She-Ra, seasons 2 & 3
I don't know if it's a good or bad thing to have seasons getting into the 6-7 episode realm. It's hard for me to think of them as seasons. Then again, some shows have 50+ episodes in a season, so what's it really mean? Ah well.
After watching season one, I was perhaps fairly critical. With these seasons, I may be a little less so. It's still overly simplified in a lot of ways. Catra is still the best part of the show, in my opinion. Watching her rise and fall (and rise and perhaps fall again?) remains more compelling to me than basically anythings else while the good guys are repeatedly learning to work together and Adora spends most of the seasons stressing out about trying to live up to a legend that's pretty vague to begin with. Catra is smart, tough, and manipulative as fuck. If she actually stopped seeking validation of others, she might be the most dangerous person on the planet. Then again, without that motivation, she might not be so badass.
The plot becomes more interesting to me, establishing a lore of Etheria that wasn't really clear previously. Season one established the world as unusual and with a magical (possibly technological) network of sorts, but I certainly didn't notice any lack of stars in the sky and think that's because the world was purposefully cut off from the universe at large. That's got some interesting potential. And we finish out with roughly a whole episode of why messing with space-time may not be the greatest idea.
I still particularly like Entrapta too. She's really got the whole socially-inept mad scientist thing going on and I love how she takes "failures" a simply more data points to work with. As reckless as she can be, though, she's not totally unreasonable.
On the other hand, I'm really less taken with the development put into Hordak. Sure, it's nice to have more depth to a character than them being "the bad guy" just for the sake of it, but setting him up as a flawed clone of a greater "Horde Prime" who is seeking approval feels waaaay overused in this series. I get that wanting approval of an elder/superior can be a major motivator for people, but at this point more than half the core cast of characters seem to have that written into their description and that's disappointing.
After watching season one, I was perhaps fairly critical. With these seasons, I may be a little less so. It's still overly simplified in a lot of ways. Catra is still the best part of the show, in my opinion. Watching her rise and fall (and rise and perhaps fall again?) remains more compelling to me than basically anythings else while the good guys are repeatedly learning to work together and Adora spends most of the seasons stressing out about trying to live up to a legend that's pretty vague to begin with. Catra is smart, tough, and manipulative as fuck. If she actually stopped seeking validation of others, she might be the most dangerous person on the planet. Then again, without that motivation, she might not be so badass.
The plot becomes more interesting to me, establishing a lore of Etheria that wasn't really clear previously. Season one established the world as unusual and with a magical (possibly technological) network of sorts, but I certainly didn't notice any lack of stars in the sky and think that's because the world was purposefully cut off from the universe at large. That's got some interesting potential. And we finish out with roughly a whole episode of why messing with space-time may not be the greatest idea.
I still particularly like Entrapta too. She's really got the whole socially-inept mad scientist thing going on and I love how she takes "failures" a simply more data points to work with. As reckless as she can be, though, she's not totally unreasonable.
On the other hand, I'm really less taken with the development put into Hordak. Sure, it's nice to have more depth to a character than them being "the bad guy" just for the sake of it, but setting him up as a flawed clone of a greater "Horde Prime" who is seeking approval feels waaaay overused in this series. I get that wanting approval of an elder/superior can be a major motivator for people, but at this point more than half the core cast of characters seem to have that written into their description and that's disappointing.
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