Hey, brother! Guys, how freaking great was Moana?
I have seriously been listening to the soundtrack like
Non-stop since the movie came out which I think might be starting to annoy the passengers in my car
But did them all I have to say is you're [welcome], [and] they're like "is this car right over yet?"
And I'm like "no one knows how far it goes!"
[but] listening as much as I have been I have picked up on one line in particular in the song Shinee by the giant crab
[Tama] toa
[he] says you can't expect a demigod to beat a decapod then he breaks the fourth wall, and says look it up
So I did looked up decapod and all I can say is, DON'T
Now supposedly during the production of Moana the motto on set was
Believable not realistic for the most part I dare say they did a very good [job]
Within the context of the movie it was very believable that there could be at Lava Monster
Shape-shifting demigods water that could be your best friend and a gigantic crab in a realm of monsters what's concerning?
Is that the giant crab is only barely
Across the line of what is realistic allow me to introduce to you what you discover if you look up a decapod
The coconut crab [these] things actually belong in a realm of monsters decapod literally means
Ten-legged and is an order of [the] crustacean family now
They come in all shapes and sizes with some being less terrifying than others, but the coconut crab which is what Tama, toa
Is is the undisputed King standing at [over] 50 feet tall in the movie?
He is a little exaggerated admittedly, but I still don't think you would welcome a real one with open arms
So you know how sometimes you see a spider, and it's like this big, and you're like, AHH GET AWAY FROM ME HELL SPAWN!!!!!
and that's just with tiny spiders,
I've come across some much bigger ones in my day like the size of my palm!
And if you've ever experienced this I'm sure you will agree
but the only
Solution is to.... burn down your old house and move. And that brings us back to the coconut crab now for a second summon up
your courage and
Imagine that spider again the size of your palm except instead of eight legs it has [10] and the two extra aren't legs
But actually claws claws that can break a coconut
And instead of the size of your hand it's three feet long and can weigh 10 pounds. (HELL SPAWN!!)
This is the nightmare fuel reality that is the coconut crab just look at its speed [its]
Unstoppable [where] we live it wouldn't be impossible to say oh my God a bear got into my trash, but somehow
I still feel like I would be more comfortable looking out and seeing a bear than a
Coconut crab in my trash.(Me too) Fortunately for me the odds are kind of against that since they are native to the south pacific
Which also made tama toa a pretty fitting villain [for] Moana!
Which is great for the most of us, but if you were watching this video from the south pacific....
You are in our thoughts and prayers(Bless you, stay safe)
But back to the actual character one of the things that I thought was endlessly clever about the way they wrote him
was the fact that he wasn't just obsessed with treasure for being shiny,
But it actually served a functional purpose and that it attracted fish! Which explained his extra-large size so again only
Slightly extra large [it] turns out though that real life coconut crabs
actually like to steal shiny things like
Silverware and many people know them as robber crabs so tomahtoa is hoarding of gold is
Actually somewhat accurate! as is his isolation
[real-life] coconut crabs are extremely antisocial and often seclude themselves in crevices
Or burrows where they're probably admiring all if you're missing forks,(I KNEW IT!) but their villainy doesn't end there in the movie Tama, toa
Makes a joke about how he ate his grandmother and how it took a week because she was so large
It's a great line. It makes him sound evil like who eats their grandmother and who doesn't love a fat grandma joke
Is that actually [a] thing yeah? I think so, but this is
No, joke real-life coconut crabs are actually cannibals. They're only a known predator other than humans is other
Coconut crabs so as you can see their threat to humanity is very real and we've been researching them as much as we can to
Plan for their inevitable invasion
Which is when we came across the pacific island belief of Taotao Moana which I'm sure I'm pronouncing wrong
This is they believe that
Ancestral spirits can return in the form of animals to haunt the islands and one of the forms believed to be taken on by these
Spirits is none other than the coconut crab
So not only are they a three-foot body armored spiders with claws
But they are also ghosts because of course they are but here's where it actually gets crazy
You may have noticed that tama toa name sounds an awful Lot like
[Taotao] Moana and where Tama toa lives in the movie is [Lalo] tie or the realm of Monsters
But according to at Disney wiki [lalo] tie was originally going to be the realm of Ancestral spirits
So I don't think it's any coincidence that tomato ax sounds a lot like Taotao Moana
Which got me wondering is it possible [that] he is a reincarnated ancestral Spirit honestly?
I was a little skeptical of my own thought until it to me that that exact thing
Happens in the movie Mallanna's grandmother becomes a spirit of a Manta Ray upon dying [so] the question then becomes
Who was Tamatoa?
[we] think we have the answer [to] this question, but it will have to wait for [another] day
But do not worry, we will get to the bottom of it for my question of the day
how will you be preparing your home against the eminent threat that is coconut crabs and what do you think could tell Mottola be an
Ancestral spirit leave your thoughts in the towels section down below
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