She-Ra at SDCC: “Don’t Get Too Comfortable With The Status Quo”

“Don’t get too comfortable with the status quo.”

The foreboding comment from Adora’s voice actor, Aimee Carrero, closed out a solid She-Ra panel. DreamWorks showed clips from the new season at San Diego Comic Con, and I walked away impressed with the show’s content.

Executive producer Noelle Stevenson setup the coming season as different from the others, placing characters in a new setting (the Crimson Wastes), in new situations, and including new foreground characters (Huntara, played by Geena Davis).

Overall, I was impressed by the previews at the show. The dialog between Huntara and the Best Friend Squad (Adora, Glimmer, Bow) was well written, Catra’s fight with the Wastes’ gang leader Tongue-Lasher was well choreographed, the dialog was snappy, and Scorpia’s lines had me laugh out loud at some points (“you should say a cool catch-phrase when you use the whip… how about whip?”).

Questions were taken from Twitter, adding a level of moderation to the DreamWorks panel which I was thankful for. The moderator commented that many of the questions were about Kyle — the somewhat helpless horde…