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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2013 4:22:43 GMT
While at a Native American tourist site, Annie meets a shaman who shows Annie her past, revealing the reason why the black panther is her spirit guide.
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Post by soweirdo on Sept 13, 2013 7:47:57 GMT
The last full episode I suppose. Pretty good for an Annie one.
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Post by thebossapplesauce on Jan 15, 2014 7:45:47 GMT
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Post by tzigone on Oct 21, 2016 22:29:13 GMT
I'm really glad Annie's story got wrapped up and we got answers. But they could have been more dramatic. On another thread someone (can't remember who, sorry) said this ep was a bit of letdown, and I tend to agree. What happened in Peru was hinted to be big and disturbing when Annie was introduced. Her mom didn't want to talk about it. And it turned out she just got lost (from her parents' perspectives) and was okay. Acquiring her spirit panther wasn't something that happened because of some action she took or something inherent to her nature, but rather a function of "wrong place, right time."
So, has anyone ever made up an alternate version where the story-of-panther-origin was more thrilling? It'd be a fun read.
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Post by thebossapplesauce on Oct 30, 2016 10:41:27 GMT
So, has anyone ever made up an alternate version where the story-of-panther-origin was more thrilling? It'd be a fun read. I am not one that was disappointed by this ep... it actually ranks as a favorite. But this idea is actually kind of inspiring and my best friend has been bugging me about getting back into writing SW fics again. . Maybe I'll take it on.
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Post by NotRumplestiltskin on Feb 5, 2017 2:25:03 GMT
I have... so many problems with this ep. Most have to do with the white characters treating Native spaces like tourist attractions or vacation spots. Clu walks up to a Native person and says "I want to go on a vision quest, but with food!" -- which is like, I don't know, telling a Catholic person "I want to get baptized but without any of that stupid holy water!" or something. I'm a pasty white kid from middle America and even I know you don't do stuff like that.
Not to mention, how nightmare-fuel-like is it that Annie has had a middle-aged Native man in disguise following her around for over a decade? Mostly for him -- she got bitten by a snake instead of his son, so now he's honor-bound to abandon his tribe and the life he's built so he can follow a little girl around indefinitely? But also for her -- in the show she's adamant that he makes her feel safe and protected, but what 15-year-old girl is really going to be cool with a grown man watching her every move?
Also ALSO, the idea that Native people are obviously ~*magic*~ or supernatural or something. Like, Coyote possessing a spiritual leader is one thing, it uses an actual mythical figure in an interesting way and could have made a decent episode on its own, but some guy from a random tribe in Peru is just able to turn into a jungle cat? If you're going to do something like that in your show, you need to take some extra steps to show that this is a tribe of gods or something, not just shrug and say "eh, mystical brown people, right?"
Sorry if this rant is a little too Tumblr-social-justice-like, but this episode just makes me so uncomfortable, and that's such a disappointing way to end the series.
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