Thread:Dragonboy6491/@comment-25389622-20140907210809/@comment-24199126-20141121025047

Hmm never thought of suggesting E-cigarettes to him ... maybe that could work xD. And you don't know the half of my parents' superstitious tendencies. Mentioning death always earned me at least a slap on the wrist and five minutes of lecturing. Talk about archaic behavior; they still insist on my marrying Chinese women only ... <.<

Yeah I completely understand. I know emo isn't the most derogatory term but I can see how seeing it applied to Elsa can be a bit off-putting. And ha, yeah four eyes is the most lame insult I've ever heard xD. Just goes to show how far immaturity will take us. Even now, people still use the word "gay" as an insult >.>. Pathetic, really.

Whoops, I realize I said "blown out of proportion" ... meant to say "received immense praise despite the odds against them" :). It does seem kind of unfair to the other films, but as you say, they should be improved. People really do need to look to why the film is popular and then ask themselves if it deserves it; if it's like James's Cameron's Avatar and mostly has visuals going for it, then it's worthy of being called overrated. I wonder how different the Frozen musical will be from the original; after all, The Lion King musical had some marked differences from the original (i.e. Scar going after Nala in a romantic way). We'll find out in a couple more years I suppose.

Criminal are immensely intelligent; if only their actions would be more constructive. I've never seen Catch Me If You Can but what you said kind of sounds like the show Dexter. Main character is a serial killer-hunting vigilante who is a serial killer himself. I think the show Hannibal has a similar premise.

Humanity is a wreck as a whole; we can only hope things like Frozen keep the light alive :). We're all just fixer uppers that need a little bit more love ^^

It's because Frozen connects with such a broad range of people that it has strength ^^. And I suppose Anna may have been speaking more conversationally than literally ... but it's still interesting to dwell on the scope of Elsa's powers, especially if they never do stop increasing in strength. I saw this random post while surfing around about Elsa vs. Godzilla and half the people were like, "Godzilla can step on her." Facepalm. Who would just stand there and get smushed? Elsa could freeze him into a giant statue to place in the fjord and ward off invaders :P

I didn't even hear about the deaths of those rabbi from the Palestinian terror attack until I had to help out at a vigil that was happening at my work place. I felt like total garbage standing there hearing the news for the first time. I should make a better effort to keep up with events like this, even if all it'll do is make me dwell on the state of humanity.

Yeah, without CGI, all the ice designing would have been impossible. Imagine hand-drawing snowflakes and the ice palace sequence? CGI offers a greater amount of depth; I despise people who detest Frozen because it wasn't traditionally done ... the medium doesn't matter so long as the story is there. The story justifies the visuals, not the other way around. If Frozen wasn't CGI, it would have lost a lot of its visual power, but it's got enough in other areas to still come out strong. I don't know Anna and Elsa will turn out, but I'm going to hope they look more like their story book counterparts since the art there is pretty faithful. I'm somewhat horrified at how different Rapunzel looks.

The gaps in my knowledge hasn't hurt me much; I'm doing a fair job of keeping up with the events. That being said, again, Frozen is pretty much all I care for. Sounds terrible when I say it like that, but it's the truth ;). I'd still suggest watching it for more Frozen. Can't compare to the original but it still lights up my Sundays.

I haven't got around to fully reading some of the Elsanna fanon I've been suggested, but once I have, I might be able to grasp it a bit better (though I'd say my ruminations about the motives of such writers are pretty accurate). When I say the incest adds a dimension, I mean to the stories (simply because it's a social taboo; you know people and their whole obsession with forbidden love :P). I suppose I am somewhat open-minded about it, but I just find it better to be open to different possibilities. It could be a tad bit extreme, but I like it more than my old, extremely cynical self. And heh, I've had my share of devolving arguments; it's part of being on the Internet xD. I'm fairly confident there's a line between these writings and applications of "rule 34" but if it turns out there isn't, that will be quite a blow to me. I mean, it's more than likely there's a fair amount of thought that goes into these writings that makes them different from just the gross interpretations brought upon by the sick and twisted artists that roam the Internet these days. At a certain point, there's no way of justifying something for artistic merit; it just becomes about horrid personal fantasies. Or maybe I'm just being too optimistic; I'll see in due time.

My family never gets a tree; we just go out to eat that day and that's pretty much it. I try to get the whole family to watch Christmas classics with me the night of, but it's not always successful. Still, I enjoy the holidays even if I don't celebrate it to the extent others do :).