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Sci-Fi did a replay of Doctor Who - "Girl in the Fireplace" (one of my favs) the other day. After watching it for the 1001st time, I thought I'd screen the episode w/ Calvin. I figured it was one of the least scary episodes and I'd be able to skip all the romantic scenes between the Doctor and Reinette.
What I didn't account for was Calvin becoming DEVASTATED about Reinette not getting to travel with the Doctor and dying before he could return for her. I completely understand his sadness. I was just shocked that it hit him so hard when we skipped most of the scenes of them making googly-eyes at each other. For a couple of hours afterward, the boy is very fragile. No more stories with sad endings any time in the near future for Calvin.
What I didn't account for was Calvin becoming DEVASTATED about Reinette not getting to travel with the Doctor and dying before he could return for her. I completely understand his sadness. I was just shocked that it hit him so hard when we skipped most of the scenes of them making googly-eyes at each other. For a couple of hours afterward, the boy is very fragile. No more stories with sad endings any time in the near future for Calvin.
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Date: 2009-01-28 05:06 am (UTC)I remember being young enough that "devastatingly sad" was too much to handle; I think of it as the Bambi's Mom response. "Electric Grandmother" was absurdly sad, and also "Velveteen Rabbit".
"Mildly scary but freakishly strange" was another problem category. I remember being traumatized by a David Copperfield act in which the assistant was "flattened", and what was left was a record with a picture of her looking distressed on it.
Then again, I was also terrified after hearing Hall & Oates' "Maneater".
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Date: 2009-01-28 05:34 pm (UTC)And this is the same boy that has been watching the Jurassic Park movies w/ JD this past week and cheering when he got to see folks snatched up by dinosaurs.
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Date: 2009-01-28 06:04 pm (UTC)I totally can't grasp how death-dealing dinosours - or Clockwork Men - are less scary than Ursula or Maleficent. Then again, the poor boy is just six.
It's funny: every adult has been a child at one point; you'd think that raising new ones wouldn't be such a guessing game. I was very frightened of practically everything when I was young, and I haven't any idea how I got over it.
Well, except the totally innocuous things that still scare the crap out of me...