I don't think enough people dig deep into children's shows. For instance, I recently got really into the Trolls series. I don't think we talk enough about Trolls.
In the movies and series, the Pop Trolls gloss over the fact that they were basically livestock for at least three generations. I say three generations because their history and stories were quickly erased through the dying out of the older generations. In reality, we dont know how long they were in that tree. At least long enough to build an escape tunnel with subpar if any tools. From what I'm thinking, probably a few centuries. First, their stories, then their songs, and finally, their identity as Pop. They lost so much, and it is kind of glossed over.
We also don't know how the Bergans kept the troll population up. If I was being kept as livestock and knew eventually I was going to be eaten, I wouldn't want to subject my offspring to that hopeless fate. Did they make them have children? Did they do artificial troll insemination? Do they keep them sedated if they asexually carry eggs? The further you do go into this, the worse it gets. Did the Bergans know the Trolls were cognizant and aware with fully rounded out emotions, or did they think about them like humans think about cattle? With the knowledge that they are creatures with feelings but are too ingrained into their need for happiness that they disregard it all? Or do they think that trolls are simple creatures that were made for consumption that can only feel happy?
The more I think about it, the more horrified I get. Trolls were watching their loved ones be stolen away with the knowledge that they were never coming back. They knew that they were going to be consumed by the gaping maws of these giants, and they could not fight it. The only way they could break the cycle was to escape. Even then, the only way to go past this and put an end to Trollstice was to forgive and make peace with the same giants that ate them. To move on from the thousands of deaths and broken families and keep going because it was the only way to keep the rest of them safe.
What's even more unsettling is the fact that the only thing saving the rest on the Trolls was that the Bergans didn't know they existed. The other more vulnerable tribes like Techno and Country( the ones most easily accessible by either fishing or being on the ground) would have been captured and devoured as well.
Forgiveness on the part after the younger generations that didn't truly understand the hell they left. How many older trolls remember what went on in that tree? How many look at these new allies and know beyond a shadow of a doubt that they ate their mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, and friends? How many look at the bergans and go ' I remember your face, and I know the sins you carry.' ?