I find it hard to believe that Santa and his reindeer team had never had to deal with fog before. They travel the entire world, presumably making billions of separate takeoffs and landings, and it’s never been foggy on Christmas Eve anywhere in the world before the events of “Rudolph”?
Or maybe it was just that an unusual North Pole fog was preventing their initial departure that night, and otherwise they just skipped over areas of poor visibility. “Sorry, Billy, the dew point is rising. Looks like no presents for you this year.”
Unless they are regionalisms or old versions that I don’t know about, then Donner and Blitz are correct German. Blitzen is the verb. Never having seen a German listing of the reindeer by name, I don’t know what they are called over there.
I don’t think we know the whole story here, just the parts that want us to think a certain way.
Rudolph was a designer deer, bred in a lab and supposed to be the 2.0 of deer. Financed by Big Christmas and cloned in an illegal lab in the North Pole. Medically the experiment was a failure and left Rudolph with a compromised immune system. For his own safety, he was excluded from herd activities and yes faced bigotry from several of the other herd members. Seriously, individuals whose names are more in common with exotic dancers have no excuse to be throwing stones at glass houses.
The island of unwanted Toys, sure I’m sure hospital patients have their own names for long term care facilities that are not so flattering. Oh it tugs at the emotions does it not, but the real story is that Rudolph was finally given the chance to prove his worth and all we have to his memory is one, count em , one mission going downtown.
The media version is that Rudolph came home to a hero’s welcome, but has not been seen since. A check with the American Dental association says whats his name was never enrolled. The island of misfit toys, shut down.
I’ve always interpreted this as just him being really naive due to just being created. The police officer tells him to stop. So he does–for a second, then continues on.
I can’t remember if that idea comes from a Christmas special, like the Rankin Bass version.
