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In case you didn’t see it in my she-ra article I want you to see one of our top favorite scenes from the whole show

Okay context if you’re still too lazy for the article.

Skeletor baked a delicious berry pie. Really.

Then he left the pie on Hordak’s chair.

Hordak fell for this.

The pie was cursed.

The curse is literally that you start to fade in and out of reality and will disappear forever if nobody cares about you.

Hordak can’t find anyone who gives a shit if he lives or dies so he begs his own arch-nemesis, She-Ra, to help him find some wizard who lives in a cave because they were friends a long time ago.

And then we have this scene I posted.

There isn’t even one step to this entire sequence of events that isn’t funny enough all by itself.

I can’t listen to this with the sound on at the moment, but I’m trying to envisage a version where Hordak explains his plight to She-Ra and her only reply is, possibly as she inspects her nails in an offhand fashion, “Yes…. so? I’m sorry, but I fail to see the problem here”

You can’t truly appreciate this episode without Adora and Hordak’s backstory. Hordak kidnapped Adora from Eternia (he wanted both Adam & Adora- he knew they were destined for greatness, but didn’t know how exactly).  He lied and brainwashed her for years.  Yet, he also grew to be fond of her- grooming her to become a Force Captain in the Evil Horde.  He, for all intents and purposes is her father figure.  Shadow Weaver, explicitly wants Adora to think of her as a mother figure.  Knowing this, it gives the episode more depth.  She-Ra sheds tears for Hordak- it’s not implied that it’s because of their history.  But the subtext is there.  

When I was a child, I thought the same thing, “Why don’t you let Hordak die so our lives can be so much easier?” (I felt the same way, when Flint saved Cobra Commander in “The Gamesmaster”.  He said that “GI Joe was dedicated to saving lives- even Cobra Commander’s”). As an adult, I appreciate the sentiment EVEN more especially on GI Joe as all the Joes are regular human beings serving in the military- something any viewer could grow up to do (even though they live in a sci-fi/fantastical world).

I hope the Netflix reboot doesn’t toss out all this delicious potential backstory (like Voltron: Legendary Defender did).  

Now of course, it’s never ceases to amuse me that no one cares enough about Hordak to shed a few tears.  Seriously, he couldn’t find Imp.  

But even with the added backstory to She-Ra and Hordak, it also means that despite her willingness to help, she still ultimately stopped caring enough for Hordak to give a shit. NOT EVEN  the person who he managed to persuade to help him cares enough about whether he continues to exist!!! How much of an incompetent dick would you have to be that not even your enemies hate you enough to continue to live so they could work their revenge on you? Hilarious.