Isabelle Disraeli

So canon and I have a weird and often distant relationship. I consume only sparing amounts of canon content spending the vast majority of my time on fandom content. *shrug* Not super sure why but last year was different for a lot of reasons, some the same as everyone else, some more personal, but I found myself reading books (mostly for work) and watching shows (me time). The big standout of those was Netflix's She-Ra and the Princesses of Power. I really hadn't been familiar with She-Ra before except to be able to recognize the character and know that she was associated with He-Man, in spite or that (or maybe because of that) I found watching She-Ra to be an fresh, entertaining, and magical experience. I watched it all over a weekend, then turned right around and watched it again but slower. It was still so good the second time around. For years I had held Avatar the Last Airbender up as the finest example of the cartoon medium but She-Ra has finally deposed it for it's top spot. That is due in large part to the fact that this show gave me so many things that I usually have to turn to fandom for: a queer romance where the queer-ness is not the point, neither of the leads are treated as "the love interest", all of the marvelous diverse representation, and almost all of the characters are humanized and redeemed in a fashion by the end (save the big bad and one particularly bad piece of work who is still humanized in her awfulness).

All in all, it was truly a pleasure that I'm sure has been explained by far more eloquent people than me. But I'm giving it a ten out of ten. :D