I really hate Glimmer. She’s extremely annoying, and is one of the worst examples of a “strong female character” that I’ve ever seen. It sucks that the writers are more worried about the characters’ ethnicities and sexual orientations than their personalities and overall likability.
Kam3man For real. I’m surprised that anyone likes this show, to be honest. 90% of the characters are either bland or annoying, and the so-called “war” that’s going on between like 10 people in The Rebellion and around 7 people in The Horde is more low-stakes than PJ Masks, Paw Patrol, and Henry Danger combined. I feel like the fans of this show only care about the LGBT representation, because I see a lot more stuff about shipping than the actual plot. I can’t really blame them though, since LGBT characters are rare and there’s not a whole lot of plot to write about in the first place.
@@nunya786 I have seen complilations of Catra doing weird and "cute" cat noises, so it seems to me that the fans of this show like it not only for the shipping but also the akward teenager humor, but i think that theres shows that do that kind of stuff far better because thats the main focus of it instead of wasting time on a forced fantasy war setting, those shows are also far better written too. Its almost like taking a old 80's action fantasy cartoon and remaking it into a poorly written teenage drama show was a really bad idea.
@@platina1502 Bow is portrayed badly any way you go it. He's just BAD. Glimmer treats him badly and even if they're trying to 'flip expectations' on his personality/masculinity, he's still bad. Bad characters, bad show, bad messages. JUST BAD.
How unempathetic can Glimmer possibly get, when her mom was so happy to see her daughter safely return from captivity and she displays nothing but annoyance.
Exactly!! It's such a weird position to take! When I was a teenager, my mom's every move annoyed me too. But, if I had been kidnapped and my life threatened and i just narrowly get out thanks to my friends, i would be super grateful to see my mom again and happy to be back home. But not her. She feels like this is just going to lead to her mom nagging at her more, which leads to her mistreating her mom in an attempt to keep from getting told off. It's just really terrible to watch!
Presumably she finds the embarrasment of being coddled by her mom over her kidnapping and torture (which her mom knows nothing about) more painful to go through than the kidnapping and torture she already went through. I mean I get it, teenagers hate their parents because they emberras them by being stifling and overbearing but here's the thing, this wasn't a ruined prom or a messed up slumber party. Glimmer was kidnapped and tortured presumably for a few hours at least, noelle stevenson cannot into drama and she certainly cannot into family matters.
Of course, Glimmer is in charge, she's Noelle Stevenson's self-inserted D&D character. She's said so. And you ladies have set your expectations way to high. I'm really sorry that you had to watch this. And I think I need to point this out for everyone, She-Ra's season was split in two. This is why the pacing seems slow and/or off, because everything is working out towards episode 26 (I think that's how many they made? Or was it 24? I forget.) This is why, in this case, Adora wants to go training on Episode 10, because in reality, they haven't even hit mid season yet. And before I forget, they completed the entire season, so we're not going to see anything change.
@@leonishikino6873 I'd say so, all Saban does is chop up shows and replace the dialog. It's cheap, it's lazy, but it's not actively being bad, like Nu-Ra.
Can we hope part 2 of season one is accidentally deleted? Or the numbers were bad enough Netflix axes it? They have been quiet about it, except Noelle Stevenson on artists alley but even that was more on her than the show.
On another video analyzing this episode there was something I pointed out so I'll do it here, too: Angelica is both a MOTHER and a QUEEN. Her GENERAL and DAUGHTER was captured and tortured in an enemy base. Her and her team are seen visibly injured. What is the first response? TAKE THEM TO THE INFIRMARY. There are no exceptions. Glimmer should have been manhandled there by nurses and doctors - she wouldn't have escpaed because she can't use her powers - ANOTHER RED FLAG to her queen and mother. Plot A SHOULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED. Again, multiple great points are made here. Bow needs to stand up for himself and Glimmer needs to focus up while Adora should have been training from the start - her military-mentality is not consistent. Also I saw a comment that I agree with: they can't show weakness - yet Kyle exists? Also HOW DID THE ROBOT GET CAUGHT BY A PLUG?! I've never seen that happen before!!! Also how did Entrapta survive and WHY WAS THAT ROOM MADE IN THE FIRST PLACE?! WHAT IS ITS PURPOSE??? I am peeved that the stairs were gone in the next episode, they were pretty cool. That alternative you presented about how this could have been the mysticore episode is genius. It goes further b/c after Catra does this and fail THEN Shadow weaver tries to do it herself. Thinkinh about it makes it seem better by the minute. Keep Up The Good Work~!
I can't wait for someone to do an abriged version of this bad abriged show. Glimmer: Screw the rules, I'm a rebel princess. Glimmer: I'm not in a rush to beat the Horde. Let's go to some hot springs. Bow: But you haven't done anything for several episodes. Glimmer: Shut up, Bow!
Watching this episode , I came to the conclusion that the creators of this version are a bunch of girls with mom issues , and they use the show to expose it .
@@randox124 I guess she's like Tom King when you put it like that. We didn't choose to read/watch their material so that we can be their unpaid and untrained therapists.
@@harlannguyen4048 Exactly like Tom King. Tom could write something interesting when he's not integrating his life bits into it. Heroes In Crisis feels like someone's attempt to showcase how their therapy lessons onto these heroes. A lot of these heroes already has dealt with the problems they have going on in their life. The stories are so 1 note. They go in, say what traumatized them, cry on panel 8 then walk away. That's it. It's not deep, it's not explored, it feels like Tom King wants to tell us something about him that we don't care for.
@@randox124 If it were therapy then many of the situations would call for them to actually look into their own faults and how to forgive themselves and become stronger but from what I'm seeing, it's just self validation, self validation and more self validation. It's not therapy more so than their own way of telling themselves that they're always right in their ways and its everyone else's fault. It's why we see so much apologizing in situations where there's no need for it. Bow doesn't need to apologize to Glimmer for jack shit. She's the one who has been the possessive, creepy little shit who acted like he owed her but he doesn't owe her ANYTHING. As the video said, most of the shit that happened only did so because Glimmer was so far up her own ass and so immature about Bow getting along with other people she didn't watch out when Catra and Scorpia were planting the bombs. She was turning everything about HER the whole time and as a result the prom got wrecked, she and Bow got captured and her powers were fucked up. None of that is Bow's fault. It's all on her for being a shitty, possessive and spoiled brat.
It's insulting to compare Avatar: The Last Airbender to the she a reboot. Avatar is a masterpiece in storytelling. Even turning the villain Into the most complex character in the show and turning him good. This is like what someone said in this comment section. It's a show written by those that don't know the first thing about the human relationships or political power.
Malachi Owens Probably because they don't have any decent human relationships. They're SJWs, after all. If they would have good human connections they wouldn't be like this in the first place.
So soldiers in The Horde hide when they are sick because they can't show signs of weakness...and yet Kyle exists. Yeah, okay, whatever. Being sick is wrong, but being an outright weakling is perfectly fine... Also, the Queen discovers what happened to Entrapta before Glimmer, Adora, and Bow arrived, but somehow doesn't know the details of what happened during the teams rescue mission? I'm sorry, but how? Who blew the whistle? More so, why didn't the queen just ask the person who told her about Entrapta what happened during the rescue mission? And congratulations, Bow, for apologizing to a whiny brat over something you didn't even know she was angry about. I'm so glad everyone is whiling to take responsibility for Glimmer's mistakes. It stops all that pesky "character development" from standing in the way of character shipping moments. *EDIT:* Oh, wow, great plan, Entrapta. Yeah, just stay behind in the enemy base so that your friends can rescue you rather than escaping on your own. Ironically, the show writers, who keep telling us how progressive they are, made a princess into a damsel in distress... *on purpose!* Yeah, real progressive, writers. And no, I don't care that she can get out or her bindings. She is choosing to stay with the enemy for the sake of being rescued. That's stupid. These writers man...these writers manages to screw up at every turn. I don't care if this is their first time writing a TV show. It doesn't take a brainiac to comprehend basic storytelling.
@@SuperCosmicMutantSquid - She is just so terrible. A truly awful character. Funny enough, If I'm recalling correctly, Glimmer is based off a character Noelle Stevenson played in a D&D campaign. If that's the case, then I think we're getting a glimpse at how Noelle acts in real life, since it's her character. If that's the case, then I pray for anyone who has to work with her.
@@alexkennard2422 Yeah, she is just Noelle's shitty DnD character and funny how she replaced Glimmer's original MO with this. I always hate it when bad reboots replace established characters with their own self-inserts or OCs and here we have a glaring example of it. This isn't 'reboot Glimmer'. To say that would mean Noelle actually watched the OG show and saw how Glimmer acted and fought. This is just her OC she renamed Glimmer to please herself that her shitty character is now apart of an animated series.
The only thing that seems established is Glimmer being an obsessive control freak and anytime Bo brings up something valid or Adora if she's not on Glimmer's side, it's shrugged off and ridiculed without thought- especially if it may get in the way of something she wants. Why are they the "best friend squad" If their friendship was measured in nutritional value, I think a cigarette would be a healthier alternative.
The saddest part is that a lot of the problems you've mentioned, I could solve in ten minutes or less of rewrites. "Um... where are you stairs, Glimmer?" "I usually keep them retracted." "So extend them." "I can't, the control's in my bed." Or with Bow and Glitter and Adora, "Yeah, it might be a bad idea. But I was raised by a sorceress, I do know about magical objects, and I've had time to think about this, and it's about the best idea we've got right now."
@@malachiowens3423 or the stair are controled by her magic and how she can't controlet it at the moment she can't use it. (this even make a little tension beacuse she is so hurt than she can't even do simple magic things)
Glimmer entire character arc is her screwing up, thinking only of herself, and being a bad leader. Instead of her building up from that to make her a better character she is constantly validated. Even nearing the finale where you hope someone finally just bluntly tell her how flawed she is, she is validated by her own mother. She is instead told, that she's not a screw up, because her mother is a screw up. That does not justify or make any of her mistakes go away. And that does not call for a sweet heart felt moment. She hasn't grown one bit and now her mistakes are chalked up as nothing because everyone messes up.
Honestly I don't know what these writers are even thinking anymore. This entire series is painful to watch. I find it ironic that for all this talk about stromg females and female empowerment, so many of them need to be coddled emotionally and can never be held responsible for their own shortcomings with others making excuses for them. On top of that, everyone has to fucking cry. This is just Steven Universe woth a higher budget. I really hope this show gets canceled soon because out of all the wasted slots on Netflix, this is the biggest waste.
That's one of the major problems I have with this show because it creates the stigma that girl shows NEED to do this; constant 'emotional support' that are just long bouts of whinging than long, drawn out conversations where everyone apologizes to each other, say the problem isn't their fault and then they all hug and make up. Even SHOJO, a genre which a lot of these creates take HEAVY influence from, doesn't even move to this beat, at least the good series anyway. Everyone is a wimp in his series.
@@SuperCosmicMutantSquid my thoughts exactly. This is the exact opposite of what girls should be learning. They shouldn't expect people to always be there to emotionally comfort them because the world doesn't care about your problems or your feelings; its a harsh truth that the writers don't seem to understand themselves. Since they weren't given constant coddling at the age of 18 up through their 20s they feel hurt so this show is them getting their fantasy of just being told they're wonderful for nothing. Noelle Stevenson has a lot of growing up to do and she's doing it through a series she was given which she had no interest in to begin with. I think if she had spent a few years working in retail or any other occupation where its guaranteed that people are going to be assholes to you that she would understand this. The entirety of this show comes off as her crying for help because she wasn't hugged enough as a kid. From all the hugging and crying scenes to the lack of positive family relations, this show is one massive projection of all of Noel's problems and insecurities. Its like she wants the audience to be her therapist.
@@alecperdeau650 That's up to Noelle and her crew on how they're going to conduct themselves in the future but given she HAS been around for a while, I'm getting the feeling even in a professional setting she's always been coddle and she comes off as that type of person who before she was given these jobs, even if she worked in retail she would still blame the customers for their actions and not her own REaction towards them. It honestly feels like all these shows and movies touted as being good for girls are just massive coddle-thons. It actually reminds me of an episode of the Simpsons where the school splits the kids up by gender only for Lisa to discover, to her horror, that the girls aren't really being taught anything. They're massivly coddled and told how wonderfu they are but there's no actual education going on but in the meantime, the boys are treated like savages and inmates but they're getting an actual EDUCATION and Lisa has to disguise herself in order to learn the things she actually has an interest in. In animation it feels like the same thing is going on, with girl shows being those 22 minuet long validation-a-thons where nothing actually happens but boy shows can be rough, tough, and be fun. Its just AMAZING how these people make such a big deal about breaking 'gender norms' when they're the ones who are enforcing them.
@@SuperCosmicMutantSquid Wow that Simpsons episode analogy was great, its funny how this kind of people lack the self awareness to realize that they are doing the same thing they dislike so much.
@@The90sDoggoGaming The reason they don't realize it is because they're the ones who are in charge now and are much more concerned with being praised for BEING in charge and people celebrating them than doing the thing they promised.
poijn ve I think that Super Cosmic Honey Candle meant that the ORIGINAL She-Ra reused frames in every single episode. An animation tool which is typically used by lower quality cartoons. And every episode of this new “She-Ra” (I used quotation marks because I don’t truly consider this show to be She-Ra) makes the original series look better and better.
@@poijnve3912 No, she means that the 80's version reused frames, and it's true, I saw a bit, and in one scene where Adora runs, every time that the background changed they're just reused the same animation of Adora running... And even with that it's better than this.
@@Demolitiondude consistency is when something fit in (like the side, the internal logic,etc), continuty is when something that happens befor is carry on the prensent (for example when a character out come his fear to something and in future situation he doesnt have it)
The entire show honestly feels like a Nickelodeon original series. With its overly dramatic jokes and its painfully obvious plot points. Like why in the world would a magical fantasy land even have a prom? It was obviously written by adults who really underestimate the taste of teenagers outside of "teen culture". I wouldn't be surprised if season two had dabbing in it
Even after seeing Entrapta was ok I wasn't surprised and I think she gave into Catra's words to easy. Entrapta should've used common sense and realized the others thought she was dead or captured and they wouldn't come get her so soon. Entrapta now working with the Horde really comes off as someone who is doing something wrong, but she doesn't really realize what she's doing you know? But that's just me
@@maverickdarkrath4780 And that I can get behind. Here I question it, she just accepts what Catra says and is too obsessed with science to notice what's happening around her
Same...this is the kind of story that would be a first draft. Which is literally just writing out a quick story on all the ideas that have been jotted down....the people behind this seem to have skipped the step of refining the story and ironing out mistakes.
I recently went and reread some of the stuff I've written i eight grade. It's not GOOD, it has cliches and not everything adds up. There are WAY too many characters I tried to put focus on and itvmaked the whole thing confusing. Butveven back then I knew that villains have to be treathening (a dark sorceress who almost effortlesly manages to defeat one of the strongest characters in the story), people have to put their responsibilities over their feelings if they's in WAR and that you have to SHOW relationships rather than TALK abput them.
Catra's treating Entrapta much the way Shadow Weaver treated her. Classic cycle of abuse, and possibly the very first time the writers actually considered the effects of such an upbringing. Sadly, I doubt they'll follow up on this.
The whole scene with Glimmer and her Mother makes me angry for some reason. In the way that I see the scene, it seem to be in every teen drama show and not a cartoon. I just watch (overly sarcastic productions) on all quiet on the western front , in short it tell a story about teenage boys (in the video they said that the protagonist is 19 years old) in world war 1. pls watch their video for a better understanding. avatar TLA can do this story well because they know to put in the show with limitations with censorship in all. this show is really try to be "next Avatar" but it failed in so many way.
First of all i thought it was disrespectful playing entraptas death like that one moment she's assumed dead then in the next clip its like ha ha guys we just kidding seriously the pacing was terrible in this episode i understand why glimmer did not want to tell her mother but she acted so awful about it this show really needs to reasses itself writers too
If you are going to shown a character supposedly die, then you should at least put a reason of why and how they survived, even a stupid reason would have been better than nothing like they did.
Other characters mourn the loss of a comrade. Then, moments later, the comrade appears alive and well. Makes all that lament rather pointless, doesn't it?
I was REALLY annoyed at Glimmer in this episode. I mean this is not "I went out with friends and got drunk and now I don't want my mum to find out" situation. This is serious stuff. Of course her mum would be worried. I also didn't get why Adora, who untill now seemed somewhat more mature than Glimmer goes along with her plan. Again, I don't know anything about the original show. Will watch it when my finals are over. But this show is deffinitely not one of my favourites. I'm not a salty fan of the original, I'm not an angry adult male who hates all things feminist. I'm a 21 year old who likes a good story and, more importantly to me, good characters. And while this show seems to have POTENTIAL for both, it currently has neither. There are some good, even great, concepts showing, but that's just that. They are concepts, and even if you have the greatest concept in the world and do nothing with it, you did nothing. The story is all over the place, the charecters are decent at best and the animation is often unpolished. When I started to watch I oped for another show that will fight for a place on my Top 10 list. Right now, all ten shows on that list are secure. EDIT: In tje right mindset, I find this series kind of funny. Stupid funny. I watched a couple of episodes with my cousin and we laughed our socks off making fun of art incostitencies, weird plot points and stupid character decisions. Soo...yeah in that sort of way I can kind of recommend it.
I don't think functional family exist in this universe, my first encounter with 80's she-ra is where she met Adam( he-man ) and reunited with her parents, a living caring parents!! They also saved Angela when she was stuck with this whole horde problem & Glimmer actually give shits to what happened to her mom, worrying and all Here? I think they want to show how absurd the concept of child soldier is in the world no competent adult give a damn
Glimmer is such a bad daughter yelling at her mom. Plus she's a bad leader making everyone screw up and not organized. The Horde's new slogan should be, "Join the Horde, get amnesia."
Im starting to think only Adora was fed that crap about princesses being evil. Think about it, Catra in the very first episode or second i think, already said she knew the horde was lying about most everything, but didn't care. Sorpion Girl girl is a princess, and no one seems to know this because only Force Captains and up are taught this, and Catra ditches class on the regular. Entrapta just kind of joins the horde and no one seems to A.) Recognize that she's a princess or B.) Doesn't care.. I'm leaning toward B because everyone else from the horde who was at the prom must have seen the attendees and noticed Entrapta was there, so seeing her in the Fright Zone now apparently on their side isn't bothering them. Adora is apparently very gullible, and if thats true I love it! XD
As a whole, the entire Princess Propaganda doesn't make sense, especially when they DO have Scorpia and now Entrapta on their side. Wouldn't it have just been easier to say that Glimmer's kingdom were the evil ones since it basically feels like the main hub of the entire show? And that their kingdom actually enslaved smaller ones and the Horde is made up of people from said fallen kingdoms, along with their banished rulers, to rise up against Glimmer and her mother? Hell, Hordak could say that he was from a smaller kingdom or a banished Prince or something and that his actions are reclaiming the lost rites of his people and he wants to do the same for other lesser respected kingdoms for 'honor' or some shit. Something that would make the whole lie of the Horde indeed sound virtuous and give Adora a more sense of belonging and a bigger shock when she finds out that the Horde has lied to her all these years and her actions have HURT kingdoms instead of save them.
@@SuperCosmicMutantSquid The thing is, is that they've established that the Horde and the Princesses have been fighting each other since at least before Glimmer herself was born. Scorpia's Kingdom was given to the Horde and her family didn't mind because and this is partially my opinion, Scorpia and her family were already on the outs with the other princesses/kingdoms. MJ talked about it before, but Scorpia points out that the other princesses didn't like Scorpia according to her. Whether this is true or not we can't tell, but looking at the various kingdoms, it doesn't seem all that implausible. Frosta and her kingdom seem to be highly isolated in both their region and their view of the conflict. Mermista who is the saddest of them all is pretty much a princess in name only as she is basically all alone in her kingdom, Entrapta was in a similar situation, but of her own making as she's more of a inventor than a ruler, and im pretty sure she'd never decreed a single thing since she became the ruler of Drill. I could go on, but the point is this whole seperate kingdoms thing is dumb. Some stupid special crystals gave a select group of people magical powers, and those people then used those powers to be worshipped and revered as royality and if Glimmer's mother is any indication became immortal god beings (is Glimmer going to get old and die before her mother's very eyes?). What im getting at is that there may be some other underlining reasons why the Kingdoms aren't exactly great for the common folk either. The Horde is definitely worse as if it's in anyway connected to the older She-Ra series, the horde army on Etheria is just the branch of it that Hordak controls, and Horde Prime has a much bigger and more powerful force off doing other stuff.
@@Selvokaz On the Scorpia thing; they didn't like her...was it because her powers were scary? As mentioned, the POW'AH CRYSTAL things gave a select few powers so...everyone in Scorpia's kingdom got BUG powers??? Okay, now I'm getting even more confused because it seems to be overcomplicating things AGAIN a feels like ANOTHER page lifted from Avatar. The warring nations but in this case rather than ONE NATION (Fire) going after all because it's armies were stronger, we have a (really badly organized) 'collection' from SUPPOSED larger branch (that hasn't been mentioned at all) that hasn't been doing much because in the meantime they've been (badly) training child soldiers that are supposed to be used to take over the other kingdoms but even at their weakest, they keep getting defeated and even with She-Ra, when you go back and LOOK at the fights and attacks, it's not really that threatening. And given Glimmer's powers, I would expect that she would have an extended lifespan and her connection to her mother's kingdom COULD give her more but again, hardly anything is explained as it should be so it comes off as pointless sometimes. Also, for a kingdom that is RAVAGED in war since Glimmer was a baby, it seems very....lax. You'd think there would be more but....this doesn't feel like war at all. Also the show just messed up in its own plot if they wanted to give Hordak a bit of an example of an actual evil princess. They SHOULD have kept Entrapta evil and I don't mean, she was LEAD to evil. I mean, if they wanted to give weight to Adora's delusion and Hordak's lies, Entrapta should have been one of the major baddies they fought and she SHOULD have been evil, using her hair powers and love of tech to entrap helpless people in her mazes. Her castle staff could have been suffering some Stolkhom Syndrom where in they thought that Entrapta was PROTECTING them because they couldn't protect themselves because they DIDN'T have powers, leading back to Bow teaching them how to defend themselves and Adora and Glimmer learning that even with their powers they can still be outsmarted and sometimes going without something for the baddie to target is the best thing they could do. They could defeat Entrapta but she becomes sort of a reoccuring baddie before actually JOINING the Horde and becoming friends with Catra as they share the similar hatred for Adora and Catra eventually realizes that Adora is not coming back or going to change to bring power back to the Horde but Entrapa is willing to do so, even if she was one of those 'evil princesses' they hated. So long as she gets to enslave and torture She-Ra, the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
@@SuperCosmicMutantSquid i know its all kinds of dumb. They had the green light to make an entire first season, but rather then sit down and thoroughly create a world with a history long enough to cover all the stuff they were trying to convey, this entire show is more about "Wah, my feelings." The series is poorly constructed, and is more about cashing in on a known IP, that had a female lead, and trying to bank off those two things than any real creative writing.
How on earth can children watch this? Has anybody ever heard a child say that they like this new show? I gave up after just a few minutes a couple of episodes back. As a child I remember kidds talking alot about he-man, she - ra and anything related to masters of the universe. It was a really big thing. I understand why the owners of the she-ra brand does not want anything to do with this show.
i know lots of kids loving this show, and in my childhood no one knew she-ra and he-man at my school how about thinking out of your place and accept that your life is not the world?
an 80s kid here who remembers the original show. This version just sounds like an abomination of something Not She-Ra crossed with Star vs. The Forces of Evil and Steven Universe
Magical princesses from another dimension fighting evil with the help of magical gemstones that are actually archaic tech....yup, I think your description is rather accurate.
The next episode I wish was the quality of the rest of the series... but it is a pretty high bar at the moment. Plus, in my opinion, this series would have benefited if they were on the cusp of war and not actually war so their behavior would be acceptable - to some extent - but otherwise, I can not take anyone besides Catra seriously. And I feel bad for the mom then glimmer completely in this episode.
When this shit ends you gals should review some of the classic she-ra episodes, maybe those you think are the best or maybe those that would be somewhat close story wise to this one so we could all admire the degree of fail of the new one.
My gosh… I didn't even comprehend how dull and uninspiring this new She-Ra is until UA-cam started recommending me the 80's He-Man. Not only is that much better than what Noelle is attempting to do, but I've even gotten what I can only describe as "a day and a half long inspiration high" for my own idea for a cartoon. I understand the outrage a lot better now, and honestly the overall quality difference between these two are like night and day; The animation, character design, voice acting, writing, character arcs, messages, world building, etc. I think actual children would have better ideas than Noelle's team, because they're not freaking morons. P.S. I love Orko's character arc.
@@SoramimiKeiki Exactly! He and other the Trollans are much more enjoyable to watch, goofing up with silly spells, than teen drama, crying and making mountains out of anthills every five minutes.
@@SoramimiKeiki There's also the little bit that Orco was MEANT to be a little klutz and a lot of his purposes was for kids to learn lessons from him. Yes, it got annoying but that WAS his purpose in the show. Glimmer on the other hand is supposed to be seen as an example of STRONK FEMALE CHARACTUUURS but has done absolutely NOTHING but fuck up and fuck up some more, over and over, and OVER again! She's off-putting, abrasive, and just an asshole friend. Where as in Orco is designed to be cute and silly, Glimmer is said to be one thing and comes off as a the complete opposite. In the 80s/90s, Glimmer would be cast as the VILLAIN of the show, not a hero and she's NOT.
Catra didn't go to training and always had an attitude. She didn't become competent UNTIL she became forcecaptain. Shadow Weaver is a terrible person, but her lack of acknowledgement towards Catra is justified from a militaristic perspective. Adora showed dedication and devotion.
Trunks and Future Trunks in Dragon Ball Z and Dragon Ball Super. April O'Neil in the CG TMNT. Applejack's Parents in 'Friendship is Magic'. Pidge and Keith in the New Voltron (their individual storylines). Young Usagi (Rini) in Sailor Moon Crystal. All of these have better examples of handling family relationships. Why can't these folks do storytelling like that?
You know, filer episodes are good when used right, like you said with Avatar The Last Airbender, it has action and drama but has fun stuff and comedy, and also has a filer episode's. I think you know what episode i'm talking about "Tales of Ban Sing Sei" (sorry if i butchered the title name). What i like about this episode is that, the main kid character's were traveling a lot to finally going to Ban Sing Sei, with fire nation are on their tail, Asula and her team are hunting them and her brother Zuko and Uncle Ihro And they deserve some breaks from all the running and fighting, and we got several story about our favorite character's! Katara and Toph going out as girl pals and learn a lot from each other, Aang being nice and kind for helping the Zoo owner for making bigger Zoo for Animals, Sakka being funny as always, Ihro's sad story, hech we even get a Momo moment where he misses Appa, and thats kinda sad when an animal sidekick has more development than this She-Ra Reboot character's. What i'm trying to say is that if this show had more time, pacing, concistent and better development, than they could have made a filer episode a bit later when theres a lot of action. Anyway that's what i'm saying and thinking, great video as always. ^^
@@wildsharday9652 What bothers me the most is they have the same exact facal expression. Different characters should make different we're up to something faces. Also since the sceen is comedic they could have pushed it farther. That would make it twice as funny. There could be a title wave if sweat that washes everyone away.
I remember watching the first season to give a chance to the show and the princesses deciding to split up and leave the rebellion after they lost Entrapa because "it happened because they were together and that makes them vulnerable" was completely baffling to me. First, because it's not at all what happened, they were pretty effective when they worked together and most importantly, HOW COULD THEY COME TO THAT KIND OF CONCLUSION ? Either the princesses or the writers ? Have they never heard about the "united we stand, divided we fall" idiom ? Besides, if it sufficient to them to split up, it makes their alliance very weak and fragile. Also, about Entrapa being a prisoner, that also annoys me when you have a character who has the possibility - even the ability of getting him/herself out of a bad situation but never takes it to their advantage and makes instead the most counterintuitive decision for the sake of playing damsel in distress only to be astonished that they're in distress.
Also wonder why there's a "Princess Alliance". Where are the Princes? Are only women allowed to take command? Shouldn't it been called a "Queen Alliance" beforehand when Angela was in charge. She was married at the time.
@@ZanyCartoons In that case, the proper name for it should have been, if they're going to be that lazy, is the ROYAL ALLIANCE since it was made up of men and women, kings, queens, princesses, princes, and other higher authority figures. You know, for people who complain about EVERYTHING being gendered, they didn't see how using a GENDERED WORD (Princess) for a group of mixed people would look gendered when ROYAL covers EVERYONE.
Lol i find it hilarious at how the writters try to make it seem like both Bow and Glimmer are equaly at fault here XD And its also funny how glimmer its the leader when she has constantly shown that she is by far the least capable of leadership out of the 3 main characters.
If the reason they really have the girls ignore a really good advice from Bow is to make the younger audience "understand" the supid mansplaining thing I will murder someone
Man you two always nail this so well! It's kinda the main reason I stop watching. I know when it comes to shows where it's the kids saving the world that the adults tend to act stupid. This show?...it's odd! I mean you have the adults who don't act stupid per say...but seem to have this whole, "Yeah a very bad thing happened 10 years or so and broke us all apart....AH we ain't really worried...anyone want to go to Applebees?" Meanwhile you have the kids/teens who for the most part are even WORSE! They are all about fighting he horde by I think I have seen the horde more so doing stuff and all of our Princess just happen to be there or around when it happens! I mean it's so bad that as I said in another video, how have the horde not taken over LONG ago? Best answer that seems to be when you take a step back is that most areas have magic or tech protection that was up WAY LONG before or Princesses now took up the "fight" and might be just now becoming weak enough for the horde to attack...but then looking at the whole Prom/Ball Dance episode...maybe the Horde ain't in that much of a rush? Even they seem to have a "EH....we will get to it whenever we get to it." feel. I tell ya if these guys where facing the old school Horde they would have been taken over darn near the whole world before episode 1 or into said episode and still made ya laugh!
9:48 I know right! They could have at least made a joke out of it! Bow: "There we go. Now, let's get you to bed and... What happened to the stairs to the bed!?" Glimmer: "Huh? Oh yeah, I had mom take them 2 days ago because I realized I don't really need them cause I can teleport." Adora: "And what about when you're too tired to teleport!? Or when your powers are glitching!?" Glimmer: "Yeah... Really didn't think that through." Bow: "Ya think!"
I'm only one minute in and honestly I disagree already. The whole losing entrapta was single-handedly one of the most half handed moments for me. With the exception of Bow, Glimmer, and Adora, we rarely see or given time to see the princesses bond or even really be friends. Any emotional attachment that is supposed to be there I can't believe is there.
Given the way they left her in the last episode, I knew she wasn't dead and I kind of laughed how fast the freaking CHARACTERS wrote her off. If they were heroes, they would have sent Glimmer and Bow back to recover and staged another attack to get Entrapta back but NOPE. She's dead!
@@SuperCosmicMutantSquid Its the fact to me they even tried the whole "heroic suicide" thing at all. It's meant to pull emotional strings with both the characters and the audience, but neither have spent enough time with any of the princesses to for it to have actually worked.
Is that bad that I’m rooting for the Horde? Seriously, why do people like this show???? Also, I thought Entrapna was supposed to be smart? How many writers does this show have? Because if it’s anything more than one and this was still deemed okay, I’m going to be very sad.
I’ve been watching your reviews recently. And they are very interesting so far! That being said,this show is a hot mess to look at and visually unappealing. And both of your takes on this show is very interesting. I appreciate it that you are giving this mess actual criticism,unlike reviews being mostly biased and calling those who dislike the show “manbabies”. And other negative reviews about the show being “SJW”(which I found rather immature but has certain elements of it in the show) Keep up the good work you two! I just subbed to the channel!
The continuity in this show is totally all over the place, it's sign that the creators don't care that much, it's not just the stairs, it's seen in many things, like Glimmer's body that keeps slimming and changing from episode to episode specially when she changes outfits.
The Horde using Scorpia and Entrapta, despite being princesses, could have made sense in theory, if they had a clause saying, you have to abdicate your kingdom and crown, thereby being delegitimized. It's a bit flimsy but at least it's a technicality that would show the villains are thinking outside the box.
They cant even get their pointless comic relief filler episode right XD like you 2 said the stairs dissapeared for no reason, wouldnt have been funny if Glimmer in an earlier episode would have wanted to get those stairs removed cuz she is tired of people going to her bed? but now she doesnt have her teleporting powers so she cant get up there. That at least would have made more sence.
I haven’t really watched the show, but I already believe Glimmer is the worst character on the show. Also, I like to imagine that somewhere in Eternia, Skeletor is laughing hysterically at Hordak’s incompetence.
I have two theories on how Entrapta survived: One hinges on the Horde robot; whether there was a cockpit or space within, she could have accessed quickly. Then the 2nd; there was an exhaust duct she got into the and way they written her character to be distracted by technology{believe me I am stretching their really bad continuity of this show which has more holes than Swiss cheese again} that she got lost in the vent systems implied by this episode. Survival while trapped: This is easier to explain her hair can be sent out throughout the ducts, mainly avoiding fans, poison gas, fire, Shadow Weaver{she received one of the worst power downgrades she wouldn't survive a duel with original Shadow Weaver Filmation}, making a map{which again she could have accessed a way out, flaw techhappy} finding the kitchen in the Fright Zone stealing food. Catra found her via smell for I assume she had been in the ducts for several weeks, b.o. That's just my take on this two episodes of a clusterfrag of a series.
@Lars Weigang Yeah I was as I mentioned stretching the plausibility of the "intellectual" writers{I try to remain with decorum but the show has been She-Ra in name only}. Have to re-watch the episodes, {neurological disorder so memory a bit scrapped}. If you think that's bad Cartoon Network just dug Thundercats Roar 2019 out of the litter box.
@Lars Weigang Second the ventilation system, if Adora,{here I go again stretching writer's competency}, said it was that you would surmise that it's the main part of the system and other vents would dump into the main. But what do I know the show is what it is badly written with the name only
One thing I'll give this show credit for. Next to DreamWorks Dragons there's mercifully very little filler and things actually happen that change the characters. Even though Adora, and Cat-ra are practically the only ones really affected.
OMG THATS WHY I WAS SO BORED THRU THE WHOLE SEASON!!! It’s cuz there was no sense of tension or real stakes!!! Honestly, on my first and only viewing of this show, I’m not even joking, it literally just felt like such a drag. I didn’t wanna be watching it, and by the end, my mind had not been changed. A good cartoon is something I don’t necessarily care enough to check out initially, or even one that I’m reluctant to watch/don’t wanna watch, and by the end of it, i found that i actually really enjoyed it. They prove my initial doubts and preconceptions about it wrong. This show just solidified my opinion. It’s boring, there are no stakes, nothing makes sense, it’s not funny, entertaining or clever, the characters are easily distractible, and often times just act plain stupid. I don’t find the characters to be likable, except maybe Kyle cuz I can actually empathize with his character, but he’s literally being bullied by everyone and his very real problems (things that real people DO face) are played off as a joke, so that’s not a good sign. Overall, 2/10 for this series. You tried, but I’d never watch it again.
What worries me more than the continuity errors is that I didn't even notice them until they were pointed out; I was just riding along with the story and caring about the characters. I suspect goodwill towards this show requires not relinquishing such sentimentality, both towards the show and the fandom's enjoyment thereof. Personally, I liked this episode, but only because of Entrapta who shows herself to be more resource and hopeful than the entire Princess Alliance put together. Why did nobody notice her capability before? Given how they were talking about her making weapons I guess they just ditched her in an armory and waited for her to solve their problems for them.
... What they did to Sea hawk in this series is bad to the point of unforgivable I think. In the original series, he was kinda like the Han Solo. Here, they made him a male equivalent of Rose Tico with an extremely extroverted personality.
valid points across, and i love your mystacor rewrite plot I do feel the season had too much filler, and what great story and plot is there barely got time to develop, at least they seized 4 seasons, and hopefuly can go into greater details next seasons Also i wonder what you think about Ep 11, and the Famdom shippings, the episode is too on the nose with lgbtq symbolisms do you see it as panderin?
This is really late but i gonna leave an idea about the stair here for people to do what they Will with it Glimeer:says she has to sleep Bow:what happen to the stairs Glimmer:They work on my magic, im glitching so thats way they disappear. Then everything else goes mostly the same
I’m suddenly realizing why the Avatar Airbender series was alright with “filler” compared to Adora and zi think it has to do with technology. In ATLA, since theyre more medieval ancient ish, the speed of war is looming but not as quick and they can judge sometimes how long stuff can be - like the eclipse in the final season which is why Zuko had to tell them the timing is better a day before xoz that when the blood moon - I forgot but anyways teah Comparing this to She Ra - things snow ball coz there was no stakes to Adora being found she escaped and technically the rebellion and towns seem relatively horde free/un invaded so it seemed like there wasnt a time limit/approaching threat. Which is why it felt kinda draggy. Like Hordak barely does anything to send people or make actions and it’s mostly Shadow Weaver and Catra - the latter just a force captain.
@@SoramimiKeiki and still catra never stop instulting all the princes entrapta include and she didn't give a shit about it.... idk how that word is writed, you now the special word to say that a man is expliend something to a waman beacause she is waman y man knows better than her.
Have learned something from this show and the many reviews of it, She-Ra 2018 is filled with among the worst acting characters ever. Mainly in that they are among the worst friends possible and you have a good character like Catra who gets the worst of it both from Adora (leaving her) and Shadow Weaver (mistreatment). I feel sorry for Catra, she deserves better, maybe hang out with the Thunder Cats.
I really hate Glimmer. She’s extremely annoying, and is one of the worst examples of a “strong female character” that I’ve ever seen. It sucks that the writers are more worried about the characters’ ethnicities and sexual orientations than their personalities and overall likability.
Gloria D. Ikr big *oof* overall
Kam3man For real. I’m surprised that anyone likes this show, to be honest. 90% of the characters are either bland or annoying, and the so-called “war” that’s going on between like 10 people in The Rebellion and around 7 people in The Horde is more low-stakes than PJ Masks, Paw Patrol, and Henry Danger combined. I feel like the fans of this show only care about the LGBT representation, because I see a lot more stuff about shipping than the actual plot. I can’t really blame them though, since LGBT characters are rare and there’s not a whole lot of plot to write about in the first place.
@@nunya786 I have seen complilations of Catra doing weird and "cute" cat noises, so it seems to me that the fans of this show like it not only for the shipping but also the akward teenager humor, but i think that theres shows that do that kind of stuff far better because thats the main focus of it instead of wasting time on a forced fantasy war setting, those shows are also far better written too.
Its almost like taking a old 80's action fantasy cartoon and remaking it into a poorly written teenage drama show was a really bad idea.
@@The90sDoggoGaming is practically the version of this generation of
Yo, Yogi!
@@KuatPronunciations1860 Yeah Exactly! XD
Wow Bow is really in an abusive situation. His “friends” treat him like shit and he feels like he needs to apologize for it? Wtf.
@@Demolitiondude
Tumblr likes their men emasculated, limp-wristed and only there for their whims....NOICE.
Bow shaves with Gillette razors.
@@unlimitedrabbit
You mean his legs right? Cuz Bow doesn't have enough testosterone to shave his face or his balls.
wow i see ppl conplaining about how glimmer and adora treat bow badly though at the same time these commentators ridicule his masculinity *face palm*
@@platina1502
Bow is portrayed badly any way you go it. He's just BAD.
Glimmer treats him badly and even if they're trying to 'flip expectations' on his personality/masculinity, he's still bad.
Bad characters, bad show, bad messages.
JUST BAD.
How unempathetic can Glimmer possibly get, when her mom was so happy to see her daughter safely return from captivity and she displays nothing but annoyance.
She has none because Noel has none.
I know, I just hated the way Glimmer treated her mother.
and it makes her the most insufferable character in the show
Exactly!! It's such a weird position to take! When I was a teenager, my mom's every move annoyed me too. But, if I had been kidnapped and my life threatened and i just narrowly get out thanks to my friends, i would be super grateful to see my mom again and happy to be back home. But not her. She feels like this is just going to lead to her mom nagging at her more, which leads to her mistreating her mom in an attempt to keep from getting told off. It's just really terrible to watch!
Presumably she finds the embarrasment of being coddled by her mom over her kidnapping and torture (which her mom knows nothing about) more painful to go through than the kidnapping and torture she already went through. I mean I get it, teenagers hate their parents because they emberras them by being stifling and overbearing but here's the thing, this wasn't a ruined prom or a messed up slumber party. Glimmer was kidnapped and tortured presumably for a few hours at least, noelle stevenson cannot into drama and she certainly cannot into family matters.
Of course, Glimmer is in charge, she's Noelle Stevenson's self-inserted D&D character. She's said so. And you ladies have set your expectations way to high. I'm really sorry that you had to watch this.
And I think I need to point this out for everyone, She-Ra's season was split in two. This is why the pacing seems slow and/or off, because everything is working out towards episode 26 (I think that's how many they made? Or was it 24? I forget.) This is why, in this case, Adora wants to go training on Episode 10, because in reality, they haven't even hit mid season yet. And before I forget, they completed the entire season, so we're not going to see anything change.
Dear....
GOD.
That makes everything so much worse.
Is this worst than how Saban did Glitter Force/Doki Doki?
@@leonishikino6873 I'd say so, all Saban does is chop up shows and replace the dialog. It's cheap, it's lazy, but it's not actively being bad, like Nu-Ra.
Can we hope part 2 of season one is accidentally deleted? Or the numbers were bad enough Netflix axes it? They have been quiet about it, except Noelle Stevenson on artists alley but even that was more on her than the show.
@@greenliongirl07 The issue is that whatever Stevenson talks about her stuff, invariably becomes about HER. She has nothing else.
On another video analyzing this episode there was something I pointed out so I'll do it here, too:
Angelica is both a MOTHER and a QUEEN. Her GENERAL and DAUGHTER was captured and tortured in an enemy base. Her and her team are seen visibly injured. What is the first response?
TAKE THEM TO THE INFIRMARY. There are no exceptions. Glimmer should have been manhandled there by nurses and doctors - she wouldn't have escpaed because she can't use her powers - ANOTHER RED FLAG to her queen and mother. Plot A SHOULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED.
Again, multiple great points are made here. Bow needs to stand up for himself and Glimmer needs to focus up while Adora should have been training from the start - her military-mentality is not consistent.
Also I saw a comment that I agree with: they can't show weakness - yet Kyle exists?
Also HOW DID THE ROBOT GET CAUGHT BY A PLUG?! I've never seen that happen before!!! Also how did Entrapta survive and WHY WAS THAT ROOM MADE IN THE FIRST PLACE?! WHAT IS ITS PURPOSE???
I am peeved that the stairs were gone in the next episode, they were pretty cool.
That alternative you presented about how this could have been the mysticore episode is genius. It goes further b/c after Catra does this and fail THEN Shadow weaver tries to do it herself. Thinkinh about it makes it seem better by the minute.
Keep Up The Good Work~!
Angelica from Rugrats, or Angela from She-Ra? ;-P
@@SoramimiKeiki yes. Bear in mind, skunk ape is in the episode.
I can't wait for someone to do an abriged version of this bad abriged show.
Glimmer: Screw the rules, I'm a rebel princess.
Glimmer: I'm not in a rush to beat the Horde. Let's go to some hot springs.
Bow: But you haven't done anything for several episodes.
Glimmer: Shut up, Bow!
I almost want to make an everything is wrong with parody on this reboot. Mostly for laughs
@@lavenderplace8591 I know someone here who does the "Everything Wrong With" shtick, but with Steven Universe, and honestly, it's comedic silver
Watching this episode , I came to the conclusion that the creators of this version are a bunch of girls with mom issues , and they use the show to expose it .
They are and that's Glimmer's backstory. She's one of Noelle's DnD characters with mom issues....
Bingo! They use this cartoon as self therapy instead of telling an actual story.
@@randox124 I guess she's like Tom King when you put it like that. We didn't choose to read/watch their material so that we can be their unpaid and untrained therapists.
@@harlannguyen4048 Exactly like Tom King. Tom could write something interesting when he's not integrating his life bits into it. Heroes In Crisis feels like someone's attempt to showcase how their therapy lessons onto these heroes. A lot of these heroes already has dealt with the problems they have going on in their life. The stories are so 1 note. They go in, say what traumatized them, cry on panel 8 then walk away. That's it. It's not deep, it's not explored, it feels like Tom King wants to tell us something about him that we don't care for.
@@randox124
If it were therapy then many of the situations would call for them to actually look into their own faults and how to forgive themselves and become stronger but from what I'm seeing, it's just self validation, self validation and more self validation. It's not therapy more so than their own way of telling themselves that they're always right in their ways and its everyone else's fault. It's why we see so much apologizing in situations where there's no need for it. Bow doesn't need to apologize to Glimmer for jack shit. She's the one who has been the possessive, creepy little shit who acted like he owed her but he doesn't owe her ANYTHING.
As the video said, most of the shit that happened only did so because Glimmer was so far up her own ass and so immature about Bow getting along with other people she didn't watch out when Catra and Scorpia were planting the bombs. She was turning everything about HER the whole time and as a result the prom got wrecked, she and Bow got captured and her powers were fucked up.
None of that is Bow's fault. It's all on her for being a shitty, possessive and spoiled brat.
It's insulting to compare Avatar: The Last Airbender to the she a reboot.
Avatar is a masterpiece in storytelling. Even turning the villain Into the most complex character in the show and turning him good. This is like what someone said in this comment section. It's a show written by those that don't know the first thing about the human relationships or political power.
Malachi Owens Probably because they don't have any decent human relationships. They're SJWs, after all. If they would have good human connections they wouldn't be like this in the first place.
It's like comparing a BMW car with a BMW bicycle 😏
@@AscendantStoic You mean a BMX bicycle?
@@mitchfletcher2386 BMW makes bicycles too 😏
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@@AscendantStoic I see...
So soldiers in The Horde hide when they are sick because they can't show signs of weakness...and yet Kyle exists.
Yeah, okay, whatever. Being sick is wrong, but being an outright weakling is perfectly fine...
Also, the Queen discovers what happened to Entrapta before Glimmer, Adora, and Bow arrived, but somehow doesn't know the details of what happened during the teams rescue mission? I'm sorry, but how? Who blew the whistle? More so, why didn't the queen just ask the person who told her about Entrapta what happened during the rescue mission?
And congratulations, Bow, for apologizing to a whiny brat over something you didn't even know she was angry about. I'm so glad everyone is whiling to take responsibility for Glimmer's mistakes. It stops all that pesky "character development" from standing in the way of character shipping moments.
*EDIT:* Oh, wow, great plan, Entrapta. Yeah, just stay behind in the enemy base so that your friends can rescue you rather than escaping on your own. Ironically, the show writers, who keep telling us how progressive they are, made a princess into a damsel in distress... *on purpose!* Yeah, real progressive, writers. And no, I don't care that she can get out or her bindings. She is choosing to stay with the enemy for the sake of being rescued. That's stupid.
These writers man...these writers manages to screw up at every turn. I don't care if this is their first time writing a TV show. It doesn't take a brainiac to comprehend basic storytelling.
Glimmer is just a dumpy little turd and yet we're supposed to like her for some reason.
.....
NOPE.
@@SuperCosmicMutantSquid - She is just so terrible. A truly awful character. Funny enough, If I'm recalling correctly, Glimmer is based off a character Noelle Stevenson played in a D&D campaign. If that's the case, then I think we're getting a glimpse at how Noelle acts in real life, since it's her character. If that's the case, then I pray for anyone who has to work with her.
@@alexkennard2422
Yeah, she is just Noelle's shitty DnD character and funny how she replaced Glimmer's original MO with this. I always hate it when bad reboots replace established characters with their own self-inserts or OCs and here we have a glaring example of it. This isn't 'reboot Glimmer'. To say that would mean Noelle actually watched the OG show and saw how Glimmer acted and fought. This is just her OC she renamed Glimmer to please herself that her shitty character is now apart of an animated series.
Alex Kennard I could eat a box of Alpha-Bits Cereal and crap out a better story than anything these morons can come up with.
I can't help but notice how effeminate Kyle looks too. I just can't figure out what the writers are trying to say with that.
I don't like how easily Entrapta was turned.
Lima Bean I think Entrapta’s mental state is in such a state of spin, that turning is a natural state for her.
it's hard to decide which side is the least worst, so characters getting confused going from one side to the other does not impress me so much
Yeah, it was like "my friends won't come for me... so I guess I'll help this terrorists to destroy the world"
Lima Bean she doesn’t really care about the war or the horde. She doesn’t care for anything but her research. Example of chaotic neutral
I don't like how easily Adora was turned.
The only thing that seems established is Glimmer being an obsessive control freak and anytime Bo brings up something valid or Adora if she's not on Glimmer's side, it's shrugged off and ridiculed without thought- especially if it may get in the way of something she wants. Why are they the "best friend squad" If their friendship was measured in nutritional value, I think a cigarette would be a healthier alternative.
The saddest part is that a lot of the problems you've mentioned, I could solve in ten minutes or less of rewrites. "Um... where are you stairs, Glimmer?" "I usually keep them retracted." "So extend them." "I can't, the control's in my bed." Or with Bow and Glitter and Adora, "Yeah, it might be a bad idea. But I was raised by a sorceress, I do know about magical objects, and I've had time to think about this, and it's about the best idea we've got right now."
LadyDeirdre that bed explanation is makes literally too much sense.
@@malachiowens3423 or the stair are controled by her magic and how she can't controlet it at the moment she can't use it. (this even make a little tension beacuse she is so hurt than she can't even do simple magic things)
Glimmer seems to warp her weight every other scene. The hug scene for instance.
She's probably fat when fully charged with her powers xD
Glimmer entire character arc is her screwing up, thinking only of herself, and being a bad leader. Instead of her building up from that to make her a better character she is constantly validated. Even nearing the finale where you hope someone finally just bluntly tell her how flawed she is, she is validated by her own mother.
She is instead told, that she's not a screw up, because her mother is a screw up. That does not justify or make any of her mistakes go away. And that does not call for a sweet heart felt moment. She hasn't grown one bit and now her mistakes are chalked up as nothing because everyone messes up.
So Vanellope from WiR 2? XD
@@SuperCosmicMutantSquid Pretty Much LOL
Honestly I don't know what these writers are even thinking anymore. This entire series is painful to watch. I find it ironic that for all this talk about stromg females and female empowerment, so many of them need to be coddled emotionally and can never be held responsible for their own shortcomings with others making excuses for them. On top of that, everyone has to fucking cry. This is just Steven Universe woth a higher budget. I really hope this show gets canceled soon because out of all the wasted slots on Netflix, this is the biggest waste.
That's one of the major problems I have with this show because it creates the stigma that girl shows NEED to do this; constant 'emotional support' that are just long bouts of whinging than long, drawn out conversations where everyone apologizes to each other, say the problem isn't their fault and then they all hug and make up. Even SHOJO, a genre which a lot of these creates take HEAVY influence from, doesn't even move to this beat, at least the good series anyway.
Everyone is a wimp in his series.
@@SuperCosmicMutantSquid my thoughts exactly. This is the exact opposite of what girls should be learning. They shouldn't expect people to always be there to emotionally comfort them because the world doesn't care about your problems or your feelings; its a harsh truth that the writers don't seem to understand themselves. Since they weren't given constant coddling at the age of 18 up through their 20s they feel hurt so this show is them getting their fantasy of just being told they're wonderful for nothing.
Noelle Stevenson has a lot of growing up to do and she's doing it through a series she was given which she had no interest in to begin with. I think if she had spent a few years working in retail or any other occupation where its guaranteed that people are going to be assholes to you that she would understand this. The entirety of this show comes off as her crying for help because she wasn't hugged enough as a kid. From all the hugging and crying scenes to the lack of positive family relations, this show is one massive projection of all of Noel's problems and insecurities. Its like she wants the audience to be her therapist.
@@alecperdeau650
That's up to Noelle and her crew on how they're going to conduct themselves in the future but given she HAS been around for a while, I'm getting the feeling even in a professional setting she's always been coddle and she comes off as that type of person who before she was given these jobs, even if she worked in retail she would still blame the customers for their actions and not her own REaction towards them.
It honestly feels like all these shows and movies touted as being good for girls are just massive coddle-thons. It actually reminds me of an episode of the Simpsons where the school splits the kids up by gender only for Lisa to discover, to her horror, that the girls aren't really being taught anything. They're massivly coddled and told how wonderfu they are but there's no actual education going on but in the meantime, the boys are treated like savages and inmates but they're getting an actual EDUCATION and Lisa has to disguise herself in order to learn the things she actually has an interest in.
In animation it feels like the same thing is going on, with girl shows being those 22 minuet long validation-a-thons where nothing actually happens but boy shows can be rough, tough, and be fun. Its just AMAZING how these people make such a big deal about breaking 'gender norms' when they're the ones who are enforcing them.
@@SuperCosmicMutantSquid Wow that Simpsons episode analogy was great, its funny how this kind of people lack the self awareness to realize that they are doing the same thing they dislike so much.
@@The90sDoggoGaming
The reason they don't realize it is because they're the ones who are in charge now and are much more concerned with being praised for BEING in charge and people celebrating them than doing the thing they promised.
Has no one noticed when Adora makes a fist she has like 7 fingers? Huge animation error if you ask me, they couldn’t keep track of 5 fingers 😂
you are saying that like they can keep consistenci bewteen 2 fucking frames xD
They're making the 80s version look better and better and they reused frames in EVERY SINGLE EPISODE.
@@SuperCosmicMutantSquid that make it even worse beacuse then can't even keep consistenci bewteen reused frames xD how the hell do you do that?
poijn ve I think that Super Cosmic Honey Candle meant that the ORIGINAL She-Ra reused frames in every single episode. An animation tool which is typically used by lower quality cartoons. And every episode of this new “She-Ra” (I used quotation marks because I don’t truly consider this show to be She-Ra) makes the original series look better and better.
@@poijnve3912 No, she means that the 80's version reused frames, and it's true, I saw a bit, and in one scene where Adora runs, every time that the background changed they're just reused the same animation of Adora running... And even with that it's better than this.
0:27 She-Ra is the same height as Glimmer.
Because continuity is for the weak!
Paladin Demo 😂
@@Demolitiondude you mean consistency xD, continuity is other thing jaja but continuity shine for its lack.
@@Demolitiondude consistency is when something fit in (like the side, the internal logic,etc), continuty is when something that happens befor is carry on the prensent (for example when a character out come his fear to something and in future situation he doesnt have it)
But she’s in front of her- look at their feet. That makes them appear the same height cuz of angles
3:17 - Oh, look, it's the return of slim Glimmer!
It's Slimmer,(slimer).
I've heard of gender-fluid, but not weight-fluid.
She sometimes identifies as a slim girl.
@@laceneil4570 *PFFFT*
The entire show honestly feels like a Nickelodeon original series. With its overly dramatic jokes and its painfully obvious plot points. Like why in the world would a magical fantasy land even have a prom? It was obviously written by adults who really underestimate the taste of teenagers outside of "teen culture". I wouldn't be surprised if season two had dabbing in it
Don't give them ideas!
Mysticons was way better than this, plus it wasn't based on an old IP.
@@greenliongirl07 Mysticons was literally the worst girls cartoon around. Before She-Ra, that is.
@@RokuroCarisu Apparently you didn't see the last season of Winx club with the fairy pets or Har Har kizuku or whatever it was called.
@@greenliongirl07 I have seen all of Winx Club and even World of Winx Club. It's not good, but it's not offensively bad like She-Ra.
Even after seeing Entrapta was ok I wasn't surprised and I think she gave into Catra's words to easy. Entrapta should've used common sense and realized the others thought she was dead or captured and they wouldn't come get her so soon. Entrapta now working with the Horde really comes off as someone who is doing something wrong, but she doesn't really realize what she's doing you know? But that's just me
For me, she is the worst character of all season, because she is important in the development, but she has no coherence at all, it's just dumbass.
At least in the original she joined the hored on her own accord and is genuinely evil
@@maverickdarkrath4780 And that I can get behind. Here I question it, she just accepts what Catra says and is too obsessed with science to notice what's happening around her
I think the joke is the tech genius .....is actually really dumb......ha ha?
@@tiozorro7853 It's also frustrating seeing how easily distracted she gets by science when there is something else more important going in
This entire series give off a felling of not being fully thought through.
Same...this is the kind of story that would be a first draft.
Which is literally just writing out a quick story on all the ideas that have been jotted down....the people behind this seem to have skipped the step of refining the story and ironing out mistakes.
Either that or "meh, it's a kids show, kids are dumb and don't think beyond face value"
I recently went and reread some of the stuff I've written i eight grade. It's not GOOD, it has cliches and not everything adds up. There are WAY too many characters I tried to put focus on and itvmaked the whole thing confusing.
Butveven back then I knew that villains have to be treathening (a dark sorceress who almost effortlesly manages to defeat one of the strongest characters in the story), people have to put their responsibilities over their feelings if they's in WAR and that you have to SHOW relationships rather than TALK abput them.
Catra's treating Entrapta much the way Shadow Weaver treated her. Classic cycle of abuse, and possibly the very first time the writers actually considered the effects of such an upbringing. Sadly, I doubt they'll follow up on this.
i think you are thinking to deep xD, that is probably just a happy coincidense xD
The whole scene with Glimmer and her Mother makes me angry for some reason.
In the way that I see the scene, it seem to be in every teen drama show and not a cartoon.
I just watch (overly sarcastic productions) on all quiet on the western front , in short it tell a story about teenage boys (in the video they said that the protagonist is 19 years old) in world war 1.
pls watch their video for a better understanding.
avatar TLA can do this story well because they know to put in the show with limitations with censorship in all.
this show is really try to be "next Avatar" but it failed in so many way.
It also tries to be My Little Pony: Firendship is Magic at the same time.
@@RokuroCarisu the most overrated show in the universe.
@Sy'roqholicSA MLP isn't bad by any means but it's so average yeah it's better.
First of all i thought it was disrespectful playing entraptas death like that one moment she's assumed dead then in the next clip its like ha ha guys we just kidding seriously the pacing was terrible in this episode i understand why glimmer did not want to tell her mother but she acted so awful about it this show really needs to reasses itself writers too
If you are going to shown a character supposedly die, then you should at least put a reason of why and how they survived, even a stupid reason would have been better than nothing like they did.
Other characters mourn the loss of a comrade. Then, moments later, the comrade appears alive and well.
Makes all that lament rather pointless, doesn't it?
I was REALLY annoyed at Glimmer in this episode. I mean this is not "I went out with friends and got drunk and now I don't want my mum to find out" situation. This is serious stuff. Of course her mum would be worried. I also didn't get why Adora, who untill now seemed somewhat more mature than Glimmer goes along with her plan.
Again, I don't know anything about the original show. Will watch it when my finals are over. But this show is deffinitely not one of my favourites. I'm not a salty fan of the original, I'm not an angry adult male who hates all things feminist. I'm a 21 year old who likes a good story and, more importantly to me, good characters. And while this show seems to have POTENTIAL for both, it currently has neither. There are some good, even great, concepts showing, but that's just that. They are concepts, and even if you have the greatest concept in the world and do nothing with it, you did nothing. The story is all over the place, the charecters are decent at best and the animation is often unpolished. When I started to watch I oped for another show that will fight for a place on my Top 10 list. Right now, all ten shows on that list are secure.
EDIT: In tje right mindset, I find this series kind of funny. Stupid funny. I watched a couple of episodes with my cousin and we laughed our socks off making fun of art incostitencies, weird plot points and stupid character decisions. Soo...yeah in that sort of way I can kind of recommend it.
I don't think functional family exist in this universe, my first encounter with 80's she-ra is where she met Adam( he-man ) and reunited with her parents, a living caring parents!! They also saved Angela when she was stuck with this whole horde problem & Glimmer actually give shits to what happened to her mom, worrying and all
Here? I think they want to show how absurd the concept of child soldier is in the world no competent adult give a damn
The thumbnail just states “Please like us!”
It also has a Teen Titans Go! feel to it.
Glimmer is such a bad daughter yelling at her mom. Plus she's a bad leader making everyone screw up and not organized. The Horde's new slogan should be, "Join the Horde, get amnesia."
Im starting to think only Adora was fed that crap about princesses being evil. Think about it, Catra in the very first episode or second i think, already said she knew the horde was lying about most everything, but didn't care. Sorpion Girl girl is a princess, and no one seems to know this because only Force Captains and up are taught this, and Catra ditches class on the regular. Entrapta just kind of joins the horde and no one seems to A.) Recognize that she's a princess or B.) Doesn't care.. I'm leaning toward B because everyone else from the horde who was at the prom must have seen the attendees and noticed Entrapta was there, so seeing her in the Fright Zone now apparently on their side isn't bothering them. Adora is apparently very gullible, and if thats true I love it! XD
As a whole, the entire Princess Propaganda doesn't make sense, especially when they DO have Scorpia and now Entrapta on their side. Wouldn't it have just been easier to say that Glimmer's kingdom were the evil ones since it basically feels like the main hub of the entire show? And that their kingdom actually enslaved smaller ones and the Horde is made up of people from said fallen kingdoms, along with their banished rulers, to rise up against Glimmer and her mother?
Hell, Hordak could say that he was from a smaller kingdom or a banished Prince or something and that his actions are reclaiming the lost rites of his people and he wants to do the same for other lesser respected kingdoms for 'honor' or some shit. Something that would make the whole lie of the Horde indeed sound virtuous and give Adora a more sense of belonging and a bigger shock when she finds out that the Horde has lied to her all these years and her actions have HURT kingdoms instead of save them.
@@SuperCosmicMutantSquid The thing is, is that they've established that the Horde and the Princesses have been fighting each other since at least before Glimmer herself was born. Scorpia's Kingdom was given to the Horde and her family didn't mind because and this is partially my opinion, Scorpia and her family were already on the outs with the other princesses/kingdoms. MJ talked about it before, but Scorpia points out that the other princesses didn't like Scorpia according to her. Whether this is true or not we can't tell, but looking at the various kingdoms, it doesn't seem all that implausible. Frosta and her kingdom seem to be highly isolated in both their region and their view of the conflict. Mermista who is the saddest of them all is pretty much a princess in name only as she is basically all alone in her kingdom, Entrapta was in a similar situation, but of her own making as she's more of a inventor than a ruler, and im pretty sure she'd never decreed a single thing since she became the ruler of Drill. I could go on, but the point is this whole seperate kingdoms thing is dumb. Some stupid special crystals gave a select group of people magical powers, and those people then used those powers to be worshipped and revered as royality and if Glimmer's mother is any indication became immortal god beings (is Glimmer going to get old and die before her mother's very eyes?). What im getting at is that there may be some other underlining reasons why the Kingdoms aren't exactly great for the common folk either. The Horde is definitely worse as if it's in anyway connected to the older She-Ra series, the horde army on Etheria is just the branch of it that Hordak controls, and Horde Prime has a much bigger and more powerful force off doing other stuff.
@@Selvokaz
On the Scorpia thing; they didn't like her...was it because her powers were scary? As mentioned, the POW'AH CRYSTAL things gave a select few powers so...everyone in Scorpia's kingdom got BUG powers???
Okay, now I'm getting even more confused because it seems to be overcomplicating things AGAIN a feels like ANOTHER page lifted from Avatar. The warring nations but in this case rather than ONE NATION (Fire) going after all because it's armies were stronger, we have a (really badly organized) 'collection' from SUPPOSED larger branch (that hasn't been mentioned at all) that hasn't been doing much because in the meantime they've been (badly) training child soldiers that are supposed to be used to take over the other kingdoms but even at their weakest, they keep getting defeated and even with She-Ra, when you go back and LOOK at the fights and attacks, it's not really that threatening.
And given Glimmer's powers, I would expect that she would have an extended lifespan and her connection to her mother's kingdom COULD give her more but again, hardly anything is explained as it should be so it comes off as pointless sometimes. Also, for a kingdom that is RAVAGED in war since Glimmer was a baby, it seems very....lax. You'd think there would be more but....this doesn't feel like war at all.
Also the show just messed up in its own plot if they wanted to give Hordak a bit of an example of an actual evil princess. They SHOULD have kept Entrapta evil and I don't mean, she was LEAD to evil. I mean, if they wanted to give weight to Adora's delusion and Hordak's lies, Entrapta should have been one of the major baddies they fought and she SHOULD have been evil, using her hair powers and love of tech to entrap helpless people in her mazes. Her castle staff could have been suffering some Stolkhom Syndrom where in they thought that Entrapta was PROTECTING them because they couldn't protect themselves because they DIDN'T have powers, leading back to Bow teaching them how to defend themselves and Adora and Glimmer learning that even with their powers they can still be outsmarted and sometimes going without something for the baddie to target is the best thing they could do. They could defeat Entrapta but she becomes sort of a reoccuring baddie before actually JOINING the Horde and becoming friends with Catra as they share the similar hatred for Adora and Catra eventually realizes that Adora is not coming back or going to change to bring power back to the Horde but Entrapa is willing to do so, even if she was one of those 'evil princesses' they hated. So long as she gets to enslave and torture She-Ra, the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
@@SuperCosmicMutantSquid i know its all kinds of dumb. They had the green light to make an entire first season, but rather then sit down and thoroughly create a world with a history long enough to cover all the stuff they were trying to convey, this entire show is more about "Wah, my feelings." The series is poorly constructed, and is more about cashing in on a known IP, that had a female lead, and trying to bank off those two things than any real creative writing.
@@Selvokaz
As so many people have said, so many wasted opportunities.
Glimmer: Worst. Animated reboot character. Ever.
Basically Fat Glimmer looks like a Steven universe OC from Tumblr who's useful for p0rn
8:15
Adora:"WHAT HAPPENED TO THE STAIRS!"
Glimmer:"My mom took them down because i am grounded."
Bow:"That's disturbing."
How on earth can children watch this? Has anybody ever heard a child say that they like this new show? I gave up after just a few minutes a couple of episodes back. As a child I remember kidds talking alot about he-man, she - ra and anything related to masters of the universe. It was a really big thing. I understand why the owners of the she-ra brand does not want anything to do with this show.
TimmyME The intended audience are tumblr whiners, no matter what they claim. It's written by SJWs for SJWs.
i know lots of kids loving this show, and in my childhood no one knew she-ra and he-man at my school
how about thinking out of your place and accept that your life is not the world?
Have to admit, Shadoweaver's character design is really cool.
And queen Angela's.
@@lavenderplace8591 Her too! She looks so elegant, yet scary in an odd way.
The whole "split up and get back for the finale" plot was done so much better in MLP.
an 80s kid here who remembers the original show. This version just sounds like an abomination of something Not She-Ra crossed with Star vs. The Forces of Evil and Steven Universe
Less Steven Universe and more My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.
@@RokuroCarisu Nah FiM is worlds better than not She-ra
@@Sylnaya So is literally every other cartoon!
At least star vs. is more interesting
Magical princesses from another dimension fighting evil with the help of magical gemstones that are actually archaic tech....yup, I think your description is rather accurate.
In a way maybe this is why I can't write character driven cartoon show set in A WAR.
Don't get me wrong I enjoy some of the show but everything @mjtanner pointed out, I agreed with it and the things hate about show.
That's no excuse. The original She-Ra cartoon had some great moments of character development.
@@rocketcon sorry I meant to say " I " can't .
have to edit that. thanks
The next episode I wish was the quality of the rest of the series... but it is a pretty high bar at the moment. Plus, in my opinion, this series would have benefited if they were on the cusp of war and not actually war so their behavior would be acceptable - to some extent - but otherwise, I can not take anyone besides Catra seriously. And I feel bad for the mom then glimmer completely in this episode.
right you are
'Cause this is filler~
Filler, right?
Netflix She-Ra's full
Of social justice agenda~
You know it's filler
Filler, right?
I sang this out loud lol
When this shit ends you gals should review some of the classic she-ra episodes, maybe those you think are
the best or maybe those that would be somewhat close story wise to this one so we could all admire the degree of fail of the new one.
My gosh… I didn't even comprehend how dull and uninspiring this new She-Ra is until UA-cam started recommending me the 80's He-Man. Not only is that much better than what Noelle is attempting to do, but I've even gotten what I can only describe as "a day and a half long inspiration high" for my own idea for a cartoon. I understand the outrage a lot better now, and honestly the overall quality difference between these two are like night and day; The animation, character design, voice acting, writing, character arcs, messages, world building, etc. I think actual children would have better ideas than Noelle's team, because they're not freaking morons.
P.S. I love Orko's character arc.
Even Orco with his stupid decisions is alot lesser annoying than Glimmer. At least he always gets he fucked up and tries to correct it.
@@SoramimiKeiki Exactly! He and other the Trollans are much more enjoyable to watch, goofing up with silly spells, than teen drama, crying and making mountains out of anthills every five minutes.
@@SoramimiKeiki
There's also the little bit that Orco was MEANT to be a little klutz and a lot of his purposes was for kids to learn lessons from him. Yes, it got annoying but that WAS his purpose in the show.
Glimmer on the other hand is supposed to be seen as an example of STRONK FEMALE CHARACTUUURS but has done absolutely NOTHING but fuck up and fuck up some more, over and over, and OVER again! She's off-putting, abrasive, and just an asshole friend. Where as in Orco is designed to be cute and silly, Glimmer is said to be one thing and comes off as a the complete opposite.
In the 80s/90s, Glimmer would be cast as the VILLAIN of the show, not a hero and she's NOT.
Yo man, Orko was great. He had character development, unlike this "Glimmer". Hell, original Glimmer had more development.
Catra didn't go to training and always had an attitude. She didn't become competent UNTIL she became forcecaptain. Shadow Weaver is a terrible person, but her lack of acknowledgement towards Catra is justified from a militaristic perspective. Adora showed dedication and devotion.
Trunks and Future Trunks in Dragon Ball Z and Dragon Ball Super.
April O'Neil in the CG TMNT.
Applejack's Parents in 'Friendship is Magic'.
Pidge and Keith in the New Voltron (their individual storylines).
Young Usagi (Rini) in Sailor Moon Crystal.
All of these have better examples of handling family relationships.
Why can't these folks do storytelling like that?
You know, filer episodes are good when used right, like you said with Avatar The Last Airbender, it has action and drama but has fun stuff and comedy, and also has a filer episode's. I think you know what episode i'm talking about "Tales of Ban Sing Sei" (sorry if i butchered the title name). What i like about this episode is that, the main kid character's were traveling a lot to finally going to Ban Sing Sei, with fire nation are on their tail, Asula and her team are hunting them and her brother Zuko and Uncle Ihro And they deserve some breaks from all the running and fighting, and we got several story about our favorite character's! Katara and Toph going out as girl pals and learn a lot from each other, Aang being nice and kind for helping the Zoo owner for making bigger Zoo for Animals, Sakka being funny as always, Ihro's sad story, hech we even get a Momo moment where he misses Appa, and thats kinda sad when an animal sidekick has more development than this She-Ra Reboot character's.
What i'm trying to say is that if this show had more time, pacing, concistent and better development, than they could have made a filer episode a bit later when theres a lot of action.
Anyway that's what i'm saying and thinking, great video as always. ^^
Those smiling faces look like they came right from Clarence.
Im surprised you didnt say Steven Universe bacuse he also smile like that.
It's the worm mouth smile.
@@wildsharday9652 Steven's eyes have stars in them when he is really happy.
@@wildsharday9652 What bothers me the most is they have the same exact facal expression. Different characters should make different we're up to something faces. Also since the sceen is comedic they could have pushed it farther. That would make it twice as funny. There could be a title wave if sweat that washes everyone away.
@@icecreamhero2375 well this show does give them anime sparkle whenever they are happy if that mean something.
I remember watching the first season to give a chance to the show and the princesses deciding to split up and leave the rebellion after they lost Entrapa because "it happened because they were together and that makes them vulnerable" was completely baffling to me. First, because it's not at all what happened, they were pretty effective when they worked together and most importantly, HOW COULD THEY COME TO THAT KIND OF CONCLUSION ? Either the princesses or the writers ? Have they never heard about the "united we stand, divided we fall" idiom ?
Besides, if it sufficient to them to split up, it makes their alliance very weak and fragile.
Also, about Entrapa being a prisoner, that also annoys me when you have a character who has the possibility - even the ability of getting him/herself out of a bad situation but never takes it to their advantage and makes instead the most counterintuitive decision for the sake of playing damsel in distress only to be astonished that they're in distress.
I don't think the power of friendship is gonna save this show
We called Twilight, she can't save it
Maybe the floating magical staircase is somehow linked to her powers? I don't know why that's staircase would be there in her sleep then
Also wonder why there's a "Princess Alliance". Where are the Princes? Are only women allowed to take command? Shouldn't it been called a "Queen Alliance" beforehand when Angela was in charge. She was married at the time.
There were also kings in the alliance, like Glimmer and Mermista dads
@@ZanyCartoons
In that case, the proper name for it should have been, if they're going to be that lazy, is the ROYAL ALLIANCE since it was made up of men and women, kings, queens, princesses, princes, and other higher authority figures.
You know, for people who complain about EVERYTHING being gendered, they didn't see how using a GENDERED WORD (Princess) for a group of mixed people would look gendered when ROYAL covers EVERYONE.
Maybe she got rid of the stairs so Adora can’t surprise her in bed again.
But that’s giving them too much credit
Lol i find it hilarious at how the writters try to make it seem like both Bow and Glimmer are equaly at fault here XD
And its also funny how glimmer its the leader when she has constantly shown that she is by far the least capable of leadership out of the 3 main characters.
Thanks for making all these great points. Poking holes in this show's logic(or lack thereof) is a turkey shoot.
I know criticizing the art is not a new thing but all of these character and costume designs are so bland it legitimately infuriates me.
Remember: This show won an award.
@Lars Weigang So we just need to play the whole episodes fully one after the other?
A meaningless one though.
I Blame Noelle Stevenson and Dreamworks
Sorry, but why should Adora and Glimmer listen to Bow, since he is mansplaining?!
Oh shit, that actually fits!
If the reason they really have the girls ignore a really good advice from Bow is to make the younger audience "understand" the supid mansplaining thing I will murder someone
@Velociraptor516 AKA HJM You are correct. Just saying it from what I guess, the standpoint of the makers of the show is.
Man you two always nail this so well! It's kinda the main reason I stop watching. I know when it comes to shows where it's the kids saving the world that the adults tend to act stupid. This show?...it's odd! I mean you have the adults who don't act stupid per say...but seem to have this whole, "Yeah a very bad thing happened 10 years or so and broke us all apart....AH we ain't really worried...anyone want to go to Applebees?" Meanwhile you have the kids/teens who for the most part are even WORSE! They are all about fighting he horde by I think I have seen the horde more so doing stuff and all of our Princess just happen to be there or around when it happens! I mean it's so bad that as I said in another video, how have the horde not taken over LONG ago?
Best answer that seems to be when you take a step back is that most areas have magic or tech protection that was up WAY LONG before or Princesses now took up the "fight" and might be just now becoming weak enough for the horde to attack...but then looking at the whole Prom/Ball Dance episode...maybe the Horde ain't in that much of a rush? Even they seem to have a "EH....we will get to it whenever we get to it." feel. I tell ya if these guys where facing the old school Horde they would have been taken over darn near the whole world before episode 1 or into said episode and still made ya laugh!
She-Ra has six fingers? 11:38
For the honor of Gravity Falls!
9:48 I know right! They could have at least made a joke out of it!
Bow: "There we go. Now, let's get you to bed and... What happened to the stairs to the bed!?"
Glimmer: "Huh? Oh yeah, I had mom take them 2 days ago because I realized I don't really need them cause I can teleport."
Adora: "And what about when you're too tired to teleport!? Or when your powers are glitching!?"
Glimmer: "Yeah... Really didn't think that through."
Bow: "Ya think!"
"Frosta let terrorists into her prom." This isn't a sentence I thought I'd hear today.
Have you guys considered reviewing the reboot (in some sense of the word) of Carmen Sandiego? I'm really interested in your guys' take on it
I second this. I would also be interested.
Yeah that would be a good idea.
1:45 Aww, heartwarming...
I'm only one minute in and honestly I disagree already. The whole losing entrapta was single-handedly one of the most half handed moments for me. With the exception of Bow, Glimmer, and Adora, we rarely see or given time to see the princesses bond or even really be friends. Any emotional attachment that is supposed to be there I can't believe is there.
Given the way they left her in the last episode, I knew she wasn't dead and I kind of laughed how fast the freaking CHARACTERS wrote her off. If they were heroes, they would have sent Glimmer and Bow back to recover and staged another attack to get Entrapta back but NOPE. She's dead!
@@SuperCosmicMutantSquid Its the fact to me they even tried the whole "heroic suicide" thing at all. It's meant to pull emotional strings with both the characters and the audience, but neither have spent enough time with any of the princesses to for it to have actually worked.
Is that bad that I’m rooting for the Horde?
Seriously, why do people like this show????
Also, I thought Entrapna was supposed to be smart?
How many writers does this show have?
Because if it’s anything more than one and this was still deemed okay, I’m going to be very sad.
When I finally watched the last three episodes, I got real sad that Catra lost
It’s not bad it’s art and writing. I find characters personal lives interesting. Nothing else lol
I’ve been watching your reviews recently. And they are very interesting so far!
That being said,this show is a hot mess to look at and visually unappealing. And both of your takes on this show is very interesting. I appreciate it that you are giving this mess actual criticism,unlike reviews being mostly biased and calling those who dislike the show “manbabies”. And other negative reviews about the show being “SJW”(which I found rather immature but has certain elements of it in the show)
Keep up the good work you two! I just subbed to the channel!
11:36 I counted 6 fingers including the opposable thumb on She-Ra.
The continuity in this show is totally all over the place, it's sign that the creators don't care that much, it's not just the stairs, it's seen in many things, like Glimmer's body that keeps slimming and changing from episode to episode specially when she changes outfits.
I love these reviews man
I can tell you two apart. The other one has a slightly deeper voice.
Good job icecream here's a cookie 🍪
@@justapotato1623 don't forget the milk! 😀
Also one has a lisp like voice
It just hit me: is Kyle supposed to be this remake's version of Mantenna?
Oh my god ... That would somehow fit. XD
M, Jay, or M and Jay. What's your opinion on the abusive relationship bow is in? Or is it a thing raised for the end of the series?
Another great critique ladies. I enjoy your breakdown and the way you praise where needed as well as offer alternative ideas. Keep it up 👏🏽
The Horde using Scorpia and Entrapta, despite being princesses, could have made sense in theory, if they had a clause saying, you have to abdicate your kingdom and crown, thereby being delegitimized. It's a bit flimsy but at least it's a technicality that would show the villains are thinking outside the box.
11:41 Adora has six fingers... I really cannot handle the animation in this show.
Even though I cannot draw hands, not even I would make that mistake,
Unless I'm drawing an alien....
Even when I think that the chapter of the party is worse, this chapter make me say almost all the time: Why?!
Conflict < conflict that makes sense.
So they didnt solve her glitching problem?
No, no they didn't.
@@mjtannertwins that's kind of a letdown
They cant even get their pointless comic relief filler episode right XD like you 2 said the stairs dissapeared for no reason, wouldnt have been funny if Glimmer in an earlier episode would have wanted to get those stairs removed cuz she is tired of people going to her bed? but now she doesnt have her teleporting powers so she cant get up there.
That at least would have made more sence.
It's sad that a friend of mine actually defends this show
I feel you.
You guys make really good videos, I hope you start getting more traction for your channel!!
How do any people defend this show?
I haven’t really watched the show, but I already believe Glimmer is the worst character on the show.
Also, I like to imagine that somewhere in Eternia, Skeletor is laughing hysterically at Hordak’s incompetence.
I have two theories on how Entrapta survived: One hinges on the Horde robot; whether there was a cockpit or space within, she could have accessed quickly. Then the 2nd; there was an exhaust duct she got into the and way they written her character to be distracted by technology{believe me I am stretching their really bad continuity of this show which has more holes than Swiss cheese again} that she got lost in the vent systems implied by this episode. Survival while trapped: This is easier to explain her hair can be sent out throughout the ducts, mainly avoiding fans, poison gas, fire, Shadow Weaver{she received one of the worst power downgrades she wouldn't survive a duel with original Shadow Weaver Filmation}, making a map{which again she could have accessed a way out, flaw techhappy} finding the kitchen in the Fright Zone stealing food. Catra found her via smell for I assume she had been in the ducts for several weeks, b.o. That's just my take on this two episodes of a clusterfrag of a series.
@Lars Weigang Yeah I was as I mentioned stretching the plausibility of the "intellectual" writers{I try to remain with decorum but the show has been She-Ra in name only}. Have to re-watch the episodes, {neurological disorder so memory a bit scrapped}. If you think that's bad Cartoon Network just dug Thundercats Roar 2019 out of the litter box.
@Lars Weigang Second the ventilation system, if Adora,{here I go again stretching writer's competency}, said it was that you would surmise that it's the main part of the system and other vents would dump into the main. But what do I know the show is what it is badly written with the name only
It is not unfair to compare She-Ra to Avatar. According to Rotten Tomatoes, She-Ra is just as good as one of the best animated series ever.
One thing I'll give this show credit for. Next to DreamWorks Dragons there's mercifully very little
filler and things actually happen that change the characters.
Even though Adora, and Cat-ra are practically the only ones really affected.
OMG THATS WHY I WAS SO BORED THRU THE WHOLE SEASON!!! It’s cuz there was no sense of tension or real stakes!!! Honestly, on my first and only viewing of this show, I’m not even joking, it literally just felt like such a drag. I didn’t wanna be watching it, and by the end, my mind had not been changed.
A good cartoon is something I don’t necessarily care enough to check out initially, or even one that I’m reluctant to watch/don’t wanna watch, and by the end of it, i found that i actually really enjoyed it. They prove my initial doubts and preconceptions about it wrong.
This show just solidified my opinion. It’s boring, there are no stakes, nothing makes sense, it’s not funny, entertaining or clever, the characters are easily distractible, and often times just act plain stupid. I don’t find the characters to be likable, except maybe Kyle cuz I can actually empathize with his character, but he’s literally being bullied by everyone and his very real problems (things that real people DO face) are played off as a joke, so that’s not a good sign.
Overall, 2/10 for this series. You tried, but I’d never watch it again.
What worries me more than the continuity errors is that I didn't even notice them until they were pointed out; I was just riding along with the story and caring about the characters. I suspect goodwill towards this show requires not relinquishing such sentimentality, both towards the show and the fandom's enjoyment thereof.
Personally, I liked this episode, but only because of Entrapta who shows herself to be more resource and hopeful than the entire Princess Alliance put together. Why did nobody notice her capability before? Given how they were talking about her making weapons I guess they just ditched her in an armory and waited for her to solve their problems for them.
The next episode is the only really good one
Since SheRa2018 is almost over, will you guys review Carmen SanDiego2019?
... What they did to Sea hawk in this series is bad to the point of unforgivable I think. In the original series, he was kinda like the Han Solo. Here, they made him a male equivalent of Rose Tico with an extremely extroverted personality.
valid points across, and i love your mystacor rewrite plot
I do feel the season had too much filler, and what great story and plot is there barely got time to develop, at least they seized 4 seasons, and hopefuly can go into greater details next seasons
Also i wonder what you think about Ep 11, and the Famdom shippings, the episode is too on the nose with lgbtq symbolisms do you see it as panderin?
will you do an episode by episode review on classic She-Ra at all..?
I'd love that
20:40 ... Is she.. putting a blanket over those people..? an evil blanket?...
This is really late but i gonna leave an idea about the stair here for people to do what they Will with it
Glimeer:says she has to sleep
Bow:what happen to the stairs
Glimmer:They work on my magic, im glitching so thats way they disappear.
Then everything else goes mostly the same
That's actually a cool power.
If she wants to climb a mountain she goes on stairs that appear while walking.
@@egon2499 I know right
Any thoughts of reviewing other Netflix shows?
This show is a mess
Comment and like for the Algorithm, once the season ends I really hope you review more series!
I think this is more so padding or fluff instead of filler.
I’m suddenly realizing why the Avatar Airbender series was alright with “filler” compared to Adora and zi think it has to do with technology. In ATLA, since theyre more medieval ancient ish, the speed of war is looming but not as quick and they can judge sometimes how long stuff can be - like the eclipse in the final season which is why Zuko had to tell them the timing is better a day before xoz that when the blood moon - I forgot but anyways teah
Comparing this to She Ra - things snow ball coz there was no stakes to Adora being found she escaped and technically the rebellion and towns seem relatively horde free/un invaded so it seemed like there wasnt a time limit/approaching threat. Which is why it felt kinda draggy. Like Hordak barely does anything to send people or make actions and it’s mostly Shadow Weaver and Catra - the latter just a force captain.
10:24 of course they ignorem bow, he is a man, he was manexpling to them and beacuse he is a man to dah. entrapta isn't a princess too is she?
What is manexpling? If you copy my shit then at least do it right. It was mentioned countless times that Entrapta is a princess.
@@SoramimiKeiki and still catra never stop instulting all the princes entrapta include and she didn't give a shit about it....
idk how that word is writed, you now the special word to say that a man is expliend something to a waman beacause she is waman y man knows better than her.
I found it extroadinarily difficult trying to watch the filler episodes. almost every issue that solved within the same episode that they came up.
Have learned something from this show and the many reviews of it, She-Ra 2018 is filled with among the worst acting characters ever. Mainly in that they are among the worst friends possible and you have a good character like Catra who gets the worst of it both from Adora (leaving her) and Shadow Weaver (mistreatment). I feel sorry for Catra, she deserves better, maybe hang out with the Thunder Cats.
But please not with those ones from Thundercats Roar.
@@SoramimiKeiki I was more so thinking original or 2011 Thundercats, its what Catra really needs.
@@SoramimiKeiki Eh, still looks better than this. At least Lion-O's original VA Larry Kenney is gonna be in the 2019 series.