Hot take machine
Dec. 23rd, 2018 09:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
digsdigsdigsmaybe She-Ra will make coalition-building cool again ~~
Seriously though, digs aside, it was surprising and sweet to see show so focused on portraying the moment when you realize I was scared to act but it feels terrific [to punch Nazis and fight settler colonialism]. Practically every fight scene has a few characters who are being newly introduced to the power of collective action, whether it's a Princess who's finally seeing the potential of an alliance for her kingdom, or a non-magical civilian who had been too scared to resist the Horde. By the end they're saying, as Princess Frosta does after the final battle, We did that together! (Or, like Perfuma, will I be able to punch more people with flowers?)
It's a surprisingly realistic depiction of the process of becoming organized, in the political sense -- as my union pals would say, "capacity-building." Starting from a bunch of people with a shared problem (uh, the Nazis with the big army) but dealing with them separately, and from there building a sense of common cause, getting that initial spark of faith that you can actually do something about it besides surrender, developing your relationships to one another, practicing how to respond to problems together, getting excited about it which is a crucial feature of building the emotional and moral resilience for the long haul -- needless to say I was surprised to see it coming out of DreamWorks.
Anyway we can hope for a flowering of fandom interest in tough women wearing good suits.
Seriously though, digs aside, it was surprising and sweet to see show so focused on portraying the moment when you realize I was scared to act but it feels terrific [to punch Nazis and fight settler colonialism]. Practically every fight scene has a few characters who are being newly introduced to the power of collective action, whether it's a Princess who's finally seeing the potential of an alliance for her kingdom, or a non-magical civilian who had been too scared to resist the Horde. By the end they're saying, as Princess Frosta does after the final battle, We did that together! (Or, like Perfuma, will I be able to punch more people with flowers?)
It's a surprisingly realistic depiction of the process of becoming organized, in the political sense -- as my union pals would say, "capacity-building." Starting from a bunch of people with a shared problem (uh, the Nazis with the big army) but dealing with them separately, and from there building a sense of common cause, getting that initial spark of faith that you can actually do something about it besides surrender, developing your relationships to one another, practicing how to respond to problems together, getting excited about it which is a crucial feature of building the emotional and moral resilience for the long haul -- needless to say I was surprised to see it coming out of DreamWorks.
Anyway we can hope for a flowering of fandom interest in tough women wearing good suits.
