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jackwatchesshera · 4 years

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@bobmcfaceshield I’m planning to go back to the liveblog when my classload lightens up a little. Uni has been kicking my butt the last year and I haven’t coped with it very well lol.

I haven’t watched it on my own, I’m saving the fun for myself since I really was enjoying going through it bit by bit a lot. Though I have watched the 1980s series through twice this year and also every single Pokemon episode. All of them. They’re great background noise when I’m doing assessment work.

I only have a partial course-load for the first six months of next year so I’m hoping to get all caught up on the liveblog during that period.

#Not the Liveblog #Jack replies #Bobmcfaceshield

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jackwatchesshera · 4 years

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Also if we don’t get Mantenna back in some form for the new series I will write the fanfiction putting him back into the narrative myself in all his ridiculous glory

#1980s She Ra #1980s Mantenna #Look he's legit my favourite character from the 1980s series #and I can't even explain why #he's just #so very very ridiculous #nothing about Mantenna makes sense #Not the Liveblog

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jackwatchesshera · 4 years

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Rewatching some of the 1980s series of She-Ra and Perfuma continues to be the most show breakingly OP character introduced.

Hordak is literally begging for Adora to remove her from the Fright Zone. There are flowers in everything. The McGuffin of Ultimate Power featured in the episode is being willingly handed over to She-Ra on the condition that she please remove Perfuma from the Fright Zone right now! WHY ARE THERE FLOWERS THERE?

Perfuma couldn’t be in more than one episode because she was just too powerful for the series to contain and would have defeated the Horde with the power of NATURE in ten seconds flat if she’d been so inclined.

#So anyway Perfuma is one of my all time favourites #Shes just so wonderful #Hordak and Shadow Weaver are lucky she's basically a pacifist #1980s She Ra #1980s Perfuma #Perfuma #Not the Liveblog

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jackwatchesshera · 5 years

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Hordak Has a Vacuum Arm

To talk about one of the best pieces of Hordak lore we don’t actually start with Hordak. We start with his older brother. No joke here guys, we’re starting with Horde Prime.

Yes, Horde Prime is in that picture. He’s the gas, it kind of glows in time with his speech.

Horde Prime splits his time between being angry magical semi-luminescent gas and possessing his created form of a giant trash robot person.

It was the 1980s, just go with it.

Now Horde Prime is an ancient eldritch, unknowable being of apparently mysterious origins who has a bad habit of murdering everyone he comes across and conquering entire galaxies to serve his whims.

He’s so evil that Hordak looks almost kind and benevolent in comparison.

Horde Prime doesn’t really have a proper body of his own. Presumably he occasionally dabbles in creating/cloning himself one for the evilulz.

We can assume this not just because of the extremely improbable existence of his ‘younger brother’ Hordak (who I always assumed was the inconvenient result of a potential body spontaneously developing it’s own consciousness) but because Horde Prime has a (presumably) biological son who was born relatively recently in the timeline of the universe.

Everyone say hi to Prince Zed, half human heir presumptive to The Evil Horde and the bratty nephew of Lord Hordak.

Hordak himself was extensively modified by technology, not just so he could turn into a cool rocket or use his arm to vacuum up messes, but also because there was presumably a great deal of trial and error involved in the cloning process.

Eventually, after one of Horde Prime’s allies failed to conquer Eternia he sent Hordak to take care of things, setting off the events that would lead to Adora’s eventual kidnapping and Keldor’s ultimate decent into the evil Skelator.

Imp doubtless factors in here somewhere as well but given Horde Prime’s apparent predilection for cloning himself extra bodies and/or siblings his exact position in the family tree is somewhat hazy.

So, where did Horde Prime come from?

Once upon a time, long before the recorded history of Eternia there was a mage named Gorko, a Trollan from the Planet Trolla in the Timeless Dimension (yes, you read that right).

Gorko used his magic to become an Overlord of Trolla but was eventually stripped of his form and banished from the Timeless Dimension and into the Nameless Dimension by the Trollan council after he betrayed them by trying to steal the Power of the Universe. The same power which would eventually be used to help create the Swords of Power and Protection.

Here’s where the timeline gets a bit muddled/contradictory depending on which set of lore you take from.

Gorko’s surviving essence eventually escaped the Nameless Dimension and created the Snake Men to strip magic from planets throughout the universe in preparation for his revenge against Trolla. Now known as the Nameless One he terrorised a great deal of the galaxy for many decades, apparently coming into conflict with the Horde at some point (who were busy trying to conquer the universe) because why not.

Eventually the Nameless One attempted to strip Eternia of magic but was banished once more, this time by He-Ro, son of He-Man, and trapped in crystal for all eternity.

Somehow during or just before his original banishment Gorko’s essence was split in two. Half remained with his physical body/was banished to become the Nameless One, while half was transported into the dimension inhabited by Etheria and Eternia. This formless essence took shelter in a giant robotic body on a virtually abandoned garbage world.

This evil giant possessed garbage robot would go on to be Horde Prime, evil despotic universe conquering ruler of the Horde and occasional dabbler in poorly regulated cloning technology.

Both the Nameless One and Horde Prime’s essence yearn to reunite with their other half and re-attain both their physical form and the ultimate power they once commanded. Luckily for the universe, that never occurred.

Now for the best part. You see the little guy on the left in the picture below?

That’s Orko, a Trollan from Trolla in the Timeless Dimension, incompetent mage, comic relief and staunch ally of He-Man.

That’s right kids. That’s what both Horde Prime and Hordak would have originally looked like before all the magical, genetic and/or cybernetic augmentation.

You’re welcome.

#Not the liveblog #The Old Lore #Was a glorious mess #1980s She Ra #Lord Hordak #Horde Prime #Jack's Conspiracy Theories #So I’m trying to get up the motivation to blog again things have been really screwy with uni sucking and various family members getting ill #So I decided to horrify you all with some fantastic and somewhat horrifying trivia from the old ear

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jackwatchesshera · 5 years

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Who wants some slightly horrifying/hilarious/mind breaking trivia from the 1980s series about Lord Hordak?

#Not the liveblog #Lord Hordak #1980s She Ra #1980s Hordak #I'm gonna break all of you with this #you will be destroyed

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jackwatchesshera · 5 years

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So, I heard Season 3 dropped today... How's everyone coping?

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jackwatchesshera · 5 years

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I just-

Glimmer’s level of chill is seriously in the negative digits... She extracted herself from under Bow and absolutely flung herself at the Horde Soldier in order to stop Adora making a move on the sword before Bow could even react

Then Bow somehow manages to extract himself from where he’s just been crushed between the two of them without detaching Glimmer-

-and despite all of this, even though she has two people holding her back-, even though Bow clearly has her in a choke-hold-

Adora is still. Moving. FORWARD

#SPOP Liveblog #She Ra and the Princesses of Power #Glimmer #Adora #Bow #The Sword of Protection #Terrifying Horde Training Practices #She Ra is coming #Commander Glimmer of the Brightmoon Rebellion #Master Archer Bow of the Brightmoon Rebellion #Force Captain Adora #S01E01E02 The Sword

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jackwatchesshera · 5 years

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SAIL!!!

Pictured: The future saviours of Etheria fighting over a magic sword

Not Pictured: Light Hope and/or The Sorceress face palming in despair that this is the group they’ve got to work with to help save the planet

#SPOP Liveblog #She Ra and the Princesses of Power #Glimmer #Adora #Bow #The Sword of Protection #I love them all so much #Commander Glimmer of the Brightmoon Rebellion #Master Archer Bow of the Brightmoon Rebellion #Force Captain Adora #S01E01E02 The Sword

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jackwatchesshera · 5 years

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You guys almost didn’t get to see it :P

#not the liveblog #She Ra #Adora #Glimmer #Bow #the great tumblr purge

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jackwatchesshera · 5 years

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These are the future saviours of Etheria

H E L P T H E M

#SPOP Liveblog #She Ra and the Princesses of Power #Adora #Glimmer #Bow #The Future Saviours of Etheria #Commander Glimmer of the Brightmoon Rebellion #Master Archer Bow of the Brightmoon Rebellion #Force Captain Adora #S01E01E02 The Sword

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jackwatchesshera · 5 years

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Glimmer is going to look back on this moment once they’re all friends and just go- oh no- I’m too gay to be having this flashback

#SPOP Liveblog #She Ra and the Princesses of Power #Adora #Glimmer #Glimmadora #i think i'm funny #Commander Glimmer of the Brightmoon Rebellion #Force Captain Adora #S01E01E02 The Sword

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jackwatchesshera · 5 years

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Is Glimmer ok right now?

#SPOP Liveblog #S01E01E02 The Sword #Glimmer #Adora

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jackwatchesshera · 5 years

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The faces in this show are amazing.

Poor Glimmer, she just has no idea whats happening right now

#SPOP Liveblog #Glimmer #Adora #She Ra and the Princesses of Power #S01E01E02 The Sword

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jackwatchesshera · 5 years

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Adora just launched herself horizontally across the screen.

I say again, Adora just launched herself HORIZONTALLY ACROSS THE SCREEN

The sheer amount of strength- the training- Hoard soldiers are terrifying

#SPOP Liveblog #She Ra and the Princesses of Power #Glimmer #Adora #Terrifying Horde Training Practices #Commander Glimmer of the Brightmoon Rebellion #Force Captain Adora #S01E01E02 The Sword

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jackwatchesshera · 5 years

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Oh yeah, this is going to end badly

#SPOP Liveblog #She Ra and the Princesses of Power #Glimmer #Adora #The Sword of Protection #Commander Glimmer of the Brightmoon Rebellion #Force Captain Adora #has no chill #S01E01E02 The Sword

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jackwatchesshera · 5 years

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Bow really needs to keep a knife or something in his boot so that he can cut himself free of binding much quicker.

I say he should keep the knife in his boot because my son is clearly very dedicated to his look and a boot knife should be easy enough to conceal form sight.

Glimmer, my love, Adora could not more clearly be about to crash tackle you form off screen. Every single law of narrative causality tells me this is so

#SPOP Liveblog #She Ra and the Princesses of Power #Glimmer #Bow #Children please remember that you are both still in the middle of a battle #Commander Glimmer of the Brightmoon Rebellion #Master Archer Bow of the Brightmoon Rebellion #are both about to get their butts kicked by Adora yet again #S01E01E02 The Sword

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jackwatchesshera · 5 years

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I have no great new insights to post this with just- goodness gracious those sparkles are bright.

Glimmer- Glimmer you could have ended the fight right at this second just by teleporting in behind Adora and attacking while she was blind and off balance.

You had the perfect opportunity and you wasted it by going after the magic sword at a leisurely pace like ‘pick up sword’ was a free action.

Keep an eye on your opponent Glimmer!

#SPOP Liveblog #She Ra #Adora #Glimmer #Sword of Protection #Commander Glimmer of the Brightmoon Rebellion #Force Captain Adora #S01E01E02 The Sword

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