Welcome to another episode of Mental Health Multiverse: A podcast where we mindfully break down your pop culture favs and discuss them through the lens of self care, mental health, and personal development.
This week on MHM we are talking about CAPTAIN HOOK with returning special guest, Abelle!
Abelle was on our ESMERALDA Episode in Season One, you can go back and listen to that here: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mhmthepodcast/episodes/06--ESMERALDA-The-Hero--The-Heroine--and-The-Hunchback-with-Abelle-e21rn51
Abelle (she/they) is a general nerd, horror fan, and voice actor with a lot of opinions about a lot of things. LB and HB would like to add that Abelle’s opinions are very educated and well researched - as you’ll see in this episode, they educate the hosts on ‘The Hays Code’ and more!
In this episode, we question whether Captain Hook is the true villain of Peter Pan. We also dive into some common villain tropes such as disability, queer coding, and more!
Questions, themes, and topics we touch on include:
Disability Tropes with Villains
The history of ‘Queer Coding’ Villains
Peter Pan being a little shit
The importance of blatant queer representation and not relying on subtext
Captain Hook’s “Ticking Clock”
The Idea of Neverland = Inner Child Healing
Is Peter Pan a Cult Leader????
Smee & Hook’s Relationship
Resources:
Disability Trope Article: https://wakemag.org/voices/2022/11/15/disability-and-deformity-evil
@blackgaycomicgeek - Mentioned account asking for more blatantly queer representation, enough with the SUBTEXT
We talk about Wendy and Tinkerbelle in our “Other Strong Ladies” Episode of MHM, S1 Ep 23 https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mhmthepodcast/episodes/23--Other-Strong-Ladies-Pixies--Captains--and-Princesses--Oh-My-e2cqduk
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Heather (HB): Heather is an inclusive fitness coach helping self-proclaimed nerds who feel like they don’t “fit in” in fitness create healthier habits by using pop culture and fandom to make fitness more accessible and fun.
Marisa (LB): Marisa is a trauma-informed perfectionism recovery coach helping people turn down the volume on the inner critic and turn up the volume on their compassionate inner voice to help them become the kind, understanding adult they needed growing up.