anghraine | Entries tagged with ch: glimmer

Things I really enjoy about Adora’s fantasy of the future in “Heart”:

while Glimmer’s and Bow’s hairstyles have changed, Catra’s hair has grown back the way it was (though she now wears it in a ponytail). I like the short-haired look, but it was something forced on her in terrible circumstances, and even subconsciously, Adora seems to get that.
she imagines future!Bow with a desperate attempt at a beard. lol
she imagines Glimmer combining a fancy princess dress, her sparkly cloak, and an … undercut, I think?
she imagines herself with longer, mostly-flowy hair (not on the She-Ra level, but she does have She-Ra hair envy…), a delicate tiara, and a simple She-Ra-themed dress, while Catra is wearing everyday clothes and dodging Glimmer’s attempts to spruce her up.
Adora is on to Glimbow, or really wants it to happen; Bow is wearing a royal cloak and Glimmer’s other earring (apparently wearing an item from the other person is a very big deal in Etherian romantic relationships) and Glimmer leans into him
meanwhile, Catra is wearing Adora’s Rebel pin (I can’t remember if real Catra is doing that)
Catra is carting around a white and gold jacket that matches Adora’s dress, either to put on Adora or to match Adora.
this time, it’s Catra reaching out to her—and indeed, when Catra declares her love, Adora does envision it as Catra physically reaching out for her.

Tagged: #i hope adora does get her she-ra dress someday! #but the sequence is both charming and a little sad #like... the episode raises the question of what /adora/ wants #and she honestly wants so little? #a) catra b) her friends c) a princess outfit of her own #i do love the little snippet though

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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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It’s probably been done a bunch of times, but I’ve decided the Catradora AU of my dreams is one where Catra does leave the Horde well before the events of the end of S4, perhaps right at the beginning with Adora—but is still more or less the same person she was at that point.

I’m not sure how it would work tbh … likely she’d have to see better opportunities in the Rebellion than the Horde for some reason. But I just really like the idea of Catra in her calculating, opportunistic, yet loose cannon phase operating within the Rebellion, and thinking about how her fixation on Adora would wind out in that context. I mean, w/ Catradora obviously, but I’m also interested in what the dynamic would look like before they got there, and when it would happen, and just, AU Adora and Catra’s relationship in general.

Also, the whole concept of the Rebellion dealing with someone like Catra in their ranks is amazing to me. IDK, maybe they’d just kick her out and it’d be terrible, but if she held herself together enough to succeed and people just had to put up with her … <3 <3

Tagged: #and i love the idea of catra and glimmer having to work together /before/ their respective character developments #a magnificent disaster waiting to happen #the au could happen in a lot of ways #it's also possible that the au could split off /before/ the show's timeline #maybe younger catra and adora nope out of the horde together for some reason—things are worse than canon or something #escape into the whispering woods and find the sword #catra's like... okay this is the stupidest thing we've ever done! how are we going to rule the world now??? #*adora turns into she-ra* #catra: ... actually i have some ideas

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I do like Glimmer, but … uh, I thought making Adora cry would be her low point, and whoa, was I wrong.

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Just finished Mer-Mysteries!

It was, by and large, a fun and tense episode in a lot of ways.

The Adora-Glimmer tension over Shadow Weaver is interesting … on the one hand, I really like the Glimmer-Shadow Weaver dynamic, and on the other, I think Adora’s reservations are extremely well grounded in who Shadow Weaver is as a person and in her personal experiences of her.

I mean, Adora conceded that Shadow Weaver did “mom stuff” way back in the not!ghost episode, and Shadow Weaver’s manipulation and general approach to Catra and Adora from early childhood was obviously abusive (in different ways, but abusive). And nobody around Adora really seems to care about this? They care about her, sure, but not about her having her abuser living under the same roof with increasing freedom of movement and influence. She has every reason to be upset tbh.

Tagged: #i'm really entertained by sw honestly but i love adora and want her to have all the hugs #this is the opposite of hugs!

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I knew there was some kind of Glimmer-Shadow Weaver collaboration, but omg, it’s fabulous.

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Onto S2: I didn’t dislike Glimmer, but her struggle against her worst instincts (and sneakily reserving a portion of her energy) when they captured Catra and the back-and-forth dynamic between them made me fonder of both of them at this point.

ENTRAPTAAAAA <3

ajkdf;kaf I apparently can’t take screenshots on Netflix, but kjadk;fadf Adora has a DM screen while they plan the attack on the fortress. Amazing.

Tagged: #also while i don't ship scorpia/catra i do think scorpia's crush is adorable

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I'm going back to my SPOP re-watch and I'd gotten to S4, but I honestly forgot how hard Glimmer is to take in S4. The thing is that I do like her overall arc and I think where S4 takes her is organic and compelling. But her dismissal of Adora's abuse by Shadow Weaver, up to and including accusing Adora of just being jealous that she's no longer Shadow Weaver's focus while Shadow Weaver goes on about how paranoid Adora is (?!), is just ... rough.

(Her blaming Adora for Angella's death is also a low point, but a more understandable one, at least.)

I am looking forward to Bow's "because you're wrong!" though.

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Netossa’s analysis of the princesses’ weaknesses is generally amazing, but “Glimmer: crippling self-doubt mixed with overwhelming hubris” is just ... omg

I like Catradora for a lot of reasons, and suspect most of them are pretty standard, but also ... as an Adora stan, part of it is because I really want her to have someone in her life who may not always fully grasp who she is, but does have a personal understanding of what made her that way.

Also, it's like—okay, imagining an AU where Catra got her head screwed on right sooner, I am pretty sure she would not have responded well to Glimmer's treatment of Adora in S4. And honestly, I would very much like Adora to have someone in her life who would Not Respond Well.

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