What’s not to like about a story of a colonizer who realizes how fucked up his societies practice is and joins the defense forces to help protect against future colonization attempts? Besides the minor subtext being the targeted society was defenseless without a blue savior.
I think the fact that Stitch is a lab experiment who would otherwise face life imprisonment simply for existing means that he can credibly claim not to be a colonizer. His arc struck me as more of a personal growth “caring about others” thing.
What’s not to like about a story of a colonizer who realizes how fucked up his societies practice is and joins the defense forces to help protect against future colonization attempts? Besides the minor subtext being the targeted society was defenseless without a blue savior.
I think the fact that Stitch is a lab experiment who would otherwise face life imprisonment simply for existing means that he can credibly claim not to be a colonizer. His arc struck me as more of a personal growth “caring about others” thing.
There’s also a lot of meaning re: colonialism in the scene where Nani sings Aloha ‘Oe to Lilo