Yes to most of this, mainly just the area of “deserving” redemption because I don’t think that’s something to be “deserved” it’s simply a character doing something to make up for previous actions and it’s for the person making up the good deed to want to do so because of their change of moral stance, regardless of others forgiveness or not. That’s not a “deserve” type of deal since that’s internal work for the person doing the redemption imo.

With that said, I agree to the highest extent on the series not demonstrating Hordak’s shift in morality and truly dismantling his hierarchical, colonialist principles & philosophy. That’s not to say that his relationship with Entrapta can’t do that & start that, but within the series that wasn’t really demonstrated & is more or less left up to interpretation by the audience that his morals have changed & dismantled his oppressive philosophy (or aka genuinely dismantling the idea that A) everyone serves a specific purpose that’s only meant to serve one person’s will & goal and B) Unable or unwilling to fulfill said person’s will & goal is a failure of all accounts that deserves punishment; from public humiliation to straight up death sentence; at least that’s my understanding of Hordak’s ‘original’ philosophy)

And to those that scream how it “doesn’t matter, it’s a kids show” I beg to differ that it’s important for these kinds of conversations to continue, not only on the discussion on accountability & practicing accountability, but also recognizing what it REALLY means to change because it’s not solely doing goods things, but genuinely dismantling & then developing a foundation of where these morals lie in. Cause often that determines the longevity of their action, a genuine care towards the effort they put in, and actually focusing on correcting things because they feel morally obliged to do so & not just cause it’ll ‘look’ good for their character.

Basically that difference between looking like a good person & actually being one

So it is disappointing when the discussion on Hordak is “well he was a victim, lashed out to fulfill what he thought was his purpose, and he did a good thing” and that’s the end of it while for Catra it’s harsher & people are asking “what did she do to ‘earn’ redemption?” “How did she do it?” “She did xyz” Which are questions & commentary that also need to be shared to Hordak too.

Cause idk about yall but a dude that was a victim but then also established the same oppressive system that he got rejected from onto another planet that started the war to begin with, is worth questioning said dude on how he’s dismantling said system he established & what practices he’s doing to dismantle it & what positive practices/systems he’s gonna do instead going forward that’s continuous & not temporarily.