So my mom is shopping in a supermarket, wearing a full hijab and jilbab (commonly misnamed as a burka) and the whole time she is there, this kid is staring at her. Won’t stop staring. Just looking with wide-eyed shock. The lil feller isn’t any older than four. She doesn’t think much of it, she is used to far worse than just a few stares.
Until the very end when the kid and his mom are behind her in the checkout, and he leans up and whispers loudly:
“I LOVE YOU BATMAN”
“Snape Snape Severus Snape DUMBLEDORE Potter, you were named after the catchiest puppet song I ever heard.”
honestly this is my favorite vine and i think about it daily
holy shit WHAT A VINE
there it is
(Source: https://vine.co/)
Has anyone else tired of the grim realism “anyone can die” thing in television? There is a point, I believe, at which character death and violence ceases to become meaningful or even provocative, and just becomes senseless.
Killing off important characters, when you first do it, is daring. It takes tremendous artistic and creative confidence to believe that your audience will keep watching. But when such deaths become the defining part of a series, what does that tell us? Not to commit to anyone. That the story we’re watching is pointless, because the characters’ lives are ultimately meaningless.
I’m tired of nihilism in 2015. I am no longer shocked; I am merely bored.
