oh but seriously I posted:

got obsessed with the concept of skeletor and so i watched this very gay children's show. p. good, favourite moment was the <1 second shot of the imp kicking hodark in the shin and expressing "ffs man, don't be a dick" in a worldless shriek

Technowolf posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbfkhjlF-YU

oh but seriously I posted:

i would kind of love if we never saw catra again and her entire arc is [hatches a dumbshit plan which will obviously immediate backfire on her if ever successfully executed] -> [successfully executes a dumbshit plan which will obviously immediate backfire on her if ever successfully executed] -> [her successfully executed dumbshit plan immediate backfires on her, obviously]

scorpia remains Top Princess

Ghost Leviathan posted:

I hope we see a couple of clones with eye patches in the background.

SardonicTyrant posted:

The show is pretty explicit about how heterosexual relationships lead to heartbreak and disappointment and that being gay is the way to go

pentyne posted:

They won't regret regardless.

Ghost Leviathan posted:

Sea Hawk is too when you get down to it, he's just kinda outclassed given he doesn't have any special powers or weapons like nearly every other named character of note, and his unique skill is 'can competently operate a boat'. (And set it on fire)

Also funny that they swapped the usual 'girls' night out' episode for a boys night out. (Though I think the same thing happens in most female-dominated shows at some point) And in this show, one of the boys is a pegasus unicorn.

Stenis posted:

Ironslave posted:

If the finale has Hordak and Entrapta blasting off in a rocket to explore the universe I think I'll have gotten what I want out of this.

Motherfucker posted:

Hordak prime seems suspiciously into body modding to not be basically falling apart same as the rest and constantly replacing his parts with the parts of others as a means of keeping himself one step ahead.

Elephant Ambush posted:

Shadow Weaver is the most intriguing character to me because the writers have done such a good job at hiding her true motivations. My wife and I talk about that once in a while. We have no idea what she really wants or what she's up to. Her original motivations were ultimate power but we're not sure if she learned any kind of lessons from her past mistakes. My own personal (and probably wrong) theory is that she's just an opportunist who is currently biding her time and toying with people and gathering favors until the time is right to try to make some kind of move.

tsob posted:

It's not even just that her past is being ignored honestly, because Catra is kind of an awful person. Adora is trying to be selfless and put the world and her friends before herself, in a war that could decide the fate of the entire universe and all Catra ever seems to want or care about is whether Adora is paying attention to her. The flashbacks only add to that, because even as a child she got insanely jealous if Adora was friends with anyone else, and lashed out at the mere idea of her being friends with anyone but Catra herself. Catra started working on her anger issues during the season, and apologized to Scorpia among others for being so poo poo to them, but she never actually seemed to acknowledge or even realize that maybe Adora can have a life outside Catra. The closest she came is walking away from her entirely, because she didn't want to watch Adora risk herself for others.

I'd also say I just didn't find it fitting that Catra basically got what she wanted all along, despite all the terrible things she did. It seems like a bad way to end her arc that despite endangering the entire planet multiple times over, pushing away all her friends and just being a lovely person in general that once she started to get over herself a bit and started listening to others that she almost immediately got the thing she wanted all along. No consequences. Adora finally being done with her poo poo at the end of season 2? 3? Scorpia realizing that Catra was a bad friend etc, just seem kind of wasted or insincere as character beats now, when as soon as Catra decides to try to do some good, they immediately welcome her back without issue.

I don't even mind the idea of Catra having a redemption, since that certainly seemed a strong possibility all along, and some of the interactions once she joined the gang were fun (Bow finding her cute at all times was great, for instance) and Catra acknowledging her past mistakes, recognizing when she's pushing people away needlessly a few times, working on her anger and apolizing to people she'd hurt were good but it all was too fast, and I just don't like that she got the thing she apparently wanted all along with issue almost as soon as she stopped being a villain. The show could probably have done it better with another season (among other things that seem like they'd have worked better with a little more time; though that probably wasn't an option), but even then I don't think I'd ever have liked that she and Adora ended up together given what's happened between them in the past.


I wonder who the baby Kyle is putting in a papoose on Rogelio's chest is, since it looks like a a mix between human and lizard and I don't recall any other lizard people in that scene. Did they adopt or have someone act as a surrogate or something, I wonder. It's probably just a refugee, since I don't think there was enough time for a child to be created and born between seasons but I did wonder when I saw it.

Just Andi Now posted:

I'd rather have a lackluster/inadequate redemption arc than another in a long line of "they can't be together because reasons" endings, to be honest.

Beekeeping and You posted:

why do we have to earn it straight couples don't have to earn it, they just get to throw that poo poo in awkwardly.

Beekeeping and You posted:

Ok sure but c'mon you know Adora would never look at catra trying to heal and be like ehhh not my problem

that's a weird roboty way of looking at relationships? I guess I just don't think Catra's irredeemably toxic? She was a child soldier.

Saucy_Rodent posted:

I think “wait for the person who’s abusing you to say ‘I love you,’ then proceed to make out with them” is a bad lesson for kids, and a better one would be “sometimes you’ll love people, but they keep hurting you, and they’re not gonna stop and it’s not your responsibility to fix them, and it’s gonna hurt but you’re gonna have to let them go.” It’s not about punishment, it’s about teaching kids responsibility, and you can do and also still have Adora be mega gay.

pentyne posted:

You, Watching a cartoon show: This doesn't make sense, the real world isn't like this, I can't believe they would try to convince us this is plausible

twistedmentat posted:

My only issue with this is I don't think Adora would wear a dress either, why does one have to be femme? They'd both rock sweet rear end suits.

Pararoid posted:

"Failed sequel" seems like quite a stretch for Korra given how popular it is at the moment with it's Netflix debut in some regions.

It was a more complex show than TLA, and it really did suffer for that at times, but when it's firing on all cylinders, say in season 2 part 2, it's easily as good as anything in the genre imo.

nine-gear crow posted:

And now the question becomes, whose voice did you read that in, Oppenheimer, Langella, or Hamill?