She-Ra Seasons 2 and 3
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cahnOkay... I am really loving this show. All the characters are getting deeper and more interesting, which I LOVE.
-E is REALLY into this show now, to the extent that she is finishing her music practice quickly so she can watch more of it. Although as far as I can tell she's actually on the side of more diligent than average for her age, practice has always been kind of a flash point for us and the fact that she's trying to get it done early is... well, evidence of how much she loves this show. And now we're synced up and watch it together so it's like mom-daughter bonding time, which is AMAZING.
-I'm really loving her and A watching it too (A does not watch very much of it, and I don't think he could follow the plot in any case, but occasionally he'll drop in). A was like "the girls are heroes?" and "the villain is a girl?" and I was like YES. YES THEY ARE. (We don't watch very much TV, but he does hear about things from his friends at school and can recite character lists and plots of shows he Has Never Watched.) And when Scorpia is all "Hey, we should hang out sometime!" to Catra, I can talk to E about how that means Scorpia wants to be friends! (Yes, this is the level I'm dealing with here. Yes, I've mentioned to her some of the subcurrents in the Scorpia-Catra-Entrapta relationship, but I don't think she's there yet.)
-End of Season 3 plot, WHOA. I... was... not expecting that and it was GREAT.
-So I ended S1 liking Entrapta a lot but I wasn't crazy about her, but now... I'm crazy about her! I think I was a little put off by the seeming one-dimensionality of Cheerful SCIENCE!!!! of her character (while still really liking her, because if you're going to be one-dimensional, this is the way of doing it, and I also super appreciate how cheerfully honest she is about everything), but S2 and S3 really gave her more depth -- you can see that although she likes science the best and it's always going to be the paramount thing, she is a bit lonely, she does feel a bit hurt that Catra doesn't like her anymore, she is really excited to have a lab partner for the first time. But mostly I absolutely adore how in her final S3 scene she actually comes out strongly against opening the portal (and hilariously is like "I never thought I'd say this...") because she DOES have limits, even if the limit is "destroys their entire space-time continuum." LOVE.
-Speaking of the lab partner thing. I was watching S2 in sort of bits and pieces because E has been moving faster than I have, and when I watched the parts I'd missed to catch up with her, I found that what I'd described toase as my crackship of Entrapta/Hordak was... actually... not really a crackship, or at least it was a crackship with A WHOLE LOT OF CANON SUBTEXT, is what I'm saying. Anyway I was not aware that apparently a bulletproof trope of mine is Pair of Scientists, One of whom is The Big Bad And The Other of Whom Just Really Loves Science, Doing Really Good Science Together that is also Really Villainous
...oh, it's probably just true that a bulletproof trope of mine is Pair of Scientists, At Least One of Whom Is Female, Bonding Over Doing Science Together. Fine.
-I got this in concentrated form because of watching the eps out of order, but wow Hordak has really transformed from Eeeeeeevil Overlord to Extreme Woobie. I'm kind of in awe.
-In S2 there's this episode where they're basically doing RPF of themselves and in Bow's self-RPF he gives everyone their 80's costumes (also omg he gives himself a mustache which I had super completely forgotten was 80's canon, to the extent that I toldase that it wasn't, but it actually totally is) and AHAHAHAHAHA I just about died laughing
-E is REALLY into this show now, to the extent that she is finishing her music practice quickly so she can watch more of it. Although as far as I can tell she's actually on the side of more diligent than average for her age, practice has always been kind of a flash point for us and the fact that she's trying to get it done early is... well, evidence of how much she loves this show. And now we're synced up and watch it together so it's like mom-daughter bonding time, which is AMAZING.
-I'm really loving her and A watching it too (A does not watch very much of it, and I don't think he could follow the plot in any case, but occasionally he'll drop in). A was like "the girls are heroes?" and "the villain is a girl?" and I was like YES. YES THEY ARE. (We don't watch very much TV, but he does hear about things from his friends at school and can recite character lists and plots of shows he Has Never Watched.) And when Scorpia is all "Hey, we should hang out sometime!" to Catra, I can talk to E about how that means Scorpia wants to be friends! (Yes, this is the level I'm dealing with here. Yes, I've mentioned to her some of the subcurrents in the Scorpia-Catra-Entrapta relationship, but I don't think she's there yet.)
-End of Season 3 plot, WHOA. I... was... not expecting that and it was GREAT.
-So I ended S1 liking Entrapta a lot but I wasn't crazy about her, but now... I'm crazy about her! I think I was a little put off by the seeming one-dimensionality of Cheerful SCIENCE!!!! of her character (while still really liking her, because if you're going to be one-dimensional, this is the way of doing it, and I also super appreciate how cheerfully honest she is about everything), but S2 and S3 really gave her more depth -- you can see that although she likes science the best and it's always going to be the paramount thing, she is a bit lonely, she does feel a bit hurt that Catra doesn't like her anymore, she is really excited to have a lab partner for the first time. But mostly I absolutely adore how in her final S3 scene she actually comes out strongly against opening the portal (and hilariously is like "I never thought I'd say this...") because she DOES have limits, even if the limit is "destroys their entire space-time continuum." LOVE.
-Speaking of the lab partner thing. I was watching S2 in sort of bits and pieces because E has been moving faster than I have, and when I watched the parts I'd missed to catch up with her, I found that what I'd described to
ase as my crackship of Entrapta/Hordak was... actually... not really a crackship, or at least it was a crackship with A WHOLE LOT OF CANON SUBTEXT, is what I'm saying. Anyway I was not aware that apparently a bulletproof trope of mine is Pair of Scientists, One of whom is The Big Bad And The Other of Whom Just Really Loves Science, Doing Really Good Science Together that is also Really Villainous...oh, it's probably just true that a bulletproof trope of mine is Pair of Scientists, At Least One of Whom Is Female, Bonding Over Doing Science Together. Fine.
-I got this in concentrated form because of watching the eps out of order, but wow Hordak has really transformed from Eeeeeeevil Overlord to Extreme Woobie. I'm kind of in awe.
-In S2 there's this episode where they're basically doing RPF of themselves and in Bow's self-RPF he gives everyone their 80's costumes (also omg he gives himself a mustache which I had super completely forgotten was 80's canon, to the extent that I told
ase that it wasn't, but it actually totally is) and AHAHAHAHAHA I just about died laughing
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Date: 2021-02-04 06:24 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2021-02-09 03:33 pm (UTC)I sort of ship Entrapta/Hordak too, because subtext and science, but my real Entrapta crackship is Entrapta/Emily.
That war games episode was hilarious. I was particularly amused by all the versions of Catra in the different people's RPF, and the noir Catra made me really laugh.
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Date: 2021-02-09 05:58 pm (UTC)Oh man I am biting my tongue for Reasons. Let's just say I am looking forward to you and B watching the next couple of seasons :D But yes, I want prehensile pink hair!! (I also just am always delighted by her super-cheerful SCIENCE attitude and wish I could be so single-minded!)
The war games ep really was hilarious :D