transcription: hopeless romantics we should unionize
Hopeless romantics go on a dating strike because not enough of them found their love.
situation doesn’t improve
Seahawk is trying to convince Scorpia that Monarchism isn’t so bad compared to fascism.
Whataboutism at its finest.
no there trying to unionize did you even read the post~
I don’t think it’s right to pretend She-Ra was a more progressive show than it was. Episode 1 is Adora, who is a fascist goon but thinks she’s a communist, learning that the monarchy isn’t so bad because fascism is worse. That’s… utter shite. Episode 1 Adora was more left wing in political views than any later version of the character. She believed in killing monarchs on sight, that’s great, she should have stuck with that.
The show should have been about Adora creating a resistance movement with Bow and Swiftwind’s help to dismantle the Horde AND the princess monarchy. She should have been recruiting Horde soldiers into an underground movement to fight for the ideals she was actually taught as a child. Instead, she abandons those ideals because a magic sword says she’s a princess. If a magic sword said I was a princess, I’d destroy it! Fuck you, magic sword.
im going to copy a comment from elsewhere, because it also works very well as a response to you~
Did you actually watch She Ra? Did you ever get to the part where Adora realizes the royal superweapon is a mistake and works to undermine her destiny wielding it? Did you ever get to the point where the princess that does seek to wield that power ends up fucking everything up for everyone? Did you ever notice that the entire message of the show is to reject power seeking nonsense in favor of living happy and free with those you love? How power will not make you happy but loving your gay friend will?
Also, how pacifism doesn’t work against violent invaders; that happens fairly early on. She Ra deeply questions the entire concept of the show from top to bottom, all while being a fully functional children’s show about princesses with superpowers.
The only way it could do a “better job” would be by not being about princesses at all, but then the kids who actually need those anti establishment lessons wouldn’t watch it. Instead, the queer creators made a show originally designed to sell toys into something more. There will never be another show like it, because despite it being a good show, it probably made less money for it’s quality than every other show in the IP
Kids watch Bluey and as far as I know, there’s no princesses in Bluey. We don’t need to resurrect ancient shitty franchises to make good art.
Let the past die. Kill it if you have to.
okay I have to add,
Adora knew princesses were evil in episode 1. She didn’t need three seasons to realise the sword is bad. That’s just bad writing. They made Adora regress into a monarchist because the plot they had in mind doesn’t work if Adora’s anti-monarchist views are consistent. It’s contrived bullshit.
