98 episodes
She-Ra: Progressive of Power Lauren Faits and Eric Garneau
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- Society & Culture
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4.0 • 8 Ratings
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A rewatch podcast with a sociopolitical twist. Each week, hosts Lauren Faits and Eric Garneau discuss episodes and issues from the surprisingly progressive 1985 cartoon She-Ra: Princess of Power -- and now its Netflix reboot as well!
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"What She-Ra Means to Me" featuring a Bunch of Lovely People
We're tired of talking. We want to hear from y'all -- the people who really made this iteration of She-Ra something special. About a dozen and a half really incredible, thoughtful, open listeners send us audio recordings that tell their own story about how She-Ra, the Princess of Power has better helped them find acceptance, create art, understand the world, or even understand themselves. Thanks to everyone who sent recordings in; we can't thank you enough for sharing your stories.
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The Exit Interviews, Part 1 feat. Jen Bennett, Josie Campbell, Phil Lomboy, Noelle Stevenson, Sharon Sun, and M. Willis
As we near the end of our podcast, we wanted to put a nice bow on our time covering She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, and fortunately, Dreamworks was down to help! In this, the first of two Twitch streams we're calling the "Exit Interviews," we've got a bevy of guests from SPOP ready to answer burning fan questions like "could Angella be alive?" and "does Catra shower?"
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Flashback Week: "Into the Abyss" (He-Man 1983 -- Eric's favorite episode)
Flashback Week ends with a very special episode (at least to one of us) -- Eric's favorite piece of Hemanimation, the 1984 classic "Into the Abyss," a super early look at what a character-driven story might look like for our favorite Twins of Power. Then we circle around to a wider discussion of nostalgia, criticism, and pushing cultural narratives forward, because of course we do.
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Flashback Week: "Save Our City" (New Adventures of He-Man -- The Original Mara!)
Our tour through He-Men of the past continues with this stop in, uh, the future to check on the origins of Mara. In Dreamworks' She-Ra she was an unforgettable character -- were the '90s as kind? Probably not.
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Flashback Week: "The Power of Grayskull" (He-Man 2002 - A Different Horde!)
Our week of classic flashbacks starts with a look at the rarely discussed 2002 He-Man and the Masters of the Universe reboot! We're discussing the episode "The Power of Grayskull," which contains that series' only look at the Horde (they sadly would never get their own season), as well as the first-ever appearance of Despondos! Plus lots of neat lore about what Grayskull could actually be! We'll be back Wednesday with another throwback!
Customer Reviews
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Found this podcast after searching for SheRa content to binge after the SPOP Netflix series concluded - I was not disappointed! I could see this one started before the reboot was announced so I was interested to understand their discussions around the original 80s classic I watched as a kid (ye, I’m oldddd). So far, I’ve been very engaged by the hosts’ thoughts and opinions on the decisions the show made back in the 80s and how appropriate they are to present day (in 2017). I’d not considered those parallels so it was quite illuminating.
Looking forward to binging all these episodes and seeing how the podcast develops over time.
Note to potential listeners: podcast has high audio quality and production value in addition to the insightful content 👍🏻
Ummm...
...nothing like MElennialls looking back at a past they don’t know, understand or accept, and judging it with an eye to the good/evil battle of USA today. Poor She-Ra....a sideways glance at a Sprogitt, and now she’s labelled a vile anti-green-characters-in-cartoon-hater. What an awful PoP.
The concept of this pod is clever and I think it’s stories can have relevance to modern society, issues, etc. however i think balancing bad Horde = Trump, and good rebellion = all those opposed to Trump, is its own retro-fiction.
The female host does a good job of trying to balance her borderline bigoted views and ideas, and is at least willing to acknowledge and understand that all views have a place, but the guy host is a flaming torch carrying cancel-culture warrior, who makes such sweepingly awful statements about people with views/ opinions that don’t match his city-metropolis dwelling concepts of behaviour & thought, that he actually becomes the Hordak of this cast.
Based on the extreme woke-musings (rantings) of this host pair (and their uber-lefty hosting guests) I, a 44 year old gay man who actually watched She-Ra for fun & enjoyment as a child, would absolutely be classed a raging hard righter!! Bizarre, isn’t it?
I wonder if I were to put out a pod where I select all the episodes of PoP that this cast chose to ignore (assume for the reason they weren’t preachy-left enough) and discuss them with a view that the Horde (Trumpers) were the maligned goodies and the rebellion (the vocal leftist cause groups) were the evil doers wrecking society & it’s acceptable standards, whether this pair would have the grace to listen to it? I strongly doubt it.