Reaction Shot: She-Ra episode 12 (or, CATRAAAAAAAAA!!!)

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• Adora apologising for freaking out is very her.


• "Creepy? Yes, I have been called this before."


• Nope, I'm with Adora, everything Light Hope is doing that isn't the
  adult form is somehow worse.


• (I am assuming that Light Hope is some sort of AI and/or space ship,
  btw, I hope you all know this.)


• Oh no, Glimmer is glitching even more! That's not good.


• PONY!


• ... WHY DOES THE HORSE TALK?!


• This horse is so melodramatic, I'm kinda impressed.


• HOW ARE YOU PLANNING TO SNEAK OUT WITH A HORSE?!


• Look. another person under orders to bring back Adora! It's just like
  old times!


• Also bless this horse saluting Angella with its wing.


• Catra is acting depressingly like herself considering that she left
  Adora to die, and I have literally no idea how I feel about this.


• Catra just casually stroking Entrapta's hair and being proud of her
  for stealing things while Scorpia takes notes! This... Might be my OT3?
  This might be who I am now?


• ... First Ones tech is actually techno-organic? Wut?


• "Scorpia seems like she understands."
  "Scorpia is drawing stick figures holding hands."
  LOOK, SHE HAS SCORPION CLAWS, IT'S PRETTY IMPRESSIVE SHE CAN DRAW AT
  ALL.


• ... Scorpia and Bow would get on GREAT if they weren't on opposite
  sides of a war and you can't change my mind.


• "Do I need to explain math?"


• "You're asking about my theories? I've waited YEARS for someone to ask
  about my theories! Hang on, I made models!" Okay, if Scorpia is the kind of
  character I would play in an RPG, Entrapta is DEFINITELY the one that Lex
  would play.


• Okay, Etheria was colonised by space people, cool. And She-Ra is a...
  What's the word I'm looking for, a legacy hero? There have been multiple
  She-Ras over the years, and Adora is THIS generation's She-Ra. ... Sounds
  appropriate!


• Did anyone else get Avatar: The Last Airbender vibes from this
  explanation? Not quite "A thousand years ago, She-Ra vanished!" but
  still.


• Wait, the PLANET is First Ones tech?! It's WHAT. COME BACK HERE.
  EXPLAIN.


• Okay, and the princesses have elemental control because of the
  runestones, to which I would like to ask WHAT ELEMENT ARE SCORPIONS
  EXACTLY????


• I love the different explanations of this. Light Hope, an AI is giving
  a vague explanation about bringing balance, whereas Entrapta is going
  "Runestones regulate the planet through the princesses. They're connected
  to each other and the power grid!" I just like that the one who is being
  technical about this is the one that hypothetically knows the least! Also,
  you notice that it's the runestones that are doing the thing THROUGH the
  princesses, rather than the princesses using the runestones. INTERESTING
  CHOICE OF PHRASING is what I'm saying here.


• THERE ARE SO MANY PRINCESSES OKAY WHERE IS MY FULL LENGTH SHOW ABOUT
  GLIMMER, BOW, AND ADORA COLLECTING THE PRINCESSES LIKE POKÉMON AND CATRA
  BEING THE FINAL BOSS PRINCESS WHO WON'T HELP THEM WITHOUT A FIGHT.


• (The weird and beautiful thing about Noelle Stevenson being the
  showrunner and about my age is that I look at her work and go "Oh hey, I
  wonder if this was inspired by x," and there is actually a chance that it
  is!)


• "HACK THE PLANET" OH MY GOD I UNDERSTAND THAT REFERENCE AND ALSO
  ENTRAPTA NO!


• "The Horde is destroying us" okay but is that us the balance, a
  general we, or is Light Hope actually a runestone powering She-Ra?


• Entrapta is SO HAPPY about the runestone, SO HAPPY. SHE WANTS TO TOUCH
  IT.


• "Scorpia's right. Shadow Weaver won't like it. So I will absolutely
  get you the Black Garnet."


• OH NO IT'S HORDAK'S BABY. WHY IS HORDAK'S BABY ON THE CEILING.


• WHY IS HORDAK'S BABY A RECORDING DEVICE.


• Oh, oh no. I think we've got to the point where Hordak starts to
  actually be the big bad instead of Shadow Weaver.


• LIGHT HOPE PLEASE LET ADORA ASK THE QUESTION BECAUSE REPEATING THE
  SAME INFORMATION IN THE SAME WAY WILL HELP NO ONE. COME ON.


• "Your... Friend...?" Light Hope says, like they're unfamiliar with the
  concept.


• "Her connection with her runestone was disrupted." ... OH. OH NO. OH I
  SEE HOW THAT HAPPENED.


• Adora. Training is not a one day thing and you KNOW that. IT'S NOT
  YOUR FAULT.


• Ohhhhh here we go, here is the conflict between Adora's mission and
  She-Ra's mission. Ohhhhh no.


• I like the effect of Light Hope reaching out to comfort ("comfort")
  Adora and their hand glitching as they do.


• WHY DO ADULTS KEEP SAYING THAT ATTACHMENTS TO FRIENDS ARE BAD, DO NONE
  OF THEM REMEMBER HOW HARD THAT BACKFIRES.


• Seriously, I'm with Adora here, she should be allowed to do both.
  Caring about a world is hard! Caring about a handful of people is easier
  and gives you a way to care about the bigger stuff!


• I'm gonna be honest, I'm with Mara. Stick the jedi
  people who think raising children as warriors with no attachments is a good
  idea in a desolate corner and never let them have influence again.


• THIS MONTAGE IS SAD, OH MY GOD LIGHT HOPE WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS.


• UH-OH. SHADOW WEAVER NOTICED WHAT THEY WERE DOING.


• OH.


• OH, THEY JUST STRAIGHT UP WENT OVER SHADOW WEAVER'S HEAD TO THE BOSS,
  OH.


• "Her 'tinkering' has improved the firepower of every weapon she's
  touched." ENTRAPTA I KNOW YOU HAVE NO SENSE OF CONSEQUENCES AT ALL BUT
  COME ON.


• I hate that because Shadow Weaver is an openly abusive, manipulative
  shitbag, my brain automatically has Hordak filed as the more reasonable
  evil. He's in charge of this mess! He is ordering this war! He has enabled
  and empowered Shadow Weaver to abuse children and turn them into soldiers.
  HE IS NOT THE LESSER OF TWO EVILS HERE, BRAIN, STOP THAT.


• I would like to give full kudos to the entire creative team though,
  because Catra and Scorpia are definitely on the villain's side, but the
  creative team managed to make Shadow Weaver a common enemy for both Catra
  AND Adora, so I am cheering for ANYONE to beat Shadow Weaver.


• Does Hordak actually have teeth, or are his teeth just red?


• So what you're saying, Shadow Weaver, is that you have managed to
  replicate princess powers while not being a princess. WHY AM I HAVING
  FLASHBACKS TO FFVIII.


• "I have unlocked its potential!"
  "And you have squandered it on parlour tricks." HARSH dude, she DID bypass
  the security on an invisible city.


• OH. OH hello, we've found Shadow Weaver's berserk button.


• YOU GET AWAY FROM SCORPIA AND ENTRAPTA AND EMILY, THEY DESERVE BETTER
  THAN YOU.


• CRUSH HER CATRA, I BELIEVE IN YOU.


• "Oh no, I've learned everything from you. How to predict when you'll
  strike, how to dodge, how to resist. You thought you were punishing me all
  these years? Wrong. You were training me for this day!" CATRA YES, GO YOU
  BEAUTY!


• Wow, Catra overcame the person who made her entire life hell both
  through the official channels of her job, and through combat! She has
  defeated her abuser in every way that she can! I love Catra, and I'm pretty
  sure this means she's full-on the antagonist now with no backsies.


• "All right everyone, let's get weird!"


• ... Hang on, if Glimmer's not connected to her runestone right now,
  does this mean that the system's not going to be working properly?


• OH! Is it sucking in the vestiges of Shadow Weaver's power? Or just
  converting all of the shadows into power?


• "And then I realised I was free, but all the other horses aren't."
  *SQUINTS AT THIS SHOW*


• STAMPEDE!


• OH NO THE GIANT BUG IS BACK


• OH NO THE GIANT BUG IS RUNNING AWAY


• I DON'T WANT TO KNOW WHAT THE GIANT BUG IS RUNNING AWAY
  FROM.


• Bow putting himself between Glimmer and the danger is so sweet!


• She has goggles AND a welding mask, and I only just noticed this.


• ENTRAPTA I AM NOT A SCIENTIST BUT I'M PRETTY SURE THAT EVER-INCREASING
  POWER IS BAD.


• "It means things are getting interesting," says the character with no
  sense of self-preservation or consequence.


• "It never snows in the Whispering Woods," OH it's like Pokémon! Every
  town has its own distinct biome (... That's not the the word I want, what
  IS the word I want?) and the weather and stuff never changes!


• OH, ALL of the runestones are reacting! Oh no!


• SWIFT WIND DOESN'T KNOW WHAT HE'S DOING EITHER BUT THERE'S PROBABLY
  ROBOSPIDERS CHASING THEM NOW.


• ... Okay, so Light Hope is inside Adora's head? Is that right?


• "I can see now why you're friends with Bow and Glimmer." SAVAGE.


• I was 90% certain that Light Hope was just going to lock you in and
  damn the consequences, so honestly the fact that it's Adora concerned that
  she should lock herself in is better than I expected.


• ALSO YES GO BACK YOU RIDICULOUS CHILD.


• "Well that's just stupid."
  "What? No it's not!"
  "Adora, I've had the ability to form complex thought for like a week, and
  even I know you can't solve anything by hiding." FOR ONCE THE HORSE HAS A
  POINT.


• WHY DOES THE HORSE HAVE A HUMAN MOUTH.


• I don't know why Adora's motivational mentor is a horse, okay.


• "I didn't become She-Ra to fulfil some destiny, I became She-Ra to
  help others." GOOD WORK ADORA, I'M SO PROUD OF YOU!


• And look, look, as soon as she realised she wanted out, she had the
  ability to be out! I love kids' shows not being subtle with their metaphors
  sometimes.


• "Adora, you're back!"
  "Adora, spiders!"
  THANK YOU BOW FOR REMEMBERING THAT NOW IS NOT THE TIME FOR HUGGING.


• Wasn't that sword next to her instead of on her back when they came
  in?


• EYYYYYYY it's the magical girl transformation! We've not seen this in
  a while!


• And she's glowing again! She hasn't glowed and stomped things in
  AGES!


• NOW RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!


• I'M SURE EVERYTHING GLOWING RED AND BEING COVERED IN STORMS IS
  FINE.


• Catra sounds so supremely unbothered by hell opening up above her.
  Wow.


• Wait, WHAT MORE ARE YOU PLANNING TO DO YOU BEAUTIFUL WEIRDO.

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