so yesterday my little ones and i were spending the afternoon inside, doing our utmost to avoid the 109 degree heat that was cooking everything outside. hercules, the animated feature, not that terrible series from the 90s, was on and it caught my kids' attention as i flipped through the rubbish that is daytime television. with nothing better on or to do, we settled in with some popcorn and some rootbeer.
at one point hercules is battling this really evil looking dragon monster. pixie was unsettled by this monster, which never happens. she spent the next few minutes with her head buried in my chest. as i'm sitting there watching, the monster eats the hero. then, the hero cuts the monster's head off. from the inside. the beheaded neck crashes limply to the ground, the severed spine and raw meat on full display to the viewers. i was stunned.
are you kidding me? this is a kids' cartoon? frightening monsters and severed heads? visually torn flesh? i think a lot of kids must have had nightmares after watching this movie.
and it wasn't finished. the beheaded monster sprouted three new heads, which herucles also cut off. it sprouted dozens more. i'll tell you, that scene was a hundred times more scary than any of the nightmare on elm street movies.
so i wake up this morning, and guess what. guess who had a nightmare. a nightmare in which some shadowy figure on a school bus on a dallas overpass severed the driver's head with a lightsaber and terroroized my students before i wrestled the lightsaber away from him and cut his arm off at the shoulder, leaving a wound that looked exactly like the monster's severed head from hercules.
ridiculous.
ghost
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