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welcometogrouchland · 2 years ago

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Actually. The most fucked up line from the trailer is how the collectors collect things so they can "never pass". Because I mean like. The Implications of it.

In a show that's all about change and grief. Where the collectors' main enemies were the Titans, beings that notably made new life, instead of just preserving what was already there. Where the main villains motive is his selfish inability to let go of his big brother and their childhood dream, resulting in a brutal cycle of destruction for the grimwalkers and the near genocide of the boilings isles. Where the main character's conflict stems from being pulled between an old, familiar but unkind world where she has only one person whos fighting for her, and a new, strange, horrifying but ultimately accepting world where she's grown a family that's now in danger of being turned into mindless puppets.

This is the thematic backdrop against which the collector and his kind have been set.

In other words: my friend who's seen spoilers was right. This episode IS going to make me cry

#ramblings of a lunatic #the owl house #toh #the owl house spoilers #toh spoilers #the collector #toh belos #luz noceda #i once saw this great video essay made after the s2 finale titled ''the ignorant inner child''#that (while slightly outdated in it's predictions) states that Belos and the collector are parallels because they're both immature childreb #*children #with the collector this is seemingly literal but with belos it's all metaphorical and represents how deranged he is clinging onto the past #and obviously this all ties in to how Luz's hero's journey in s1 was learning that the boiling isles isn't an idealistic fantasy world-#-where she's just inherently special. she has to learn that it's all in her actions and decisions that define who she is #(a contrast to belos who does believe he's gods specialist little boy above everyone else on the isles)#we realize as the series goes on that Luzs want to be special stems from a need to be useful which stems from guilt which stems from grief #and it's soooooo #hm. i am not ready for this episode me thinks!

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