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⌈ Secret Post #3276 ⌋

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Babar ',:)

No joke I actually love that series, but oh wow it's got undertones kid me didn't realise until i was a learned adult with booze.

Care to share for the rest of us?

Alright, so I'm going to refer to the animated 1989 series here since I'm not that familiar with the books or the spinoffs and later series that came after it.

The show, particularly in the beginning, has this very colonialist vibe to it. It opens up with this family/herd/whatever of normal elephants, and Babar is a baby elephant among them. All is peaceful and well until some hunter guy comes along, and then the show engages some Bambi-esque sequence where a chunk of them die, including Babar's mom the king elephant (?), and now the elephants just don't know what to do. This is fine actually.

Where it goes into questionable territory is when Babar wanders from the jungle into next door urban city, and experiences the city life. He learns of the superiority in walking on two legs, speaking not-Elephant (French), wearing clothes, and getting sophisticated as fuck. Basically it's a montage of implicitly becoming better than a savage.

Of course he walks a few blocks down back to the jungle, where he relays the amazing survival and elegant advantages of being like the humans (ie: the colonists), and gets them all assimilated, and he becomes this aristocratic king of the elephants.

It's a good show though.

I don't know if this is in the animated show but in the original book he marries his cousin which is a bit creepy.

The imperialist/colonialist subtext, you mean? My kid self didn't pick up on that stuff either. For years I thought it was just a show about cute elephants. :(

Yep! I was really excited when I saw it on netflix, and then after a few eps I was like, ":( :( :( I was such an innocent child. I never knew. I just never knew. THIS IS GREAT! Next ep please!"

I didn't pick up on it either, as a kid I thought it was a nice show about adoption but as an adult eeeeh more stolen generation-esque.

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