She-Ra, Princess of Power

I have been super wary ever since I saw She-Ra was available at Amazon, because it's She-Ra and I would not have its awesomeness diminished by no longer being pre-pubescent. Then my niece craftily slipped it into the X-Box and suddenly I was watching the first week-long beginning and it is still awesome. Secret twin sister! Moral ambiguity! Flying unicorn companion which hello, not only is Adora able to capture He-Man before she was She-Ra, when she's She-Ra, she can do everything He-Man can do while wearing awesome heels and rides a flying unicorn.

Let me just say this again. She rides a flying unicorn. Just. I cannot imagine how this show could be more awesome.

Noted, however: I now get why Adam and Adora have different mantra to become their superpowered (WITH MAGICAL FLYING UNICORN!) selves; Adam was raised a price, lazy, a little self-centered, and maybe a little spoiled (and considered by some quite useless), so he calls on power; Adora was raised and trained by the Hoarde and was instrumental in some of their conquests and enslavement of Etheria's races; honor would be more important to her.

It was like seeing old friends; the Sorceress and Teela and Glimmer and Angella and Catra of the awesome eyeshadow and Shadow Weaver, who really needs her own evil army because Hordak is just not very great at it, and Bo and some other random villains and soforth.

And Spirit the flying unicorn. Just. Yes.

*hands* Happy.

ETA: Tygress links to gorgeous She-Ra artwork here by nebezial. Holy God, yes.

Comments

[edana-ni-emer.livejournal.com]

Man, I loved She-Ra when I was a little girl. He-Man too, but She-Ra and Jem were the only two 'girly cartoons' I allowed myself. (I was determined not to be Girly.)

I need to watch He-Man again to see if it still looks the same as it did when I was a kid. Because when I was little I was utterly convinced in a that's-so-obvious way that Skeletor and the Sorceress had once been Together, possibly before he turned to evil. My theory in my little-kid brain was that NOBODY could hate each other that much unless they'd spent a lot of time together.

I couldn't figure out how they kissed when he didn't have lips, though.

[seperis.livejournal.com]

My theory in my little-kid brain was that NOBODY could hate each other that much unless they'd spent a lot of time together.

It's a reasonable theory! I am vaguely partial to the Man at Arms/Sorceress potential. *speculative* And possibly Adam/Glimmer, IDK.

[edana-ni-emer.livejournal.com]

Well my later-expanded-upon theory was that the Sorceress banged Man at Arms after she broke up with Skeletor. And possibly the reason Sorceress and Skeletor could kiss when they were seeing each other is because Skeletor had a face back then, and she melted it off when she caught him cheating on her with Evil-Lynne.

Which may mean that Teela is either actually Man at Arms' daughter by way of one night stand... or is Skeletor's. And he doesn't know.

Would you believe that I'd never seen a soap opera in my LIFE when I came up with that?