Not that Miller hasn't inserted a few
clues beforehand, or that the message (you can't really help others, on an individual or group basis, unless you
learn to accept yourself first) IS N'T
valuable or valid... but Mumble's hero's journey to to convince us humans to quit depriving them of all the fish necessary for their sustenance is flawed from a basic storytelling rather than a thematic viewpoint; it has a tendency to zigzag from point A to point Q while skipping Points B through P altogether.