I want an Abominable Snowman-thing! <3
Alright, so maybe my insistence on riding in the bed of the truck tonight was silly. It's cold out, and that air was like *stabs needles into Erin's lungs*. But it was pretty, so I guess it makes up for it at least a little bit. :)
My mom sorta-made us watch that "Rudolph" thing, the really old clay-felt-random-stuff animation-thing, when we got home, 'cause she watched it as a kid, and we watched it as kids, and so it's sorta tradition or something...
...and it's a lot less cheery and fun than I remembered, a lot more shallow (singing about silver and gold and how Christmas trees are somehow ZOMG!important as opposed to the real meaning of Christmas or even the family-and-friends aspect of it) and in general just slightly disturbing.
Santa was mean (sure he apologized later, but it sorta made him look bad in the first place), the father of the chick!reindeer was mean, and while that's part of the story it's just not cool. The elf who wanted to be a dentist just bothered me, he wasn't smart-acting enough to be a dentist. I wouldn't trust someone acting like that anywhere near my mouth!
The worst part, though? To deal with the snow-creature (who was adorable, if decidedly violent), they drop rocks and stuff on it's head, then yank out all it's teeth (which made it look so SAD and traumatized and in pain!!), then pushed it off a cliff ONCE IT WAS HARMLESS! First of all, um, it sorta needs it's teeth ... y'know, for eating? They could have just as easily have knocked it out (the rock-dropping part did that fine) and left, let it be. Not yank it's teeth out and then shove it over a cliff once it can't do anything to you!
They almost-sorta redeemed themselves in the end by not-killing it (apparently they bounce, even off cliffs...?), having it help them put stars on Christmas trees as some kind of job or something (err..?), but... um, it still has no teeth. How exactly is it going to eat the things it is fully intended to eat (meat, specifically)? It'll get sick off of mushed-up stuff, and probably die anyway! :(:(:(
I know it's just a silly (and OLD) kids' thing, but it bothers me deeply. And makes me die a little inside!
But that could just be 'cause I'm not thinking all that clearly and am tiiiired and ill. Moo. In any case, I won't be watching that again, and am going to bed as soon as my electric blanket warms up...
My mom sorta-made us watch that "Rudolph" thing, the really old clay-felt-random-stuff animation-thing, when we got home, 'cause she watched it as a kid, and we watched it as kids, and so it's sorta tradition or something...
...and it's a lot less cheery and fun than I remembered, a lot more shallow (singing about silver and gold and how Christmas trees are somehow ZOMG!important as opposed to the real meaning of Christmas or even the family-and-friends aspect of it) and in general just slightly disturbing.
Santa was mean (sure he apologized later, but it sorta made him look bad in the first place), the father of the chick!reindeer was mean, and while that's part of the story it's just not cool. The elf who wanted to be a dentist just bothered me, he wasn't smart-acting enough to be a dentist. I wouldn't trust someone acting like that anywhere near my mouth!
The worst part, though? To deal with the snow-creature (who was adorable, if decidedly violent), they drop rocks and stuff on it's head, then yank out all it's teeth (which made it look so SAD and traumatized and in pain!!), then pushed it off a cliff ONCE IT WAS HARMLESS! First of all, um, it sorta needs it's teeth ... y'know, for eating? They could have just as easily have knocked it out (the rock-dropping part did that fine) and left, let it be. Not yank it's teeth out and then shove it over a cliff once it can't do anything to you!
They almost-sorta redeemed themselves in the end by not-killing it (apparently they bounce, even off cliffs...?), having it help them put stars on Christmas trees as some kind of job or something (err..?), but... um, it still has no teeth. How exactly is it going to eat the things it is fully intended to eat (meat, specifically)? It'll get sick off of mushed-up stuff, and probably die anyway! :(:(:(
I know it's just a silly (and OLD) kids' thing, but it bothers me deeply. And makes me die a little inside!
But that could just be 'cause I'm not thinking all that clearly and am tiiiired and ill. Moo. In any case, I won't be watching that again, and am going to bed as soon as my electric blanket warms up...