I think in the 3 blogs I have posted so far many people will have learned that I get hyper-focused very easily. When I find something new that I like or something that makes me so passionate i can't help but tell everyone. So in late 2020 when I should have been studying or maybe keeping my relationship afloat I found this wonderful show, a new thing to Hyper-focus on and make into my entire personality for a couple months before enough people told me to shut up that I moved on to something new. I am of course by the title and picture above talking about Netflix’s original series ‘She-ra and the princess of power’ a reboot of the 80’s show by the same name. Now very often reboots of classic shows get completely butchered (yes I am looking at you 'teen titians go') but the way that Noelle Stevens, created of this reboot went about recreating She-ra is something to be seen.
This new show saw countless amounts of diversity from Race, LGBT, Neurodiversity, shapes and sizes. If you are looking for a character to relate to, a character you can see yourself in? This is the one!
I personally was immediately drawn to entrapta. This is one of the first TV shows where I have seen a character and related to it on more than a surface level. Entrapta is a lovely science princess who is not connected to one of the rune stones like other princesses but still is a powerful and loved character on account of her love for SCIENCE! Entrapta is geeky and loveable. Yes she is on the villains side for a bit but that is just because she is a go with the flow chaotic neutral kinda gal. When working with the Horde (the bad guys so to speak) entrapta becomes friends with the big bad leader of the Horde ‘Hordak’. While doing a science experiment on hordak to try and make him some new armour Hordak starts to speak badly of himself Entrapta then goes on a rant about how everybody needs help sometimes ending her rant with the lovely quote “Imperfection is what makes scientific experimentation possible, imperfection is beautiful… At least to me” this is such a lovely line to have in a kids show and I’m not gonna lie I did cry when I heard this for the first time.
Another thing that I love about this show is the way they have reinvented the characters from the original show to this reboot . In the original show the characters were overly sexualised, were very white washed and honestly all looked like the same person in different clothes however, in the reboot we see characters with a range of diversity in race, sexuality, age shapes and sizes. Most of these characters fit into a culture of sorts and Noelle does such a good job at just having this normalised. Their diversity is not the only point in the character arch and the majority of the characters are POC. There are short and tall characters, thin and thick, male, female and in-between!
Catra and Adora show a truly heartbreaking and wonderfully portrayal of a 'real' relationship. It has ups and downs and is not always pretty (and also you might try to kill each other several times and open a portal that almost rips the entire fabric of the universe) Catra and Adora are in love with each other from the beginning it is plain to see but when Adora gets some magical destiny and Catra starts to get left out Catra, craving the excitement and love that Adora is now getting, decides that if she can't be the hero in this story then she will be the Villain, and what a great one she is. For 5 seasons they fought on opposite sides of the war but the final seasons saw them finally communicate their feelings, and the final episode saw the pair share a lovely kiss, (brb crying at the Catdora kiss scene)
There is something for everyone in this show and while my current obsession is fixated on this one character I know that everyone can see themselves in at least one character. With this kind of diversity in a children's show we are normalising all types of people while not making it all the person is.
Thank you again for reading
Myllo
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