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It is kinda sad how if being boss is where it’s at, the guy is boss, and if being adorable where it’s at, the guy is adorable—I guess that much is okay—but then the girl is like the Other Thing, whichever one Isn’t, where it’s at, right. Surely there could still have been conflict and plot if they were both onboard with their themes/values? A whole bloody Viking village would be thinking they were nuts!
(shrugs) But at least it’s not about spilling dragon gore genocidally, right. It’s basically a movie about a boy who has a dog…. A dog that can fly, right….
I guess it tries to make up in human-dragon relations what it lacks in gender relations, lol.
…. I mean, I didn’t realize I’d want “Annabeth Does Obedience School” to be a whole separate work of art, right, instead of a book chapter….
…. “I’m not one of them” is a harsh message.
It’s also not true. Aren’t we all one of “them”, in the end?
It’s not terrible, but it is rather ambivalent, in a lot of ways.
But it is like a lot of early 2010s movies, and there were some that were worse.
…. I mean, I realize that people don’t take children or their media seriously enough to consider what I’m about to say at face value, (“Let’s topple the dragon dictatorship, and tell dad to push off, to boot! Woo hoo! We’re the children of America, and we don’t like Boomers, or, for that matter, Iraqis….” “What are you talking about laddie? (painfully punch-slaps my back in a friendly way) They’re just a bunch of stupid runts having a good time!”), but it’s a very ambivalent thing, very morally ambivalent.
And yes, I realize that this is you, not taking me seriously as I say that.
…. Of course, I sorta get the trepidation about not moralizing to children (like grandpa’s church, say), because—although this isn’t what you get from children’s media, sometimes—people often expect children to be more moral than adults, you know.
“Tell grandpa you’re thankful that he depleted his petty cash to buy us ice cream…. (leans in) I vote we send grandpa to the island; I mean, to the nursing home. Whether he likes it, or not.”
And I really can’t comment on that, you know. It’s just…. It’s not worth talking about.
…. Anyway, I know that the Morrigan is a Celtic deity and not a Germanic one, and so for that and other reasons, I’m sure people will hit the metaphorical ‘Don’t care/you’re crazy’ button, right. But I think Astrid would be a lot like the Morrigan if Astrid were a real character…. And I’ve been using tarot to ask the Morrigan some questions, and boy, some of them are wild…. I guess that’s a battle for another day.
But in general, it is true that it is hard to like/respect/be attracted to/ girls that are fragile and weak, you know…. Although I still watch soccer like a Buddhist, if a Buddhist could watch soccer. I guess if you were a “real” Buddhist you wouldn’t. Being a “real” Buddhist is a lot like being a “real” man, although on the mental/etheric spheres rather than the physical one, which is what most people think of first.
…. But, yeah. I mean, it wasn’t good; it wasn’t bad. It wasn’t worse than others movies, and it wasn’t better.
So yeah. Whatever. Okay.
I’m going to go either read “The Mists of Avalon” now, or meditate on whether “Lilo & Stitch” is any better.
But, yeah, whatever. Okay.
