This is a very important video. The “golden child” can suffer just as much as the “scapegoat” they just suffer in different ways. Judging the “chosen ones” of the world is shallow. You may be judging because you’re upset that you weren’t the one being praised like them, or something like that, but realize that it’s incredibly difficult for them just as it is for you. Nobody’s traumas and struggles should be compared, that goes for Adora and Catra too, and I’m tired of seeing that.
@@falconeshield it really is haha. The scapegoat and golden child relationship usually leads to a lot of resentment on both sides (“you got all the love” vs “why are you putting your problems on me, and hating me for my success ”) This conflict happened in the show, but it’s so wonderful to see this kind of relationship work out, because it rarely does.
Bow and glimmer constantly telling Adora she doesn't need to be She Ra constantly, even being annoyed when she leans too hard into that identity, really shows that unconditional care
I think part of the point of Bow and Glimmer is to show how easy it is to give unconditional care. It doesn't just have to come from some abusive and manipulative person, but it can also come in the form of friends highly concerned in the level of tension of their friend without knowing how to help them or make them relax... but the point is to love that person in the present moment and watch them go through their pain, because even if you can't figure out how to help them or what to say, or even if it bothers you, the only unconditional thing to do is to not try to "fix" what you view is wrong and to stand by their side. Catra happened to be there and say she loved her at the right time, otherwise she might have had to tell Adora over and over. The point is that it is important to have patience, acceptance, awareness, and ever present love. This can be particularly difficult if seeing them suffer hurts you (emotionally) or if it hurts them (drugs). Telling someone they need to be fixed is part of the problem. The point is that the damage and sublime messages can come from anywhere. Not everyone knows how to handle the situation or what to say, and sometimes the person in pain is not ready to believe the love and support. Bow and Glimmer showcase this in more selfish ways, as do real youth and exaggerated shows, but the message still gets across to the audience.
“Favoritism is not privilege” - so good!! I was NOT the favorite in my abusive family, but I’ve seen what being that has done to my sister. It’s not good
i honestly got goosebumps when i heard it. i was the favorite and I enjoyed it. my sisters would often complain about the difference in treatment but my parent never admitted to it, causing them to question their themselves and the parent love/intention and separating themselves from me. it was rough. glad we all grew up and out of it. i hope your sister is ok!
Yes ! You don't WANT to receive the toxic love that abusers give you, but they make you FEEL like you have to earn every scrap they give you, because they've made you believe that you don't deserve anything better, and it's pure bullshit!
I was the favorite in my family, and it was so blatant that my parents straight up told me many, many times that I was. Even my oldest sister said I was, and I didn't really want to believe it because I thought my parents loved us all equally. But they definitely did, and I think it's led to a lot of issues with me thinking that I'm responsible for others' happiness. I have been taken advantage of all my life because I believed I had to be the one to save everyone, since I was the "golden child" who needed to be there. After all, I'm the best and the brightest of my siblings, so why shouldn't I be expected to be the one that you call on? It took being friends with people who really care about me for what I am rather than what I can offer them that made me see this, and it helped me to resist the urge to think for others over myself.
as my mother's favourite, I can say that it has forced me to shoulder a lot of guilt. my brothers deserved better than to be put in the position of kids who just wanted love and attention. the love and attention that I received. I want them to be happy but I can't help but wonder if maybe they would've been happier if I had never been there. Maybe my mother would have actually treated them equally and with the love they deserved? or maybe she wouldn't have. I can't say for sure. I'm just glad they don't hate me for it.
What I adored the most about this show was that no one’s healing process was linear. They made improvements, then descended into their trauma, and came back just a little step further that what they were previously. Media puts the pressure on damaged people to just get the help and become better, simple as that. But it’s not realistic. She-Ra, while remaining a colorful fantasy kids show, tackled these subjects better that almost any show I’ve seen.
I absolutely agree with this. For the most part I found she ra to be an average show, but the character development for adora and catra was really unique and well done
I agree My main thought when watching the show was "how on earth do Catra and Adora end up together?" When all I'd seen was the fighting and deep rooted issues But the way the show slowly and messily built up their arcs really amazed me It happened with everybody, Glimmer stands out to me the most, but avoiding being linear was a great part of the writing
So Catra is for children that have forever been talked down upon and blamed for everyone else's shortcomings while Adora is for the "gifted" children that, while praised, have always been under pressure to do better, to not let anyone down or else they would lose that praise - that expression of affection.
It's because of this that I connect so well with Adora. It's that constant feeling of duty that if you falter for just one moment that you are a disappointment for everyone. And it's scary and anxiety inducing and yet you keep pushing yourself until you're overwhelmed and burnt out... She Ra is simply one of my favorite shows out there. It is just so beautifully crafted.
“You’re worth more than what you can give to other people. You deserve love, too.” -Mara to Adora in s5e12 This scene hit me so hard when I watched it and I couldn’t articulate why it mattered so much until I watched this video. I love Adora so much, thank you for making this video!
the best part of that scene to me was that it took place inside the illusory holographic space, which is shown and told beyond doubt to be constructed from her own memories and, by extension, conflicts. It's not really Mara telling her that - though if mara could have it is likely she would have based on her character - but instead, by *herself.* It is literally her coming face to face with her internalised conflict and hearing clearly the one thing she needs to accept in order to begin truly recovering from the trauma she has faced. She doesn't fully accept it, not at all, especially due to Prime's interruption, but it stays with her, and in a way might even prepare her at least a little mentally to hear and respond to the same message, delivered directly, vividly, by Catra.
The last couple of episodes reminded me a lot of Thor Ragnarok "Are you She-Ra, Princess of Swords? Or are you She-Ra, Princess of Power?" The sword was merely a conduit of her power, not its source
I’ve never seen Adora analyzed to this extent because she’s always played off as a typical main character. I never looked this deeply into her myself, and now that I have I can see myself reflected in her and it’s incredible how many different struggles she has with her own humanity and her role. She’s lost in all of it for so long and I only realized it through this. It’s beautiful :)
There isn't a single character in this entire show that I don't relate to on some personal level, but Adora's arc of self actualization after heavy abuse mirrors my own life so much it hurts. I look up to her, because I want to break similar cycles in my life and I understand exactly how hard it is. She's an absolute hero, and she deserves so much more respect then the fandom gives her.
The one thing I never realized was the whole, "this is my fault" or, "I have to do this myself" that Adora is constantly saying actually makes sense and isn't the normal kid show tragic heroism. It legitimately fits the character and stems from her past and makes sense in story. This is such an amazing show.
I never thought about how Light Hope chose the specific memories that would drive Adora and Catra apart. Your analyses always show me deeper parts of the stories I love most. You're probably my favorite analysis channel on TH-cam, and your work is amazing. That being said, you have NO RIGHT TO MAKE ME CRY THIS MUCH
I too am amazed at how detailed this analysis can be. It brings out aspects that I wouldn't have noticed in any way, but because the series doesn't seem to want to emphasize at all either. In fact, after watching these analysis is when I discovered that the series is much brighter and smarter than it appears, and I've even come to wonder if all those subliminal aspects go so unnoticed because the writers were afraid it was too adult or something. I simply don't understand why it feels like they showed those things in minuscule detail, when they are so important and would have had so much weight in the understanding of the characters and the overall story... Thank goodness for this channel, really.
Except no, because main character plot armor in the literal form of She-Ra exists. When a character is, quite literally, the name of your show, they're not allowed to die (Mara excepting, because she was the She-Ra from over a thousand years ago, so she's already been dead for a long time, whereas Adora's the current She-Ra, so aside from when the portal shattered reality in season 3 that screwed up the space-time continuum or Madame Razz apparently being a Rafiki-like Time Lord able to switch seamlessly between Mara in the long-ago past & Adora in the present, Mara & Adora cannot physically exist within the same time period because Mara was She-Ra a thousand years before the Eternian twins Adam [He-Man] & Adora [current She-Ra] were ever born), because the show itself revolves around them, so if they died, the show itself would decrease in quality, not to mention get cancelled early/reach its end prematurely.
“The opinions of the people we care about matters deeply” this line made me cry. I’m not out to my parents and they often say things like “she can have a girlfriend but we’d rather her not”. And I’ve managed to convince myself that I don’t care what they think but the truth is that I do care. I care a lot about what they think of me. This one line was all it took to break down that wall and truly let myself feel upset and hurt over what they say.
Sorry to hear that, but even if is right that "what people things about us care" we can chose what people is enough important to even listen their opinions . Is not easy to someone that you really care saids that, but sometimes we should really thing if that people is hurting us (not always bc they want) and why we care about them.
This. This is the reason I love this show. Sure, the flashy fights are cool, sure, the diversity is heart-touching, sure, the escalation is done incredibly well, but the characters are the real centerpieces. Their struggles and their failures and their not-so-perfect lives are what makes this show great. The character arcs, the character flaws, and the characters themselves outshine the few flaws the show does have. It also helps that I can sonewhat relate to Adora.
“While it is always best to believe in oneself, a little help from others can be a great blessing” At Adora’s darkest hour, with no Shera, and seemingly no hope, Catra is there to say I love you. And she doesn’t ask anything from Adora in return besides simply to stay(not die). That moment is the culmination of Adora’s whole journey towards accepting love, as you so brilliantly explained. And I think it is so beautifully ironic and so well done that CATRA is the final piece of ADORA’s struggle for self worth. To accept love you have to first believe you are worthy of it, but unconditional love from others (in this case Catra) can help you believe. Great show. Great analysis. Keep it up!
I cried watching this! I feel like Adora is so overlooked as a character and her childhood is really upsetting and it hits different hearing how she doesn't deserve love.
I,,,, am crying,,,, like actually. Tears. that was so beautiful. I love Adora’s character so much and you’ve really done her justice, thank you so much for creating this :,)
FINALLY!!! Thank you for representing Adora's trauma and pain too. I love Catra and understand her overt abuse, but Adora's abuse and trauma is always pushed to the wayside in face of Catra's. Her pain was just as real, and to be honest these two would make a great case study for a psychology class.👍🏼👍🏼
As someone who grew up in an abusive (mostly emotionally and mentally), this video hits close to home. The lesson from Adora's and Catra's stories hits close to home.
I love that in season 5 Adora is adora most of the time, even when she can be shera, and she only uses shera when she needs her, like shes learning her worth just as adora.
these videos literally make my heart happy. as a survivor of an abusive relationship with my biological mother, shera really spoke to me. it’s what i needed at this point in my life. i see so much of myself in catra and shera. you hit the nail on the head every single time.
i’m crying thank you so much for posting this. i’m reading all these comments of people truly relating to adora and now i’m realizing i relate to adora very strongly. she has gone through so much emotional trauma as have i and has a hard time determining her true identity 💔
I just re-watched the Why Catra Matters video and have been sobbing for 20 minutes and after watching this one I can barely see my screen and have actually made a fucking puddle
TIL exactly how much trauma I have from being raised by a narcissistic parent. I had known, through watching the show, that I loved it because I felt that I really resonated with Adora. What I didn't know was what I was resonating with, until you provided this objective look. Thank you for this video.
Perfectly said! This reminds me of the song in the she-ra fandom called "after the war". A lot of the song really encapsulates both adora and catra and we can see one major point of adora's arc when catra tells her in the song "you're worth more than what you give" which is sort of a summary for some of the things you stated about adora! You should give the song a try if you haven't yet!
Huh, this clears things up. I was never able to really understand Adora, possibly bc I relate to Catra more. That’s why I was waiting for this video. Thank you 👍
My sister (golden child) and I (problem child) are really good reflections of Catra and Adora. I already knew that Catra resonated with me, but I think this video actually gave me a better understanding of my younger sister’s life perspective, what she went through and why she has the struggles she has. Thank you so much for this informative analysis, it’s been life changing. 🙏🏻
I don’t know how to say this but you are literally a role model. Recently for a while i’ve wanted to start a commentary or analyst youtube channel where I just talk about shows and characters I like. Your videos are so well written and thought and i wish my mind worked the way your did. I hope i can make videos like these someday. Thank you.
I'm learning more every day. I'm still trying to figure out who I am, and maybe it's silly that youtube videos are helping me do so, but thank you all the same. This was impeccable.
I wouldn't call it silly at all. I think it's awesome you found others help you articulate thoughts about yourself and become more comfortable with yourself.😃
This sounds like a long conversation I would have with myself while pacing in the bathroom. What I mean is, all the thought, logic, and effort put into this video is astonishing! I love this!!!
And I kind of didn't like how there weren't many people that focused on how Adora was doing outside of her being She-ra. Mara and Catra took the time out to seriously ask her when she's going to stop putting everyone else above her own happiness. But the more people were like: "We need She-ra, we need She-ra" she stopped thinking about herself. And when she broke the sword and couldn't figure out how to transform, it was like... "How am I supposed to make everyone happy when I can't be what they want of me?" It reminded me of Korra getting her bending taken away in LOK season 1, and when she was banished from Republic City in season 3. She couldn't be what everyone wanted her to be. That's what I love about Adora's character. It shows a certain point where we can see that expectations crush people. And it reflects nicely in her character.
I knew Adora was a complex heroine, but this really made me think about how she was molded and that really affects the entire show. Some people would probably think "Why is she still giving in, she just had her breakthrough this show is repetitive and exhausting", but those are the people who don't take the time to really think about a character. That's why this show is so amazing because each character is a person. A person like you and me are complicated and we don't just have a default setting. Most characters do have a default, and that's where shows go wrong. The writers of She-Ra really made sure to make each of these character believable and human, and that's why this show is so amazingly beautiful.
I know this primarily is character analysis, and still the attention to detail of psychology and trauma in this is so strong and emotionally powerful. I found it extremely helpful in understanding some of my own personal struggles.
Thanks for this video. I remember being unironically triggered by people saying that Adora is boring or had no strife to her. But from the beginning, I understood that she was going to have a savior's complex.
I love every single one of your she-ra video essays! :) It would be great if you could do one about Glimmer, she’s one of the most misunderstood characters imo
A big thank you for making this masterpiece. When watching the show, I felt myself resonate with Adora and so this analysis is very important for me. Love from Poland : )
Never has a children's show ever tackled legitimate child abuse with tact and intelligence. It is a kids show, and it definitely shows in areas, but the substance is astounding! I really wish it was shown to a far larger audience. So many, so many children NEED to see that their environment, the prison of their home, is understood and that love is out there.
I spent so much time thinking if Catra would just grow up, Adora would be able to find peace. But by the end of the series I had realized how abused Adora was, she was doing pretty much the same level of self destruction as Catra, but she targeted only her wellbeing and sacrificed her own bodily needs and wants. Adora was so loved, and she couldn’t feel it because Shadow Weaver always told her she had to constantly be in a state proving why she was deserving of any form of love. I hope this doesn’t upset anyone because I truly acknowledge Catra as Adora’s soulmate and true love but I genuinely believe Bow was the platonic love of her life, he made a sister and loved her solely for who she was, not her power, not her abilities, but merely her presence brought him happiness and her friendship was the only thing he wanted.
I love how this video that the power Adora holds was "inside of me all along", but is presented in a manner that, just like other tropes in the show, is given depth and complexion. This was a dope video.
I really like your She-Ra analyses because, whilst still a big fan of the show, you accept it isn't perfect, like Aodra's big switch from Horde Soldier to Rebel. It's flawed, but I will say, this was a lovely show and Season 5 was one of the few things that made the Hell that was 2020 tolerable.
This is amazing!! You really went all out and it shows!! Also I never realized how significant it was that Adora heard that confession at that exact time. Genius!
@@5x5Takes Hello back, now that I've properly finished! And it was SO good. You knocked it out of the park -- I mean, you have yet to NOT knock it out of the park with your She-Ra analyses, but still. Loved all of this right down to the montage at the end of Adora being her goofy, starstruck, human self.
Between these two videos, if Catra and Adora were one character, it would be me to surprising amount of detail. Excluding the resolution of there story.
23:20 - Shit, that explains why in She-Ra's ending it was Catra reaching for Adora rather than the other way around like in Revolutionary Girl Utena. I was expecting it to be like Utena (the prince/hero) saving Anthy (the damsel) and have it be Adora (hero) reaching for Catra.
I always understood catra so well. It’s apart of the underdogs trauma to be overshadowed by the golden child. You can’t be that angry at her for being jealous because it really isn’t fair.
This is criminally under viewed. It's such a great breakdown of Adora. She-Ra made ME cry. I'm a 33 year old lumberjack looking dude and it made me cry. This character breakdown did the same and I love it.
I started watching this knowing it'll be a mediocre show but I was surprised. I appreciated how the writers really took care of their characters, I saw every single one have a character arc and that made them fleshed out, remembered and loved in a way. That's what I loved about this series it gave the characters a room to grow, be a better version of themselves just like in real life. I adore this show and it won a space in my heart truly great piece of art!
I feel like Glimmer wasn’t really thinking about how trusting shadow weaver would affect Adora, because obviously Adora would feel uncomfortable about someone who abused her and continues to manipulate her. I don’t like Glimmer in S4 because of this ( also because she’s just whiny and petty. )
The reason I love Adora and characters like her is because it shows that just because someone doesn't go through something horrible like abuse doesn't mean that they don't have baggage. Alot of people believe that you are only allowed to complain about your feelings if something extremely traumatic and horrible happened to you. Like being abused, having a serious illness, your parents dying, etc etc. When that isn't true in anyway and I love that so much. It shows that just because you now have a good life, just because you were the favorite growing up doesn't mean that you are 100% a-okay mentally. I'm really glad that nowadays more and more children shows are showing that. It's different, it's exclusive, and I'm all here for it.
This video is absolutely incredibly well made, you just earned a new subscriber! You explain things so well and connect things together in such a rare way!
Thank you for going into how being the "Golden Child" is so traumatizing. A lot of people don't take it seriously. They think it's priveledged. God, it is absolutely not.
18:20 I don't know if this was intentional on ND Stevenson's part, but there's an interesting point to make about how, whereas Adora in the original series was, as far as we knew, the only She-Ra ever, the ND Stevenson version makes her the latest in a long line of Legacy Heroines and makes Adora's fear of being an interchangeable cog in a vast, uncaring war machine a massive part of her character arc. And meanwhile, our main villain, Horde Prime, is a being whose main powers are mind control and being able to jump between a series of interchangeable clone bodies that he treats with contemptible cruelty.
I would like to see an analysis like that on Shadow Weaver. Her mentoring Mycah and then later splitting that dynamic with Catra and Adora would be so interesting to unravel! Also, identity and authenticity seem like huge topice for her too, symbolized by the mask/ veil to cover her face and her dependency on other's magic or capabilities to do what she identifies with. And SPOILERS her choice to sacrifice herself for Catra and Adora in the end. I would love to see that explained
My analysis on her sacrifice is that it was fake and she survived in an attempt to run away from the consequences of her actions that would take place after everything went back to normal
I honestly wish in the final episodes of the series Adora and Catra had in turn punched Shadoweaver out for resuming her psychological fuckery, like "Right. ... Shadoweaver? ... " Pow " ... That is all." and then walk off leaving Shadoweaver on her arse with blood dripping down her face under her mask.
Pocas personas hablan tan profundo sobre personajes, y en lo personal lograste transmitir de una manera tan clara y concisa la visión de vida del personaje, tanto como de otras personas, como de si misma. No comprendo a la perfección el Ingles, me falta mucho para hacerlo, vi el video con subtítulos y aun así, puedo afirmar realmente logre entenderte a la perfección
te agradezco muchísimo. con respecto a los subtítulos, me gustaría que los videos sean accesibles para todos--así que, si desea añadirlos en español, no dude en enviarme un email
holy shit this video made me cry hard. the fact that unconditional love is what saved her in the end after a lifetime of conditional love... that hit me hard. honestly, i didn’t understand adora’s character that much before watching this and i realize now that i relate to her much more than i relate to catra. when you said “favoritism isn’t privilege”, i realized i’ve never heard anyone say that to me or even think of it that way before. this helped me let go of guilt i had from things out of my control, so thank you for that. and this made me appreciate adora on a whole other level and want to protect her from all this pain i’m all too familiar with. this video made adora my favorite character in she-ra, and my favorite protagonist in any show.
A lot of stories portray progress as very linear, and that's fine as far as it goes, not every story can take dozens of hours to unfold, but what I love about this show and what I think you do a great job of explaining is that that's not how progressing through trauma usually goes. Most real-life progress is stumbling, it's confused, it's a handful of grand triumphant moments that hopefully keep you from giving up when you next fall a few steps backward, because faltering isn't an "if", it's a "when", and you're not weaker for having had those backtracks, you're stronger for having overcome them. And I love that this show knows that, because it means that if you've fallen back a few steps, you can see yourself in these characters, an it's a reminder that you haven't failed, you're just still working on it.
,, she has to admit that she's also a human '' well here's the problem light hope made it for her clear, that she is a weapon ,,made,, by the first ones not only light hope, but also entrapta ( ofcourse she didn't think this would have bad influence on adora, so it's not her fault ) it was about she-ra but adora confuses the she-ra and adora now it will be hard for her to not think that she is something more than this no matter that glimmer and bow will give her unconditional love, most people will still think of her as she-ra, the one who will save us, who MUST save us she will feel the pressure the whole time, no matter what, and do everything for others, ruining herself, not physically, but mentally she got and will get desperate about making people see that they weren't wrong about her
I kind of relate to adora,I had a mental breakdown a few months ago due to stress.I'm only in year 7,but my school insists I do my A levels in English already. I feel pressured by my families major success of being very smart people to keep up and be better. Since my breakdown and attempt,I've been failing school and it makes me sad and angry at myself,creating a cycle. I fail a test,I get sad,when I get sad,I'm not at my full potential,so I fail another test,so on so forth. I feel like to my family I'm just a vessel to gloat about,instead of an actual child who feels overwhelming pressure from family,school and occasionally friends to be the "smart dependable child". I don't think I'm not smart,necessarily,I'm just not smart in the way people want me to be...I've become a burn out,but I'm still a people pleaser,so things have become very hard for me,does anyone understand or relate?
Oh... every now and then I'll re-watch this video, and seemingly every time, it makes me bawl and bawl. I cannot thank you enough for making this vid. T_T
I always had wrote Adora off as being the least interesting character to me, but my gods has this changed my opinion drastically. I love this show, it gets better everytime I watch something about it
A friend recommended this show to me. Haven't watched it but I was curious so I wanted to take a peak into your video. I ended up staying and spoiling myself lol Good stuff, good quality. Deserves a sub
I noticed that after Adora makes the choice to destroy the sword, (a big moment for her, she chose to veer from her destiny) she says that she made that choice and she is suffering because of it. After making that choice, she is brought back to when she was younger and was taught that choices were bad. Not all choices, but HER choices. Throughout the series, she slowly learns that choices are a basic right. She is manipulated, and then defects, she is manipulated more, and then destroys the sword. Destroying the sword brings her back, at least for a moment. This is proof that, as stated in the video, recovery is NOT linear.
This is a very important video.
The “golden child” can suffer just as much as the “scapegoat” they just suffer in different ways. Judging the “chosen ones” of the world is shallow. You may be judging because you’re upset that you weren’t the one being praised like them, or something like that, but realize that it’s incredibly difficult for them just as it is for you. Nobody’s traumas and struggles should be compared, that goes for Adora and Catra too, and I’m tired of seeing that.
And they still fell for each other in this series, how is that not romantic af?
@@falconeshield it really is haha. The scapegoat and golden child relationship usually leads to a lot of resentment on both sides (“you got all the love” vs “why are you putting your problems on me, and hating me for my success ”) This conflict happened in the show, but it’s so wonderful to see this kind of relationship work out, because it rarely does.
Yes!!
As someone who grew up in a household as the golden child, this means a lot to me.
👏🏾👏🏾
Bow and glimmer constantly telling Adora she doesn't need to be She Ra constantly, even being annoyed when she leans too hard into that identity, really shows that unconditional care
god i love them
I think part of the point of Bow and Glimmer is to show how easy it is to give unconditional care. It doesn't just have to come from some abusive and manipulative person, but it can also come in the form of friends highly concerned in the level of tension of their friend without knowing how to help them or make them relax... but the point is to love that person in the present moment and watch them go through their pain, because even if you can't figure out how to help them or what to say, or even if it bothers you, the only unconditional thing to do is to not try to "fix" what you view is wrong and to stand by their side. Catra happened to be there and say she loved her at the right time, otherwise she might have had to tell Adora over and over. The point is that it is important to have patience, acceptance, awareness, and ever present love. This can be particularly difficult if seeing them suffer hurts you (emotionally) or if it hurts them (drugs). Telling someone they need to be fixed is part of the problem. The point is that the damage and sublime messages can come from anywhere. Not everyone knows how to handle the situation or what to say, and sometimes the person in pain is not ready to believe the love and support. Bow and Glimmer showcase this in more selfish ways, as do real youth and exaggerated shows, but the message still gets across to the audience.
it's heartwarming that they see her as a friend instead of a tall blonde superLady
@@lyn3325 I agree
I agree. And I think that's part of what made adora so hurt in that one episode when glimmer told adora "maybe your best isn't good enough".
“Favoritism is not privilege” - so good!! I was NOT the favorite in my abusive family, but I’ve seen what being that has done to my sister. It’s not good
i honestly got goosebumps when i heard it. i was the favorite and I enjoyed it. my sisters would often complain about the difference in treatment but my parent never admitted to it, causing them to question their themselves and the parent love/intention and separating themselves from me. it was rough. glad we all grew up and out of it.
i hope your sister is ok!
Yes ! You don't WANT to receive the toxic love that abusers give you, but they make you FEEL like you have to earn every scrap they give you, because they've made you believe that you don't deserve anything better, and it's pure bullshit!
I was the favorite in my family, and it was so blatant that my parents straight up told me many, many times that I was. Even my oldest sister said I was, and I didn't really want to believe it because I thought my parents loved us all equally. But they definitely did, and I think it's led to a lot of issues with me thinking that I'm responsible for others' happiness. I have been taken advantage of all my life because I believed I had to be the one to save everyone, since I was the "golden child" who needed to be there. After all, I'm the best and the brightest of my siblings, so why shouldn't I be expected to be the one that you call on? It took being friends with people who really care about me for what I am rather than what I can offer them that made me see this, and it helped me to resist the urge to think for others over myself.
as my mother's favourite, I can say that it has forced me to shoulder a lot of guilt. my brothers deserved better than to be put in the position of kids who just wanted love and attention. the love and attention that I received. I want them to be happy but I can't help but wonder if maybe they would've been happier if I had never been there. Maybe my mother would have actually treated them equally and with the love they deserved? or maybe she wouldn't have. I can't say for sure. I'm just glad they don't hate me for it.
@millenniumf1138 Honestly, same. I turned into such a pushover. Still working on it.
What I adored the most about this show was that no one’s healing process was linear. They made improvements, then descended into their trauma, and came back just a little step further that what they were previously. Media puts the pressure on damaged people to just get the help and become better, simple as that. But it’s not realistic. She-Ra, while remaining a colorful fantasy kids show, tackled these subjects better that almost any show I’ve seen.
I absolutely agree with this. For the most part I found she ra to be an average show, but the character development for adora and catra was really unique and well done
I agree
My main thought when watching the show was "how on earth do Catra and Adora end up together?" When all I'd seen was the fighting and deep rooted issues
But the way the show slowly and messily built up their arcs really amazed me
It happened with everybody, Glimmer stands out to me the most, but avoiding being linear was a great part of the writing
So Catra is for children that have forever been talked down upon and blamed for everyone else's shortcomings while Adora is for the "gifted" children that, while praised, have always been under pressure to do better, to not let anyone down or else they would lose that praise - that expression of affection.
i feel sad knowing that this is... what i relate to... and i didnt realize
and i thought the only reason i related to adora so much was because we're both lesbians...
And sometimes they both can be for one person.
perfectly worded
It's because of this that I connect so well with Adora. It's that constant feeling of duty that if you falter for just one moment that you are a disappointment for everyone. And it's scary and anxiety inducing and yet you keep pushing yourself until you're overwhelmed and burnt out... She Ra is simply one of my favorite shows out there. It is just so beautifully crafted.
“You’re worth more than what you can give to other people. You deserve love, too.” -Mara to Adora in s5e12
This scene hit me so hard when I watched it and I couldn’t articulate why it mattered so much until I watched this video. I love Adora so much, thank you for making this video!
the best part of that scene to me was that it took place inside the illusory holographic space, which is shown and told beyond doubt to be constructed from her own memories and, by extension, conflicts.
It's not really Mara telling her that - though if mara could have it is likely she would have based on her character - but instead, by *herself.*
It is literally her coming face to face with her internalised conflict and hearing clearly the one thing she needs to accept in order to begin truly recovering from the trauma she has faced. She doesn't fully accept it, not at all, especially due to Prime's interruption, but it stays with her, and in a way might even prepare her at least a little mentally to hear and respond to the same message, delivered directly, vividly, by Catra.
I used this as my yearbook quote
The last couple of episodes reminded me a lot of Thor Ragnarok
"Are you She-Ra, Princess of Swords? Or are you She-Ra, Princess of Power?"
The sword was merely a conduit of her power, not its source
To quote best grandma Madame Razz, "She Ra is not a sword, She Ra is you!"
@@mikewazowski8075 "You cannot control magic! Magic simply is!"
@Dark Shadow Storm oh my god, it's almost like the reboot tells a different story from the original, what a concept
@Dark Shadow Storm don't a lot of reboots end up like that?
@Dark Shadow Storm huh, interesting. Thanks!
“and then *long sigh* failsafe”
yea ikr
*deep sigh*
Of course my lesbian baby matters
Yes we know that moms
It's all about wokeness.
Why lesbian ? Not all non-hetero girls are lesbian
@@MlleSallyBrown well its obvs that Adora is lesbian
I’ve never seen Adora analyzed to this extent because she’s always played off as a typical main character. I never looked this deeply into her myself, and now that I have I can see myself reflected in her and it’s incredible how many different struggles she has with her own humanity and her role. She’s lost in all of it for so long and I only realized it through this. It’s beautiful :)
There isn't a single character in this entire show that I don't relate to on some personal level, but Adora's arc of self actualization after heavy abuse mirrors my own life so much it hurts. I look up to her, because I want to break similar cycles in my life and I understand exactly how hard it is. She's an absolute hero, and she deserves so much more respect then the fandom gives her.
The one thing I never realized was the whole, "this is my fault" or, "I have to do this myself" that Adora is constantly saying actually makes sense and isn't the normal kid show tragic heroism. It legitimately fits the character and stems from her past and makes sense in story. This is such an amazing show.
I never thought about how Light Hope chose the specific memories that would drive Adora and Catra apart.
Your analyses always show me deeper parts of the stories I love most. You're probably my favorite analysis channel on TH-cam, and your work is amazing.
That being said, you have NO RIGHT TO MAKE ME CRY THIS MUCH
She pulled a Babidi on all of us
I too am amazed at how detailed this analysis can be. It brings out aspects that I wouldn't have noticed in any way, but because the series doesn't seem to want to emphasize at all either.
In fact, after watching these analysis is when I discovered that the series is much brighter and smarter than it appears, and I've even come to wonder if all those subliminal aspects go so unnoticed because the writers were afraid it was too adult or something.
I simply don't understand why it feels like they showed those things in minuscule detail, when they are so important and would have had so much weight in the understanding of the characters and the overall story...
Thank goodness for this channel, really.
god i love adora and wow i love this essay. dumb jock lesbian rights 🥰
SO TRUE
Also, when Angella dies, she says take care of each other and later, Adora says to Glimmer I'm supposed to take care of you
I like how she's not overpowered. sometimes she sucks and without her friends' help would have died.
Okay
Except no, because main character plot armor in the literal form of She-Ra exists. When a character is, quite literally, the name of your show, they're not allowed to die (Mara excepting, because she was the She-Ra from over a thousand years ago, so she's already been dead for a long time, whereas Adora's the current She-Ra, so aside from when the portal shattered reality in season 3 that screwed up the space-time continuum or Madame Razz apparently being a Rafiki-like Time Lord able to switch seamlessly between Mara in the long-ago past & Adora in the present, Mara & Adora cannot physically exist within the same time period because Mara was She-Ra a thousand years before the Eternian twins Adam [He-Man] & Adora [current She-Ra] were ever born), because the show itself revolves around them, so if they died, the show itself would decrease in quality, not to mention get cancelled early/reach its end prematurely.
“The opinions of the people we care about matters deeply” this line made me cry. I’m not out to my parents and they often say things like “she can have a girlfriend but we’d rather her not”. And I’ve managed to convince myself that I don’t care what they think but the truth is that I do care. I care a lot about what they think of me. This one line was all it took to break down that wall and truly let myself feel upset and hurt over what they say.
Sorry to hear that, but even if is right that "what people things about us care" we can chose what people is enough important to even listen their opinions .
Is not easy to someone that you really care saids that, but sometimes we should really thing if that people is hurting us (not always bc they want) and why we care about them.
💚💚
This. This is the reason I love this show. Sure, the flashy fights are cool, sure, the diversity is heart-touching, sure, the escalation is done incredibly well, but the characters are the real centerpieces. Their struggles and their failures and their not-so-perfect lives are what makes this show great. The character arcs, the character flaws, and the characters themselves outshine the few flaws the show does have. It also helps that I can sonewhat relate to Adora.
“While it is always best to believe in oneself, a little help from others can be a great blessing”
At Adora’s darkest hour, with no Shera, and seemingly no hope, Catra is there to say I love you. And she doesn’t ask anything from Adora in return besides simply to stay(not die). That moment is the culmination of Adora’s whole journey towards accepting love, as you so brilliantly explained. And I think it is so beautifully ironic and so well done that CATRA is the final piece of ADORA’s struggle for self worth. To accept love you have to first believe you are worthy of it, but unconditional love from others (in this case Catra) can help you believe.
Great show. Great analysis. Keep it up!
I cried watching this! I feel like Adora is so overlooked as a character and her childhood is really upsetting and it hits different hearing how she doesn't deserve love.
I,,,, am crying,,,, like actually. Tears. that was so beautiful. I love Adora’s character so much and you’ve really done her justice, thank you so much for creating this :,)
You’re not the only one brother. Season 5 made me cry more than a few times, it was beautiful.
FINALLY!!! Thank you for representing Adora's trauma and pain too. I love Catra and understand her overt abuse, but Adora's abuse and trauma is always pushed to the wayside in face of Catra's. Her pain was just as real, and to be honest these two would make a great case study for a psychology class.👍🏼👍🏼
As someone who grew up in an abusive (mostly emotionally and mentally), this video hits close to home. The lesson from Adora's and Catra's stories hits close to home.
Catch me sitting here sobbing because I have never identified with a character/analysis more, and I needed this so badly
I love that in season 5 Adora is adora most of the time, even when she can be shera, and she only uses shera when she needs her, like shes learning her worth just as adora.
these videos literally make my heart happy. as a survivor of an abusive relationship with my biological mother, shera really spoke to me. it’s what i needed at this point in my life. i see so much of myself in catra and shera. you hit the nail on the head every single time.
i’m crying thank you so much for posting this. i’m reading all these comments of people truly relating to adora and now i’m realizing i relate to adora very strongly. she has gone through so much emotional trauma as have i and has a hard time determining her true identity 💔
I just re-watched the Why Catra Matters video and have been sobbing for 20 minutes and after watching this one I can barely see my screen and have actually made a fucking puddle
TIL exactly how much trauma I have from being raised by a narcissistic parent. I had known, through watching the show, that I loved it because I felt that I really resonated with Adora. What I didn't know was what I was resonating with, until you provided this objective look. Thank you for this video.
Perfectly said! This reminds me of the song in the she-ra fandom called "after the war". A lot of the song really encapsulates both adora and catra and we can see one major point of adora's arc when catra tells her in the song "you're worth more than what you give" which is sort of a summary for some of the things you stated about adora!
You should give the song a try if you haven't yet!
Huh, this clears things up. I was never able to really understand Adora, possibly bc I relate to Catra more. That’s why I was waiting for this video. Thank you 👍
I also relate to carta more to becouse of what happened in my life
@@wonderfrog25 I hope you’re doing better now💖💖
@@eileenbraswell3791 yes I'm doing much better now
@@wonderfrog25 🤗🤗🤗🤗 i send hugs if you want them
I’d like to say that I relate to adora more then I do Catra. I love both catra and adora but adora always hit me on such a personal level
Adora's arc is kind of everything I wanted Steve Rogers' arc to be. She's one of the absolute best role-model protagonists out there.
TRUEE
complete with the "childhood best friend they should kiss"
If the end of Winter Soldier wasn't romantic as fuck I'll eat my hair.
My sister (golden child) and I (problem child) are really good reflections of Catra and Adora. I already knew that Catra resonated with me, but I think this video actually gave me a better understanding of my younger sister’s life perspective, what she went through and why she has the struggles she has. Thank you so much for this informative analysis, it’s been life changing. 🙏🏻
I don’t know how to say this but you are literally a role model. Recently for a while i’ve wanted to start a commentary or analyst youtube channel where I just talk about shows and characters I like. Your videos are so well written and thought and i wish my mind worked the way your did. I hope i can make videos like these someday. Thank you.
I'm learning more every day. I'm still trying to figure out who I am, and maybe it's silly that youtube videos are helping me do so, but thank you all the same. This was impeccable.
I wouldn't call it silly at all. I think it's awesome you found others help you articulate thoughts about yourself and become more comfortable with yourself.😃
Dude, nothing to be ashamed I think this is one of the best ways we can understand people, without hurt anyone
I keep coming back here
to the point that it has become a happy place
like an old favorite song
thank you
I literally clicked on this video 5 months ago, binge watched the entire series and now I came back to actually watch the video lmaooo
This sounds like a long conversation I would have with myself while pacing in the bathroom. What I mean is, all the thought, logic, and effort put into this video is astonishing! I love this!!!
And I kind of didn't like how there weren't many people that focused on how Adora was doing outside of her being She-ra. Mara and Catra took the time out to seriously ask her when she's going to stop putting everyone else above her own happiness. But the more people were like: "We need She-ra, we need She-ra" she stopped thinking about herself. And when she broke the sword and couldn't figure out how to transform, it was like... "How am I supposed to make everyone happy when I can't be what they want of me?" It reminded me of Korra getting her bending taken away in LOK season 1, and when she was banished from Republic City in season 3. She couldn't be what everyone wanted her to be. That's what I love about Adora's character. It shows a certain point where we can see that expectations crush people. And it reflects nicely in her character.
Boy oh boy, time to see how you'll make me cry this time.
I knew Adora was a complex heroine, but this really made me think about how she was molded and that really affects the entire show. Some people would probably think "Why is she still giving in, she just had her breakthrough this show is repetitive and exhausting", but those are the people who don't take the time to really think about a character. That's why this show is so amazing because each character is a person. A person like you and me are complicated and we don't just have a default setting. Most characters do have a default, and that's where shows go wrong. The writers of She-Ra really made sure to make each of these character believable and human, and that's why this show is so amazingly beautiful.
I know this primarily is character analysis, and still the attention to detail of psychology and trauma in this is so strong and emotionally powerful. I found it extremely helpful in understanding some of my own personal struggles.
once again your analysis comes in and makes me realize something about my own life. thanks. i needed this one.
Thanks for this video.
I remember being unironically triggered by people saying that Adora is boring or had no strife to her. But from the beginning, I understood that she was going to have a savior's complex.
I love every single one of your she-ra video essays! :) It would be great if you could do one about Glimmer, she’s one of the most misunderstood characters imo
Just five minutes in and I'm already amazed by your thorough analysis of Adora's character! Great video!
A big thank you for making this masterpiece. When watching the show, I felt myself resonate with Adora and so this analysis is very important for me.
Love from Poland : )
Never has a children's show ever tackled legitimate child abuse with tact and intelligence. It is a kids show, and it definitely shows in areas, but the substance is astounding! I really wish it was shown to a far larger audience. So many, so many children NEED to see that their environment, the prison of their home, is understood and that love is out there.
adora my baby ☹️ she's such an amazing and complex character i love her sm
I spent so much time thinking if Catra would just grow up, Adora would be able to find peace.
But by the end of the series I had realized how abused Adora was, she was doing pretty much the same level of self destruction as Catra, but she targeted only her wellbeing and sacrificed her own bodily needs and wants.
Adora was so loved, and she couldn’t feel it because Shadow Weaver always told her she had to constantly be in a state proving why she was deserving of any form of love.
I hope this doesn’t upset anyone because I truly acknowledge Catra as Adora’s soulmate and true love but I genuinely believe Bow was the platonic love of her life, he made a sister and loved her solely for who she was, not her power, not her abilities, but merely her presence brought him happiness and her friendship was the only thing he wanted.
tears, tears, tears, goddammit i love literary/cinematic analysis, especially with this channel and she-ra
I love how this video that the power Adora holds was "inside of me all along", but is presented in a manner that, just like other tropes in the show, is given depth and complexion. This was a dope video.
AHH IT'S HERE
I really like your She-Ra analyses because, whilst still a big fan of the show, you accept it isn't perfect, like Aodra's big switch from Horde Soldier to Rebel. It's flawed, but I will say, this was a lovely show and Season 5 was one of the few things that made the Hell that was 2020 tolerable.
I’ve been waiting for this one!!
This is amazing!! You really went all out and it shows!! Also I never realized how significant it was that Adora heard that confession at that exact time. Genius!
Also OOF strategizing as a survival skill, "out of a pathological need for nothing to go wrong" ... hello, me between the ages of 13 and like 25
HELLO, nice to see you, my friend.
@@5x5Takes Hello back, now that I've properly finished! And it was SO good. You knocked it out of the park -- I mean, you have yet to NOT knock it out of the park with your She-Ra analyses, but still. Loved all of this right down to the montage at the end of Adora being her goofy, starstruck, human self.
...First time i've cried about Catradora for such a long time... thank you. for this.
So is Glimmer getting an analysis next?
YES IVE BEEN WAIT FOR THISS
I want a She Ra movie so bad I miss Adora so much
Between these two videos, if Catra and Adora were one character, it would be me to surprising amount of detail. Excluding the resolution of there story.
23:20 - Shit, that explains why in She-Ra's ending it was Catra reaching for Adora rather than the other way around like in Revolutionary Girl Utena. I was expecting it to be like Utena (the prince/hero) saving Anthy (the damsel) and have it be Adora (hero) reaching for Catra.
I always understood catra so well. It’s apart of the underdogs trauma to be overshadowed by the golden child. You can’t be that angry at her for being jealous because it really isn’t fair.
AHHHH BEST PRESENT EVERRR
This is criminally under viewed. It's such a great breakdown of Adora.
She-Ra made ME cry. I'm a 33 year old lumberjack looking dude and it made me cry. This character breakdown did the same and I love it.
19:16 she is magic not from the sword but from herself now she’s powerful with her friends and herself
I started watching this knowing it'll be a mediocre show but I was surprised. I appreciated how the writers really took care of their characters, I saw every single one have a character arc and that made them fleshed out, remembered and loved in a way. That's what I loved about this series it gave the characters a room to grow, be a better version of themselves just like in real life. I adore this show and it won a space in my heart truly great piece of art!
I feel like Glimmer wasn’t really thinking about how trusting shadow weaver would affect Adora, because obviously Adora would feel uncomfortable about someone who abused her and continues to manipulate her. I don’t like Glimmer in S4 because of this ( also because she’s just whiny and petty. )
Holy cow was this a great video. The script, the music, the lesson, it all came together. Thank you.
Im in class but after I cant wait to watch this!!
The reason I love Adora and characters like her is because it shows that just because someone doesn't go through something horrible like abuse doesn't mean that they don't have baggage. Alot of people believe that you are only allowed to complain about your feelings if something extremely traumatic and horrible happened to you. Like being abused, having a serious illness, your parents dying, etc etc. When that isn't true in anyway and I love that so much. It shows that just because you now have a good life, just because you were the favorite growing up doesn't mean that you are 100% a-okay mentally. I'm really glad that nowadays more and more children shows are showing that. It's different, it's exclusive, and I'm all here for it.
She did go through abuse though, and it covers that. Just because it wasn't as physical as Catra's doesn't make it not abusive.
That said yes even those not abused can feel hurt and have baggage.
@@shadowkat678 You have a point, thanks for telling me
This video is absolutely incredibly well made, you just earned a new subscriber! You explain things so well and connect things together in such a rare way!
If you take requests I think a character analysis of the characters in perks of being a wallflower would be cool
Thank you for going into how being the "Golden Child" is so traumatizing. A lot of people don't take it seriously. They think it's priveledged. God, it is absolutely not.
18:20 I don't know if this was intentional on ND
Stevenson's part, but there's an interesting point to make about how, whereas Adora in the original series was, as far as we knew, the only She-Ra ever, the ND Stevenson version makes her the latest in a long line of Legacy Heroines and makes Adora's fear of being an interchangeable cog in a vast, uncaring war machine a massive part of her character arc.
And meanwhile, our main villain, Horde Prime, is a being whose main powers are mind control and being able to jump between a series of interchangeable clone bodies that he treats with contemptible cruelty.
I would like to see an analysis like that on Shadow Weaver. Her mentoring Mycah and then later splitting that dynamic with Catra and Adora would be so interesting to unravel! Also, identity and authenticity seem like huge topice for her too, symbolized by the mask/ veil to cover her face and her dependency on other's magic or capabilities to do what she identifies with. And SPOILERS
her choice to sacrifice herself for Catra and Adora in the end. I would love to see that explained
My analysis on her sacrifice is that it was fake and she survived in an attempt to run away from the consequences of her actions that would take place after everything went back to normal
I honestly wish in the final episodes of the series Adora and Catra had in turn punched Shadoweaver out for resuming her psychological fuckery, like "Right. ... Shadoweaver? ... " Pow " ... That is all." and then walk off leaving Shadoweaver on her arse with blood dripping down her face under her mask.
Pocas personas hablan tan profundo sobre personajes, y en lo personal lograste transmitir de una manera tan clara y concisa la visión de vida del personaje, tanto como de otras personas, como de si misma. No comprendo a la perfección el Ingles, me falta mucho para hacerlo, vi el video con subtítulos y aun así, puedo afirmar realmente logre entenderte a la perfección
te agradezco muchísimo. con respecto a los subtítulos, me gustaría que los videos sean accesibles para todos--así que, si desea añadirlos en español, no dude en enviarme un email
holy shit this video made me cry hard. the fact that unconditional love is what saved her in the end after a lifetime of conditional love... that hit me hard.
honestly, i didn’t understand adora’s character that much before watching this and i realize now that i relate to her much more than i relate to catra. when you said “favoritism isn’t privilege”, i realized i’ve never heard anyone say that to me or even think of it that way before. this helped me let go of guilt i had from things out of my control, so thank you for that. and this made me appreciate adora on a whole other level and want to protect her from all this pain i’m all too familiar with. this video made adora my favorite character in she-ra, and my favorite protagonist in any show.
Your Catra video helped me understand her so much better I have been waiting for this one I'm so happy
Now I'm crying all over again. Very well done, thank you!
being the "Golden child" and the "school prodigy", i can relate to adora a lot, and this video made it clear every layer of why i feel it
A lot of stories portray progress as very linear, and that's fine as far as it goes, not every story can take dozens of hours to unfold, but what I love about this show and what I think you do a great job of explaining is that that's not how progressing through trauma usually goes. Most real-life progress is stumbling, it's confused, it's a handful of grand triumphant moments that hopefully keep you from giving up when you next fall a few steps backward, because faltering isn't an "if", it's a "when", and you're not weaker for having had those backtracks, you're stronger for having overcome them. And I love that this show knows that, because it means that if you've fallen back a few steps, you can see yourself in these characters, an it's a reminder that you haven't failed, you're just still working on it.
,, she has to admit that she's also a human ''
well here's the problem
light hope made it for her clear, that she is a weapon ,,made,, by the first ones
not only light hope, but also entrapta ( ofcourse she didn't think this would have bad influence on adora, so it's not her fault )
it was about she-ra but adora confuses the she-ra and adora
now it will be hard for her to not think that she is something more than this
no matter that glimmer and bow will give her unconditional love, most people will still think of her as she-ra, the one who will save us, who MUST save us
she will feel the pressure the whole time, no matter what, and do everything for others, ruining herself, not physically, but mentally
she got and will get desperate about making people see that they weren't wrong about her
I relate to Adora so much because of everything you say here
I kind of relate to adora,I had a mental breakdown a few months ago due to stress.I'm only in year 7,but my school insists I do my A levels in English already. I feel pressured by my families major success of being very smart people to keep up and be better. Since my breakdown and attempt,I've been failing school and it makes me sad and angry at myself,creating a cycle. I fail a test,I get sad,when I get sad,I'm not at my full potential,so I fail another test,so on so forth. I feel like to my family I'm just a vessel to gloat about,instead of an actual child who feels overwhelming pressure from family,school and occasionally friends to be the "smart dependable child". I don't think I'm not smart,necessarily,I'm just not smart in the way people want me to be...I've become a burn out,but I'm still a people pleaser,so things have become very hard for me,does anyone understand or relate?
Oh... every now and then I'll re-watch this video, and seemingly every time, it makes me bawl and bawl. I cannot thank you enough for making this vid. T_T
I may have teared up at the end a little bit. What a brilliant and insightful analysis this is. Bravo!
TBH this video made me realize how I never thought conditional love was a bad thing bc it's literally all I've ever had
This is such a beautiful analysis and I fully accept that I cried at the "Unconditional Love" part. Thank you for this
I always had wrote Adora off as being the least interesting character to me, but my gods has this changed my opinion drastically.
I love this show, it gets better everytime I watch something about it
I'm a mixture of the golden child and the scape goat, it's why I relate to these characters so much
i am CRYING thank you for this beautiful video. now off to watch all your other content. thank u
This video made me a better writer, thank you
Your channel has become my absolute favorite channel on TH-cam in the span of a day. Love your vids!
A friend recommended this show to me. Haven't watched it but I was curious so I wanted to take a peak into your video. I ended up staying and spoiling myself lol
Good stuff, good quality. Deserves a sub
this is one of the best analysis i’ve ever seen of her. this is absolutely brilliant, thank you for the amazing video
I'm not crying. You're crying..
I noticed that after Adora makes the choice to destroy the sword, (a big moment for her, she chose to veer from her destiny) she says that she made that choice and she is suffering because of it. After making that choice, she is brought back to when she was younger and was taught that choices were bad. Not all choices, but HER choices. Throughout the series, she slowly learns that choices are a basic right. She is manipulated, and then defects, she is manipulated more, and then destroys the sword. Destroying the sword brings her back, at least for a moment. This is proof that, as stated in the video, recovery is NOT linear.