oh i bet it was shadow weaver's decision to send micah to beast island instead of killing him, bc she was in charge of all the administrative work, so i wouldnt be surprised if she was also the one sending the radioactive waste to the radioactive waste disposal site. (wait did the horde actually send waste to the island? light hope knows the island as the radioactive disposal place so that means the first ones were the ones sending the waste... maybe the horde later discovered the island and decided to send their unwanted materials/people there too)... so im thinking maybe the horde captured him & shadow weaver was supposed to kill him but bc of their student/teacher bond she convinced hordak to allow micah to just be dumped on the island instead of directly killing him
if only it worked this way with human computers too
i dont have administrator access to delete this file? but i must harness the heart of etheria
oh temporary administrator access granted? thank you :)
entrapta, stuck and suffering on beast island?!?!? no no no no, beast island has technology and tiny foods. entrapta is thriving on beast island. she IS the one who knocks.
Ok I do have to admit that this is a really funny moment, but the cool part about most jokes on Spop is that you can actually learn a lot about the characters from them.
Adora legit panics at being in front of an authority figure she has no idea how to please. You can see Angella actually feel really bad for her for a second: she sees that little kid trying desperately trying to stay on the authority figure's good side so she doesn't get punished, but eventually, the hurt she feels over the Horde's actions override this compassion and she dumps it unto Adora, bc she is a product of the Horde.
I always forget the rebellion is so recent. Like we're talking about a one generation war here, and I also forget that Angella and Micah were the founders. It's kind of a nice nod to Micah wanting to fight against the Horde ever since he was training with Light Spinner, but after seeing what the spell of obtainment did, he went another route to do it after becoming disillusioned with magic.
My blorbo absolutely blaming herself for the death of Micah even tho she was like 3 when it happened and blaming herself for not knowing when she arrived to bright moon like a day ago. (quite literally a day ago, we know this is her first night in the castle)
Adora looks absolutely TERRIFIED, and like honestly, Angella is kinda absolutely threatening her here, so I don't blame her. It's just a repeated pattern in Adora's life: authority figures expecting perfection, otherwise she'll get punished for it.
She also internalizes "do not disappoint her as "do not disappoint me "
Which is one of the things I love about this show. There is SO much miscommunication due to trauma in this show, it's actually insane. Like I've said it before, but the entire conflict in Catra and Adora's relationship can actually be boiled down to how they each misinterpret what the other is saying over and over and over again due to their upbringings.
Another thing I love about this show: how they subtly show character's upbringings and social manners.
Glimmer freaks the hell out bc Adora just appears on her bed, but Adora doesn't really see the big deal bc there was no privacy in the Horde. It makes sense for her to just go up there. She was also probably like "well Catra and I were best friends, and Glimmer and Bow seem to like me a lot and also I feel really freaking isolated right now, so Glimmer won't mind if I just sleep on the foot of her bed like Catra used to do for me right?"
This poor girl is just trying so hard to get on Angella's good side and be of service. Knowing about her traumas and how deeply she has internalized that she has no inherent value, these scenes become really hard to watch.
I'm sorry, as a fandom, we truly do not talk about Catra's mrrp here enough. It is the best noise she ever makes in the show and that's counting all the "hey adora"s and purring. THERE I said it.
You know what's fucked up? The fact that Catra is so optimistic that SW will finally recognize her worth now that Adora's gone. She misses Adora like crazy, but she's also felt like she's lived under her shadow for so long, that it's also really nice to have a chance to prove herself, even if it isn't enough, bc it's never enough for SW.
I always wonder what the hell this drawing is??? Is it a drawing Adora made when she was a kid?? Like did she draw this when she was younger as like a dream she had and just glued it to her locker? Or is it a drawing the horde soldiers made mocking Adora and belittling her betrayal? Maybe the latter makes more sense. Either way, lots of questions.
I do like the show, don't tell of "I've told you everything I know about Adora" and then noticing that drawing and crumpling it, bc Catra is still trying to protect Adora by not telling SW about She-Ra.
The way she FLINCHES :c It breaks my heart to think of how many times Catra has been physically abused.
AND THEN SHE IMMEDIATELY GOES TO CHECK ON HER WHEN SW's IN PAIN, GOD.
It's a mix of Catra genuinely having a really big heart, but also wanting your caretaker to care about you so badly that you're willing to try just about anything to get that affection. This all happens so fast that it's very unconscious though, Catra can normally pretend that she doesn't care about SW's affection or recognition.
Loaded ass phrase in the middle of a gay ass buff jock moment, this is peak She-Ra right here.
Ppl don't really understand that when I say "she-ra is the gayest show I have ever watched" I not only mean "the protagonist is a lesbian and she saved the universe by loving her catgirl gf and kissing her" I also mean bc of moments like this. Like this is gay culture. As a certified buff dumb jock, seeing Adora do shit like this and constantly challenge Sea-Hawk to arm-wrestling literally means so much to me bc I be doing that shit unprompted at any given moment.
Again.
Gay culture.
Also I think about that She-Ra close-up constantly, I love how androgynous she looks here. Absolute gender.
Honestly, rewatching S1, they got away with so much shit. Like pretty much every woman who sees she-ra has a crush on her, it is SO funny. You can tell that after princess prom, the execs were like "please,,, you can't keep getting away with this"
The implications of this are really interesting actually. If this isn't a myth and it's instead a legend, I wonder if Mara and squadron Grayskull actually did go to beast island at one point and tried to dismantle it or something. Would make for a cool one-shot.
It’s interesting Glimmer says to concentrate really hard bc it’s the opposite of how she ra gets her healing powers. She gets them by relaxing and moving through her fear, almost entering a meditative state instead of directly focusing on them.
It's so upsetting how she is unable to recognize how unfair it is for people to be placing all of these responsibilities on her when she discovered she was She-Ra like, yesterday. And Bow and Glimmer eventually recognize this and reassure her, but they're still not the best at it. She will probably always ask herself if they would have become her friends if they met her as Adora, not She-Ra.
She has been raised to be perfect at everything she did, on the first try, or get love and recognition taken away from her, so the only thing she can do is get mad at herself, because she has been taught that she deserves it.
Rare Adora acting W.
Completely obsessed at how Bow is mimicking her to appear intimidating LMAO
Glimmer looks so hot in armor, that is all.
I love the intentional dealing-with-a-homophobic-parent language choice here.
This is genuinely so sweet and thoughtful of them honestly. It's really painful to see the juxtaposition between Catra's isolation and loneliness with Adora becoming closer with new friends, though. I know she meets Scorpia (who is a bit too enthusiastic), but it's not like she is in a position to truly accept new friendships outside of Adora anyway.
Oops I thought this was going to be a shorter one bc I was like "it's flowers for she-ra, how trauma packed can it be, really?" I should know better, I've watched this shit 10 times dude.
ok she gets swift wind's name right first try
razz doesn't refer to him again in the episode so we don't know if she does get his name wrong, but i wanna believe that she does remember him properly because he visits her "all the time" and also bc it's funny
that'd mean if adora would visit her too and not just in times of Great Distress then she too could have this success
come on adora have a heart
oh the recordings would be with entrapta bc of how important they are to her, so scorpia's gonna have to go to beast island to get them so we're gonna get to see entrapta & end up rescuing her!!!!! :D
oh nooo the recordings were here the whole time :I so we don't get to see entrapta :(
aw yessssssss we're gonna see entrapta anywayyyyyy thank you scorpiaaaaa
We as a fandom focus a lot on Catra’s feelings for Adora and not nearly enough on Adora’s feelings for Catra so I’m starting a list of little underappreciated moments on Adora’s side that spoke to me as a person:
- Adora doing the Locker Lean while flirting with Catra and laughing in the dorkiest way then jumping when Shadow Weaver comes in like she’s been caught red-handed
- That flirty ass “Why don’t we go find out?~”
- Adora clinging to Catra’s arm when the skiff picks up speed and the camera focusing on it
- Adora’s soft smile when she wakes up after a nightmare and sees Catra at the foot of her bed
- The fact that Adora couldn’t sleep “without anyone around” for the first time, and so sneaked into Glimmer’s room and slept curled up at the foot of her bed like Catra used to do with her
- “Is this what love feels like?”
- Adora grabbing Catra by the waist when her HAND was RIGHT THERE
- WHAT IS THIS. WHAT IS TH
- The Look
- “I want to be the best She-Ra, I want to protect the planet, but Catra… she’s just… in my head.”
- Adora obsessing over Catra for the entirety of s2 and blaming her when literally anything goes wrong
- Adora spending a whole episode worrying about what Catra is planning and creating contingency plan after contingency plan because Catra knows how to get to her - and when it’s go-time and she’s told Catra isn’t even there she looks……. disappointed?
- And jealous?
- IN THE VERY NEXT EPISODE after the one spent worrying about Catra picking her off and distracting her from the fight, Catra manages to do just that. How? Turns out she just has to run and Adora will follow.
- Bonus Scorpia and Entrapta just standing there like “what the FUCK are we supposed to do”
- The fact that loopy!Adora could barely remember who Glimmer was, but she remembered Catra’s favorite 5-digit number
- More of The Look
- That flirty ass “Oh yeah?~”
- She’s so happy
- Adora watching Spinnerella and Netossa, who are literally married, bickering and being competitive but still loving and caring about each other so much just like she and Catra used to do, and looking like this
- When Scorpia realizes that Shadow Weaver being in Bright Moon is the reason Catra’s been acting so weird and that she’s going to get even worse now that she’s left too and Adora looks at Shadow Weaver in guilt+anger
these spiders do NOT respect the honour of grayskull 👎👎👎❌❌
glimmer's giant worm guardian that lives in the tunnels under brightmoon respects the power of the lantern
giant worm guardian >>> crystal castle spiders
catra being reminded she has no real friends and then quickly realising she can at least sabotage adora's friend group </33 "if i cant have friends, no one can"
also this is one of the few times she says adora instead of she ra
this made me realise that we dont actually know what the currency of this planet is
glimmer's right about money being no object because we haven't seen any of it lol
up until this point i was wondering if flutterina *was* an actual person who got captured and then replaced by double trouble, or if she was completely made up the whole time
thankfully she *is* completely made up because otherwise the real flutterina would be imprisoned somewhere and the best friends squad would have no idea :D
but then, since flutterina *is* actually double trouble and we found this out at the start of only the second episode she was introduced, then why is she in the intro with the good guys
oh yeahhhhhh the good guys think entrapta is still with the bad guys, and hordak thinks entrapta rejoined the good guyssss
the only ones who know where she actually is are catra, scorpia & entrapta (obviously)
im half expecting there to be some kind of confrontation between adora & hordak at some point where they're both trying to do their speeches, and they both mention entrapta, like "even with entrapta on your side and making your technology, we will still defeat you!!!!1!" but then they have to call a timeout bc it turns out no one knows where she actually is
