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I finished She-Ra! The finale was great and very sweet. It was also kind of interesting, because in some ways, it tied everything up in sparkly meadows and hugs, but there are also other things that could go in any number of directions.

There’s Catradora, of course, and also them dealing with Shadow Weaver’s … everything (including her death), there’s Glimmer and unchipped!Micah’s relationship (I genuinely hadn’t realized that they barely interact), there’s wtf they’re going to do with Hordak, etc. Some of it is an artifact of it being the happily ever after in a cartoon for children, but it did seem like there’s a lot of room open for character development (esp Adora’s, I would say) and further exploration and just … seeing what happens next.

IDK, I’m not sure if it was designed to hook into other series or to set up a sequel or movie or (/sigh) expanded universe or if they just wanted to leave some things open as an artistic choice. (Any or all of these seem probable enough to me.) But there’s definitely a lot of room for expansion, official or fannish.

Tagged: #i don't want to wish a terrible sequel/unending franchise upon us #but i did see some people talking about how they didn't want more bc the series wrapped everything up so thoroughly #so i was surprised by the extent to which things were /not/ wrapped up beyond the most pressing #it felt like it stopped more than ended #so—very tentatively—i would actually be okay with some kind of continuation or integration into the broader universe #depending on how it's done of course #it seemed to kind of invite that anyway #though at the same time i'd be happy if this is it since it was so good

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sumrallmind responded to this post:

I think ND said they’d be up for a sequel movie

I forgot to reply at the time, but afaik, this idea has never come to fruition. Maybe fortunate, maybe unfortunate, idk, but SPOP remains kind of gloriously its own thing in this era of franchising.

(Additionally, sumrallmind's original response used ND Stevenson's dead name, but I believe they [ND/Nate] had not changed it at the time. I normally try to represent old replies exactly as written, but this seemed an okay compromise.)