"Walt Disney Studios Animated Short Films Collection" Review (Major Spoilers)

[mattzimmer]

Also reviews for the season premieres of The Flash and Arrow, the latest episode of Gotham, the season premiere of iZombie, the latest episode of Wabbit, the first week of the new cartoon Be Cool, Scooby Doo!, the latest episodes of Marvel's Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D., Ultimate Spider-Man: Web-Warriors, Marvel's Guardians Of The Galaxy, The Muppets,

Comments

[stinkingbishop]

The Muppets: For a second, I thought you were talking about a DC crossover...

Matchgirl: Andersen had a massive hard-on for "happy endings" where the main character dies, but it's okay because he goes to heaven. The worst example I read was an obscure story called Death and the Mother, where a woman goes to the underworld to rescue her dead daughter. She meets Death, who basically says "if your daughter had lived she would've had a sucky life, so it's just as well she's n heaven now". And that's meant to be a happy ending!

Believe it or not, there's a cartoon version of that story, too... only the director had the sense to remove the "happy" aspect and present it as a horror story. It works better that way.

[mattzimmer]

Matchgirl: That's depressing about Andersen. But that shows why I hated this short so much.

[stinkingbishop]

C.S. Lewis could be just as bad. Ever read The Last Battle? Yeesh.

[mattzimmer]

The Last Battle was effed up. Susan doesn't get into Heaven because she wears make-up. Even J.K. Rowling has commented on how messed up that was.