Adora and the others use a D&D style to plan an attack on a Horde-controlled tower under the goofy watch of Scorpia.
She-Ra,Glimmer, and Bow scale a Horde tower at a river pass, and She-Ra plans for her and Glimmer to defeat soldiers while Bow eliminates turrets.
They succeed initially, but a higher turret blasts Bow off the tower. The others declare him dead, and we learn they're planning a battle strategy with figures. Bow whines about dying, and Adora rages about how their plans always fail, though Glimmer points out they're good at improvising now. As Bow continues focusing on his figure, Adora says they need to plan for every possiblity, and reminds them the tower is important and likely manned by the best. This turns out to be Scorpia, who has everone bustling around as she gushes about how Catra gave her this duty and how she wants to get her a gift, with Lonnie having to direct her to side they're guarding, where the pass is. Adora tries more sneak attack plans, but Glimmer says they need to go for a full-frontal assault, rather than a sneak attack. In her plan, she's the center of attention, teleporting around and defeating everyone, until Bow reminds her she's out of teleports and she falls on him. Adora calls the plan unrealistic but agrees teleporting could help, deciding Glimmer should teleport Bow behind the turrets while they take out the guards.
Mermista arrives and asks why they're playing with dolls. They explain what they're doing and Glimmer asks why she's not on watch; Mermista looks over and sarcastically says the tower is still there, then admits she had Perfuma rotate in.
She and Bow focus on the figures, ignoring Adora's pleas to plan, so Glimmer teleports her out, which seems to alert Lonnie on a radar. Glimmer says her plan could still work and that, contary to Adora's belief, she has taken Catra into account. She again goes into a dramatic detailing, when suddenly Perfuma shows up with a giant flytrap, which only manages to snare Bow. She, Mermista, and Frosta want to join in the "game," and say they have plenty of plans that could help. Scorpia enlists the help of a spybot to watch the princesses, hoping to impress Catra, but Lonnie, who has been silent with Rogelio, points out the device is off. They turn it on, but Scorpia realizes her claws prevent her from using the controller, so Lonnie offers to do it for her.
With everyone prepared at the table, Adora tries to plan again, but Bow takes charge, wanting to try his own plan since he keeps dying.
In one of the show's most clever moves yet, everyone in Bow's world looks like their original interpretations, and I think she music is also from the old days as well. He makes the others cringe with a ton of puns for himself and Catra, and when he tries to take her on with his net arrow, she ducks and it bounces before trapping him. This annoys Bow, but Adora says Catra would obviously duck and tries to take control again, only for Perfuma to declare her intent to summon a plant golem in her plan. As Adora grows annoyed, Mermista says this plan is dumb and tosses in her own, in which she'd step forward and say "I am Mermista. Fabulous secrets were revealed to me the day I held aloft my trident and said 'For the honor of gray whales!'" Mermista describes how she'd look and ignores Adora, who says she can't turn into She-Ra, then responds that she'd be "Sea-Ra," princess of the oceans. Perfuma protests that she should get a golem if Mermista can be "Sea-Ra," then Frosta interjects that her character, Winter's Bane, needs no help. She details her character's weapon and sidekick, Glimmer, and everyone starts arguing as Adora begs them to focus on the real plan. The bot enters, allowing Lonnie and the others to hear them talk about the golem, Frosta attacking with frostbite, and Sea-Ra with her "Trident of Power." Scorpia is distraught, and though Lonnie says they're obviously just planning, Scorpia doesn't want to take the risk and fights her for the controller. In the scuffle, the bot ends up beside Mermista, who opens a drink that pops out of the bottle and drips on the bot, frying it. Scorpia tells Kyle to get another one, and she and the others shake their heads in disappointment when he says he didn't pack more. Though the Horde can no longer watch them, the Alliance is still arguing about their plan, and Adora finally lets gets a word in that leads them to one idea.
The 80s called, and She-Ra definitely picked up the phone for this episode, packed with silly references and style.
This episode easily pulls off something I love to see in shows: the ability to be both lighthearted and funny, and serious when it needs to be. There have been episodes in this series that give a lot of focus to issues such as Adora's fear that she is just going to fail. It's important to have messages like this, and it's actually a key point of this episode as well, and why Adora is so focused on getting a perfect plan. You have to be able to include lighter episodes and moments to the show, however, otherwise it's all bleak and boring, which is especially not typical for a happy hero. Adora serves as hope and light for the people of Etheria, who are depending on her to stop the scourge of the Horde from taking over everything. If she were all gloom and doom, like you'd expect from a hero like the Punisher, it wouldn't make sense. In this episode, a lot of the humor comes from references to the original 80s cartoons, with some 80s style tossed in as well. Initially I thought the only reference was going to be in Bow's plan, where everyone looked more like the original characters, and classic music played in the background. When looking at the costumes, as funny as it was to see them like that, I also had to agree when they poked fun at how silly they were; they were all pretty simple, too. This scene had me laughing, but the reference that really got me was when Mermista declared how she'd fight as "Sea-Ra." Although combined with She-Ra's phrase by using "For the honor of," this was more a reference to She-Ra's cousin, the mountain of muscle known as He-Man. In the original He-Man cartoon, the opening sees the titular character introducing himself by saying "My name's Adam. Fabulous secrets were revealed to me the day I held aloft my magic sword and said 'By the Power of Greyskull! I have the power!'" Like I said, Mermista mixes this with She-Ra's quote by saying "For the honor of," and her costume resembles She-Ra's, but the He-Man aspects were too good. As soon as she said "fabulous secrets were revealed," I couldn't help but crack a smile, especially because of how casually she says it. A reference more focused on the 80s as a whole was Glimmer's plan, which was showed in a flashy, pink neon style. The costumes for the characters added to this, with Glimmer wearing a short jacket and holding a toothpick in her mouth, and Kyle even sporting a pompadour. The rest of the plans had plenty of fun too, with Perfuma just going as big as she could with her monster plan, and Frosta showing her age with "Winter's Bane." Frosta's description for the character sounds like every aspiring child writer who comes up with an OC for something they love. From the start, she's giving an edgy, "cool" background and personality as the character "has no friends" and uses a suit of ice armor. This is followed by random explosions in the background and her description of an "obsidian sword." That right there just summarizes the kind of "cool and powerful" characters people sometimes come up with, and for whatever reason obsidian is just the go-to. Then there's the Horde side of things, where the ever-bubbly Scorpia just wants so badly for Catra to acknowledge her as her best friend. It's always funny to see the lengths she goes to solely to impress Catra, and of course if crybabies who hate any kind of modern representation weren't a problem, she'd likely be wanting Catra to be more than just her best friend. As it is, Catra and Adora already constantly give off vibes of being into each other and now have a hero/villain romance thing going on. It's also sad in an adorable way how Scorpia just can't seem to impress Catra, who is just focused on stopping Adora and the rebellion, because of goofy things happening. This time around, along with her density, she also has the issue of her claws not being able to work the spybot controller. Of course this also leads into more happy comedy, as any issue tends to just be blamed on poor Kyle, who can't catch a break. A more relaxed episode, this one definitely did its job and kept me entertained, and the next one will likely take us right back to the action.
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