Okay. On the one hand we have young kids who want to become crimefighters deliberately choosing to be trained by dangerous methods. And they know that The Batman is nobody's friend, especially not the friend of kids.
On the other we have kids expecting a nice factory tour, damn near killed by a guy who hates them and probably the whole human race. (How many kids died from diabetes and heart attacks from eating all those crappy Wonka bars to find those golden tickets, any way?) You seem to have mistaken Batman for the Frank Miller version of The Joker - another guy who poisoned a lot of kids with a sugary product.
And I tell you again, in caps, so maybe you'll get it this time, PRINT IS DEAD. The original Wonka books don't matter. What matters is that Dahl approved of the film with this top-hatted Ed Gein. Those books were never read by one hundreth of the kids who went to see "The Rocky Horror Picture Show for Kids," as one author called the film. The film is the only text that matters, because that's the only one people know about.
If you want to blame something for that situation, blame the incompetents who call themselves "America's finest teachers" for the inability of this generation to read, as well as their indifference to text. But don't blame me. I'm just introducing you to what's happening in reality.
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Date: 2007-01-05 06:38 am (UTC)On the other we have kids expecting a nice factory tour, damn near killed by a guy who hates them and probably the whole human race. (How many kids died from diabetes and heart attacks from eating all those crappy Wonka bars to find those golden tickets, any way?) You seem to have mistaken Batman for the Frank Miller version of The Joker - another guy who poisoned a lot of kids with a sugary product.
And I tell you again, in caps, so maybe you'll get it this time, PRINT IS DEAD. The original Wonka books don't matter. What matters is that Dahl approved of the film with this top-hatted Ed Gein. Those books were never read by one hundreth of the kids who went to see "The Rocky Horror Picture Show for Kids," as one author called the film. The film is the only text that matters, because that's the only one people know about.
If you want to blame something for that situation, blame the incompetents who call themselves "America's finest teachers" for the inability of this generation to read, as well as their indifference to text. But don't blame me. I'm just introducing you to what's happening in reality.