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Just got around to binging this whole show. I liked the Parallels between Hordak and Catra. They both had a point where they could have stopped and been reasonably happy with what they had even if all their dreams hadn't come true - Catra wouldn't have had Adora, and Hordak wouldn't have had his brother's approval, but they had moments where they could have just paused and been fine. Catra could have stayed in the desert with Scorpia and been gang buddies, and Hordak could have stopped just before actually activating the portal (it wasn't until he had all the pieces that he realised he didn't actually want his brother involved, so he couldn't have stopped sooner). Just before the Portal, when he and Entrapta have the sword and are prepping to open it, it's obvious that neither of them actually WANT to, they just feel the last few months would have been pointless if they didn't. Even though they are currently very happy just working on lab stuff together. Both go a step further, then lose everything as a result too. I also liked that Catra's arc was just a massive feedback loop - "My goals are to help the Horde take over Etheria - everything will be worth it when the Horde succeeds" drove everything she did, but losing Adora started her on a spiral - "I may have betrayed her, but it will all be worth it when the horde takes over and I'm finally a success... I may be attacking helpless people, but it will all be worth it.." and as the feedback loop continued, her behaviour got more and more erratic and desperate and cruel as she resorted to more and more underhanded tactics to make the Horde win, even as she was hemorraging friends and allies, and the abandonment issues were only made worse by that and fueled her hunger for power, until she was destroying other peoples relationships, which only made them hate her more, which lost her MORE friends and made her MORE desperate. It was a never ending downward spiral that she could not pull up from until she hit bottom. She'was basically trapped in the ultimate Sunk Cost Fallacy
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I loved the part at the end where Seahawk is trying to reach her through the brainwashing and Mermista breaks it with "uuuuuuuughhhhh why are you like this!?"
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Sep 20, 2020 07:13
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I loved the show making fun of itself with Netossa's introduction. "You can't remember what I do, can you Bow?" "Uhhhhhh...." "It's all in the name. I'm NET-TOSSA! I Toss Nets!"
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Jan 14, 2021 07:13
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side_burned posted:The chud concern for a 30+ year old IP was loving pathetic. It's just the same logic that Chairman Drek had in the first Ratchet and Clank game: "Just because I don't need the thing doesn't mean any one else should have any."
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Jun 8, 2021 18:54
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I liked when Catra first met the magic cat and the others start mildly teasing her and she's like "I'm trying something here... I think this thing reacts to how I'm feeling, so could you PLEASE not give me a hard TIME right now..."
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Jun 9, 2021 21:02
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Cattail Prophet posted:Look I was specifically thinking about him and remembered that Catra made fun of his dumb name, I just couldn't remember what the dumb name actually was. It's kind of the same energy as Rocket Raccoon taking the piss out of Taser-Face in Guardians 2.
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