She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (TV Series) The Sword: Part 2 (2018) User Reviews

Catra is tasked with finding Adora

[RatingGirl · 9/10 · 18 November 2018]

Glimmer still has a hard time trusting Adora but Bow obviously already likes her. In this second half of the first episode we figure out a little bit about the First Ones and I'm curious to find out exactly what happened to them and who Adora / She-Ra really is.

Catra is tasked with finding Adora and they clash at a village that's holding a festival, something Adora has never experienced. This is when Adora makes her choice to not go back to the Horde which upsets Catra, who knew Shadow Weaver was manipulating them all along, but she doesn't care because all she wants is for her and Adora to be together.

A pretty great part 2 to a phenomenal part 1

[dendroigy · 8/10 · 22 December 2018]

Although it fails to reach the heights of the first part in my opinion, we still get a handful of impactful moments, and terrific character development.

A better second half in my opinion

[KittyEmpyre · 9/10 · 26 September 2021]

Warning: contains spoilers for the content of this episode only.

Unlike the first episode, part two has a main plot, it centres around Adora's moral decision between staying with the rebellion, now that she knows she's a princess, or returning to the horde she's grown up with.

Bow and Glimmer take her through the rest of Etheria showing her the joyfulness of the life of the townspeople and how the horde takes that away from them, which makes for some great Adora moments like when she goes to her first party despite being a horde prisoner because Bow is too good and he can't resist it, also we see in that same sequence the creation of the marxist horse (yes i'm going to keep calling him that)

One of my favourite scenes and one of the most important moments of season one comes at the end when Adora faces Catra and asks her to join the rebellion if she really wants to be with her but she refuses, turning Catra into the main antagonist of the season, despite her relationship with Adora.

Haven't been pulled into a cartoon this quickly since Avatar: the Last Airbender

[trevorjgilbert · 10/10 · 17 June 2020]

My initial reaction to seeing this episode was "Wow, I haven't been pulled into a new cartoon this quickly since I first watched Avatar: the Last Airbender." Anyone who's an AtLA fan knows that's the highest of complements.

A great part two to the introduction of this show's first season, and especially great in the way it sets up the conflict between Adora and Catra. Best friends turned enemies is a really compelling storyline for two characters to have with each other and this episode sets that up perfectly.

Great follow up to part 1

[lilyfd · 10/10 · 21 June 2020]

Develops the characters and the storyline nicely, leading into the rest of the show

It's amazing

[abelv-75781 · 10/10 · 21 June 2020]

It's just such an amazing show and I want more. I hope they make the movie.

Completely uninteresting.

[MonsterVision99 · 2/10 · 9 September 2020]

Last time we ended the episode with Adora going full She-Ra, by mistake, something that proves to be very insignificant for the rest of the episode, just a quick introduction to the transformation, an incredibly lackluster transformation, may I add.

These characters (the androgynous Adora, the archer guy and the fat fairy) originally hated each other, starting out as rivals and having them become friends after getting closer isnt a very original idea and can work if done right, but unfortunately is not done well here. Their bonding feels rushed and even forced, of course having annoying characters doesnt help much.

Characters still have this fabricated conflict among each other and about themselves, theres no organic development or nuance in these episodes so far. A lot of people talking in very bad dialogue about how they feel and dumping exposition about their worlds, not to mention how messy the universe seems to be, you are never properly introduced to the factions or how anything functions here, why? how? and what? are questions you will ask yourself about the things happening on the screen, again, still continuing the lazy worldbuilding and overall terrible storytelling.

Having said that, our main character has a good moment when discovering what parties are and having fun. A much needed human and comedic moment in the show that doesnt last long, instead its stopped to make room for the most boring realization about war ever put to screen with "Adora" realizing she isnt playing for the good team and that she is manipulated and deceived into fighting.

The rest is the typical pretentious modern fantasy cartoon stuff that tries to be edgy by questioning who the "good guys" really are and that war is bad (no kidding). A very tiresome concept thats badly executed here. No real attachment is made with any of the characters, they are all two dimensional and uninteresting. All of the themes in this show are not only annoyingly familiar but also ruined by bad writing. Incredibly contrived and frustratingly mediocre at points, these 2 "She-Ra" episodes are an incompetent, confused mess that might have had potential with the right vision and talented people working on it.

Phenomenally disappointing

[falconlady · 3/10 · 10 February 2019]

Tye 80s She-Ra was proud to say 'I am She-Ra.' This She-Ra omits the line because she (and we) have no idea who she is. She calls on the power if Grayskull but we never get an explanation of what Grayskull is. She's an orphan and we don't find out how she fell into the hands of the Horde. And worse, we don't care.

The show is also disturbingly androgenised. 90% of the characters are female and none if them have breasts. She-Ra in particular looks like a man in bad drag.

Visually the show lacks appeal. I loved the original and this just doesn't stack up. Without He-Man and Eternia it has no solid emotional core. It tries to create one in the relationship between Adora and Catra but that is only partially effective.

Needs alot of improvement.