Silly Little Country

Department of 'Huh'?

This week's "Star Week", the Toronto Star's television weekly, has a review of an upcoming show on CTV about the Orca, male but named Luna, that became separated from its pod, and wound up trapped in Nootka Sound. See also here.
As the link above shows, there were plans to reunite the Orca with its pod but along the way, a local native group 'adopted' the Orca, claiming it a reincarnation of their past chief, paddled about the sound with it in tow, in the process training it to approach humans, and boats, and completely undermined the plans being made to try to return it to its fold. After some years trapped in the sound, it was killed when it got too close to a tugboat.
CTV is running a TV movie "Luna : Spirit of the Whale" Sunday night.
The Star Week review of the movie contains this remarkable sentence.

Other co-stars include Jason Priestley as the villain - the Fisheries official who wants to transport Luna back to his pod ..."

Hence my 'huh?'.
It is not clear to me whether the villainy is part of the movie or just in the mind of the reviewer, but you can be sure I will never find out directly.

It's interesting that the CTV page linked to above includes several of CTV's past news reports on the actual story. One of the articles ends with:

In any event, the Mowachaht-Muchalaht elders say now that Luna has passed, their former chief will next come back as a wolf.

I pity any poor wolf who gots lost in the neighbourhood in the future.

I also imagine this is one instance of religion gone nuts, doing massive damage, that Christopher Hitchens does not mention in his current book.

Labels: Orca Luna

posted by Alan Adamson @ 1:03 PM