Thread:Dragonboy6491/@comment-25389622-20140907210809/@comment-24199126-20141106171906

Yeah I get what you mean about over-watching it. At one time, I used to be able to watch my favorite movies endlessly but I've kind of transitioned out of that. I attribute it partially due to a lack of time, but I think I've kind of grown fearful of the (unlikely but still present) possibility of growing to hate the film. It really does a number on you when you take someone to see the film, admire its greatness together, and then hear that same person say the film is a little overrated. I mean, my brother was a little more constructive about it; he even admitted he didn't like it because his personal view was that it "wasn't romantic enough." Fair enough, considering the amount of romance in his favorite Disney film, Tangled. But still ... Hm, I'd count the premiere itself, so November 19. And wow, a day after your birthday? Talk about coincidence :).

Yeah I love all the characters too. Why don't you decorate your user profile with some User Boxes? You can use the current ones to describe how each character feels for you. I've done it on my profile, albeit concisely :). If you're interested and need help formatting, let me know ^^. And for now, character development can go into "Trivia" sections. If there is an extensive amount of information, we can create a separate page for behind-the-scenes, but I don't think we're even close to having enough information for that. I don't think it should be its own section because the character pages should be as in-universe as possible; the Trivia section exists for miscellaneous information that doesn't quite fit anywhere else :)

I can't stand people who can't properly substantiate a claim. I don't go around frowning on other people's opinions, but if their thoughts have nothing to support them, then the claims have no merit, and I have qualm whatsoever about choosing not to acknowledge the opinion. People say that "everyone is entitled to their own opinion." As if. I don't think anyone is entitled to their own opinion unless they have the rationale to support it. Harsh, but it's the way I see it.

To my knowledge, The Snow Queen wasn't particularly graphic. It was certainly tame compared to some of the Grimm's fairy tales; Hans Christian Andersen didn't seem to have a penchant for gruesome details ... although if Disney stayed true to the tale, Ariel would have died in The Little Mermaid; however, I don't consider death in of itself particularly violent or disturbing. The manner in which something dies, that's a different story.

The only way to understand these people would be to ask them how the perceive it. I guess they aren't satisfied with the degree Frozen tackled dark themes and just wanted to explore further. I have nothing to say about proponents of "rule 34"; I am just shocked at the lengths some people will take things for their own disgusting pleasure. Portraying characters in a violent light is one matter as there can be areas of human thought that can be explored. However, when you apply "rule 34" to anything, there's no thought in it ... it takes the work and warps it into nothing more than a vessel to pursue hedonism in its rawest, most primitive form. Regarding my thoughts about the afterlife ... I'd like to think there's something but no one knows for certain. In terms of religious beliefs, I'm a deist. I believe that at the very beginning, a godlike figure started the process of bringing about the universe but he/she/it had no direct role in anything, instead bringing about scientific processes to do that instead; basically I think there's something out there but it doesn't intervene directly in our affairs. I don't take stock with what Christians believe; if you were God, would you care about the workings of what, to you, are essentially nothing more than specks of dust? If I was God, I could care less if people married and then divorced, or chose to have an abortion, or were homosexual. I have the WHOLE COSMOS to manipulate. Sorry if I went completely off-tangent but there you have it. Deism was the best way I could find to fuse my allegiance to science with my need to have some sort of spirituality. Crude, but it works. In fact, when I was a kid, I didn't even know Deism was a thing, even though I believed in it. Funny how names work xD. You seem to have a more scientific view than mine, which is fine; anyhow, you managed to blend science with spirituality through saying our energy becomes part of everything else after death.

Joseph Stalin was very much a capable man; it's like what Ollivander said about Voldemort. He was "terrible, yes, but great." And when you put the individualizing in that context, I suppose you're right about it being the same. But there's just something nicer about giving names to a tragedy as opposed to numbers.

Oh I'm sure there's already Anna and Elsa food packaging that we just haven't seen. I'm surprised entire frozen food aisles haven't already been transformed to feature Elsa xD. And yes, I think the Making of Frozen is on their YouTube channel. It was cute and all, but not very informative. They really need more behind-the-scenes stuff. It'll really help me with my Frozen Fever. I completely agree, The Story of Frozen could have had so much more indeed. I'm still glad it got something though. Who knows, in fifty years they might come out with a Looking back on Frozen or something. I'll be 70 years old but I don't care what my grandchildren would think :). I did appreciate the live Twitter Q and A; I only dug through a bit of it but we do find out Elsa and Anna's birthdays.

I used to go on social networking sites all the time, but I've kind of left it behind. I logged on a few months ago to FaceBook and had like 100+ notifications and that was the final nail in the "no more social networks" coffin. Funny, "Let It Go" just started playing on my iPhone as I typed that, but it was the instrumental version. I've got my phone and email ... why use more? And the New Scientist subscription kind of slipped my mind. I'll look into it now that you've reminded me though.

It'd be great if you could into the books; it'll save me the trouble of hunting them down xD. Certainly, with age comes greater understanding and appreciation. I loved LoTR even more after I grew older and could understand its more subtle undertones. To answer Tolkien's question ... you "let it go" ;)

Ah yes it was a little different, though they do both touch on superficiality. Well, if people keep complaining about the looks aspect of it, they should look to the other characters. While not ugly, Kristoff isn't exactly the perfect gentleman. Even Olaf isn't the perfect snowman with three spherical subsections. And Sven certainly does not resemble the idealized reindeer we see for Christmas pictures, though I guess this was more for authenticity than anything. And like you said, there's an overarching message about being yourself that should finally put people's hearts at ease.

Jack Frost is from Rise of the Guardian. It was a good film by the way, and you should definitely check it out. Not as good as Frozen but I thoroughly enjoyed it nonetheless ... and I actually only watched it because people were pairing Elsa with Jack just to see the hype. I still don't understand it but whatever. Helsa shippers are just way out of line ... he tried to KILL them. Sheesh, talk about really wanting to perpetuate the fact girls love jerks (all right, maybe it's not a fact ... popular stereotype?). I have seen a surprising number of people pair Elsanna, which I find interesting because if you think about it, it really is the one relationship Elsa has that actually has canonical substance. Now granted, it's a bit extreme but I have more tolerance for it than Jelsa or Helsa. My only qualm is that poor Kristoff gets left in the dust but that's how fandom works I guess. No, I've never seen such a drawing ... mind linking it?