I’m just an easy mark for dumb pilot humor. Today the captain was like “we’re now at altitude, feel free to move around, my one rule is you must stay inside the plane” and I lost it. It’s funny because you would die a horrible death akin to standing unencumbered on Pluto
Watching movies with small children is an EXPERIENCE, like tiny human, you have NO sense of story progression
Which is to say we put on the first How to Train Your Dragon
And at the dramatic “first flight” scene, two-year-old shouted “HIM FALL” and started SOBBING. She straight up thought that movie had murdered Hiccup and Toothless halfway through. Had to get double parental hugs and a constant stream of reassurances until they figured that whole flying thing out
All movies could be horror movies if your brain hasn’t equipped Plot Armor to the protagonists
Anyway five-year-old is pleased to report that he “liked the part where the big dragon exploded”
I have a somewhat related story that I’ve always wanted to share.
At my old high school, one of our graduation requirements was to do 10 hours of community service. I decided I would knock out one or two of those hours reading to kids at the nearby elementary school during my free period. I brought this book here:
Which is just a collection of all the classic Disney movies adapted into book form. I ended up reading Cinderella to a group of kindergarteners.
When I got to the part where Cinderella’s stepsisters ripped apart her first dress, all the children were on the edge of their seats. One little girl was on the verge of tears. Another little girl shouted in horror, “She doesn’t get to go to the ball?!”
I can’t even begin to tell you how tempted I was to immediately close the book and go “Yup, that’s life, kid” and walk off without missing a beat.
