Shear Modulus posted:

post-escalator, the two american political parties are defined by a split between morons obsessed with childrens books and nazis obsessed with childrens cartoons

Crane Fist posted:

Are you guys getting all hosed up on children's books again, jesus christ we've been over this

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

BENGHAZI 2 posted:

Animorphs are actual fuckin cool and dealt with actual things that happen in war and the ending is actually super lovely even tho the space Nazis get beaten on Earth

More kids books need to be like yeah good job you won exactly one fight, universe still sucks, get used to it

Ghost Leviathan posted:

Animorphs is a bit of an odd duck given how long ago and how differently it came out; basically there's a shitload of books, a lot of them are ghostwritten and basically filler, and probably tonally all over the place, but they handle violence and death in a way closer to like, Hunger Games than Harry Potter.

BENGHAZI 2 posted:

I think it works out to being exactly half of the main books that are ghostwritten, I'm kind of interested to go back and figure out what of the post-David pre-final arc books you could cut out without losing any of the major plot stuff

I'm not gonna reread thirty children's books I say as I hide my phone

Ghost Leviathan posted:

IIRC most of them are really short. Harry Potter changed the game iirc by showing kids would be happy to read long books. (didn't Narnia already prove that?)

BENGHAZI 2 posted:

Nah Narnia isn't much longer than an animorphs book

And yeah they're all 150-200 pages

According to wiki 26 of the 54 main books were ghost written, and all of the side books were written by Applegate, so this actually wouldn't be that dumb of a thing to examine, or take that long if I just wanted to do those ghost written ones

the bitcoin of weed posted:

turns out a lot of (white) latinos are FYGM shitheads who think they'll be excluded from the camps because they pass the paper bag test and their particular immigration method was technically legal whenever they arrived, and they're probably right. minorities aren't a monolith especially one as diverse as latinos

Dapper_Swindler posted:

gently caress, really? narnia is that short. i have to read through them again someday. they were ok at times.

BENGHAZI 2 posted:

They got super hard to read once I realized how insanely Christian they are and how hosed up it is that the Pevensie kids just straight up cut their sister out for deciding she wants to gently caress and now she can't go to heaven

So sometime around the time I was ten

Dapper_Swindler posted:

i thought it was more implied she wasn't on the train but yeah it gets eyerolling a ton. that being said the BBC shows are funny.

Plutonis posted:

https://twitter.com/CIA/status/1025051074028351488

BENGHAZI 2 posted:

They got super hard to read once I realized how insanely Christian they are and how hosed up it is that the Pevensie kids just straight up cut their sister out for deciding she wants to gently caress and now she can't go to heaven

So sometime around the time I was ten

DACK FAYDEN posted:

I was like eight when I read... was it book five?... where they got trapped underground and there was a twenty-page argument where the bad guy tried to get them to not believe in the Sun because they couldn't see it.

I didn't get that the whole thing was a very overwrought metaphor for denying the obvious existence of the one true god etcetc so I was really confused why this stupid conversation kept going and what the point of it was and wondering when they'd get back to the action.

that's my contribution

BENGHAZI 2 posted:

No that's later when they all go to Super Heaven and it's explicitly stated

When the Peavensies et al first appear someone's like hey where's Susan and they talk about how she doesn't believe in Narnia anymore and she's more interested in make up and boys

Last Battle or w/e is a super weird fuckin book, it's literally Revelation for kids but weirder, like the end of the book is the loving rapture

DACK FAYDEN posted:

I was like eight when I read... was it book five?... where they got trapped underground and there was a twenty-page argument where the bad guy tried to get them to not believe in the Sun because they couldn't see it.

I didn't get that the whole thing was a very overwrought metaphor for denying the obvious existence of the one true god etcetc so I was really confused why this stupid conversation kept going and what the point of it was and wondering when they'd get back to the action.

that's my contribution

Taintrunner posted:

gee I wonder why people got so bad when I said black panther was imperialist whitewashing to cover up the CIA’s crimes against humanity in Africa

Dapper_Swindler posted:

yeah, thats why it gets boring and bad, lion, witch and wardrobe is somehow the least aligorical and the most fun read. also the family is full of weirdly dickish kids. Eustace is unrealistically amusingly lovely.

cenotaph posted:

the fact that they are an advanced nation that still has combat to determine a leader (certainly no racist implications here, no sirree)

DACK FAYDEN posted:

I was like eight when I read... was it book five?... where they got trapped underground and there was a twenty-page argument where the bad guy tried to get them to not believe in the Sun because they couldn't see it.

I didn't get that the whole thing was a very overwrought metaphor for denying the obvious existence of the one true god etcetc so I was really confused why this stupid conversation kept going and what the point of it was and wondering when they'd get back to the action.

that's my contribution

DACK FAYDEN posted:

Voyage of the Dawn Treader was the other one I really enjoyed, but maybe I just forgot all the weird Christian bullshit in favor of just remembering the solid travelogue story without any real antagonists.

(...wikipedia says that yep, there's like three heavily Christian scenes including one where Aslan straight up says he's known by another name in their world.)

cenotaph posted:

Man, Black Panther was such a mess on so many levels. The CIA goon, the fact that they are an advanced nation that still has combat to determine a leader (certainly no racist implications here, no sirree) and that they go to the UN to teach the world about unity despite having a civil war about a minute and a half previously. Oh, and Killmonger did nothing wrong.