In what is likely to be our longest podcast for quite a while, there’s an abundance of TV to discuss this week. Noel and Kate dive in first with comedy and reality, including Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, the premiere of Ultimate Tag, What We Do in the Shadows, the RuPaul’s Secret Celebrity Drag Race finale, RuPaul’s Drag Race, and Top Chef: All-Stars L.A. Then we move over to genre, looking at season one of Harley Quinn, the premiere of Stargirl, a zombified DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, and the finales of Supergirl and Batwoman. Afterward, we head to the spotlight section and dive in with the final season of Netflix’s She-Ra and the Princesses of Power. Listen in, then reach out with your thoughts on the week’s TV and the dramatic conclusion of She-Ra.
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Season Spotlight: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power Season 5 (1:36:24)
Our Week in Comedy and Reality
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (19:33)
Ultimate Tag premiere (24:48)
What We Do in the Shadows (28:48)
RuPaul’s Secret Celebrity Drag Race finale (33:34)
RuPaul’s Drag Race (34:56)
Top Chef: All-Stars L.A. (39:52)
Our Week in Genre
Harley Quinn Season 1 (52:18)
Stargirl premiere (1:00:37)
DC’s Legends of Tomorrow (1:05:30)
Supergirl finale (1:17:34)
Batwoman finale (1:25:08)
Music Featured: “Secret Law” by Jonathan Coulton, as featured on The Good Fight; “MmmBop” by Hanson
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Hey there and sorry for the long text. But by now you are probably accustomed to it.
So after months I *finally* got around to finishing She-Ra. And I am so glad I did. Not only was the season great, the whole show was very much worth my time and is something I will try to get my nephews into if they haven’t already started watching it with my sister. And they are still to young to watch Buffy…
You discussed the pacing of the show concerning Adora and Catra’s relationship and how that relationship in generally was handled.
I fit somewhere between both of you it seems. By the end of season 3 I was so over Catra and Adora pining for her. For my taste, the character was done at that point and pretty much irredeemable. Keeping that in mind, her arc in season 5 worked way better than I would have thought.
I must have been the only person not picking up on the romantic aspects of Adora and Catra’s relationship because for me it came out of nowhere. Kind of. I was pleasantly surprised when Catra kissed Adora and I thought it did make sense looking back. But before, I always thought Catra’s jealousy stemmed from envy about Adora’s success in her career and how easy relationships were for her, especially that to Shadow Weaver. So I always ascribed her abusive behavior towards Adora (and let’s be clear: that’s exactly what it was) with her resenting how Adora got handed everything (in her mind that is). There was no doubt in my mind that Catra did actually love Adora in some twisted way and just didn’t know how to express it. But I read it more as a rivalry between siblings than unrequited romantic love.
That being said: The second that kiss happened, I was 100% on board with it and I wanted another 3 to 10 episodes with them figuring out their relationship and working through that baggage giving these new boundary conditions. I do however agree with Noel that it would have been too early in the season. But maybe do it in episode 10 or so. You could still have had the “love conquers all” trope by keeping them separated in the last episode until the very last second, either by circumstances or by capturing Catra.
Bo and Glimmer as a pairing didn’t work for me at all. They most definitely had a brother-and-sister kind of relationship before with sleep-overs etc. You usually do not move your relationship towards something romantic with that much history and innocent intimacy under your belt. That could be even more tricky than Adora and Catra.
That being said: Apart from Adora’s vision while she was dying and “visited” by Lord Prime, I never really saw the Bo/Glimmer pairing in that episode and definitely not before. So maybe it was only that one unlucky scene and we can just pretend it didn’t happen.
Speaking of that trope “everyone gets paired off and lives happily ever after”: The worst example of that I ever had the misfortune of witnessing was in Life Unexpected. The montage in the last few scenes of the S2/series finale made me so mad I literally yelled at my screen. People who have watched it will probably know what I’m talking about…