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tfw "popular" fanon becomes so embedded in a fandom & discussions within fandom spaces that people just start treating it as the default and all interactions with others are coloured by this interpretation. have you considered that I actually don't subscribe to this take, which is nowhere in the source material? wait nvm, clearly not.
i want to go down to hot eel city
learned about the ending 8 hrs ago and am throughly in the anger phase of the stages of grief cause i’m sorry but that feels so sinister to completely warp THESE messages from THIS STORY??? to be clear lilo and stitch (the rest of the franchise as well as the series) is a story about an indigenous woman whose lost her parents and desperately trying to make things work so her sister isn’t taken from foster care? and then they find communal support allows for lilo to not be taken and instead grow up in a loving AND safe environment… also the fact that jumba and pleakly + stitch are aliens highlighting that found family that isn’t always two parents and that’s ok like sorry this is actually such important points that set lilo and stitch apart as a franchise and to erase it all????!!!!!
One of the things that makes the family conflict in Lilo & Stitch work narratively is that Cobra is correct in that Lilo and Nani's current situation is non-sustainable. And yes, Nani is not prepared to handle everything by herself. But losing the custody is not the solution either, and to a degree Cobra seems to believe the same (he legit does not want that to happen), but if Nani can't solve the problem, then from his perspective it's the least harmful solution.
And the conflict is solved because what Lilo and Nani need (what they REALLY needed) is a support net. Someone, anyone to be there to take at least SOME of the burden from Nani and give her breathing room.
Which is why Jumba and Peakley joining the family alongside Stitch, and become a constant pressence who share the burden of the household, makes all the difference.
And this does not solve all the problems, because the movie is not about magically resolving those problems, it's about putting the characters in a situation in which they can move forward as a family. And for their desire to be a family and be together as a family, to be respected.
Anyway, someone told me what the remake did for the ending