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He-Man’s New Animated Series Looked to Marvel for Inspiration
When a filmmaker like Kevin Smith gets ahold of a popular franchise, it’s natural to be curious what he’ll do with it. That goes double for something like his new He-Man show at Netflix, because the streamer so successfully reimagined She-Ra and the Princesses of Power not too long ago. Recently, io9 spoke with Smith, … Continued
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Your 2021 Hugo Award Finalists Include The Mandalorian, The Good Place, N.K. Jemisin, Susanna Clarke, and More
Last year’s Hugo Awards ceremony certainly had its issues, but getting nominated for a Hugo Award is still a big deal, especially when there’s such an impressive—and diverse—set of finalists. Book-wise, N.K. Jemisin could get her fourth Best Novel award if she defeats the third novel by Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell’s Susanna Clarke. The … Continued
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Star Trek: Discovery and She-Ra Win Big at GLAAD Media Awards
The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation held their annual Media Awards ceremony last night (virtually, of course) to celebrate the fiction and nonfiction that best represents the LGBTQ community. While She-Ra and the Princesses of Power was probably a lock to win Outstanding Kids & Family Programming, Star Trek: Discovery also snagged the Best … Continued
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Rebecca Sugar and Noelle Stevenson Would Like to Remind You That They Fought to Make Animation More Queer
With both Steven Universe and She-Ra and the Princesses of Power having finished their respective stories and becoming shining examples of this current moment in queer representation in animation, it can be exceedingly easy to forget that up until very recently, queer characters more or less didn’t exist in the animation space outside of being … Continued
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She-Ra and the Princesses of Power Could Have Been Way Darker
Though Netflix’sShe-Ra and the Princesses of Power is about a bunch of plucky children teaming up to go on a magical adventure to save their world, the story it told was very much one about the emotional and physical devastation that war can bring to a peaceful society. And it seems if series creator Noelle … Continued
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io9Books & Comics
Apropos of Nothing, Check Out These Fantasy Novels by LGBT Creators
Why do I bring this up today? Oh, no reason. Definitely not because one of the world’s most (formerly) beloved fantasy authors outed herself definitively as a transphobe, sharing boilerplate trans-exclusionary talking points that are pretty easily debunked. But, like, just in case you wanted to read some fantasy during these weird times but didn’t … Continued
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She-Ra‘s Forgotten Fire Princess Is a Legend We Should All Know
Though Netflix’s She-Ra and the Princesses of Power has come to an end, the series alone didn’t provide the whole picture of Etheria’s magical history. You see, there’s a reason the show never spotlighted a princess whose elemental powers were fire-focused. Legend of the Fire Princess was a one-off comic book published by Scholastic, written … Continued
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What She-Ra and the Princesses of Power Gets Right About Redemption Arcs
I’m still reeling from the whirlwind of She-Ra and the Princesses of Power’s final season. But even in a season full of excitement and warfare, what sticks with me about the show isn’t the big, dramatic setpieces. It’s how well the show understands what it means to grow. The character arc that sticks out to … Continued
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She-Ra‘s Noelle Stevenson on the Final Act: Adora’s Struggles, Catra’s Heart, and Shadow Weaver
After five seasons of will-they-won’t-they, epic battles, and saving the world from utter annihilation, She-Ra gave essentially every character both what they wanted and needed. None of it would have been possible were it not for Noelle Stevenson stepping up to the plate and becoming the kind of leader the series’ creative team needed. When … Continued
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io9Television
8 Things We Liked About the Final Season of She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (and 3 We Didn’t)
The final season of Netflix’s She-Ra and the Princesses of Power has arrived.
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She-Ra’s Noelle Stevenson Tells Us How Difficult It Was to Bring Adora and Catra Home
She-Ra and the Princesses of Power may be about Adora’s fight against the Horde, but it’s been just as much Catra’s story. The friends-turned-enemies have spent the entire show in a game of cat and mouse, and it was unclear what would happen at the end of the road. Now we know and io9 had … Continued
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io9Television
She-Ra and the Princesses of Power’s Final Season Is Strong, Brave, and Damn Near Perfect
In a post-Game of Thrones world, it’s hard to get your hopes up. Shows can spend years building toward something, only to let you down. It’s taken two years and five seasons to bring us to the end of Netflix’s She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, and I cannot imagine a better way for it … Continued
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In a New She-Ra Clip, Horde Prime Can’t Get Over Adora’s Fighting Spirit
She-Ra’s season four finale saw Adora make one of the most difficult decisions of her life when she realized that the only way to deactivate the destructive Heart of Etheria was to destroy her Sword of Protection. With its destruction, she lost access to the magical energies that made it possible for her to transform … Continued
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She-Ra’s Explosive Final Season Trailer Brings the War to End All Wars to Etheria
It’s time for Catra and Adora to face off once and for all—this time with more than just their former friendship at stake, but all of Etheria and the universe beyond it. Dreamworks and Netflix have just dropped our first look at the fifth and final season of She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, which … Continued
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Steven Universe Paved the Way for She-Ra‘s Magical Queer Representation and More
Steven Universe’s explicit queerness and the way it didn’t shy away from having multiple characters embody said queerness was one of the most revolutionary things about the show because of the positive messages it conveyed to audiences about acceptance and love. More than that, though, Steven Universe sent a powerful message to the animation industry … Continued
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She-Ra’s Upcoming 5th Season Will Be Its Last
Netflix’s She-Ra and the Princesses of Power has consistently been a beacon of light in an otherwise dark world but, unfortunately, that light is about to go out. Showrunner Noelle Stevenson just revealed that the upcoming fifth season, which debuts May 15, will be the series’ last. “It has been such an incredible journey so … Continued
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io9Books & Comics
Spring Is Almost Here, and March Is Overflowing With New Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books
It’s nearly March, and that means much-anticipated new novels by N.K. Jemisin and Emily St. John Mandel are about to drop. You’ll find both of their books on this list, of course, along with tales of space police, reanimated bodies, magical powers, supernatural murder mysteries, monsters, dragons, and so much more. The Killing Fog by … Continued
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She-Ra Season 4’s Most Emotionally Intense Scene Was Already Heartbreaking in the Storyboards
Oh, wildcat. Late in the most recent season of She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, things are looking pretty dim for Catra. She’s been left, attacked, or insulted by pretty much every named character in the cast at this point, and she’s buckling under the weight of everything that’s happened to her. Then, to deal … Continued
By Julie Muncy