She-Ra and the Princesses of Power Review

I did it thirteen episodes in less then a day that's how dedicated I was to bringing you guys this review and I wasn't doing this on a weekend like I normally would have i'm doing this thing mid freaking week and so if you havn't seen the title already here is my review of the new Netflix series She-Ra and the Princesses of Power.

The premise of this reboot is the series follows Adora an orphan raised by Hordak the tyrant who rules the planet Etheria through his evil Horde. One day after getting lost in the woods Adora finds a magic sword that transforms her into the Princess of Power She-Ra. Realizing the suffering that the Horde has inflicted on the planet and its people Adora joins a resistance group of other magical girls the Princess Alliance in order to liberate Etheria from Hordak's grasp. This show doesn't really have a plot for alot of the episodes in that regard it's like any show that just has a something of the week or episode but there are elements that might seem small that happen in earlier episodes but go on to have a big impact later on in the series.

Starring in the show is Aimee Carrero as Princess Adora / She-Ra , Karen Fukuhara as Glimmer , AJ Michalka as Catra , Marcus Scribner as Bow , Reshma Shetty as Angella , Lorraine Toussaint as Shadow Weaver , Keston John as Hordak , Lauren Ash as Scorpia and Christine Woods as Entrapta. I'll be the first to admit that i wasn't expecting the acting in this show to be that good and at times I was right because sometimes the acting can be fairly bad with the actors delivering a line badly but those moments are few and far between and the acting is really good alot of the time.

This show boats about being diverse and yet it's entire writing room and for the most part it's episode directors are all women heck even alot of the cast is made up of women that to me is not diversity or equality if they wanted to be truly diverse and have equality then make the writers fifty percent men and fifty percent women and spread that out to the directors and the cast but by the fact that they didn't to me says there not diverse.

Now if you've followed everything released from this show you'll know that there was some controversy surrounding the redesign of She-Ra and when I say controversy it was just people complaining on Twitter. In my eyes this new design does work in context of the show which is how people should have thought of it instead of just complaining about a still image and given that this new version of the character is meant to be around fourteen years old it makes sense that they wouldn't make her as sexy as she was in the original.

The show was animated by Dreamworks Animation and I like the rest of you noticed the fact that the show uses what has come to be known as the "cal arts" style and while that style doesn't really suit the show it is a rather interesting look for the show as for the animation I thought that the show was really well animation for the most part it uses traditional 2D hand drawn animation apart from some certain things which are done in 3D CGI and the two do blend rather well together.

One of things that I noticed while watching the show is that Adora never changes clothes there'll be one or two times where she has to change her outfit but for the vast majority of the time what you see in the above picture is what she wears for the whole first season does she have any other outfit at all or does she just have rows and rows of the same outfit in her wardrobe and why didn't the other characters or even Adora herself mention this fact.

Let's briefly talk about the transformation sequence unlike other female heroes who transform Adora's transformation is short and sweet and the bad guys don't wait around for her to transform in fact alot of the time there running full speed towards her and that to me is really refreshing to see since it means that the villains could attack her mid transformation and get the upper hand they don't do that but still they could and I don't really think that's a spoiler since it's kind of a given.

Now that i've had some time to let this really sink in the show handles it's male characters pretty bad there really just there to be the comic relief apart from the main villain Hordak and that to me is pretty bad because we're meant to care for these characters and we can't do that if all your having them do is try and tell bad jokes or make funny faces if this show wants to promote equality then why not make some of the female characters comic relief characters mix it up a little bit.

Netflix did something that I don't think they have done because the show was originally meant to come out on Friday but about a month or so ago they put out another trailer revealing that the premier date had changed to three days earlier that to me says that they have alot of faith in this show because there willing to move the release date up with little to no notice and if you think about it they didn't do it for The Dragon Prince or Disenchantment both of which are better shows but they did it for this little show which at the time had a little bit going against it.

I admit when I heard that they were only for now rebooting She-ra I was nervous about how they would handle her origin since it's so tightly connected to He-Man but I honestly think they did the best job that they could have done they don't say she has a brother or anything but the way they explain it leaves it open incase they want to introduce He-Man in a possible second season or even his own show.

Now since this an action show I have to talk about the action sequences for me they can at times be pretty dull which is a shame because this is a fantasy show and alot of the characters have magical powers but when they are good my god do you know it there's a lot of action scenes in this show where I was going "That was so freaking cool" and that's the best things I can say about any action scene.

Overall this isn't a bad reboot it does a good job of updating all of the characters and the story but at the same time it's a show that does have it's fair share of the problems and I don't think this needs saying but it is a show made for little kids but that doesn't mean that adults won't be able to find some enjoyment out of it so it gets a 7 out of 10 from me.