Think Tank - Non-Human Humanoid Violence in Children's Fiction

[qualapec]

Recently, I've developed a sudden and unexpected interest in the Transformer's fandom, both through the video games I've played and the Transformers Prime animated series. I also blame ghostofthemotif , who had the nerve to go and write AWESOME fanfic for it.

TF Prime - best children's show I've seen since Avatar: TLA. Granted, it's not QUITE as good as Avatar,

Comments

[fearedeyepatch]

I'm not entirely sure I would put Animal Farm in the same category though--because Orwell as an author is just as violent and vivid, if not down right worse to his human characters. Animal Farm I would argue is a case not about using animals as stand ins for human, but a different sort of story telling device to create a sort of fable. And Watership Down is directed at Children. >.> Did you ever see the film for that one? Holy. Crap. I actually miss kids movies/shows that weren't so afraid like they tend to be now, so good on Transformers for at least some of that.

I'm not sure how much I would prefer to have animals/robots in society, and I'm tried enough you're getting solely my POV, I'm not even trying to look at society right now. I would almost say it makes some issues easier on kids when they're growing, like Watership Down, and that is because yes, is some ways animal life is valued at a whole lot less. Doesn't make it a good trend or something I approve of, but if you're not vegetarian/vegan you've been the cause of some animal's death, which is not something everyone can say about most humans.

I'm going to stop trying to think this early in the morning for me now...