#and that this is likely the reason why the movie echidna aren't written as greedy conquerors like the old game lore has them | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

guardian-of-da-gay · 6 months

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My English professors are so lucky I wasn't in school when I saw Sonic 2 or I woulda immediately forced them to read an essay analyzing the inherently imperialistic mindset of the owls taking an extremely valuable resource (the Master Emerald) from a foreign nation (the Native-coded echidna) because they believed they knew better how to handle that resource than it's foreign owners (and what it says about current cultural views that the audience is clearly expected to see the owls as the good guys despite this)

#can you tell one of my favorite classes was imperial and post-imperial era literature #this is not an invitation to discourse btw #i'm just sayin I 100% would've subjected a college professor to my thoughts on Sonic film lore #and then I woulda written a second essay #analyzing how the way modern media portrays native and native-coded people has changed so much in the past few decades #and that this is likely the reason why the movie echidna aren't written as greedy conquerors like the old game lore has them

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