Can you talk more about how Adora was so wildly out of character this season, because you're one of the only other people I've seen who mentioned that. Sure, we all knew c/a was gonna be canon in some way but the fact that Adora seemed to forget everything Catra had done (including 'kill' Angella, who was a mother figure to her too) was so crazy. It bothered me more than absolutely anything so see Adora's development chucked out the window.
Take a sit. This is gonna be a long post.
One of the reasons I fell for this show so much was because I identified with Adora on a very personal level. She's the character that I have been waiting for all my life. When I saw her on the other seasons, I knew what decision she was going to make, how she was going to act, I imagined how she felt.
During this season (except for the first episode I think) I was in a constant "Adora, sweetie... what the fuck are you doing?". It's as simple as... when Catra calls to let them know she's going to send Glimmer. When Adora heard her voice, she immediately was like "Catra omg my love I missed you so much!!!" and??? Yeah, no??? After everything what happened on S4, I think a much more real response would have been for her to be like "Catra? What are you doing there? Now you're on the Horde Prime side? -.-". I mean, it seemed weird to me in the first place that Adora was never suspicious of Catra. They didn't interact during S4, as far as Adora knew, Catra was still a bad guy, she had no reason to trust her. At least not until Glimmer explained the situation to her.
Ahhh and talking about Glimmer... Forget the ship for a moment. You could see how Adora was legitimately worried throughout S4 about her situation with Glimmer. You could see it was something that mattered a lot to her, it hurt her that things were wrong with the queen. And now you tell me that when they finally reunited again, her reaction was "Yeah it's okay I'm also sorry where is Catra?"
During the final episode of S3 Adora finally realizes something very important. She is not to blame for the things Catra is doing. She offered Catra more than once to join the Rebellion, giving her plenty of opportunities to redeem herself (fuck, even Shadow Weaver give her a chance to join them). Catra rejected them all, so Adora finally decides to accept that there's nothing more she can do for her. During S4, Adora and Catra meet ONLY ONCE throughout the season, and the meeting doesn't seem significant to them at all. After what happened in "The Portal", Adora got over Catra. She realizes that even though she cares about her, Catra has already made her decision. Adora cannot continue to want to save someone who doesn't want to be saved, and although it hurt, she had to leave her behind. They didn't even talk about her, except when Scorpia mentioned her at E10.
Knowing this... That Adora listens to a message from Catra from the enemy ship and doesn't suspect at any moment that it could be a trap? She decides to come back to save her even though Glimmer just got out of there and could be traumatic to her??? That she immediately forget everything Catra did and accept her "sorry" as a valid apology??? And suddenly she's very clingy with her and she blushes at everything Catra does??? And now it turns out that she has been totally in love with Catra all this time??? Don't get me wrong, that last one is not bad, but it seems to me that Adora would have been a little more open about that. If I knew her the way I think I do, that Adora was so in love with Catra from the beginning would have been very evident to everyone (no my friends, we watched the same show, I'm sorry but IT WASN'T). C'mon, even the plot would have been a little different. But no, they showed us how Adora completely got over her and grow... and then they made them a couple there without any further development.
Adora grew a lot as a person in the past seasons. She learned the value of love and true friendship, and became a loyal and strong hero with solid moral principles. And now she has put aside everything she has learned in order to forgive Catra immediately, and didn't mind putting others at risk as long as Catra was comfortable. I think I can say that Adora had more reasons to distrust Catra than to distrust Shadow Weaver on S4. And you can say "Okay but Catra was her friend, it's normal that I forgive her so quickly" *sight* The thing I loved most about She-Ra was that nothing was solved with the power of love and friendship...
Adora felt guilty for leaving Catra behind. Catra tried to kill her, kidnapped her best friends, attacked her new home, hurt many innocent people, activated a machine that could destroy the entire universe, indirectly she was responsible for what happened to Angella... And despite everything, Adora always offered her a chance, at least until she realized that enough was enough. She suffered a lot for Catra, and when she finally was fine without her, you tell me that she appears and that Adora acts as if no one had happened? I find it incredible that people are accepting that. Even if you're a c/a shipper, you should notice this is wrong. It's your ship, damn it! You must complain that it should have been better developed! No just "okay they're together... Boom! Kiss!"
Adora had a beautiful charecter development in the other seasons. But throughout the entire S5, she acted as she would have on the first day she left the Horde. Sorry guys, but S5 Adora is not the force captain I saw growing up to became the savior of Etheria. That’s why I can't accept this season as a real thing. You can't just take a great hero and make her forget all her principles just to make a ship canon.
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