Trope Talk: Last Of Their Kind
Added 2024-02-23 16:05:01 +0000 UTCOr at least last-ish. Last-adjacent.
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Oh, and an important thing--is it okay to ask Red to add a spoiler warning at the start, or in the description on Youtube? I'm almost done watching Owl House, but hadn't reached the big reveal yet when I watched the Trope Talk. I was only two episodes away, and if it was just a minor thing, I wouldn't mind so much, but it's a pretty big deal, one of the biggest reveals in the whole show.
Kura
2024-03-06 19:08:15 +0000 UTCOh, so that's why I find Kung Fu Panda so relatable. It all makes sense now! Also, I'm going to defend The Last Unicorn, not just because it's one of my favourite stories. Sure, all the unicorns come back in the end, but none of them will ever understand the pain and joy of human emotions and of being human like she did, so even though she is not literally the last unicorn, she still is from a metaphorical perspective. Her unique experience automatically isolates her from the others, and that's what makes the ending so bittersweet, to me. It's a particularly cruel irony, in the sense that all she can do is reflect on her experiences, and wonder about the human she might have been, forever. It's a little like having a very specific traumatic experience, that no one else can understand, as if you are cut off from everyone else. Also also, it never clicked with me before that Aang's refusal to kill isn't just a basic thing for him, that he's defending a part of his culture. I never got why people genuinely think Aang should have killed Ozai. But I do have to point out, saying that Airbenders were easy to kill, while showing Gyatsu, surrounded by the remains of the Firebenders he killed. Though the theory that he deliberately yanked all the air out of the room as either a heroic sacrifice or a way to get around the specifics of pacifism, maybe has some merit?
Kura
2024-03-06 19:04:09 +0000 UTCI'm only a little surprised you didn't bring up The Last of the Mohicans in some aspect. In the book especially, there is pressure from the father for his son to marry a woman from one of the other tribes and keep the bloodline and culture going. By the end, the son is dead and the father is the titular character. The only thing I can think to compare it to is Aang's relationship with Tenzin in LoK, but more bitter.
Vicki
2024-02-25 15:32:11 +0000 UTC
