Well, I just destroyed Coop emotionally when he was so excited to finally get to the Battle of Five Armies, but then...
Well, I just destroyed Coop emotionally when he was so excited to finally get to the Battle of Five Armies, but then Thorin and Fili and Kili end up dead. Total bawling meltdown and here I am trying to explain to a seven-year old that bad things happen in war and JRR Tolkein was a soldier and saw lots of people die, mostly young people, and I don't think that helped.
On the bright side you set him up perfectly for a normal game of Dwarf Fortress
ReplyDelete"Didn't he write this for his kids?"
ReplyDelete"Uh, yeahhhh..."
"Kids don't like it when people die."
"Look at this way, Fili and Kili were like 75 years old or something."
"So? That's young for a dwarf!"
That's rough.
ReplyDeleteIt's not my first time scarring the kids with a book or movie. I seem to do it a lot, actually...
ReplyDelete"Casey are you scarring the children... again??"
ReplyDelete"What? No, I'm... that's not... they're... yes..."
Mrs G did look at me like, again, really?
ReplyDeleteOne could argue that bawling emotionally at character death is way better than saying "cool" while laughing like Butthead.
ReplyDeleteMy son kept jokingly begging to watch Jaws. I finally 'indulged' him. His sisters had been in another room watching cartoons but they wandered in for the final scene. All three kids slept on the floor of our room that night.
ReplyDeleteAt least he didn't light a Lucky Strike and say "They had it comin'"
ReplyDeleteDaniel Lofton The watching of Jaws is now a mythical thing at our house because my wife put her foot down with a hard no when I suggested we all watch it a few months ago.
ReplyDeleteShe then bought Jurassic World, which has dozens (hundreds?) of deaths and let Coop watch it unsupervised. Of course, dinosaurs eating random people didn't phase him at all.
Casey G. Oh man, he piped up about Jurassic World too. I had to remind him how scared he was when we watched Jurassic Park, and told him World is way scarier. He hasn't mentioned it since.
ReplyDeleteAlso, Jaws is one of my all time favs so it was worth a little lost sleep.
ReplyDeleteJack Shear they totally did, though.
ReplyDeleteWell, Thorin. And anyone fool enough to stick with him.
Eerily familiar. The Hobbit was one of my first experiences with the idea that good guys can die too.
ReplyDeleteI... yeah, I made that mistake.
ReplyDeleteMine is a 4-year-old :(
I mean, yeah, I know it was totally age inappropriate - but we were in New Zealand visiting Hobbiton, so I let them watch the first movie, and they loved it. And wanted to watch them all.
And he loved Thorin so much, he even went on the Weta Workshop tour, and pointed out Thorin's hardened oak branch.
So, during the end battle, Thorin is battling against the white orc, and he asks "Will Thorin be alright?" and I say "Yes, Thorin will be fine" and then... yeah.
"I'm so sorry, I misremembered!"
shoooooot, who y'all kidding! I cried too!
ReplyDeleteJust remembered that the Iron Giant was the last time this happened. Not the Giant getting blown up, but the deer getting shot. "I never want to see a deer get killed again!" and I'm just mentally crossing Bambi off the list.
ReplyDeleteCasey G. Princess Mononoke
ReplyDelete...I don’t remember which film but I remember the person I was watching it with had to turn it off and go do something else after an elephant got shot. The reaction was just “nope. Elephants are better than this.”
Now imagining the same thing happening with Moby Dick. “No wait you’ll probably like the ending!”
“Dude, they are literally cutting up a majestic and gentle sea giant on the screen. This is not what I want to see.”
No fucking way.
ReplyDeleteCasey G. The hunter also crossed a deer off the list, so you have that in common, then
ReplyDeleteCoop understood the comic book trope of undoing main character death, so Infinity War wasn't hard for him. The 14 year old seeing Tom Holland fade away though...Niagara Falls, even if she knows he's not really dead.
ReplyDeleteMaybe Coop didn't have to learn it quite yet, but it's part of becoming a gamer. Sometimes party members die, even the cool ones. If he doesn't learn that, he'll be stuck playing Pathfinder forever.
ReplyDeleteLuke gets upset if the Puppy Dog Pals are having a hard time with their mission. He is NOT ready.
ReplyDeleteThat's rough homeboy.
ReplyDeleteStill trying to figure timing with mine
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