#spop parallels

[bl3ssdbethefruit]

Israel is ruining the vibes.

[azurethenerd]

Blonde lesbians at their lowest point, about to use the apex of their power, fueled by the love of a girl that they care deeply for.

[catras-breakup-song]

"you're not done. not yet. we're going home."

"we always said it would be you and me, together at the end of the world. but not yet, okay?"

[mcdonaldsforehead-emofurry]

Currently obsessed with the way certain bad guys™️ draw a certain someone they supposedly hate so much

[lumitradora]

are we ready to discuss how glitra & caitjinx are the same ship/dynamic in different fonts?

"you took her from me"

"we're narrative foils and i hate you because our similarities are impossible to ignore (i can't accept my own flaws either)"

privileged head of nation's daughter / substandard traumatizing childhood

the protagonist permanently lost her mother at the fault of the antagonist's rage

war criminal duo: one who chose villainy and the other who tried to do right but instead made everything worse out of grief

heartfelt confessions on opposite sides of a prison cell door

feel free to add more points if you can think of any!

[unicornblossom13]

[Catadora & Megop Parallels]

At the start of Transformers One, I think Orion Pax was a bit more similar to Catra, as both were stuck in jobs they were unsatisfied with and wanted to do something more with their lives.

Meanwhile, Adora and D-16 were more serious minded and content with following the rules and work their way up in an environment that was unfair, and sometimes cruel, but was all they knew.

However, in the second half of the movie, when the truth is revealed, that’s when they switch roles.

Orion wanted to fix the corrupted system, trying to avoid using horrible and unnecessary methods if possible. Adora wanted to immediately stop the Horde once she realized what their true intentions were, joining the Rebellion to fix the damage they have done.

On the other hand, D-16 became more and more consumed with wanting revenge against the lies fed to him his entire life. Now, while Catra was well aware of the Horde’s true nature, she desperately wanted to prove her worth to those that constantly doubted her since she was a child.

So driven by their desires and goals, both D-16 and Catra were willing to remove the ones they believed stood in their way, Orion in his case and Adora in hers.

Both Orion and Adora gained an incredible power that allowed them to make a difference and to right the wrongs they had seen.

But it came at the cost of losing their best friend, someone they loved and trusted more than anyone.

Even though these differences in goals and ideals caused them to drift away, their is no denying both pairs are always drawn to each other. Whether friends or enemies, they influence one another’s decisions and actions.

The lingering feelings they have for one another adds to the conflict as they are torn between longing, betrayal, what is right and wrong, and what they desire.

[famousfive]

"Elevated heart rate, dilated pupils… Adora means something to you."

[yourhighness6]

The difference between these two scenes is striking:

In the first one, Catra is so angry and vengeful, but now she is simply done. She is too tired and too empty to fight Scorpia leaving the way she did Adora. Before, she felt the need to prove herself. Now, she knows she's done everything she can to be smarter and better and more violent, but it still isn't enough. Everyone will still leave her.

[thethiefandtheairbender]

I jokingly said with friends I'd make this comparison post of "How a show treats a kingdom falling and the emotional aftermath" between SPOP and The Dragon Prince (TDP), so here it is (not SheRa favourable per se, but hopefully giving it a decently fair shake) in seeing just how different Netflix's Y7 rating can go

I rewatched the end of the episode where Mermista's kingdom falls and here are the thoughts

To SPOP's credit (even if I think it's undercut by having a murder mystery style episode in the lead up that is so comedically focused), the scene where Salineas falls is treated seriously, at least, in the framing and music, even if we don't see any of the battle.

This is pretty good, even if it is odd that the focus is on Glimmer, and not on Mermista given that it's Her kingdom/home and Glimmer doesn't have a personal attachment to it besides its place in the war effort, even if Mermista is a side main character while Glimmer is a core protagonist. Although TDP also focuses on characters who are not the ruling monarch, all the characters who get focus either had the castle as their lifelong home, were there during the attack, or are also part of the royal family / are worried that King Ezran, their friend/brother, is dead.

We also narrowed in on Ezran's realization that his kingdom was attacked before this scene, and directly saw the dragon open fire on the castle, which resulted in a main character's death and Soren (the crying/bloodied blond man) preparing to give and mutilate his heart for a protective spell / sacrifice himself.

We also spend more time on the aftermath of the castle, with it being linked to Ezran's memories of his family, as his mother was murdered by the Dragon King when he was a baby, and his father was assassinated in an earlier season for taking revenge.

I think it's in the aftermath, though, of subsequent episodes where we see the biggest difference. We see some displaced citizens in SheRa (point there) which helps even out for not seeing the battle, but where I think SheRa maybe not falters (they had different aims/directions in terms of how much time to focus on it) but Differs is in the emotional aftermath.

Not only does TDP give Ezran multiple episodes to process the loss while enhancing it with other elements (feeling/being betrayed by his brother due to the return of their mutual best friend's father, who also assassinated Ezran + brother's father), but they let the feelings come out in a variety of ways. Ezran is normally very patient and goodhearted, so seeing his Anger flare up in significant ways is a big but welcome/interesting character change.

Versus Shera having Mermista act like her kingdom being conquered is like a bad breakup.

which is also then interwoven into Ezran's rebirth motif (he was likewise set to be assassinated, but was spared / survived, and set about building a new world from the ashes in a positive way) / of being like a phoenix only after an entire season of working back to that point with a renewed, deepened perspective.

[spop-romanticizes-abuse]

ah. some things never change. like your undying jealousy towards your sister who is also coincidentally your love interest.

[genderpunk12]

"Going somewhere?"

[arjengelly]

Thinking about my Cosmic Space Brats again 👑 🧚🏻 🤓 👽

These are the characters they remind me of attitude wise

Kou 👑

Perri 🧚🏼

Ace 🤓

Fiore 👽

I’m stuck trying to figure out their outfits 😭

[wizardgirlxyz]

Just noticing something. Not forming any fully structured ideas yet about Glimmer being manipulative. I’m just putting it out here. Please don’t fight me on this

Glimmer always goes straight to holding hands with somebody whenever she wants to convince them! And who else does something similar perhaps not with the hand but instead the face??

i don’t think they’re on a similar level. Shadow Weaver is a child abuser and really really fucked up person. I’m just saying Glimmer ispossibly manipulative to an extent.

[catras-breakup-song]

[lumitradora]

did you really think i'd just let shadow weaver erase your memory like that? (1x11)

you really think I needed all the guards at the hexgates? (2x08)

[adorawasright]

"i think you and i are going to do great things together"

catra and shadow weaver basically say this in different situations. and yet the show suddenly drops all the parallels between them to make catra look better than sw in s5. why. why would you do that.