#shout out to that one person who got mad I was ''bashing Wukong''. As if the show doesn't do that on it's own teehee

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I think LMK succeeds where SPOP fails because it's charactersare actually allowed to be flawed. I feel like lot of modern cartoon characters, protagonists especially, are superficially flawed in a way, like their flaws or self-doubt aren't ever allowed to be fully realized if that makes sense

I think I do want to say that if you follow me and like Shera (and honestly even The Owl House, I complain about that one sometimes too), power to you! If you don't want to see me complain about the show PLEASE feel free to block the "spop critical" tag (or the "toh critical" tag). I'm not in the business of forcing anyone to see stuff they don't want to or forcing anyone to see negative things about something they love (I know I can rant a lot) (I try to tag appropriately).

ANYWAYS

I think LMK succeeds in a LOT of different places where SPOP fails, but man anon, if you didn't hit the nail on the head.

A lot of the times SPOP chooses like, 3 traits for a character to have in an episode for the sake of the episode's conflict, which is. Not good in a show entirely about it's characters.

Another problem it has is kind of...backtracking I would say? Like, Glimmer in s4 of the show literally tells Adora that she just "makes things worse" and that if Adora were a better She-ra, Glimmer's mother would still be alive. And, Adora and Glimmer never talk about this, and it's never fully resolved. Glimmer doesn't apologize.

Like, that's a SUPER fucked up thing for Glimmer to say! Which is great! Characters doing objectively shitty things and making flawed choices is what I'm here for! (I mean, it wasn't really set up, and it's kinda just the trait/opinion they decided to give Glimmer to make Adora feel bad for the sake of the episode, BUT PRETENDING IT WAS SET UP FOR THE SAKE OF DISCUSSION)

However, when you don't resolve a plot like that and just roll on right past it, almost pretending it didn't happen...it makes your characters feel superficially flawed. Or even worse, like you don't want to write flawed characters to begin with.