r/sheranetflix • u/Splatter_Shell • 2d ago
Media This is what happened in my household the first time I watched the finale. I told him they were "sisters"
I told him "they grew up together, but they've been on opposite sides of the war for years and they're like sisters"
I proceeded to book it.
gotta love having homophobic parents :P
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u/Even_Froyo_1486 2d ago
Oh girl I feel you. I'm always watching She-Ra secretly when no one can hear. Love your way out of it, sisters is hilarious! (smart too though)
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u/JohnZ117 2d ago
What of Bo's dads, or Spinerella and Nettossa?
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u/Splatter_Shell 2d ago
I got yelled at for Bow's dads, and I don't think he saw any of the Spinerella and Nettossa scenes.
I didn't get yelled at as much as I did while watching Clouds on the Horizon from The Owl House though, still kinda pissed about that IT'S SWEET, NOT BAD.
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u/FriendlyGranolaBar 2d ago
ngl I totally thought they were sisters for like 95% of the show. Like, adoptive sisters obviously, but still
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u/JMHSrowing 2d ago
I mean, they arguably are considering they were raised together from a very early age and share a “mother figure” shall we call her. . .
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u/Ceithern 1d ago
Were you fairly young when watching this first? I'm always curious about this perspective, ever since I heard that this scene took some people by surprise and they say it came out of no where. Which is utterly wild to me. Because as someone who watched this first as an old ass adult approaching middle age, it was pretty apparent to me from the get go what was going on between them. I suppose hinted at in the first episode(though it shows them basically sleeping in the same bed, strong hint) but unmistakable a romantic attraction by the end of the first season and they remain basically obsessed with each other for the whole show.
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u/FriendlyGranolaBar 1d ago
I watched it pretty recently actually, like 17-18. I wasn’t blindsided by the kiss or anything, it was more “oh, I didn’t realize their relationship was like that, but that makes sense too.” I can’t say I remember the exact sequence of events well enough to say when I realized their relationship was intended to be romantic, but it may have been around the time Catra was being rescued from horde prime
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u/Ceithern 22h ago
My niece watched it when she was 10 years old, I've never talked to her about it but I'd love to hear her thoughts on it. I do wonder what teenage me would thought of it too. How people watch and adsorb media is pretty interesting.
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u/FriendlyGranolaBar 20h ago
Yeah, a lot of relationships rely on subtext it seems, so interpreting them through the lens of very close sisters can make it easy to miss the more romantic elements. It’s also worth mentioning that I’m probably some flavor of arospec and neurodivergent, so a lot of signs that other people will say are obviously romantic tend to go over my head
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u/Silver-Conference-19 1d ago
yeah i thought the same until princess prom, nobody dips their sister like that, but i didn’t think they’d actually do anything with it and that they were just queerbaiting until catra said that adora didn’t want her like she wanted adora
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u/Ceithern 22h ago
Yeah Princess Prom is where any doubt I had was gone. Like I'm no scholar on lesbian media, but woman in a suit with a woman in a dress(both Adora and Scorpia), that's triggering some alarms. Then the dancing and the flirting, forget about it.
I don't think I was even aware of queerbaiting or at least I'd never encountered it so that never crossed my mind. The only time doubt reemerged was after the season 3 end, where I was like "how is Catra going to come back from this, she's gone too far and she knows it".
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u/Silver-Conference-19 22h ago
Yeah I just thought they’d keep it vague like Nickelodeon with Korrassami, or full on never show it like Voltron, so the kiss was a pleasant surprise that changed my world ngl. I gained so much more respect for Dreamworks that day. But princess prom was just setting ships on the right track left and right, although I didn’t even notice glimbow getting into a relationship after I finished the show and read it on reddit lol. Catradora was easier to spot.
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u/SillyLilly_18 1d ago
when I first watched the first episode, I thought they were already together. But, they were raised together by the same person, so you can also see them as adoptive siblings, just by the definition
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u/Organic_Shine_5361 14h ago
SAME. The kiss or more the ily scene caught me off guard. I'm now a proud catradora shipper but it took me a rewatch with the right mindset to get here
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u/Stefaninjago 3h ago
I have like, a wack natural reflex for relationships that aren't explicit, I dont know if id ever considered non-canon ships without the internet lol,
yea I saw em as sisters till basically the end
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u/pridecat_ 1d ago
there’s a whole crowd out there that really does believe they’re sisters though, and they won’t shut up about it to the shippers
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u/Time2GoGo 1d ago
Bro my fiance and I were standing in the line at the grocery store the other day, and we were jokingly bickering about something. The guy behind us in line goes "now, sisters. Don't fight." We just kind of looked at each other because I'm wearing a rainbow shirt and rainbow shoes, and we look nothing alike. Chose not to say anything about it, though, because in the south, someone that willfully clueless is bad news
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u/SillyLilly_18 2d ago
I mean, they grew up together and have the same mom
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u/Time2GoGo 1d ago
So does that mean Lonnie, Kyle, and Rogelio are also siblings?
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u/SillyLilly_18 1d ago
it means you absolutely can see them that way. Though, we don't know if they had such a personal relationship with shadow weaver as catra and adora
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u/DragonStar909 23h ago
I watched this for the first time when I was like 7 and my clueless ass thought they had a sister dynamic 😭 rewatched it two years ago and sat there thinking ‘how the heck did I miss the s**ual tension between these two’ 😭 😭 😭
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u/Mike_Conway 1d ago
Dad's probably wondering why Adora isn't with Sea Hawk, if Dad's from that generation.
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u/Splatter_Shell 1d ago
He is from that generation, but he said he never saw the original show. (Still think the concept of Adora and Sea Hawk is hilarious, even though it was very different back then)
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u/GenofK53 2d ago
Oh I thought you actually said they were sisters okay that's the less weird but still weird for the scenario.
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u/Stunning_Pen_36 11h ago
If you told him they were sisters, then how do you know it was homophobia? Couldn’t he just think it’s weird for incestual reasons?
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u/Stefaninjago 3h ago
from other comments, the context I've gathered its they've gotten in trouble for other gay relationships in shows from their father, and managed to leave the room before the kiss
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u/NicknameRara 2d ago
What was your excuse for the kiss scene tho?