New around here? Register your SA Forums Account here!

You can: log in, read the tech support FAQ, or request your lost password. This dumb message (and those ads) will appear on every screen until you register! Get rid of this crap by registering your own SA Forums Account and joining roughly 150,000 Goons, for the one-time price of $9.95! We charge money because it costs us money per month for bills, and since we don't believe in showing ads to our users, we try to make the money back through forum registrations.
 
  • Post
  • Reply
Sio
Jan 20, 2007

better red than dead

experienceBeej posted:

Hey, we all talking about how Light Hope saved the universe by pulling baby Adora in through a portal to Etheria?

surely adora's parents deserve some credit here. poor forgotten adora homeworld.

Adbot
ADBOT LOVES YOU

Sio
Jan 20, 2007

better red than dead

pentyne posted:

Everything about Adora from S1-S4 was Catra always acting irrationally as soon as Adora became a factor and borderline obsessed with showing her up or proving she doesn't need her. The constant attempt to go "look how great I'm doing now" feels like something you see 99% of the time when it comes to a romantic love relationship and not a broken platonic one. The kind of self destruction is linked to a lot deeper issues then "my sister has new friends"

Yeah. Adora’s feelings are a lot less blatant and she has a separate, more pronounced interest in a different type of woman entirely that I could totally see someone reading her side of the relationship as sisterly. But Catra? I have a hard time understanding people who can watch her act out and obsess over Adora for four seasons and not see it as her being in crazed romantic agony.

Maybe it’s something you need to have lived to pick up on.

Sio
Jan 20, 2007

better red than dead

Elephant Ambush posted:

To be fair to Catra, she hadn't seen what Adora saw. To Catra, Adora was suddenly saying and doing crazy things that made no sense. It's easier for Catra to think that the Princesses had somehow tainted Adora than to question the Horde.

I think it’s more that Catra wasn’t willing to question herself and her role in the world. She never shared Adora’s naïveté when it came to the Horde’s true nature, and so there was never any big moral revelation for her in the first season. She already knew the Horde was evil (she laughs when Adora tries to present this as breaking news) and had deeply internalized her abusive upbringing to the point where she didn’t think she could do better.

Sio
Jan 20, 2007

better red than dead
Glimmer and Bow’s romance is fine. It’s low-key and entirely out of focus, but that’s how it is sometimes when two lifelong friends get together after preemptively sorting their drama.

Like Catra and Adora, the most explicit teasing of it prior to the final season actually comes very briefly in the first. I don’t know if that was intentional or not, but I actually appreciate that it wasn’t constantly at the forefront of their relationship.

Sio
Jan 20, 2007

better red than dead
https://twitter.com/gingerhazing/status/1298809959149211652?s=21

https://twitter.com/gingerhazing/status/1298803688677367810?s=21

haha well i guess it’s actually a good thing this show’s over

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • Post
  • Reply