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I haven't watched the 3rd season of #SheRa yet--I'm in the middle rewatching the 1st two. Rewatching that deep lore reveal in "Light Hope" reminded of @nkjemisin 's Broken Earth. So far what the First One's did to the planet hasn't been interrogated, but I wonder if it's coming
Mara's story is treated so simplistically, she "went crazy" and "destroyed everything." But Light Hope says herself that the First One's were colonizers, and that story sounds like some colonizer BS. Her character also lacks the nuance we've come to expect from the show
Back to the Broken Earth though: they just kind of casually drop in that the First Ones turned an entire planet, one they colonized (invaded?), into a piece of tech they could control. The tech "goes deep" within the planet. Maybe what they did was harming the planet or it's ppl.
...and Mara was fighting back. Adora is coached to control her emotions and compared to Mara as a threat, a method of control by fear. Perhaps like in Captain Marvel, it's playing with the way audiences will trust the mentor implicitly. Even if they say things we disagree with...
We still expect their views to be the moral center within the universe of the show. But there is another perspective missing, another side of history being obscured. She-Ra gives us pieces of it. How is "First Ones tech" so exploitable for weapons if that wasn't it's purpose?
The first tech we see used in dryl is a harmful malware. But why do we assume it's "got" a virus (accidental) and not that it *is* the virus, built to be a weapon?
Anyways, I don't like trying to predict what will happen but I do like looking at the ways my perspective might be manipulated by narrative conventions and try to look at story elements objectively. Not just trying to be edgy saying "the first ones were actually evil!!1!!1!"
Also this might all be totally moot bc there's a whole season I haven't watched (and my memory of most of s2 is pretty foggy). Just my process for consuming stories.
