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Snowflake Challenge Day 3
Jan. 4th, 2019 12:12 am
Day 3
In your own space, share a favorite piece of original canon (a TV episode, a song, a favorite interview, a book, a scene from a movie, etc) and explain why you love it so much.
I've been watching a lot of Moana recently due to toddler Rutabaga, and one thing I love about it, is that it shows Moana failing at the beginning -- she decides to go out to sea and immediately gets rolled under by the waves, and survives due to some quick thinking. And that experience has a clear impact on her -- when she discovers the giant cavern of boats, her first thought was to go to her father. And the movie makes clear what makes her succeed later: first, she got an actual sea-worthy vessel, and not a boat designed for fishing within the reef. She packed for a long trip. And even then, the ocean had to help her get to Maui. It wasn't all the ocean's doing, however -- Maui didn't really agree to teach her to wayfind until after she helped Maui get out of Tamatoa's cave. You don't succeed because you're the "chosen" one, or because you really want it. It's about being prepared, it's about persisting, and it's about learning from your experience and trying again.
(omg I have so many thoughts about Moana, guyz. I should write more about it).
Oh, in case you were here to read about my thoughts about Cap stuff... I really love the moment in Cap3 where Bucky says "I remember everything." He remembers everything and therefore the running away, the passivity, the guilt and feelings of culpability. He wants to live a quiet life but he can't, because he remembers all the moments where his body and mind were not his own and knows that as long as the words are out there, he can turn into that. It dovetails so well with the thing that SebStan said about how the WS' memories are "all over the place" -- floating about without context to lock them down. And now, "I remember everything." How does a man who remembers everything keep going? Why does he run when Tony comes seeking vengeance? I drew/wrote so many fixits for the version of Bucky in Cap3, guyz. I think it seriously took me a year before I was okay with it.
