Having Now Seen The Sea Beast And Some Reactions To It: I Think It Is Actually Very Important And Meaningful

having now seen the sea beast and some reactions to it: i think it is actually very important and meaningful that the story didn’t have maisie become like a sea monster biologist! i think it’s really important that they decided to simply stop interacting with the creatures at all and leave the deeper waters to them. i think people forget or aren’t aware of the ways science and scientific pursuit has propped up or been used as a justification for imperialism and expansionism and colonialism. it’s not a neutral profession or goal. of course for us, the audience, it would have been really fun and cool and interesting to learn more about the creatures and maybe even see humans bonding with them, but that’s really not in line with the message of the movie and it’s honestly refreshing that they went that route.

the planetary catfish that is the voyager golden record. what happens when the aliens go 2 explore this cool world of creativity & curiosity and then the first guy they abduct is like trisha paytas

Alain de Botton, Essays in Love [transcript in ALT]

His hair instantly reminded me of Doma from Demon Slayer

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