I'm adopted too. So i know exactly how Po feels. My sixteen-year-old mother left me in an orphanage, i was adopted by a swedish family and grew up in Sweden. That's all. More than that, i don't know about my biological family. I would do anything to remember everything and find "inner peace" just like Po. 😭💔
Fun fact: one of the reasons why Tigress hugs Po after he confesses why he reacted this way to Shen is earliest Tigress we see is little girl in the orphanage. It's from Secrets of the Furious Five (2008)! Pretty fun movie with backstories~ The scene with Po's mother just... gets me. Every dang time!
there is a discussion about sheng, not stoppning after he exterminated the pandas, but to get rid of all black and white "animals"... remeber tai-lung from the first movie, he was also a warrior in back and white, that came as an orphan to the jade palace... it kind of suggests, that tai-lung had a similiar backstory as Po... which just shows what a loving parent like mr.ping can make...
I don’t think the timelines match up. Tai Lung was fully grown by the time he went to prison for twenty years, and Tigress trained on the iron wood trees for twenty years. with what we know from the secrets of the five, she was taken in by Shifu when she was very young (five or six?) after Tai Lung’s betrayal and so we can assume she’s 25 or so, and Po is around her age. So I don’t think it was the same genocide that targeted the snow leopards and the pandas simultaneously. There had to be at least a twenty year gap between what orphaned Tai Lung and displaced Po. I like this theory though, I hadn’t thought about what caused Tai Lung’s orphaning.
Shen is such a great villain. And yes, now that you mentioned it, animation for “kids” often depicts genocide e.g. Kung Fu Panda, Avatar, Bakugan, etc.
I never thought about it before but you’re right genocide is really common in kids stuff. It happened at least twice in one of my favourite shows as a kid, really early on too. I guess it’s cuz it’s easy to create tension is a lot of people are gonna die and that’s easy for kids to understand.
He really is! Yeah I don't think I ever noticed it until literally the moment I said it. But it does make sense, what better way to show danger than mass extermination
Your anticipation for the inner peace deflecting moment was hilarious to watch 😂😂😂 literally every single opportunity you were like IS THIS IT???? And when it finally happened, I couldn’t help smiling at your genuine delight and excitement. The payoff is incredible, they lead up to it all movie and they deliver on it in the most perfect way satisfying. Also, your face when Tigress shoved Po out of the way!! Anyway, this movie was a directorial debut by a woman who was the head of story for the first movie, she definitely took the story to heart and made this amazing sequel.
I was absolutely locked in on that 😂 it was scratching my brain the whole time. There's a ton of heart in this one. I liked the first movie, but the second just offers so much more
Interestingly the warrior of black and white didn’t necessarily refer to po and the movie hints to this pretty early on. During the group’s journey there’s a bit where Shen is holding his weapon in front of his face and one side of him is black and the other is white. He kills the pandas and it ends up creating the dragon warrior who ends up ruining his plans. And at the end he cuts the ropes holding up the cannon. His own actions lead to his defeat and his colours are for the most part black and white. He interpreted the message wrong and it leads to his defeat which ironically is exactly what it said would happen.
In Secrets of the Five, we learn that Tigress was also abandoned as a child. She was left in an orphanage full of prey animals, and spent her formative years feared and alone, until Shifu came to help her. Edit; Link: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-EbLWAT9v-Ng.htmlsi=D1XPJd4lk30zCVyM
