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Just Once, I'd Like not to Have to Choose
... between narrative ethical messages in pop culture ...
Rented How to Train Your Dragon through YouTube Thanksgiving night as a treat:
Bechtel Test: Fail
Animal Rights: Fail (beautiful, intelligent, complex, wild creatures make the coolest pets!)
Disability Culture: Massive, Surprising Win: this is the first story outside my own head where the protagonist ends up with a permanent disability, that's seen as a happy ending - proof of having survived a real challenge and proof of a character's maturity.
If only if could have been a trifecta ...
Rented How to Train Your Dragon through YouTube Thanksgiving night as a treat:
Bechtel Test: Fail
Animal Rights: Fail (beautiful, intelligent, complex, wild creatures make the coolest pets!)
Disability Culture: Massive, Surprising Win: this is the first story outside my own head where the protagonist ends up with a permanent disability, that's seen as a happy ending - proof of having survived a real challenge and proof of a character's maturity.
If only if could have been a trifecta ...