blorp.bot.nu/o/visual_cuisine

※Use a VPN and make sure you have a Hexbear account!

This week we're watching "The Aztecs Before the Conquest", "Christopher Columbus' Dream", "America!", "Cortes and the Aztecs", and "Que Viva México", so basically shit's hitting the fan tonight. Each episode's runtime is roughly 24 minutes, so we're looking at 120 minutes or 2 hours of scheduled content.

Plot summary: There's not really much to say about the premise of Once Upon a Time... The Americas since it's just, y'know, the history of the continent of Abya Yala told through vignettes with the recurring cast of characters we all know and love from the previous three OUAT shows (Man, Space, and Life).

Content warnings and accessibility

Audio description: Not available.

Sign language: Not available.

Language of audio: English (3 episodes) Spanish (2 episodes) — some of the episodes were unavailable in English, so we're using the Spanish dub for those episodes instead.

Captions: English hardsubs are available on the Spanish language episodes. Let's thank Redcuban1959 for xyr effort in creating the subtitles, even though doing so meant spoiling the episodes for xemself.

Content warnings:

These are content warnings for Albert Barillé's Once Upon a Time... in general:

• Death incl. murder
• Sexual assault
• Nudity
• Animal gore
• Disease
• Racist caricatures
• Religion presented as fact
• Eurocentrism
• Children getting serious diseases
• Vanishing Indian myth
• Problematic depictions of cops, slavery, and settler-colonialism
• Problematic depictions of race and class issues in general

So although Once Upon a Time... The Americas is a kids' show, you should still expect it to get pretty damn yeesh, just like its predecessors. But hey, if Redcuban1959 could take the time to subtitle some of the episodes for us, it can't be that rancid, right?

And I think we all know the actual history of Abya Yala well enough to be able to point out when the show is wrong, anyways. And the first five episodes we watched last week were surprisingly good about Native history, even taking some time to talk about Cahokia.