History Recap / CentaurworldS1E8RideTheWhaletaurShaman

* AnAesop: Don't deaden your emotions in order to stop feeling pain. Doing so will also come at the cost of the other emotions that make life wonderful. Sometimes, it's best to deal with your sorrow, as long as you remember [[YouAreNotAlone you're never alone]].

* DarkReprise: "Who Is She (Reprise)" is this for both "Who Is She" and "Hello Rainbow Road", as the song borrows melodies and lyrics from both but puts a darker twist on them. The former is a confident song about Horse's self-assured personality, and the latter is a rousing song encouraging the herd to explore the unknown, and hopeful that she would find a way back to Rider. The reprise has "Who Is She" being a despairing summation of how Horse [[StrangerInAFamiliarLand is forgetting Rider's face]], and "Hello Rainbow Road" reflects her crumbling hope to return to her world. Ultimately, when Horse jumps into Whale's mouth, it has her sing [[IronicEcho despairingly]] "[[WaxingLyrical so say bye to the old...]]"

The herd is horrified by this, but Merguy explains that this is what everyone who comes to seek the whaletaur ends up doing despite his efforts to distract them. They decide to rescue Horse and swim out to sea, where Wammawinks lowers herself into the whaletaur's blowhole. In her belly, she finds a great crowd of ghostlike people, including Horse, and the shaman explains that she has absorbed their pain to help them move past their personal griefs. Wammawinks sings a song about how you can't simply run away from your pain and that deadening your emotions simply robs you of your joy for life, and is able to sway both the smaller taurs into returning to the outside world and the shaman into letting them go.

* TriumphantReprise: When Wammawink first sang "Fragile Things", it [[EstablishingCharacterMoment comes across]] as a song about how she likes to [[MyBelovedSmother pander and pamper and smother]] her herd to the point of helplessness. Here, as she tries to sing Horse out of her [[HeroicBSOD depression]], it transforms into a song that brings home her best quality: her compassion, her empathy, and her strong sense of [[FamilyOfChoice family]].

* DarkReprise: "Who Is She (Reprise)" is this for both "Who Is She" and "Hello Rainbow Road", as the song borrows melodies and lyrics from both but puts a darker twist on them. The latter is a rousing song encouraging the herd to explore the unknown, and hopeful that she would find a way back to Rider, and the former is a confident song about Horse's self-assured personality. The reprise has "Who Is She" being a despairing summation of how Horse [[StrangerInAFamiliarLand is forgetting Rider's face]], and "Hello Rainbow Road" reflects her crumbling hope to return to her world. Ultimately, when Horse jumps into Whale's mouth, it has her sing [[IronicEcho despairingly]] "[[WaxingLyrical so say bye to the old...]]"

* AttemptedSuicide: Horse, driven to despair over her ToonTransformation and grief at starting to lose her memories of Rider, hurls herself off a cliff -- with the last shaman leaping out of the ocean and eating her to [[EmotionEater take away her pain]]. She doesn't die, but the symbolism of the scene is blatant.

* DarkReprise: Horse's song is a hybrid between "Hello Rainbow Road" and "Who Is She". The former is a rousing song encouraging the herd to explore the unknown, and hopeful that she would find a way back to Rider, and the latter is a confident song about Horse's self-assured personality. The reprise has "Who Is She" being a despairing summation of how Horse [[StrangerInAFamiliarLand is forgetting Rider's face]], and "Hello Rainbow Road" reflects her crumbling hope to return to her world. Ultimately, when Horse jumps into Whale's mouth, it has her sing [[IronicEcho despairingly]] "[[WaxingLyrical so say bye to the old...]]"

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Wammawink says at the beginning of the episode that the Whaletaur Shaman is called 'the Last Shaman', though she doesn't know why. Well, eating despairing people to absorb their grief could certainly earn her the title. The Whaletaur Shaman being summoned by tears and always crying are further hints at her true nature.

* DarkReprise: Horse's song is a heartbreaking hybrid between "Hello Rainbow Road" and "Who is she". The former was a rousing song encouraging the herd to explore the unknown, and hopeful that she would find a way back to Rider. And the latter was a confident song about Horse's self-assured personality. But the reprise has "Who is she" being a despairing summation of how Horse [[StrangerInAFamiliarLand is forgetting Rider's face]], and "Hello Rainbow Road" reflects her crumbling hope to return to her world. Ultimately, when Horse jumps into Whale's mouth, it has her sing [[IronicEcho despairingly]] "[[WaxingLyrical So say bye to the old...]]"

* BrickJoke: When Durpleton extends his neck to be able to stand on the seafloor, a barnacle and a sea anemone centaur are nearby and the barnacle tries to describe him to the anemone. At the end of the episode, Durpleton's body is still standing on the seafloor and the barnacle ''still'' hasn't the words to describe him..

* {{Foreshadowing}}: The whaletaur shaman is always crying, hinting at the later revelation that she absorbs the pain of everyone she swallows into herself.

* AnAesop: Don't deaden your emotions to feel pain. Doing so will also come at the cost of the other emotions that make life wonderful. Sometimes, it's best to deal with your sorrow, as long as you remember [[YouAreNotAlone you're never alone]].

* BrickJoke: When Durpleton extends his neck to be able to stand on the sea floor, a sea urchin and a sea anemone are nearby and the urchin tries to describe him to the anemone. At the end of the episode, Durpleton's body is still standing on the sea floor and the urchin is still trying to describe him.

* DissonantSerenity: When the whaletaur shaman swallows Horse whole, Merguy is unnervingly serene and doesn't break his peaceful expression even as the wave from the whaletaur crashing into the sea washes over the herd, and afterwards simply comments on the sunset.

The herd is horrified by this, but Merguy explains that this is what everyone who comes to seek the whaletaur ends up doing despite his efforts to distract them. They decide to rescue horse and swim out to sea, where Wammawinks lowers herself into the whaletaur's blowhole. In her belly, she finds a great crowd of ghostlike people, including Horse, and the shaman explains that she has absorbed their pain to help them move past their personal griefs. Wammawinks sings a song about how you can't simply run away from your pain and that deadening your emotions simply robs you of your joy for life, and is able to sway both the smaller taurs into returning to the outside world and the shaman into letting them go.

-->'''Merguy:''' Well, my real name is [high-pitched dolphin chattering], but that's a little hard to pronounce, so I just go by Somefish Merguy.