#spop perils of peekablue

[manic-sapphic]

BROOOO

i love that you pointed out this lap hop-on as well lmao so perf!

but my fav moment w them is prob still at the "underwater soirée" in s5 lol when mermista admits she likewise spots someone in the crowd she 'absolutely cannot deal w rn' cause she fucking set their boat on fire just to 'see what it felt like' lmaoooooo

if seahawk had a ring on em, boy woulda proposed on the spot. bet

[aprillikesthings]

Now that I've spent a good day thinking about how hot it is when Catra is a terrible person corrupted by setting off a portal, I'm ready to go back to (re)watching her try to be Good lolol

well okay more than one day.

I mean I literally spent the last four? five? days listening to songs off The Downward Spiral over and over while thinking about Catra and practicing my makeup for my Catra cosplay and ordering more of the things I need for it; like literally just staring off into space at work between phone calls thinking about Catra

I'm totally a well-adjusted middle-aged adult, thanks for asking!

Shit where did I even leave off

Oh right

SO HEY if you're new here, I've been rewatching all of the 2018 She-Ra, and I started doing it for fic-writing reasons but predictably I have become deeply obsessed. Anyway these posts sometimes have a lot of asides and commentary and references to other stuff and dumb jokes among a ton of screenshots, also (and it feels odd saying it this close to the end of the show) it's a RE-watch, so there's often spoilers for later bits of the story, also I keep trying NOT to just describe the entire plots of the episodes but I keep failing lol

s5 ep7 Perils of Peekablue

Adora's trying to become She-Ra (without an immanent threat) and then Bow and Glimmer distract her, and then the door opens on Catra and

I literally did a YES YES YESSSS AHAHAH out loud bc this is the point at which Catra just starts OPENLY FLIRTING, as opposed to just uhhhh flirtatiously taunting I suppose lol

like you're SITTING IN HER LAP

Also while rewinding it to watch again I paused it at the most hilarious moment

look at Catra's FACE

help I can't stop laughing but also look at Bow's expression

Glimmer: omg I'm gonna get to see my dad Catra: *gets up and leaves*

But also I make this face when a cat leaves my lap before I wanted them to:

Anyway they're a day out from arriving at Etheria

Adora's trying so hard

BACK ON ETHERIA

YAY IT'S THIS ONE

the intro finally changed!! I can't get a good screenshot but now when Catra (with short hair) and Adora (in She-Ra's new get-up) are fighting they stop much faster and they're both smiling omgggg

and there she is!! with everyone else!!

okay I'm going to take way less screenshots etc of the underwater speakeasy thing because let's be honest: that part of the plot isn't what I'm here for lol

But yeah they're going to the speakeasy thing to get Prince Peekablue who can see to the edges of the galaxy and can maybe tell them where Adora and the others are because they don't know what happened

Oh also Spinarella is chipped and Netossa is realizing something is off/weird about her but doesn't know what

Oh hey! You used to work for Huntara in the Crimson Wastes

Sea Hawk has pissed off approximately half the people in the room it seems (by lighting their ships on fire at some point)

Scorpia and Perfuma are the cutest and I can absolutely see how they end up together

In my fic I originally had Adora talking to some kind of therapist but I wasn't sure they existed on Etheria, and last week I edited that bit so Adora is talking to these two (which makes the conversation more fun AND easier to write anyway)

Perfuma: "Scorpia. You should do things not because you're good at them, but because they make you happy." THAT IS ONE OF MY LIFE PHILOSOPHIES thank you Perfuma you're 100% correct and I tell people this ALL THE TIME

Mermista: "I might've set their boat on fire. Just to see what it felt like."

Sea Hawk:

lolol

YESSSS I love this scene

Perfuma makes a flower, throws it to Scorpia as she sings, and she blushes and tucks it into her hair, these two are so sweet and cute

oh god I forgot that when "Prince Peekablue" get stung by Scorpia they go through the last half-dozen shapeshifts before turning into a (passed-out) Double Trouble.

lolol instead of "cash cow" it's an insult to poor Catra

Anyway they have the info the Rebellion wanted!

Horde Prime is pissed and has blockaded the planet, also half the people at the speakeasy were chipped....and now so is Mermista, though nobody realizes that yet

But also the phrasing of "She-ra stole his little kitten away" is just amazing

But also the last they heard, Adora and Bow and Entrapta had left to rescue Glimmer, do they think Double Trouble is talking about Glimmer here or what

(which. they did. they just also went back for Catra.)

Netossa realizes her wife (and most of the people around them) are chipped D:

And a chipped Mermista is gonna drown them all

oh shit Micah is also chipped

Entrapta gets the comms working!

"The Rebellion's been compromised! Horde Prime has them! We lost, I'm so sorry! We lost them!" --and then the comms go to static

AND CREDITS!

[spopsalt]

IMO ”Horde Prime” was the only good spop season 5 episode (Alongside Perils in Peekablue) since everyone feels in character and things from “Destiny” are actually acknowledged and followed up upon

Eh I wasn't exactly a big fan of any season 5 episodes, it was just such a rushed, overhyped, mess. The only thing people like about it was the gay incest kiss. But I'm glad you could find something good about it! But it season 5 was just not my thing.

[azure-firecracker]

Announcement!

Exciting news everyone!

We will be starting a She-Ra and the Princesses of Power episode tournament on this blog! (Inspired by @theowritesfiction’s awesome polls, the BTVS one is still going on, check it out if you’re interested!) Every SPOP episode has been randomly put into a bracket and you wonderful people will vote to determine the best episode!

The first polls round of polls will go up later today (as soon as enough people see this post) and you’ll be able to vote for a week before the next round starts. Before we begin, there are a number of randomly selected episodes that are automatically in the second round because 52 is a lousy number for a bracket. I tried and failed to find a bracket without so many automatic advances. Those episodes are:

S3E06-The Portal

S5E09-An Ill Wind

S5E08-Shot in the Dark

S4E07-Mer-Mysteries

S1E01-The Sword, Part 1

S1E05-The Sea Gate

S2E06-Light Spinner

S5E07-The Perils of Peekablue

S4E12-Destiny, Part 1

S5E03-Corridors

S1E08-Princess Prom

S3E01-The Price of Power

It just so happens that most of these episodes are (in my opinion) quite popular and probably would have advanced anyway, and I did remake the bracket a few times to avoid any insane matchups in round 1 to the best of my ability, so we should have a pretty fair tournament.

Please spread the word, and happy voting:)

[pennamesmith]

Disguises!

An old hyperfixation has resurfaced fellas. Have some she-ra doodles from that one episode

[sometipsygnostalgic]

similar energy

[myartdumpster]

I love Perils of Peekablue because of the plot!

The plot:

[blakescorneroftheunknown]

Chipped mermista I never posted here 🪑

She's very pretty and all 🖐️

Tap/click for better quality :)

[johannas-motivational-insults]

This is both really cute and a smart cinematic technique. I love these focus pulls to Catra, implying (as we already know) that she is Adora’s weakness.

[artsyeden]

Perfuma’s dress from Perils of Peekablue! 💚🐟

More of my she ra qr codes here

[mintyred]

I can do this

[queenangella]

seamista is so funny to me tbh. first we meet sea hawk who looks like he’s ready to serenade mermista at any given moment in time. meanwhile mermista looks like sea hawk annoys her to no end. they have this on-off relationship kinda vibe, which is kinda fun! love their interactions! but then they keep dropping these anecdotes about their relationship with no follow-up! oh, apparently sea hawk set their gondola on fire in the tunnel of love! mermista’s trying to kill sea hawk in s5 and sea hawk casually mentions ‘haha remember how you also tried to kill me the first time we met?’ and there’s is no elaboration on that! like no I wanna hear the story! at one point sea hawk, bow and swift wind are saved bc mermista taught sea hawk how to speak seagull, and it’s never brought up again.

[the-entire-cast-needs-therapy]

My headcanons as to why Double Trouble got caught so quickly in Perils of Peekablue boil down to the serious and probably more likely one (Peekablue as a role was pretty close to Trouble themself in terms of personality, which made it easier for them to slip into their normal speech patterns and give themself away) and the less likely but also way funnier one (they were just WAY too fucking hungover for their usual precautions).

[clov33r]

"Hope you can swim, darling, cause I'm about to drown this place down."

chipped mermista > everything else

[dallasurr]

It’s Seamista loving hours, babes!

[azure-firecracker]

Round 1 of SPOP Polls is Complete!

We had a very successful first round, with every poll getting at least 20 votes, many getting over 30 votes, and one even getting 136! The winners have now all been determined, and will move into Round 2, along with the 12 episodes that advanced automatically due to numbers not being perfect. There are some TOUGH matchups in this round, and I’m the first to say that I’m not sure what’s going to win.

There are 16 pairs (32 episodes) in Round 2, which will go up sometime in the next 24 hours. Thanks so much to everyone who’s voted already!

I want to take this opportunity to acknowledge Taking Control, Beast Island, Pulse, Roll With It, Protocol, and The Sword, Part 2, all episodes that could have made it to round 2 had they not either been a) pitted against truly spectacular episodes/season finales or b) unfairly eliminated in a vote that I wouldn’t necessarily agree with.

The episodes in Round 2 are (in alphabetical order):

S1E13: The Battle of Bright Moon

S4E08: Boys’ Night Out

S4E01: The Coronation

S5E03: Corridors

S4E12: Destiny, Part 1

S4E13: Destiny, Part 2

S5E11: Failsafe

S4E10: Fractures

S5E12: Heart, Part 1

S5E13: Heart, Part 2

S4E09: Hero

S5E01: Horde Prime

S5E09: An Ill Wind

S1E07: In the Shadows of Mystacor

S2E06: Light Spinner

S4E07: Mer-Mysteries

S1E09: No Princess Left Behind

S3E03: Once Upon a Time in the Waste

S5E07: The Perils of Peekablue

S3E06: The Portal

S3E01: The Price of Power

S1E08: Princess Prom

S4E06: Princess Scorpia

S1E11: Promise

S3E05: Remember

S5E10: Return to the Fright Zone

S5E05: Save the Cat

S1E05: The Sea Gate

S5E08: Shot in the Dark

S5E04: Stranded

S1E01: The Sword, Part 1

S1E06: System Failure

See you all in Round 2!