[ SECRET POST #3276 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3276 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[The Nanny]


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[Inspector Gadget and the Gadgetinis]


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[Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood]


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Comments

Re: The most offensive piece of media you've ever come across.

[cloud_riven]

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.

Re: The most offensive piece of media you've ever come across.

[(Anonymous)]

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.