I think the real answer is so that the main character kids are in charge of their own lives, but it often seem unnecessarily mean to the kids watching.
Yeah, and yet there's got to be other ways of initiating the action, at least in some stories.
Mal: Cut it out. Job's not done until we're back on Serenity. Zoe: Sorry, sir. Didn't mean to enjoy the moment.
'Ariel'
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Burrell - Feb 16, 2009 12:24:35 pm PST #6604 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Kat - Feb 16, 2009 12:25:58 pm PST #6605 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Yep. Plus two weeks for xmas. But I think they start earlier (usually last week of August) so it's the same amount of schooldays. Since it's not superhot in the Bay Area there's not the big cost savings you get in the South by keeping the air conditioning off for an extra week.
It's the same number, more or less, of instructional minutes at any public school in California. I love ski week in February, but I almost always wished it were in March instead because March is a long slow month of every-day attendance.
Jesse - Feb 16, 2009 12:42:38 pm PST #6606 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
You could have Dumbo, where the mother gets locked up in the psycho bin...?
beth b - Feb 16, 2009 12:44:12 pm PST #6607 of 30000
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Our public school in NoCal is in session -- just not today.
msbelle - Feb 16, 2009 12:46:06 pm PST #6608 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I will not let him see Dumbo. NO WAY.
Theodosia - Feb 16, 2009 12:47:31 pm PST #6609 of 30000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Disney is notorious for orphaning children. I've wondered how much of that was because Disney himself was an adopted child.
(And was, by birth, Hispanic.)
flea - Feb 16, 2009 12:54:23 pm PST #6610 of 30000
information libertarian
Casper has a teacher in-service day today. Our "spring break" is in March. Of course, our school year started Aug. 7 and ends May 20, which makes NO sense wrt air-conditioning season in Georgia.
Trudy Booth - Feb 16, 2009 1:03:55 pm PST #6611 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
I'm afraid you've been Snopesed on that one, Theodosia. [link]
Allyson - Feb 16, 2009 1:16:43 pm PST #6612 of 30000
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Why must all kids in kid's movies deal with separation from family?
My Sam falls into that category. It's cliche, and a kid's worst fear, to be left alone in the world.
How am I gonna sell this book again?
Theodosia - Feb 16, 2009 1:28:21 pm PST #6613 of 30000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Whoa! Never saw that one coming -- and I was only told the 'adopted' child version, not the love child one, either.