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*** Jacques never quite succeeded in explaining why Ninian's house had pews and a lectern, either. And it's hard to remove all traces of religion when the main characters live in an abbey, the leader is an abbot or abbess, and a dozen characters in any given book are called Brother or Sister. |
*** Jacques never quite succeeded in explaining why Ninian's house had pews and a lectern, either. And it's hard to remove all traces of religion when the main characters live in an abbey, the leader is an abbot or abbess, and a dozen characters in any given book are called Brother or Sister. |
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*** Oh, and interestingly enough, [[wikipedia:Saint Ninian|St. Ninian]] happens to be real. |
*** Oh, and interestingly enough, [[wikipedia:Saint Ninian|St. Ninian]] happens to be real. |
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* As stated elsewhere, ''[[Dinotopia]]'' author/illustrator James Guerney never met an animal-related trope he liked. He strongly dislikes it when animal characters act too human and has [http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2008/02/animal-characters-4-animal-morphism.html written in his blog] about how he himself has has struggled to avoid this. It's worth noting that a few of the spinoff novels and the films have featured animal characters that are indeed anthropomorphic or nearly so. [[Canon |
* As stated elsewhere, ''[[Dinotopia]]'' author/illustrator James Guerney never met an animal-related trope he liked. He strongly dislikes it when animal characters act too human and has [http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2008/02/animal-characters-4-animal-morphism.html written in his blog] about how he himself has has struggled to avoid this. It's worth noting that a few of the spinoff novels and the films have featured animal characters that are indeed anthropomorphic or nearly so. [[Canon Discontinuity]]? You betcha. |
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* While mild compared to many examples, in the ''[[Duncton Wood]]'' books, the shift in mole behavior between the first book and its extension to a trilogy, and especially between the first and second trilogies, is quite noticeable. |
* While mild compared to many examples, in the ''[[Duncton Wood]]'' books, the shift in mole behavior between the first book and its extension to a trilogy, and especially between the first and second trilogies, is quite noticeable. |
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* ''[[Angelina Ballerina]]'' actually portrayed all of the mice as [[Civilized Animal|Civilized Animals]] in both the books and the first cartoon series, but they are fully anthropomorphized in the CGI cartoon series. |
* ''[[Angelina Ballerina]]'' actually portrayed all of the mice as [[Civilized Animal|Civilized Animals]] in both the books and the first cartoon series, but they are fully anthropomorphized in the CGI cartoon series. |
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