There's a trailer for season 2 of She-Ra and the Princesses of Power.

[cimorene]

There are a couple of new outfits which are as cool as the old ones or cooler, a lot of Teamwork, and something something Catra gaining power within the Horde, all as expected. There's at least one shot of Frosta doing stuff onscreen, which is definitely a plus, and at least one clip suggesting Swiftwind will get a bigger role with more talking, which I was hoping for.

There's also a continuation of some genuinely funny quips, which is a good sign.

On the other hand, the trailer is also still full of dialogue that could, to put it mildly, be better. But then to be fair, it's never gonna be as bad as the original show's dialogue, haha. (I'm used to thinking it's a pretty bad sign if a trailer's got a quantity of bad lines: did they not even have enough good ones to fill the trailer?)

The edges of the art style that I was kinda hoping somebody was just in a hurry with and would smooth out when they got the chance remain looking, to my eye, pretty sloppy.

We didn't see any hints of Adora and Catra's character arcs or interpersonal development, which would have been really exciting; but I still expect to see them in the show: that's the kind of thing you'd want to keep up your sleeve.

I'm going to watch, but I didn't really feel like I had fully recovered from the first season yet before and this didn't change my mind.

Comments

[yvannairie]

I found the trailer to be kind of... soulless, like they were picking clips that were as narratively disconnected as possible from any myth arc ongoings. The only thing even hinting at it was holografic nightlight lady confirming Adora goes back to train some more.

[cimorene]

Light Hope. I was hoping for more of her too, since we know relatively little about the scope of First Ones tech.

[yvannairie]

(Her name in the Finnish dub is "Jalovalo" and all my brain remembers of that is the alliteration so I just call her Nightlight in my head |3c)

[flamebyrd]

Oh dear, I still haven't got over my pique enough to finish watching season 1. How does time go by so quickly!

[cimorene]

Yeah. I mean I watched it, but at the cost of a long hangover of pique? So I don't know what's gonna happen this time. Maybe I'll watch, but take a shot before each episode?

Or watch while standing on my head or something to distract me from my annoyance...