3/28/2024 0 Comments Creature report octonauts bookare pure philanthropists? That’s fine.Captain Barnacles, Shellington, and Peso are looking at pictures being sent to the Octopod by Dashi, who is exploring an underwater cave. They have a quasi-hidden rescue operation which is used as a propaganda shield and an excuse for them to travel around the world, moving illicit goods for the surface-dwellers and being rewarded with money and equipment to fund a lavish undersea lifestyle.ĭon’t believe me? Want to think that Barnacles et al. Given all of the above, I suspect the Octonauts are an international smuggling operation. What are they doing wandering around the ocean? Don’t ask) is perfectly capable of making long trips on land and are, in most cases, more at home there than at sea. After all, every member of the team bar Inkling and the Vegimals (half vegetable, half sea-creature. Given that the team’s portrayed mission is purely humanitarian, why the secrecy? Why the lack of overland government contact/recognition. My conclusion: someone on the surface is quietly funneling funds and equipment to the Octonauts for an unknown purpose. Tweak is a possibility, but her father lives in meager accommodation in the heart of a swamp, and so I am skeptical she possesses vast personal reserves of wealth. I don’t believe that Inkling, their supposed founder, can possibly be the source of all of these resources, since he spends most of his time in his undersea library doing nothing and the rest being actively useless. Yet this is a world with a significant tech presence on land - Ranger Marsh in the Everglades has a radio, there are unaffiliated polar monitoring stations in the Arctic, and the litter that threatens maritime environments clearly comes from somewhere. They appear to be the only undersea creatures with technology of any sort. The more time you spend in the Octonauts’ world, the more enigmatic their operations become. So, if they’re not a government agency, who the hell is paying for all of this? They have rescue vehicles for all terrains, some demonstrating highly advanced technology. They have built at least two massive, jet-propelled submarines. The Octonauts are capable of constructing bases in deep-sea trenches. How does this team exist? Clearly Professor Inkling and Tweak, the engineer, are the brains of the operation, but why are they stuck under the sea? What is their overall mission? There’s not enough red tape/repeated suspensions of Kwazii for the Octonauts to be government-funded, so that means they’re privately funded.īut the resources they command are huge. Calico Jack Rackham is credited with the invention of the Jolly Roger.īut still. *Kwazii, the aforementioned cat, has a grandfather named ‘Calico Jack’, whom Octonauts-knowers may not realize was the nickname of a real pirate operating in the early 1700s. Why wouldn’t there be a semi-pirate cat, job description unknown*? Why wouldn’t their engineer be a green rabbit? Why wouldn’t their medic be a penguin. Of course there is an elite team equipped with advanced technology saving animals and solving mysteries under the sea. If Barnacles had discovered Secret Base, his Creature Report might have gone something like this:Īnyway, like all children’s shows, Octonauts asks you to suspend your disbelief about the world it portrays.
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