#this stoat family is absolutely destroying me by the day

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brennan. hey. brennan i

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With the first episode of Burrow's End up, I am joining the ranks of folks speculating on what exactly happened to the warren and killed the other stoat families. I know there's been talk about Watership Down vibes, which I absolutely get, but the weird "fog" reminded me of an entirely different (and for kid me in 1993) traumatic childhood movie about animals, Once Upon a Forest.

Just let me put part of the Wikipedia summary of this movie here.

In the forest of Dapplewood, four "Furlings" – Abigail, a wood mouse; Edgar, a mole; Russell, a hedgehog, and Michelle, a badger – live alongside their teacher and Michelle's uncle, Cornelius. One day, the Furlings go on a trip through the forest with Cornelius, where they see a road for the first time. Russell is almost run over by a Range Rover and a man at the passenger's seat carelessly throws away a glass bottle that shatters in the middle of the road. Afterward, they go back to the forest to find that it has been destroyed by poison gas from an overturned tanker truck that blew a tire from the broken glass bottle. Michelle panics and runs to her home to find her parents, breathing in the gas and becoming severely ill. Abigail risks her own life and saves a comatose Michelle, but can do nothing for Michelle's parents. The Furlings go to Cornelius' house nearby for shelter after they find their homes deserted, believing everyone else to have succumbed to the gas. Cornelius tells the Furlings of his past encounter with humans that claimed the lives of his parents, hence why he is fearful of all human beings.

I could be off base, of course, but I think Aabria and I are around the same age and I know that the scenes of the gas smothering everything and almost killing Michelle stuck with me and I felt a lot of deja vu with some of Aabria's descriptions.

Whatever it turns out to be, I am looking forward to the rest of the show! The cast is stellar and Aabria is one of my favorite GMs.