There isn’t much to say about Princess Bride that hasn’t been said already: It’s a classic, a wonderful story
She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
I fell in love with the new She-ra series. Back when the trailer came out, I was already intrigued because as much as I love the original, I also know that it had some flaws and liked a lot what I saw of the reboot (Mostly the fact that now the characters had different shaped bodies and that Glimmer and Angela looked like mother and daughter, not like twin sisters). But actually watching the series? OMG, I am in complete love with it. She-ra/Adora is adorkable, Glimmer’s desire to prove herself is relatable, Bow is all shades of awesome, Catra needs a hug and a scritch behind her ears…
I could go on forever. The only princess that hasn’t quite grown on me is Entrapta, and even her is adorable at times. So yeah, I had to make some fanart tribute.
And if you haven’t watched it, watch it! I’m 90% sure you’ll love it!
Supernatural
Supernatural is one of my favorite shows. Well, was. Now it’s more of a guilty pleasure because the cast is so pretty since after fighting God’s estranged Sister, there’s an issue of Big Bad escalation that not even Buffy managed to reach. Still, I love the characters, when the writers let them evolve, and I am an unrepentant, unashamed Dean Girl. So of course I was really happy when Supernatural won my biweekly fanart poll.
Dr. Who, Seven to Thirteen
I was a bit late comer to Dr. Who. I started watching from 9’s season, but not until the hiatus between 11 and 12. Still, I fell in love with the series in about… 4 episodes. While I haven’t yet watched all of classic Who, I can’t deny 7 and 8 are really fun. And of the Doctors I’ve seen? All have something special. Can’t wait for 13, who seems to have a joy in life that I’ve been missing in the Doctors since 9.
Criminal Minds
I love Criminal Minds. Next to Law and Order SVU is my favorite crime procedural, and unlike Law and Order SVU, I still have most of my favorite characters on the show.
So I was really, really happy when they won the weekly poll. Sure, I went for the classics (minus Gideon), but you can’t blame me. They’re all iconic.
Ducktales 2017
As many children in the late eighties, early nineties… I loved Ducktales. It wasn’t my favorite series, but it was close to the number 1 spot. I could hum the song both in spanish and english and omg, I have so many good memories of both Ducktales and later, Darkwing Duck (yes, my favorite in both was Launchpad McQuack, named Joe in spanish).
So of course, when the reboot was announced… I was both scared and excited. Because yay! More Ducktales. But… reboot. Dread. Fear. And all the things that could go wrong.
Of course, fears were unfounded. Ducktales 2017 was even better than my memories of the old series, just by the simple fact of having Donald Duck in a more active role, that Webby and Mrs. Beakley are not just the loads, and that it had not one, but FOUR different character arcs for each character. In a word, is perfect.
Sure, it needs more Darkwing, and it definitely needs more Donald… But they have Season 2 to fix that! 😀
Puella Magi Madoka Magica
While I’ve loved Magic Girls forever, more or less since I watched Minky Momo and Lalabell in TV, after Sailor Moon I kind of… abandoned my hope in the genre. Everything after Usagi and her friends seemed so… samey. Even Precure (Which I discovered later was FAR better than first impression) left me kind of blah.
Enter Madoka Magica. Which I had to watch to write an article in a magazine because the heartless editor wanted me to suffer (jk. I was the heartless editor, and given that all I knew about Madoka were the cutesy designs, well, I wasn’t going to make one of my writers suffer). This was right when it premiered, btw, so no one knew what it was really about, and no one, NO ONE, was prepared for Episode Three.
Needless to say, I got hooked.
If you haven’t watched it, and are free of spoilers, watch it. If you watched it, watch it again. Because it’s a good anime. And I will always love it because it brought me back to re-discover a genre I adore.
Steven Universe’s Crystal Gems
I adore Steven Universe. It’s one of my three favorite cartoons right now, because of the gorgeous colors, the amazing characters and more importantly, because the main message is that communication is key for everything. So of course, when it won my weekly poll… I just couldn’t choose just 7 characters, I had to do EVERYONE. But the main ones are the Crystal Gems.
I will probably do this again one day, correct some of the ideas that, by doing a full image by segments, didn’t translate perfectly. But for now, Here, We are the Crystal Gems, and we always save the day.
Jem and the Holograms
Jem and the Holograms has always been part of my childhood. I remember when I watched the TV series, and found ONE store that carried a stamp album of the series. I never got anyone to change stamps with, so it went unfinished, but I loved it with all my heart. We never got the toys in Mexico, so I had to make do with Barbie and the Rockers -which I always saw as an inferior copy to the outrageous fabulousness that was Jem.
Fast forward a lot of years, and IDW with Sophie Campbell made a dream I had come true. Namely, a more modern Jem comic. Sure, it didn’t last too long, and I still want the second omnibus volume, but while it lasted it was AMAZING. Seriously, go and buy it at your local comic book shop and wonder at the gloriousness that is a Jem story that doesn’t have to sell dolls.
So of course, during my weekly practices, I had to do Jem and the Holograms (And Pizzaz and Stormer because I ran out of time the day I was supposed to finish the Misfits)
And seriously, go and buy IDW’s Jem and the Holograms.
She-Ra Princess of Power
She-ra was another winner in my weekly polls, and one I was REALLY happy to see. I mean, it’s She-ra! And now she’s back in Netflix, which makes it even better because she deserves more love. When I was a little girl I had She-ra, Katra and Bow (I LOVED my Bow doll), and never missed an episode. Sure, some are really cheesy, but they’re still some of my fondest memories, and, let’s be honest here, one of the first, if not THE first, American Magical Girl.
