Let's talk about Netflix's She-ra 

adora doesn't even like swift wind it's so funny

With season 4 they fixed the whole underdeveloped character things. They explored more of the princesses and the Horde soldiers.

"The LGBT+ representation is limited only to side characters" *laughs in season 5*

"Catra and the Princess of self-destruction" I'm dead😂😂😂💀

People: she ras just a kids show, nothing is dark about it Me: season 4

the show is lead by a lesbian and the crew is mostly lgbtq+. theyre doing their very best with what dreamworks will allow.

The thing is, when animals can’t talk when they’re mad or being annoying it’s cute, because they’re animals and they can’t talk. But when they can talk we kinda treat them more like humans and when they do something wrong it’s less cute and less acceptable. It’s just something I’ve noticed

"PRINCESS OF SELF DESTRUCTION"

Sarcastic Chorus: *Talks abt catradora and lgbtq rep* Me: *laughs (and cries) in season 5*

Adora didn't know what an aunt was. Does she even know about sex? I feel like the relationship with Catra could be a bit one sided, with Catra knowing she is/was into Adora, and Adora being oblivious to Catra's feelings, and her own feelings. Or Adora isn't aware of her sexuality at all

Just chiming in to say I love Glimmer. I know some may find her off-putting, and even a little annoying, but I feel like she's really important to the development of the show and the depiction of "good" vs "evil" that they are going for. Glimmer is like a foil to Catra. She's been raised by the alliance but has to be talked out of doing bad things by her friends, like when she wanted to kidnap Catra and hold her hostage. I would LOVE to see them hang out, Glimmer and Catra could bond over their common values and shared experiences. And Catra's redemption arc could begin. TBH I know we're all rooting for Catra but I just love Glimmer and I can't help it.

I was ready to dislike this video, because I'm so used to people hating on the show for the same reasons you and I praise it (female characters, LGBT characters, etc) so thanks for proving me wrong, you absolute king

*****she-ra season 5 spoiler alert***** that moment you understand that dreamworks was the actual reason that the show had to dance around the confirmation of adora and catra's relationship/feelings beyond saying "it's complicated." bc in truth noelle stevenson was fighting the whole time to get their relationship to a point where an actual onscreen confirmation of their relationship was the only satisfying conclusion - and even before working on season 5, that noelle wasnt even sure that they'd be able to get a kiss/confirmation between the two because she was worried that if she revealed her cards too soon that she would be rejected. good video otherwise though!

0:32 This is how the fandom should be named, cause Catra is the most loved character in here

Scorpia is kind of front and center by the past two seasons and she is kind of obviously lesbian/bi. The only confirmed straight couple on screen is Mermista and Seahawk, and I'd say their relationship is as prevalent as the lgbt relationships (they're all side characters, granted Sea hawk and Mermista fight more with the protagonists). Entrapta and Hordak are another ambiguous developing straight relationship, which to me mirrors Scorpia and Catra. I don't think it would be good to cut through the ambiguity of those questions you have with Catra/Adora. They are *at least* best frenemies (friends turned enemies), and I really like how Adora is developing to... not care about Catra. Catra's toxic. Catra may love Adora in a more-than-platonic-sort-of-way but I don't think there's any argument for Adora reciprocating that. The ambiguity of that relationship provides a lot of space for growth, imho. It'd kind of ruin things if Catra said "Don't leave me I LOVE you" to Adora in S1.

Swiftwind IMHO started out pretty funny, but degenerated as the series went on. It's like they started out with a good idea for him, but didn't know how to follow through with him in the long term.

I love both the new and the old version of She-ra, but the reboot did do Swiftwind a major disservice. I wish they would of took a more fatherly route with him. Perhaps help keep Adora and the gang grounded, but that's just my personal opinion. Though they also made Catra 50xs better so I guess it's a fair trade off lol (Also in the original Swiftwind had a unicorn family, and it was cute)

The gays are only side characters. Season 5 has entered the chat

"Marry adora and live in gay wedded bliss?" Oh buddy you have no idea how gay it goes

I hate swift wind but I think that’s the point. It’s a character everyone loves to hate, including the characters themselves

Maybe the creators said "it's complicated" because it really was complicated: Adora and Catra themselves might not have understood what they were feeling for each other (yet), and that makes perfect sense. Remember, these are young adults. Also, it fits with the general theme of figuring out who you are etc.

“In the first season you will hate Glimmer but she gets better” Season 4 Glimmer: Allow me to introduce myself

9:10 Cause they aren’t gonna spoil the main character relationship of the show just because people are too impatient to actually see it play out. 😂 (And Netflix controls a lot of what they’re allowed to put in the show, Noelle was concerned for a while that they would even be able to have the kiss at the end.)

“The lgbt representation is limited to minor background characters” oh honey the slow burn started in episode one

I always saw Adora as being Asexual by choice and Catra as being Lesbian with a issue of trying to work out in her mind if she is and if she likes Adora like that or as a sister and that and her general bloodlust all helping fuel her evil. Honestly we only see one happy straight couple in the series and one that may not ever be a couple at all compared to three that are Gay/Lesbian. Oh and I thought that shapeshifter was totally gender fluid - literally.

I despise swift wind, I think the creators realize that this show has an audience of a wide age range and they still decided to put this pbs kids type character in the show, they could make the show so much better if they just trust the audience more

I get strong one-sided love vibes from Catradora, like Adora considered Catra her absolute bff, but Catra was/is in love with her

i love how almost all these cons get revoked in later seasons ! other princesses are characterized more, we get a fun animal companion (melog) and i think the final season animation was really good too

love how all the characters you said needed an arc each got one in later seasons and boy im so glad they got arcs

You should do a sarcastic summary of She Ra Season 5.

I feel like this show had totally different writers from season to season. Like Season 1 we were promised a circle of magical Runestone princesses to come by Light Hope. By Season 4, just kidding! It’s only the 5 side character princesses you already know plus She-Ra. Balance achieved. Roll credits.

“The show will never go full anime dark” Me after watching season 4: aRe YoU sUre aBouT tHaT?!? Edit: wow 4 likes that literally the most likes I have ever gotten on a comment 😂 Edit #2: How does this have 26 likes?!?!? Tysm Edit #3: WTH HOW DO I HAVE 120 LIKES NANI!

Ok but everyone hates swiftwind

Swift Wind is objectively the worst thing about the series, and I won’t change my mind.

HAHAH YOU PREDICTED THE CATRA REDEEMING HERSELF, MARRYING ADORA, AND LIVING IN GAY BLISS

I’m sitting here watching this after watching season 5 and I’m just 🤗

i kind of wish they explored adora still being conditioned to fight as a horde soldier and being a little bit more vicious with her attacks but thats just a me thing haha

With Adora and Catra’s relationship, it is complicated. But when you think about it, Adora didn’t even know what a Aunt was and the Horde probably didn’t teach their soldiers about love and romance. So Adora and Catra could have been in a relationship but didn’t know what to call it. (Just a theory please don’t hate me)

I agree with swift wind I honestly don’t like him either

I feel like a lot of people are more invested into catadora because catra and adora are both interesting characters and they're relationship is...well...cOmpLiCaTeD. (aNd gAy) I also love how catra wants to kill adora but every chance she gets, the gay gets the best of her. In conclusion, Catadora is canon 100% 😌

... I just realized season 4 and 5 were both his predictions to catra's endings. She was so bad in season 4 she almost got put down, but in season 5 she gets redeemed.

Glimmer is like that one anime character where you have to tell your friend over and over “don’t worry she’s gets better”

Talking about LGBT characters only being in the background *Post season 5 laughter*

0:33 *painfully accurate*

Swift Wind isn't as annoying as Pony Head though. And he has *some* good qualities.

Realizing that me liking Swiftwind (or at the very least not ruining anything for me) is the toastiest of hot takes.

lol i love how season 5 fixed a lot of these negatives (swift wind still sucks though)

Coming from the future. Is someone gonna tell him.

I personally hope Catra doesn't get an honest to God redemption arc. It seems too easy for me for them to wave away what I could only describe as Catra's insanity.

Okay no lie, I've yet to meet any other person who likes Swift Wind, I feel weird because I love him lmao

While I personally also loved the idea of Catra and Adora becoming a cannon couple, the show makes them out to be through and through siblings. Their struggles and conflicts as siblings is just as valuable as their could be romantic interpretation of their relationship. I think it's more likely that the writers have their hands tied when it comes to making Catradora cannon. But exploring their relationship as siblings should not go undervalued. Many people have complicated relationships witch siblings with family in general. And familial relationships fuck us up as often if not more so than romantic relationships. If the show aims to make an example of Catra and Adora I think several kids and young adults will benefit from learning from the mistakes made by both characters to better carry out their own relationships with their families.

1000% agree that Swift Wind simply shouldn't talk. Literally my biggest pet peeve of an otherwise great show lol

As soon as you said "Catra the princess of self destruction" I knew I'd like the video

"The LGBTQ characters deserve to be front and center!" Season 5: you had no IDEA what was coming

I actually love how they don't define catra and adora's relationship until it's so painstakingly obvious that even they take notice

I dunno I always interpreted the relationship between Adora and Catra to be more of a sisterly relationship. Catra's hatred being response to feelings of abandonment and being left alone to deal with a abusive parental figure and how it's easier to blame your siblings about it than confront abusive parents or leave the situation, I never really got a romantic vibe from them but that's just my opinion

There are so many incredible psychoanalyses of she ra and they are all sooooo good! Really helps you understand the depths of character in this show.

Season 2: I love glimmer Season 4: I hate glimmer

Oh my gosh, I love watching stuff like this after season 5... Which I'm absolutely sure you loved

I think dance around The Questions is amazing for the fans. The canon confirmation desincorages the fanfics and the creativity of the fans, in my opinion. My Little Pony and Adventure Time danced around most of the stuff until the last episodes, and it was pretty epic when the canon was confirmed. I guess She-Ra is going to do the same.

Don't worry everyone hates swift wind, it's okay.

I love how when going to the positives you do the "now live with it" scene! such a good scene

I Wood go gay fore Scorpia 🦀❤

You know what She-Ra and Steven Universe have (beyond being amazingly gay)? They have heart... You can tell everyone cares about each other, and when their is animosity, it's an animosity that's built on failures to care. And in the end love is what saves the day. And I'm down with that.

I never really liked Catradora purely because I feel they were too toxic for each other but I can absolutely get past that and love the show overall. Because I do. I love the show; it's a childhood memory for me despite being in my late teens when it released.

When you are so addicted to shera (2018) than when you Finnish season 5 that you spend like 3 more weeks watching shera videos on youtube

"I haven't seen either of the original shows" "Catra is the best character in any He-man cartoon"

The biggest let down of this show is that the creators stated that neither He-Man nor Skeletor exists on this timeline, so we wont expect to see them, which SUCKS Otherwise the show is good, 7.5/10

0:15 No One: Me: OMG MY JAAAAMMMMMM

Dude WAIT till you see season 5.......

"... if they go in happy wedding or whaterver-" May 15, season five's out. Have a good mental breakdown!

I can't wait for your sarcastic summary for season 5!! oh man!!

Well, I didn't expected to hear Carole & Tuesday reference in She- Ra review. I'm happy about it

The only problems that isn't fixed is the animation and swift wind but those don't detract from the show

So, fun fact... I only watched this show after watching all 5 of your videos... because I incorrectly judged it as a cashgrab when it first came out. So, thank you. I would've missed out on a great story.

Catra and The Princes of Self-Destruction, I FUCKING DIED.

Now that the last season's out, read about Noelle's interview on how they handled the show. It'll shed some light on a few but important things ✨✨

I was so excited in Season Five when Spinerella and Netossa got a much larger part I was screeching happily the entire time

I don't know if I'm the only one, but I found the animation top-notch beginning to end, actually. Then again, I adored Swift Wind when it seems everyone hates him, so maybe I just have weird taste

"Catra and the princess of self destruction" I was dying in the first thirty seconds also, I can't not laught because it's the truth

9:01 that is beautiful, perfection...

You may or may not have seen the old school Rainbow Brite show. It is possible that She-ra's show writers were trying to make Swiftwind into something similar to Raibow Brite's "Starlight." He was a raibow maned horse who could talk, although he didn't have wings or a horn.

5:54 i mean yeah that's pretty much what happened lol

You need to upload an updated version of your thoughts. Season 4 was phenomenal, especially for Scorpia and Glimmer's arc.

I loved how I just nodded so hard when he suggested that he could help us geek out HAHAHH

Omg your channel is so underrated we need more subscribers!!

I wonder if the lower quality animation is due to Illumination's purchase of Dreamworks. Illumination tends to be pretty budget tight in its execution of animation.

into starts playing Me: don’t play the cringe into DONT PLAY THE CRINGY INTRO D O N T P L A Y T H E C R I N G Y I N T R O P L E A S E S P A R E U S

I'm super curious what your thoughts are on Adora and Catra's relationship (especially wrt your viewpoint at 9:03) now that the final season is out. Great video and I love your perspectives, even if I don't agree with all of them. Keep it going.

8:20 see season 5!!!!!!! AHHH you will take your complaint bacc

really great video, i love both the voice and the script

While I don't entirely disapprove of the lgbt themes, I do think them mixing it and its color themes with the 90s cartoons' flamboyant psychedelic atmosphere and "girly power" aura makes for one very obnoxious art style; I think one of the major reasons why people love Catra and the Horde so much is because they are the few scenes where it doesn't feel like the computer/tv screen is trying to puke a rainbow of glitter into your eyeballs. The one issue I have with the art and animation is that it literally looks like "Legend of Korra Meets Steven Universe". On the plus side, the character designs are for the most part vastly superior to the 90s cartoon, where the princesses are all carbon copies and the Horde looks like reject Mortal Kombat villains or cabaret workers; they're all very unique-feeling and deep characters with qualities and flaws. On the downside, you have Steven Universe's obnoxious background colors in every scene that isn't the Horde, like they're trying to idealize/deify Steve/Adora and his/her allies as the best thing ever, making it obnoxious and painful to look at. It is also occasionally goofy-looking as you said, but thankfully, it never slips into the deranged "I-Am-Retard-And-Just-Had-A-Stroke-Plus-LSD-Overdose" CalStyles of Steven Universe, Gumball, Adventure Time and that ATROCITY OF A THUNDERCATS REBOOT (PURGE THAT THING WITH FIRE AND XENOMORPH BLOOD!!!). That aside, the lgbt and representation pandering is actually rather mild and sane, which makes the cartoon actually enjoyable rather than cringy, just like RWBY or Dragon Prince. The character conflicts and development, especially Catra's, is incredible. Especially since, unlike Steven Universe, it actually feels realistic, engaging and heartbreaking, rather than the staging ground for the clichéd, overbearing and _nauseating_ "Be Woke, Empathy and Love Conquers All" message that Rebecca Sugar wants to push down everyone's throat no matter what. Catra, Shadow Weaver and Hordak all have their tragic undertones, but no one is ever forgiving or forgetting what they are and what they did, and I highly doubt anyone will want to make friends with Double Trouble or Horde Prime (unlike Steven making friends with what are literally the Female Light-Side Godhand of Western Cartoons, who have literally enslaved and ravaged entire planets and oppressed countless of their own species, and we're supposed to agree with that). None of the heroes or the characters are deified because they're powerful, female or gay. Also, unlike Steven Universe, the plot sequence doesn't sink into countless goofy episodes because the writer can't admit a real overreaching conflict. I also agree with Stupid Name down below that LGBT representation in media is being way too idealistic. The best way to end the romance subplots is probably having Adora stay single (she has probably no idea what she wants out of romance, given her lifestyle, and I'm not sure the original She-Ra ever romances anyone), Glimmer and Bow stay vague or hinted at (from what I've watched, Glimmer and Bow aren't exactly pining for each other or anyone), Catra moves on (possibly redeem her bond with Scorpia?), and Best Girl Entrapta reunite with redeemed Hordak so they can Dork-Science Happily After (preferrably without endangering the world). Cause in real life, straight or gay relationships aren't all perfect or ideal. It's not a perfect cartoon, but I'd give it a 7-to-8/10. It's not the best cartoon ever and has some pandering, but the main plot and character development are adequate and engaging.

I love how seasons 4 and 5 just threw half of this away. Underdeveloped? Welp heres a story arc. Not enough rep? Bam more rep.

I didn’t even know who spinnerella and Natasha were until the final season

wait, idk if i'm the only one who noticed this...but where did Bow's hand go in the Intro? 0:21 he runs to hug Adora (i guess), then when he wraps his arm/hand around her, it just disappears??

I'm a actually looking forwords to season 5 if it ever gets made, and the inevitability of the He-man cast showing up, the fact that Adora is still Price Adam/ He-man's faternal twin sister still being cannon is very hinted at if your paying attention to tge backgroung elements in the show.

I, personally, love Swiftwind, mostly because he's terrible. But, then again, I also loved Kowl from the original series, so my taste level is not to be trusted....

“The LGBT” characters are in the background”. Whole time the entire squad is in the community😂🤭

What song did u use @5:12 ?

Man if Garrosh was in charge, Eternia would've fallen decades ago xD