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Chokes McGee posted:My favorite part of all this is that they don’t even bother to hide Adora’s powers and she uses them just whenever. I'm actually a little mad because I kind of feel like you should either ignore the previous versions illogic with the secret identity OR do like the Jem comics reboot did and actually justify it. She-Ra tried to have it's cake and eat it by doing the "everyone hates Adora because she used to be Horde, so she has to hide her identity" thing and then discarding it.
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Ok, just watched episode 11 The Promise. What is it about all these characters who take the wrong lesson away from a situation? It’s honestly getting very frustrating.
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The_Doctor posted:Ok, just watched episode 11 The Promise. What is it about all these characters who take the wrong lesson away from a situation? It’s honestly getting very frustrating. Almost all the protagonists and antagonists alike have incredibly deep trauma and major issues trying to figure out their place in the world?
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Namaer posted:I was a heterosexual man but after watching this show I am now extremely gay. AMA Who knows? The original Entrapta was 100% Horde, but the new one isn't evil so much as amoral. Maybe at some point they'll be able to convince her to come back to the alliance.
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I remember so little about the original she ra. I do remember Catra being all "mroooooooow!" and that's about it.
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The original She-ra and He-man are available on Netflix. Also the He-man/She-ra Christmas special is playing on syfy.
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Binged the entire show tonight with my sister who is a decade younger. Followed up by showing her Flowers for Hordak, a later episode from the original series and easily one of the best. There are multiple elements from that single episode that appear to be huge inspirations for the whole season, the biggest being Shadow Weaver using a “dark ruby” to destroy the Whispering Woods. Frankly based on that alone any fascist whining about ess-jay-dubbayahs “ruining” the original show have not watched or studied the show, at all, period. There are a couple nods and deep cuts in there, like when Razz mentions Loo-Kee and his face shows up on a folding fan, or early in the prom episode the Star Sisters are mentioned, three minor characters that were shown off for the toy line but never produced. While it’s very subtle I feel like there’s a distant Jack Kirby Forth World feel to the show, especially with how Adora and Catra are forced to confront their relationship. In another world we’d have the same beginnings but with Scott Free and Kalibak, or Big Barda and Lashina.
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SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:Binged the entire show tonight with my sister who is a decade younger. Followed up by showing her Flowers for Hordak, a later episode from the original series and easily one of the best. There are multiple elements from that single episode that appear to be huge inspirations for the whole season, the biggest being Shadow Weaver using a “dark ruby” to destroy the Whispering Woods. Frankly based on that alone any fascist whining about ess-jay-dubbayahs “ruining” the original show have not watched or studied the show, at all, period. I just watched Flowers For Hordak and the skeleton's have ruined the show with their dark and gritty reboot which over focuses on realism compared to the original. thatbastardken posted:oh my god catra is the worst     Totes!
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amigolupus posted:I think you'll find that Seahawk is very much a bisexual pirate. Didn't Mermistra blush when looking at she'ra pretty hard? Also the "this lady can turn into a 8' tall amazon with a sword and I want her on my team."
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Mr.Pibbleton posted:I just watched Flowers For Hordak and the skeleton's have ruined the show with their dark and gritty reboot which over focuses on realism compared to the original. Mr Pibblekins needs something beautiful in their lives  TheShadowAvatar posted:Didn't Mermistra blush when looking at she'ra pretty hard? Also the "this lady can turn into a 8' tall amazon with a sword and I want her on my team." Yes. Just like Bow was all blushy and starry-eyed at Sea Hawk’s antics.
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SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:Mr Pibblekins needs something beautiful in their lives Didn't Entrapta get like that with Bow too? Or was that someone else?
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I was able to introduce my little 7 year old cousin to this over thanksgiving and while she said it (she-ra in particular) was "awesome", she also got bored multiple times throughout it.... Sigh
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TheShadowAvatar posted:Didn't Entrapta get like that with Bow too? Or was that someone else? Yep, Mermista too, Bow is a pretty important part of the recruitment process. SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:Mr Pibblekins needs something beautiful in their lives I'm not going to say no to a 1930's noire episode where Scorpia wears a suit and fires a tommy gun while standing up in a convertible while Catra drives it wearing a fedora and shades.
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Mr.Pibbleton posted:I'm not going to say no to a 1930's noire episode where Scorpia wears a suit and fires a tommy gun while standing up in a convertible while Catra drives it wearing a fedora and shades. they were already rocking that genre style pretty hard in princess prom, might as well go full hog. Give Scorpia A Gun 2019
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TheShadowAvatar posted:Didn't Mermistra blush when looking at she'ra pretty hard? Also the "this lady can turn into a 8' tall amazon with a sword and I want her on my team." Catra is the one that gets me because of how openly transparent it is. Between sleeping at Adora’s feet, showing up to the prom in drag, being the only person in the episode to use the word “love” (talking about Entrapta), and her dances with Adora, they couldn’t make it more obvious if they used a big gay foghorn.
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Chokes McGee posted:Catra is the one that gets me because of how openly transparent it is. Between sleeping at Adora’s feet, showing up to the prom in drag, being the only person in the episode to use the word “love” (talking about Entrapta), and her dances with Adora, they couldn’t make it more obvious if they used a big gay foghorn. Just because two ladies really like each other as roommates, buy a house, live together for 40+ years and adopt kids; sometimes that's just about keeping good company while you're looking for Mr. Right and totally not gay.  Just two gals discussing ancient technologies.
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I liked that she wore a suit and it was just never commented on nor expected of her to dress any other way.
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Basically all the fashion choices in this show are good as hell for various reasons ranging from 'nice representation of nontraditional styles' to 'sick rear end outfit'
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I hope in season two they give Catra a sword and she can be the complete lesbian icon she deserves to be.
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So the First Ones ship thing uses the Strider alarm from Half-Life 2. Also, there was a proton pack noise from Ghostbusters when a door in the Fright Zone opened.
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sexpig by night posted:I hope in season two they give Catra a sword and she can be the complete lesbian icon she deserves to be. 
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TheShadowAvatar posted:Didn't Mermistra blush when looking at she'ra pretty hard? Also the "this lady can turn into a 8' tall amazon with a sword and I want her on my team." She did. And let's not forget how Perfuma reacted to seeing She-Ra:  TheShadowAvatar posted:Didn't Entrapta get like that with Bow too? Or was that someone else? Entrapta wasn't blushing, but she was very interested in examining She-Ra like one of her science experiments. Which coming from her, is a sign of how much she's into She-Ra.
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I am impressed with the show's avoidance of drug and alcohol usage, yet showing what would happen if Adora got drunk off her rear end.
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amigolupus posted:She did.
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As I said, I can imagine a fantasy world where the idea of gay straight or whatever doesn't exist. You just go for what you're into.
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I'd say that Glimmer isn't technically a princess yet since her mother Angela is the princess of Brightmoon...Nephthys posted:Fool. The best princess is obviously Catra. Maybe. ...and it turns out every princess so far has a name ending with an "a."
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Maybe my favorite little moment in the show so far is just after this part, when child Catra looks teenage Catra dead in the eye. I still can't decide if that look means "This is what you're about to throw away" or "This relationship was never not hosed." e: By the way, why does Seahawk have the negative space of an upside-down "A" in his shirt?
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I feel like Catra exploited her friendship with Adora. In the first episode she was pretty content to let Adora do all the hard work, then latch herself onto it once its done.
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twistedmentat posted:I feel like Catra exploited her friendship with Adora. In the first episode she was pretty content to let Adora do all the hard work, then latch herself onto it once its done. Yeah, but on the other hand, she learned at a pretty young age that her continuing existence depended on Adora being happy with their friendship--at that point, are they really friends? I mean, obviously Adora was completely oblivious to Shadow Weaver's threats and just continued to love Catra no matter what, but, from Catra's perspective, it's not really a real friendship if her life depends on it. Edit: gives a lot more meaning to how much Catra freaked out when Adora left her at first, I think, until she realized she could outmaneuver Shadow Weaver atomicgeek fucked around with this message at 07:48 on Nov 26, 2018 |
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catra is definitely a princess though, the scene with light hope explaining the runestones had a silhouette with a tail.
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Mr.Pibbleton posted:I am impressed with the show's avoidance of drug and alcohol usage, yet showing what would happen if Adora got drunk off her rear end. The showmakers are just taking inspiration from the creativity of the 80s version.  Wasn't there a mandate that She-Ra can't be shown to punch or use her sword so the makers had to get super resourceful on showing off her power.SardonicTyrant posted:I'm kind of disappointed in the later Princess' reactions to She-Ra, because the meeting in the flower kingdom made me think She-Ra was an unstoppable babe magnet. I can see wanting a huge scene like Perfuma did. Though while it's not as overt as Perfuma's reaction, the way Mermista and Entrapta reacted was rather strong if you consider their personalities. Mermista's pretty unflappable, but she blushed pretty hard at She-Ra. And Entrapta was super interested researching She-Ra when the main thing that gets her attention is technology.
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Ragnar34 posted:
It’s where Bow’s heart fits.
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Mr.Pibbleton posted:I'd say that Glimmer isn't technically a princess yet since her mother Angela is the princess of Brightmoon... Angela is a Queen. She is even referred to as such.
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MonsterEnvy posted:Angela is a Queen. She is even referred to as such. And even if that weren’t so, daughters (and granddaughters) of princesses are also princesses. Also, Bow is a princess 
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Team Catra >>> Team Adora and you all know it Catra actually being a princess wouldn't solve any of her problems in my opinion - if anything, I think it would only make her feel even more vindicated in rejecting her.
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