So in recognition of goddamn everyone telling me I needed to, here and elsewhere, I finally sat down and watched She-Ra.
And yes, it was very, very good. I felt a lot of emotions about princesses with rainbow powers and ridiculous goofy names.
(seriously Bo or Beau would still be a pun)
My only quibble would be that... well, people were making comparisons with AtLA above, and in both of them I just felt like they would have been better with a full episode of denouement after the climactic confrontation. Just, with a cast this sprawling and so many emotional threads going the length of the series, I feel like they deserved a full episode's worth of resolution.
But overall, great characters, great conflicts, some remarkably heavy stuff while still being appropriate for children. May, y'know, have prompted a Single Manly Tear or two.
Also really liked how it reframed some character traits in the main cast into character flaws that are usually presented as categorically heroic traits.
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Also, I feel ashamed that someone had to point out to me that Horde Prime was, like, so much fundie imagery. As presented by a queer woman who grew up in a fundamentalist household. I am very good at analysis dammit.
Oh, and a few things that I still just find so very amusing. Brightmoon's dungeon. Entrapta's realization of which side she's on. Everyone's interpretations of Catra in the D&D epsidode. Bow's refusal to cover up his abs.
