Having watched She-Ra straight through
Oct. 18th, 2021 07:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conulyI *immediately* began a rewatch with Jenn and Eva. Eva commented on this - she would never watch or read something and then turn around and do it again right away, but I've always been like that, even as a kid. I'd read a book, turn it over, read it again. And again, and sometimes *again* until I was thoroughly done, at least until the next time I wanted to read it.
I've had a few more thoughts.
1. Scorpia was never really incompetent. Scorpia weaponized incompetence to handle her ambivalence about the Horde. (And, btw, the thought of little baby Scorpia sneaking off to hide in her ancestral hall is heartbreaking.) Of course, by the time she left the Horde she couldn't just turn that off. (Also, the image of grown-up Scorpia hiding in a pillow fort is unbelievably endearing.)
2. Frosta should be 14 by the end of the show, but somehow she still acts like an 11 year old. I get that she hasn't had the most normal childhood and was placed on a throne with apparently real power much too early (and then allowed to become a child soldier, like, even the Horde is not allowing 12 year olds on the field!) but still.
3. None of the younger characters have had any physical growth between the start and end of the show, including Frosta. It's plausible that Glimmer, Adora, Catra, and even Bow are mostly done growing by the first episode - but Frosta really ought to have gained at least a few inches by the end.
Hypothesis: Despite all the parties, food supplies are actually somewhat limited?
Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately!) that falls apart when you consider the wide range of body types.
Perhaps some sort of proto-biological weapon or an environmental toxin that stunted that generation's growth?
Edit: Also, I checked out the TvTropes page and over on the Fridge section somebody had posted a commentary that depends on the First Ones being the first people to settle Etheria and I thought it was pretty obvious in the show that no they weren't, they just said that the way European colonizers said they were the first ones to "settle" various parts of the rest of the world?
Anyway, it's still eating my brain. I know the odds of me getting any mop fic are slim, but still - any recs?
I've had a few more thoughts.
1. Scorpia was never really incompetent. Scorpia weaponized incompetence to handle her ambivalence about the Horde. (And, btw, the thought of little baby Scorpia sneaking off to hide in her ancestral hall is heartbreaking.) Of course, by the time she left the Horde she couldn't just turn that off. (Also, the image of grown-up Scorpia hiding in a pillow fort is unbelievably endearing.)
2. Frosta should be 14 by the end of the show, but somehow she still acts like an 11 year old. I get that she hasn't had the most normal childhood and was placed on a throne with apparently real power much too early (and then allowed to become a child soldier, like, even the Horde is not allowing 12 year olds on the field!) but still.
3. None of the younger characters have had any physical growth between the start and end of the show, including Frosta. It's plausible that Glimmer, Adora, Catra, and even Bow are mostly done growing by the first episode - but Frosta really ought to have gained at least a few inches by the end.
Hypothesis: Despite all the parties, food supplies are actually somewhat limited?
Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately!) that falls apart when you consider the wide range of body types.
Perhaps some sort of proto-biological weapon or an environmental toxin that stunted that generation's growth?
Edit: Also, I checked out the TvTropes page and over on the Fridge section somebody had posted a commentary that depends on the First Ones being the first people to settle Etheria and I thought it was pretty obvious in the show that no they weren't, they just said that the way European colonizers said they were the first ones to "settle" various parts of the rest of the world?
Anyway, it's still eating my brain. I know the odds of me getting any mop fic are slim, but still - any recs?
