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calypsolemon · 1 year ago

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kind of baffled by how many ppl thought "collector returns to the stars" meant "collector went to return to their family." I doubt that the only 2 things in this universe is the planet the boiling isles is on and wherever the archivists are from, and I feel like the point was very much that the collector is leaving the planet/realm he was trapped on for ages to explore the vastness of space and meet new people. Its obviously him putting his own spin on what the archivists do, to learn from all that is out there in the universe hands-on rather than kept frozen in time behind a glass.

#I think for what little we know of the archivists #you can definitely draw some lines between them and the idea of like #archaeology/preservation/museums being used as a tool of colonization #DISCALIMER of that shit is often more complex than what ppl think it is but #like if we're following the themes of the show the natural throughline here is that the archivists steal and kill for the sake #of a false 'preservation' which is really just keeping things in stasis for their own pleasure. divorced from their cultural context #not taken with permission and often procured through violent means #and casually disregarded if inconvientent #the collector traveling to learn for the sake of learning rather than dominating and controlling as he did with the boiling isles #is obviously a healthier form of this archival work #anyways just my 2 cents lol #watching and dreaming #the owl house #toh spoilers #the collector

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