Spop Rewrite
I mentioned in my first post that I was planning a Spop rewrite, and I want to go into more detail about what I'm planning and some major notes.
The Story
The story will include many elements from the 80s show, especially the world building, while following the reboot story structure.
Major plot points from the reboot will still be included, for example, the portal. However, it will be written differently and happen for different reasons.
I want to put emphasis on how war can affect people differently and the changes people undergo during it, as well as show multiple different demographics be affected rather than just the main cast.
Additionally, I want to focus Adora’s platonic relationships. Platonic relationships are going to take a forefront in this story rather than romantic ones.
Major Notes
Catra’s redemption arc will be longer and separate from Adora.
Catradora will be canon. However, their entire backstory and relationship will be rewritten. To clarify, I am not a C//A stan. However, I do like their characters in the 1985 comic and can entertain the idea of those versions of them dating. Also, the ship's writing makes me mad, so I want to prove that I, some rando with a lot of free time on her hands, can write a better friends, enemies to lovers relationship than the people who got paid to do it. So, I'm essentially making it canon just to prove a point.
The major changes in their relationship are that there will be no "siblings or dating?" mess involved in their relationship(yuck), Catra will actually be shown deeply caring for Adora, and their relationship will not be abusive in the slightest (still toxic because Catra is a villain but definitely not abusive, and becomes healthy later on.) Additionally, it will be a subplot to the story, not the main focus. It also will not only be made canon at the very last minute.
Seamista will also be canon. However, it is completely rewritten as Sea Hawk is 80s Sea Hawk, not reboot Sea Hawk.
I'm on the fence about Glimbow and Scorfuma, so there's a good chance they won't be canon.
(Clarification: My Double Trouble is closely resembling 80s Double Trouble and the She-ra Bible version, so if I use she/her pronouns for Double Trouble, I am not talking about the reboot version. )
Conclusion
Is there anything you would want to see in my rewrite? What should I consider when writing it? What should I avoid? Tell me what ya think.
(And before anyone complains, I'm tagging this in the main tag because this post is related to the show. I find the idea that you can't tag posts related to a show in the main tag because it's not " positive" and is criticizing it to be a bit ridiculous. There's nothing wrong with critism as long as it is respectful to the real people that post under the tag.)
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She-Ra: Flowers for Hordak
Time for another out-of-order Classic She-Ra review!
“Flowers for Hordak” was Episode 63, written by Bob Forward.
This was the first appearance of Perfuma and Mermista, shortly before appearing with Flutterina and Peekablue in the Christmas Special as New For 86 characters. BUY OUR DOLLS!
We begin in the Fright Zone, where Hordak is bullying Mantenna for no reason.
Yeah, Mantenna wears a shower cap even though he has no hair. Also check out his very human torso and Ninja Turtle feet.
On to the plot. Shadow Weaver has found a black ruby, which will allow her to blot out the sun over Whispering Woods, stopping photosynthesis. If the trees die, the magic of Whispering Woods that’s been protecting the Rebels since the first episode will end. There’s just one problem, she tells Hordak: the Rebel Perfuma can keep plants alive and growing even without light. So Hordak decides to have her thrown in prison as the first step of this cunning plan.
Note here that the black ruby was the seed of the Black Garnet and the whole system of gems that Princesses are magically connected to in the reboot (along with the Pearl of Salineas).
We find Perfuma hanging out at the beautiful Crystal Falls along with Adora, Bow, and a mermaid named Mermista we’ve never seen before. Mermista is just chilling and sounding French, while Perfuma likes to dance around making flowers appear on everything.
(Pictured: Bow being secure in his heterosexuality.)
After just enough time to establish characterization, a Horde Trooper enters the scene and successfully arrests Perfuma. You’d think Adora could fight off one Horde Trooper without taking the time to find a secluded place to do her transformation, but hey. Glimmer shows up so she and Bow can each act flabbergasted, independently asking “Why would the Horde want Perfuma?” Oh I don’t know, lots of reasons: maybe she can grow food plants without light too. Or maybe he doesn’t actually like the stark industrial Fright Zone and wants to enslave an interior decorator? The Rebels figure it out fairly quickly though, as Shadow Weaver shows up to cast her spell to blot out the sun.
She-Ra flies off to ask Light Hope what to do. He acknowledges that the trees would die without Perfuma, but demands that She-Ra do nothing to rescue her. Rather than even consider disobeying a talking beam of light, She-Ra flies back to Whispering Woods and asks Glimmer to use her (inconsistent) power to make magical light to simulate sunlight for the trees. Glimmer does so, then lies on a bed in a tent in exhaustion, where there’s... a first aid kit and a milkshake?
“So that’s why all the boys are in this yard.”
Bow wonders how Perfuma is doing and we cut to the Fright Zone, where she’s filled her cell with giant flowers. Then she picks the lock with another magic bouquet out of nowhere and steps out to redecorate more of the Fright Zone. Hordak and Shadow Weaver’s plan is going perfectly, but then he sees Perfuma has escaped her cell and is dancing with robots.
“Lalalalala... oh HELLO there, Hordikins!”
“She calls ME Hordikins?”
“Oh, do you want to dance? I hope you’re better than your robots. They’re sweet, but a little clumsy.”
Dude, your plan to destroy Whispering Woods is going off without a hitch and this girl seems to be into you. What’s the problem?
“No! My wonderfully hideous Fright Zone! Ruined with pretty flowers everywhere!”
Ah right, you can’t stand her because you’re a bad guy and therefore hate beauty. How Platonist. And how meta: toys of Hordak and the other Horde members except Catra and Entrapta were sold in the action figure section of toy departments/stores, while She-Ra and Perfuma were sold in the doll section. Look up vintage box art to see how this was reflected. So Hordak is crying that his marketing is ruined.
He declares “That’s it! I can’t stand any more! One more flower and I’ll--”
He transforms his arm into a cannon, apparently threatening Perfuma with summary execution!
“Oh Hordikins, don’t be such an old grouch. Cheer up,” she says and does this:
It actually took me two viewings of this episode as an adult to realize that Bob Forward actually provided a Watsonian reason that the brutal dictator of Etheria can’t just kill an annoying prisoner, not just the Doylist “1985 BS&P”. Amazing.
This leads to Hordak offering increasingly favorable terms to the Rebels if they’ll take Perfuma away. His first offer was freeing her if She-Ra will surrender in her place. They laugh that one off and are reluctant to accept the next one, “I’ll release her with no strings attached if someone will come take her away”, but She-Ra goes to the Fright Zone, causing all the show’s norms to break down as Troopers attack her and Hordak reprimands them with “I invited her here!”
Perfuma doesn’t want to go. “We were having fun, weren’t we, Hordikins?” She-Ra VA Melendy Britt repeats “Hordikins?” in such a sweet, surprised tone. It sounds like Adora is happy her dad has a love interest.
Hordak is pathetically reduced to making Shadow Weaver end the spell and turn over the Black Ruby to the Rebels, along with three months supplies.
And so ends an amazing, 5/5, must-see episode. This one was highly influential on the reboot, getting Perfuma and her flower attacks a significant role from the middle of Season 1. The closest thing I can think of to a flaw is that, judging by her miniscule role in the second/final season of POP, no writer thought they could use her again without the plot being redundant or her getting annoying to viewers.
Any thoughts on nuances I missed?
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