Reaction Shot: She-Ra episode 4 (or, THEY SUCKERED ME IN WITH SLEEP!)

[spindizzy]

OKAY, it's time to see what She-Ra is like when they aren't in intro mode!

• ... I just noticed that the Netflix logo is rainbow coloured!


• Awww, poor Adora, she is so shook up by everyone being suspicious of her.


• I have this sneaking suspicion that there's going to be an overlap in the fandom of "people who write Adora learning how to exist in Bright Moon" and "people who write Finn learning how to exist in the Rebellion," and I cannot express how thoroughly I want that. BRING ME ALL OF THE FIC OF CHARACTERS LEARNING HOW TO BE PEOPLE, OKAY?!


• Adora is SO BAFFLED by all of this space and luxury, and Glimmer is just like "You're adorable." AND THEN ADORA'S BED EATS HER.


• Seriously, she's gone from a mat on the floor that she shares with Catra in a dormitory to... ALL OF THAT NONSENSE. No WONDER she wigs.


• ... Oh no, oh this was a bad plan. You can tell from the feathersplosion.


• SERIOUSLY HAS NO ONE GOTTEN ADORA AN OUTFIT WITHOUT THE HORDE LOGO ON IT YET, BECAUSE I'D THINK THAT WOULD BE A PRIORITY HERE. Y'KNOW. TO PREVENT MISUNDERSTANDINGS.


• "I think I killed the bed!"


• Ahhhh Adora trying to be respectful to Angella and not knowing where to even start!


• ADORA CLIMBING INTO BED WITH GLIMMER BECAUSE SHE'S NEVER SLEPT IN A ROOM ON HER OWN BEFORE! *wails quietly into the night over this, my most favourite of tropes*


• (Also, does no one here own pyjamas? Because that looks like Glimmer is sleeping in her cloak.)


• The fact that Adora draws such a clear distinction between herself and She-Ra makes me happy. Identity drama, yay!


• "Mom can be a little intense." UNDERSTATEMENT OF THE CENTURY, GLIMMER.


• "She wouldn't have invited you if she didn't like you." IT'S NOT A BIRTHDAY PARTY GLIMMER, YOU DON'T HAVE TO LIKE SOMEONE TO WORK WITH THEM.


• Adora is so happy about art, I kinda love it.


• The old Princesses gave up?! Are they ALLOWED to do that?!


• Oh hey, look! More princesses! They're really cute!


• ... Oh no, it's the point in the first day where everything goes wrong. Also Angella, please, she's like fourteen and this is all new to her. FIND YOUR CHILL.


• "You sat in my dad's chair." OH. OH NO.


• OH I love the general's character design. I love everyone's character design actually, I hope the other princesses get to actually have roles in the story.


• (I suspect that these names looked GREAT on the boxes of toys.


• "Glimmer, you propose this idea every meeting."


• Adora trying to find ways to prove herself herself to Angella! ;_____; Because she grew up understanding that basic respect and being treated like a person has to be earned, so she doesn't get that the problem isn't her!


• Damn, this team falls apart when they don't have Adora and Catra doing everything for them.


• Lonnie's face when she sees Catra's badge! Kyle's genuinely pleased for her!


• I can't tell if that's "Catra has a picture of She-Ra in her locker" or "One of the other recruits saw She-Ra and has drawn a picture of her" but either way that is so cute.


• "I know you're lying. You have to be lying. What happened to Adora? What did you do?" WOW. Shadow Weaver automatically assuming that Catra HAD to have done something. What the fuck.


• "What did I do? She left us! She left me!" AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH CATRA LOVES ADORA SO MUCH AND FEELS SO BETRAYED! *cries*


• Catra reaching out to Shadow Weaver even though Shadow Weaver just threatened to rip her mind apart is just – wow. That's a lot of characterisation in one gesture.


• Oh no, everything the Horde touches dies. ;_;


• She-Ra carrying an entire cart! Adora refusing to be HER for this mission because she knows that people like her better as She-Ra and no one has given her a non-Horde shirt yet oh my god you guys.


• I know that the whole point of this episode is that it's going to be better to be yourself, but SERIOUSLY JUST LET HER CHANGE OUT OF THE HORDE UNIFORM IT IS LITERALLY ONLY CAUSING MORE PROBLEMS.


• WHAT'S BURNING. WHAT IS ON FIRE.


• "Ooh, I get a hat!" I LOVE BOW AND I LOVE THAT FLOWER PRINCESS.


• Oh no, all of the flower people hanging off Adora's every word while she's like "... I don't know what I'm doing but if I make my voice deeper it'll sound more heroic, help!"


• (I feel like this is an interim She-Ra, where Adora gets to actually do the talking instead of just being the personification of coolness. Maybe that was not the outcome she was hoping for.)


• (I was very sure that the flower princess was going to snap her fingers and immediately braid flowers into She-Ra's hair.


• IS THAT THE FIRST HUG SHE-RA HAS HAD SINCE SHE LEFT THE HORDE, I CAN'T REMEMBER. PLEASE TELL ME IT'S NOT. ALSO THAT IS PROBABLY THE FIRST SMALL HUMAN SHE'S HAD CONTACT WITH AND SHE LOOKS APPROPRIATELY UNNERVED.


• SHE-RA IS SO TALL.


• EVERYTHING IS DYING.


• "I'm sure the universe will right itself soon!" ... OH. Oh of course the flower princess is like this. At least it sounds like she's been trying to do stuff instead of letting the universe fix itself? But orz.


• "The She-Ra" is She-Ra a title now?! SOMEONE WHO WAS ALIVE FOR MORE OF THE EIGHTIES THAN I WAS, PLEASE EXPLAIN.


• Celebration? Really? YOU'RE BEING BLOCKADED, YOU DON'T HAVE TIME FOR PARTIES.


• Okay, so Shadow Weaver is trying to... Drag power out of a crystal that hates her?


• WHY DOES HORDAK HAVE A BABY.


• LET HER GO SHADOW WEAVER. YOUR BOSS DOES NOT WANT YOU TO LOOK FOR ADORA.


• OH, the crystal hates her because Hordak says no.


• Man, I hate Shadow Weaver but I know that tone of smiling murder that she was using just there. Wow.


• (Have we just been told why she wants Adora. Is she harvesting power from Adora.)


• She? They? I just realised that in my head I they them, but when I type I she her, but I don't actually remember what the kids use.


• GODDAMMIT YOU PEOPLE YOU'RE BEING BLOCKADED YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO RATION OUT THAT FOOD INSTEAD OF BLOWING IT IN ONE MASSIVE PARTY.


• Adora finding herself at the centre of attention and not wanting to be, especially when she discovers that she's inherited a legacy? Gooood.


• OH, oh they're so hype for She-Ra because she'll fix it.


• GROWING PLANTS IS NOT NOTHING, OKAY, AND ALSO I HAVE READ TAMORA PIERCE BOOKS, I KNOW THAT GROWING PLANTS IS AN OFFENSIVE SKILL IF YOU USE IT RIGHT.


• I know the point is that most of the people here are really young, really old, or pregnant, but... Wanting to live in peace and relying on others to put the effort in to make that happen seems implausible in our current political climate.


• "Did I do it?" "No, you punched a tree."


• DISASSOCIATE HARDER ADORA, THAT'S HOW YOUR SHE=RA POWERS WORK BEST.


• WHY IS ADORA'S SUPERPOWER "GIVE THINGS WINGS AND SPARKLES?"


• Oh Adora, no! You're not useless! You're just under a lot of pressure and no one gave you an instruction manual for these powers!


• SHE WAS ALWAYS JUST A GIRL YOU DIPSHIT, DID YOU NOT SEE THAT WHEN YOU WERE TALKING TO HER? WERE YOU SO BLINDED BY HOPE THAT YOU COULDN'T ACTUALLY SEE THAT YOU WERE TALKING TO A TEENAGER?!


• Adora has so much pressure on her shoulders, because look at her taking responsibility for the sadness an entire village has given her?!


• Adora, Angella is going to be so be mad.


• THANK YOU GLIMMER, THANK YOU FOR FINALLY FUCKING SAYING IT.


• ADORA YOU SHOULD BE DISAPPOINTED IN THEM! THEY ARE THE FUCKING PROBLEM HERE.


• Thank you Bow for realising that you were also contributing to this! The is why I always trying to check whether my belief in someone is more pressure or not!


• "She-Ra's not the reason we like you." OH BLESS YOU FOR SAYING THAT EVEN THOUGH THE ONLY REASON YOU TOOK HER IN WAS LITERALLY SHE-RA.


• Someone please go and stop those explosions.


• WAIT WHERE DID YOU SOURCE THREE HORDE UNIFORMS THAT ACTUALLY FIT YOU.


• Oh bless Adora for actually using her knowledge of the Horde for good. ... I just really want the crossover fic of Finn and Adora hanging out and not talking about what it's like to discover a world outside the evil organisation that raised you, okay.


• Warchimes. I'm intrigued. Warchimes.


• Glimmer, you can teleport, what are you doing.


• ... OMG YES, OFFENSIVE USE OF MAGICAL PLANT SKILLS!


• "I guess that day is today!" YES, FINALLY!


• Glimmer teleporting a guy into punching his friend is the best. As is the plant princess apparently never feeling as alive as when she is surfing on a tide of vines.


• WAIT MAYBE CONSIDER WHAT RELEASING MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF POISON WILL wait what


• OMG, YAY, FLOWERS EVERYWHERE!


• Glimmer being determined to be better than their parents!


• "Would I... Get to hit more people with flowers?" SHE HAS HER PRIORITIES RIGHT AND I LOVE HER.


• "Look at us! We're mighty rebels now!"


• Catraaaaaa!


• SLEEPOVER! SLEEPOVER! And they got her a bed that isn't trying to devour her! TRULY THIS IS FRIENDSHIP!


• Glimmer is so proud that's she's only been grounded for one week instead of four.


• NEW PRINCESSES INTO THE REBELLION!


• "Best friend squad is having a pillow fight!"


• ... Aren't those marble floors? That can NOT be comfortable. Also bless them all, but Adora not using a blanket is such a character touch.

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Comments

[squeemu]

THE FACT YOU ALREADY HAVE A SHE-RA ICON (well, a Mermista icon) MAKES ME HAPPY :D

Also I.... just realized that I have literally been hearing her name wrong for MONTHS now, Mermista makes so much more sense, lol. (I somehow thought it was Vermista???? self, how)

I LOVE THIS SHOW SO MUCH, it is my happy place and I am super enjoying all your reaction shots