And in doing so, accepts he’s worth something.ģ. In this scene, rather than shooting Entrapta, failing her again, and discarding his identity, Hordak shows her that he recieved her message of caring about him, reciprocates, and has her back. These two have a bit in common with Adora and Catra - Entrapta works her ass off this season to protect the people she cares about with her tech skills, and is scared of failing them or being rejected, while Hordak doesn’t think he is worthy of love because of the monstrous abomination that he is. The final scene was cut short but I’m glad the original was shared. In the original animatic, Hordak panicked that he killed his brother (who in part he does still love), and Entrapta calmed him down… then Prime yelled at them, in Hordak’s body, that they were unworthy and unloved and would die with no comfort. Love in the context of Entrapta and Hordak, is hard earned, because these characters spend so much of the show thinking that they were innately unlovable, and because Hordak had spent the whole season being guided back to his own identity with the “LUVD” crystal, and even then, it still wasn’t enough - after Hordak had finally won the battle to be true to himself, to show and accept love, he had this pried out of hands immediately by Horde Prime. What do you do when you feel love for your abusive parental figure, and then just when you’re getting over the fact they never cared about you, they show love back in an act of self-destruction? What closure do you get?Ģ. The scene with them crying over her, it’s powerful and painful and very provocative, IMO the strongest part of the finale. Would you say Shadow Weaver saved Catra and Adora with the “power of love”? Is that her “love” for them? If so, then that’s really interesting - a darker interpretation of love, which they also have for her, in a way. Let me go through the key beats of the finale:ġ. where this love comes from, and where it is accepted. And the places where love interact, sometimes it is in more interesting ways. There are some elements of this, but the meat of the finale is not about the power of love - rather, it is about identity and self-actualization.