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She-Ra and the Princesses of Power

Didn´t have time to watch an episode yet...but the artwork is really offputting to me. So is there any real reason why this is worth watching and pretending this doesn´t look like somebody with mediocre skills in Microsoft Pain made this?
 
I enjoyed the villains a lot more than the heroes. Catra and Shadow Weaver were really interesting. Scorpia and Spoiler Character were a lot of fun. Hordak was shit though.

Watch it for the villains. The heroes apart from Bow and Adora are annoying. Glimmer needs to be taken into the Whispering Woods and shot.

The artwork is off putting but it is what it is.
 
Finally finished it, absolutely loved it. :adore:

Super fun show, funny, wonderful characters, positive messages, nice worldbuilding, literally everything I wanted out of a She-Ra reboot and more. Now gotta find the time to binge it all again, can't wait for season 2! :techman:
 
Christopher said:
There's also the fact that this She-Ra is far more of a comedy than the original was, so the more cartoony look is appropriate.
One way in which the character designs are definitely better is the range of body types. All the women in the original She-Ra had the exact same Barbie-doll figure, a requirement of the toy designers so they could use the same body molds for all the dolls and let them exchange clothing. (Probably made things easier for the animators too, since Filmation liked to trace the same movement sequences for multiple characters.) Here, we've got a much more inclusive world with women and girls of many different body types as well as different ethnicities.
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You’re missing the main argument She-ra is culturally an epitome of feminity. when adora transforms into character that looks like a man it gives the message to girls that in order to be successful/powerful/the epitome of a women you must adopt superficial masculine traits that override the feminine. Take away the hair and Shera looks like Ben 10. This wouldn’t be a problem if it was a one off - in fact I would of celebrated it because then it would be another interpretation of being a women on the cartoon landscape. However, this is a trend in animation. In the ppgs they took away the teachers breasts and wrote miss bellum out of the show. Cheataras redesign totally defeminises her, and remember the mess of how captain marvel was drawn in 2017. Even in Steven universe, despite having a plethora and variety of powerful female characters arguably the most powerful is Steven who technically once had a female body but his new form is a better version of pink diamond. It’s subconsciously internalised misogyny against the female form. it’s a trend and it’s a very problematic one.
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Err what??? Epitome of feminity? Internalised misogyny?

Probably the most realistic depiction IRL of the orignal She-Ra wolud be some kind of arian uber-woman. I'm not sure I would indicate her as an model to young girls...

ETA. these are some She-ra cosplays. I believe they perfectly illustrate my point...
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Skipper said:
This is one of the comments:

Err what??? Epitome of feminity? Internalised misogyny?

Probably the most realistic deception IRL of the orignal She-Ra wolud be some kind of arian uber-woman. I'm not sure I would indicate her as an model to young girls...

ETA. This is some She-ra cosplay. I believe they perfectly illustrate my point...
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Exactly.
 
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I usually skip over youtube comments to avoid these kind of shitheads...

This ain't exactly new, the show has been targeted by sexist assholes since it was announced, it's being review bombed(its average imdb rating is 8.7 from women, and 5.7 from men over 30), and the whole thing is part of a broader trend of grown ass white men fighting for a return to inequality whenever any small progress in representation for women and minorities comes out. They're just loud farts that can't bear the thought that there might be something out there that isn't primarily and exclusively for them, so really I don't think their "opinions" deserve spreading and repeating and the only response I really have to that post is... fuck 'em. :shrug:
 
Christopher said:
Wow, what a sexist moron that commenter is. Women come in all shapes. He doesn't get to say a woman isn't feminine just because she doesn't have the specific shape that turns him on. That's defining it exclusively from a male-gaze perspective.
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Pretty much that, Chris; that's what I told one commenter at one website covering the show. All or most of these guys just want something to look at that they can get hard to and jizz themselves silly, but the new show has no such eye candy, so they hate it.
 
I haven't watched this yet, but the more I hear about it and see of it, the more I wish they would do an animated Lumberjanes series.
That's not a rip on this, it sounds great and the fact that it does sound great makes me think they could do a great Lumberjanes series too.
 
CuriousCaitian said:
Didn't see it either. I suspect they'll appear in the next batch of episodes; either that, or the writers are planning a long way ahead. Certainly plenty of thought and care going into this show.
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It hasn't been officially confirmed, but going from the showrunner's comments and Netflix history with animation projects (specifically Voltron) I'd say it's 99% confirmed they ordered 4 seasons/52 episodes from the start.
 
Shaka Zulu said:
Pretty much that, Chris; that's what I told one commenter at one website covering the show. All or most of these guys just want something to look at that they can get hard to and jizz themselves silly, but the new show has no such eye candy, so they hate it.
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Middle age men upset they can't fap to cartoon made for little girls. News at 11.

I remember first reading about guys complaining about a She-Ra reboot and thought "Are you fucking kidding me? She-fucking-Ra?! A cartoon that's little more than a barely remembered footnote from decades ago? Seriously?!"

And yeah, there they were, the usual middle age white guys whining that a cartoon made for little girls was getting rebooted for girls in 2018 and pissed because it was different and not for them. I thought these asshats were pathetic with their "SJW" and "agenda!" whining for more relevant properties like Star Wars / Star Trek / Comics, but this was a whole new level of pathetic. We seriously need to get to work on a B Ark for these guys.
 
The Lensman said:
Middle age men upset they can't fap to cartoon made for little girls. News at 11.

I remember first reading about guys complaining about a She-Ra reboot and thought "Are you fucking kidding me? She-fucking-Ra?! A cartoon that's little more than a barely remembered footnote from decades ago? Seriously?!"

And yeah, there they were, the usual middle age white guys whining that a cartoon made for little girls was getting rebooted for girls in 2018 and pissed because it was different and not for them. I thought these asshats were pathetic with their "SJW" and "agenda!" whining for more relevant properties like Star Wars / Star Trek / Comics, but this was a whole new level of pathetic. We seriously need to get to work on a B Ark for these guys.
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Pardon my asking, but what's a 'B Ark'?

EDIT: Never mind, I just found out.
 
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