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[Ganymede]

I finished She-Ra season 5 the other night.

I watched the final two episodes again tonight.

I don't remember ever crying so hard.

I'm so happy and sad at the same time.

[GreenFlashlight]

@Ganymede said in Good TV:

I finished She-Ra season 5 the other night.

I watched the final two episodes again tonight.

I don't remember ever crying so hard.

I'm so happy and sad at the same time.

One thing I needed a straight person to point out to me because I didn't really have the perspective to notice it myself was, I cried so hard because of how different the show is from other gay media. I don't know how spoilers work in this forum, so here's hoping they take...

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Adora and Catra's love isn't presented as an origin story for gayness, or as a struggle against homophobia. It's just two abuse survivors loving and healing each other, who both happen to be women. The gayness is so normal it's not even worth mentioning in the world it exists in, and my god how it breaks my heart to think that such a world exists.

[Ganymede]

@GreenFlashlight

What you said.

In Etheria, queerness is normal. It’s so normal, no one talks about it. No one has to be told to use the right pronoun when talking about the transgender character; they are who they are.

I can’t wait to see what they are going to do with He-Man. (I caught that Easter egg I did.)

[Lotherio]

@Ganymede said in Good TV:

In Etheria, queerness is normal. It’s so normal, no one talks about it.

This is a growing trend in some Netflix titles. Daybreak and Dragonprince come to mind.

[GreenFlashlight]

@Ganymede said in Good TV:

I can’t wait to see what they are going to do with He-Man. (I caught that Easter egg I did.)

I missed it. What Easter egg?

[Ganymede]

The shout out to He-Man.

[GreenFlashlight]

@Ganymede said in Good TV:

The shout out to He-Man.

I did not notice or else did not understand the shout out you are alluding to. Can you please describe it?

[Ganymede]

@GreenFlashlight said in Good TV:

I did not notice or else did not understand the shout out you are alluding to. Can you please describe it?

Sure.

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So, when Adora and the team head to the Heart of Etheria, the password to the vault is "Eternia." Eternia is where He-Man's from, and is supposed to be where the First Ones come from.

They never talked about Eternia before that moment, so I figure this sort of confirms that Stevenson's team will be involved with the new He-Man series to be launched through Mattel and Netflix. Reports suggest otherwise, which has me sort of bummed.

I'm pretty much on board with whatever Stevenson decides to do moving forward.

[Wizz]

@Ganymede

Yeah it's not the same team making He-Man, but crossover was def a possibility, at least in 2019!!

[Ghost]

Eric Andre and Borat returning in the same year. I could cry with joy.

[Wizz]

Man. The Boys is going really hard on the blatant political commentary this season and I'm enjoying it. I think that was the thing I disliked the most in the first season, that it didn't feel like it had much to say beyond a really nihilistic take on superheroes, so this was nice. I am very excited for the season finale.

[Coin]

Holy shit, Lovecraft Country.

That was fucking awesome.

[Arkandel]

@Wizz said in Good TV:

Man. The Boys is going really hard on the blatant political commentary this season and I'm enjoying it. I think that was the thing I disliked the most in the first season, that it didn't feel like it had much to say beyond a really nihilistic take on superheroes, so this was nice. I am very excited for the season finale.

I think season 1 had to set the stage and focus more on the superheroes, their history and the secrets behind the curtain.

Season 2 seems to be much more about the world they inhabit and their effect on it. The best part is the acting, I think. not everyone is great but the leads have bought into it, and it shows. Antony Starr is kicking some serious ass.

[Coin]

@Arkandel Antony Starr is a fucking gem and creepy as all fucking shit, holy damn.

[TheOnceler]

I passed on The Boys for the first season because the comics were such a regrettable mess. One of those things that as an edgelord fifteen years ago I found funny but looking at now I'm just like eeeegh. But the TV show has changed a number of things and everything they changed has been for the better, from dropping sexual assault as a punchline (in the comics Black Noire sexually assaults Hughie, haha, isn't that funny?) to giving Kimiko a fucking name.

The best change, of course, is Frenchie, who is the best goddam character in the show.

Also, the kid who plays Hughie is Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan's son. Yikes.

[Coin]

@TheOnceler said in Good TV:

Also, the kid who plays Hughie is Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan's son. Yikes.

And he's almost thirty.

[Arkandel]

What the fuck. Huh. TIL.

[GreenFlashlight]

I know it's old news by now but seriously I wonder if I'll ever stop crying at S5E5 of She-Ra. Jesus fucking Christ, AJ Michalka and Aimee Carrero kill it.

[Ganymede]

@GreenFlashlight

Yeah, that and S1:E11.

I shared this on Arx today. Enjoy! (Spoilers.)

[Waller]

@TheOnceler said in Good TV:

Also, the kid who plays Hughie is Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan's son. Yikes.

This puts the ending of Innerspace in a whole new light.