obrienizer
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Modern day characters enter a cave or underground room and light up monster torches instead of using long lasting, and bright, lamps.
or when they are smarter than all the adults around them - only because the adults were written as idiots.tired of movies and TV where little kids have major roles and are just as or more powerful than adults. sick of it. Wesley Crusher on steroids
Agreed on all counts.or when they are smarter than all the adults around them - only because they wrote the adults as idiots.
or when the kid's intuition is naturally more meaningful than an adult's rational judgement - e.g. the kid stepping out alone to greet the rabid monster who just ate 30 people so it will see that the kid means no harm and will calm down. It's that kind of magical thinking that created folks like Timothy Treadwell R.I.P.
Kathleen Kennedy, "The Force is female and if the fans don't like it send them chauvinists more!" "Rose Tico is the best new character, even better than Jar Jar Binks"Agreed on all counts.
They probably never spent much time (if any) with any real children. As for Timothy Treadwell: the way he and his girlfriend died was just horrific. The tragedy in it was that it didn't have to happen; the society we live in today protects people too much from the natural consequences of bad decisions; up until recent times, kids learned the hard way how things did (and did not work). I suspect with many of the writers now, they suffer the same issues, and don't know how things really work.
Pengbuzz: "Kathleen Kennedy can kiss my shinny black-and-white Pengbuzz @$$"Kathleen Kennedy, "The Force is female and if the fans don't like it send them chauvinists more!" "Rose Tico is the best new character, even better than Jar Jar Binks"
The problem is that many people taking risks do so in the hope of being saved by (put any emergency service/organization here) if stuff happens.Agreed on all counts.
They probably never spent much time (if any) with any real children. As for Timothy Treadwell: the way he and his girlfriend died was just horrific. The tragedy in it was that it didn't have to happen; the society we live in today protects people too much from the natural consequences of bad decisions; up until recent times, kids learned the hard way how things did (and did not work). I suspect with many of the writers now, they suffer the same issues, and don't know how things really work.
While the population has increased, common sense has actually decreased.Meh. There were always people winning Darwin awards.
I think we see more of them than ever in the news because there are 8 billion people on earth and the planet is small. Everywhere is patrolled and everything is caught on camera. Every bizarre news story from every tiny backwater place can go worldwide if it's amusing. Some guy in rural Bolivia has an accident with a cow milking machine, and people in Moscow will be laughing about it 12 hours later.
Yep, 'cause it was harder to stop a horse draw vehicle on a dimeWhile the population has increased, common sense has actually decreased.
Back in the 1890's, you didn't see people wandering into traffic while writing on handheld slates or notepads.
But they were maneuverable as heck, I hear.Yep, 'cause it was harder to stop a horse draw vehicle on a dime
Well, horses look like ghosts or are invisible because of their speed in front of the camera. Dead people, on the other way, were perfect subject for Brady.I don't know, I bet back when Matthew Brady was taking pictures, quite a lot of people got hit by horses while they posed for 15 minutes for a selfie.
Yep, as an European living in North America (Canada) I'm still completely flabbergasted at the level of permissiveness a child has over his parents I remember watching E.T. with my father and, at one point in the movie, the kid next door goes into his friends' fridge without asking the parent if he can have the permission to do so You should've seen the look on my father's faceIn commercials especially you see a mother coming up on kids doing something utterly insane and/or destructive and they just shrug it off and look rejected at the camera as if they couldn't lose their minds like all mothers would.
I have never understood that because there's nobody who looses their mind over the smallest things more so than either a military NCO or a mother with more than one kid!