Quote Originally Posted by Rater202 View Post
So this might just be because I knew the ending before I started watching, but when I tried to watch She-Ra it was pretty transparent to me that Catra wanted Adora. To have, to hold, and so on for all eternity.

Catra was pretty clear that she gave no ****s about good or evil, that she saw through the brainwashing and propaganda the whole time, but that she did not care because doing what the Horde wanted meant that she and Adora could be together and get theirs.

I very much got the perception that her continuing to work with the Horde afterward was more or less entirely because she was an impulsive teenager acting spiteful because the person she's in love with turned her back on the plan.
Catra is given two options; talk about her feelings, or pull a switch that she knows will absolutely risk killing everyone and herself.

And needs to think about it.

Girl just had baggage. As you said, impulsive teenage spite and self hate.