2023-02-06 7:24:31 ¶ ● ⬀ ⬈

el-jarado:

> theriverbeyond:

> > thinking more about John and…. at the end of HtN when he was interogating Wake, she wanted him to say her name. “i’ll be dammed if i pass up the chance to hear you speak the words” and “they’re dead words, a human chain reaching back ten thousand years”: Awake Remembrance of These Valiant Dead Kia Hua Ko Te Pai Snap Back to Reality Oops There Goes Gravity.

> > and then she asks him “how did they make you feel?” and of course, John deflects.

> > but that’s Aotearoa’s national anthem in te reo Māori. and as we learn in NtN, John is Maori. that’s his anthem. how must have that felt, to John? to hear his own anthem claimed by someone descended from the people who left his earth to die?

> There’s also an interesting disconnect there in the way the Edenites name themselves. Three-part-names that are all connections to an otherwise lost piece of human culture they have no connection to. For them, it’s all important because it was all lost and they don’t have context for any of it.

> For Jod, it’s a reminder the people who fled Earth considered his country’s national anthem about as significant as a Shakespeare quote and a meme line from a rap song, which really feels like a calculated insult in its own way.