with her on that journey, and their love will make her stronger. She gets to have a life and be a person and be loved. So damn good.
I really only have two quibbles. I don't know how old everyone is supposed to be. I've been thinking all the mains are 18-20 with Frosta clearly being a child and Scorpia maybe being a little bit older. So at least 18 years ago, there were some First Ones left for Adora to be stolen from. I feel like her family is a bit of a dropped thread.
I also think Horde Prime is such a Thanos bad guy. I want to know more about him and what made him want to destroy the universe and who he was on the journey to cardboard cutout villain. He has no nuance or complexity.
And finally a question: What happens to the clones? Hordac becomes Hordac when he quits being possessed by Horde Prime because he has an identity that is being suppressed. Wrong Hordac stays himself because he's been cut off from the hive mind. What about the rest of the clones? Are they just dead meat now without Horde Prime's animating presence, or is Eternia and that spaceship full of thousands of what amount to baby people that are going to need to be taught to human?
Secret underwater party is best episode! Mermista is hot in that pantsuit. I love that she and Sea Hawke spend the whole time tying up people who are mad at him for setting their boats on fire, and then it turns out Mermista set a boat on fire just to see what it was like! OMG, I love the two of them. I also really love Scorpia finding her confidence and singing, and I see some hints of a potential romance with Perfuma which I am waaaaaay digging. When Scorpia sacrifices herself for them, I bawled and bawled. This show just destroys me.
Every single thing about Netossa working to get Spinerella back gets me right in the id. What a fantastic story arc. More crying in the scene when she saves her: You're my weakness! (and that is how you deal with your
I like the revelation that magic is Horde Prime's weakness, love Meelog, and love the continuing revelations that the First Ones are just as destructive and colonizing as Horde Prime.
Love that the refugees they met on the fuel planet are now leading intergalactic rebellions against Horde Prime.
Once Perfuma starts taking Catra to task to hurting Scorpia, I definitely think the show is indicating she has feelings for Scoripa. I love it so much. Perfuma is so strong, but she always chooses kindness and love (and she's right; Scorpia misses!). They would be so good together.
Beau's dad's are always adorable. I love that they learned to shoot arrows.
I absolutely love that for once, Entrapta is working solely for other people and not to satisfy her intellectual curiosity. Without the work she does to disrupt the chips, they would all be lost.
Catra jumps into fire for Adora with no hesitation. MY HEART! She pulls a Ron Weasley, but then she goes back. I don't blame Catra for having a hard time being around Shadow Weaver; it's one thing to say you should ignore your childhood abuser and another to blithely do it.
Glimmer and Beau's I love you moment. Sea Hawke and Mermista's I love you moment. Glimmer announcing that her mom taught her to be brave, her friends taught her to be kind, and she gets her stubbornness from her dad --Okay, now I'm crying again.
Absolutely love the shots of everyone from throughout the series like Huntara, the kitchen staff, and Lonnie & Co. at the end to show us what they're doing to fight Horde Prime.
Love Hordac saving Entrapta.
Love Adora's vision of the future with her and Catra together and Beau and Glimmer together and everyone being happy and impeccably dressed. A+ outfits.
Love Shadow Weaver doing the right thing for once and saving Catra and Adora.
Love Entrapta's glee at seeing Hordac again. I missed you! *loves*
AND THEN CATRA TELLS ADORA SHE LOVES HER AND THEY KISS AND IT HEALS THE FUCKING UNIVERSE! OMG, SHOW, I COULD NOT ASK FOR A BETTER THING THAN WHAT YOU HAVE GIVEN ME. And then Scorpia hugs Catra, and I'm done. I don't need anything else.
And now for some meta.
I think it's really interesting that only four characters die throughout the course of the series (Mara's death predates the show). Adora kills Horde Prime at the end. The other three deaths are sacrificial and of mom figures. I think Light Hope is the least mom figure, but she's definitely Mara's sole caretaker, and she's in a position of authority over her and tries to be over Adora. I think that at the end when she tells Adora to do it, she sacrifices herself so that Adora CAN destroy the sword; if she hadn't let up for a split second, Adora wouldn't have been able to do it. And she reverts to her uncorrupted self momentarily before dying. Glimmer's mom just straight up saves her baby (and the world, but mostly her baby), and it is heroic and amazing, and I kept hoping they'd find a way to rescue her because she isn't dead; she's just trapped in some other dimension forever, and it kills me. Shadow Weaver is a horrible, terrible, abusive parent, but she acts as both Adora and Catra's mom. And in the end, when she could press forward and try to take the magic for herself, she turns back, saves them both, and tells Catra she's proud of her. It doesn't erase what she did. It doesn't make her abuse okay. But it means something, and it was a powerful moment.
I absolutely love that the thesis of the show turns out to be that Adora doesn't have to sacrifice herself, that she isn't expendable, that she doesn't have to do everything alone and keep everyone else safe. The people she loves can come with her on that journey, and their love will make her stronger. She gets to have a life and be a person and be loved. So damn good.
I really only have two quibbles. I don't know how old everyone is supposed to be. I've been thinking all the mains are 18-20 with Frosta clearly being a child and Scorpia maybe being a little bit older. So at least 18 years ago, there were some First Ones left for Adora to be stolen from. I feel like her family is a bit of a dropped thread.
I also think Horde Prime is such a Thanos bad guy. I want to know more about him and what made him want to destroy the universe and who he was on the journey to cardboard cutout villain. He has no nuance or complexity.
And finally a question: What happens to the clones? Hordac becomes Hordac when he quits being possessed by Horde Prime because he has an identity that is being suppressed. Wrong Hordac stays himself because he's been cut off from the hive mind. What about the rest of the clones? Are they just dead meat now without Horde Prime's animating presence, or is Eternia and that spaceship full of thousands of what amount to baby people that are going to need to be taught to human?
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Date: 2020-10-06 04:06 pm (UTC)There's some decent fic out there about what happens to all the clones after. I found my recs on failmeme.
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Date: 2020-10-07 01:06 am (UTC)I definitely need to make a post asking for fic recs because there's a lot to try to look through when I go to AO3, and while Catra/Adora is fine, I'm not really interested in reading a lot of fic for them. I'm way more interested in stuff like what happens to the clones or anything with Scorpia or what Lonny and the gang get up to after they flee the Fright Zone.
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Date: 2020-10-09 06:18 am (UTC)I figure that Wrong Hordak will teach the rest of the clones, since he already has a head start. (Actual Hordak would probably be a terrible teacher.)
Also Perfuma/Scorpia was confirmed by TPB as well.
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Date: 2020-10-09 12:19 pm (UTC)I don't think I wanted them to actually meet her family, but I think I wanted some sort of your family is still out there or it's been wiped out conversation or information.
I love the idea of Wrong Hordac's School of Clone Reeducation. *dies laughing*
And yay for Perfuma/Scorpia. That makes me so happy.