For the honour of Grayskull
IT’S BEEN LITTLE MORE THAN a year since we all got our first look at the next-gen She-Ra, an Adora reborn for the Dreamworks Animation revival, She-Ra And The Princesses Of Power. With her anime-inspired look and inventive approach to diverse issues, old school fans of the mid-eighties cartoon immediately lobbed early negative review bombs, but she’s quickly stomped the naysayers like the puny horde they are.
On 2 August, the third season of the series dropped on Netflix to an ever-growing global fandom transfixed by Adora’s quest to unite the shattered princess alliance on Etheria. While the past iteration of the series was a black and white narrative about the warrior princess eradicating the evil Horde terrorising the planet, executive producer and showrunner, Noelle Stevenson, has augmented the narrative with more emotion, giving contemporary audiences a far more complex journey of a young woman trying to navigate betrayal, guilt, moral quandaries and self-doubt as she ascends to her potential.
Three years and four story-arcs into that it wasn’t until she saw the public reaction to the first season that she truly exhaled and knew there was an audience for her take on the beloved mythology.
