What the hell is a tribble?
Well, okay. Technically, I know what a tribble is. It's a small ball of fur from ST: TOS, and apparently it eats, and it reproduces. So it's like a bunny, but slimmed down to the bare essentials. Oh yes, and it sort of makes a dove-cat-hybrid sound.
I wonder if life would be easier as a tribble.
But mostly, I'm wondering what's up with the featureless fluffball type of animal showing up all over the place. I mean, sure, they're cute...sort of. But what purpose do they serve?
And since I have no idea where I was going with this, I'm going to change topics and say that though I am a die-hard classic Disney fan, there are some older Disney movies that just creeped me the fuck out.
Like, for example, Tarzan. I didn't mind most of it. Sure, the gorilla dying was sad, but for the most part everything was okay! And then. The villain's death scene? SO UNCALLED FOR, DISNEY.
We all knew how it was going to end up, and I'll be honest--it was way too gruesome for me. There wasn't tons of blood and gore, but nobody wants to watch a guy accidentally hang himself in an animated kid's movie. Even now, I prefer to watch death scenes where the bad guy dies at the hand of the hero. It seems more...civilized.
Another example of this would be The Hunchback of Notre Dame, which I could quite possibly go on for pages about. First off, the moral of this movie is so warped (and, surprisingly for Disney, accurate): Even if you have a good heart, the "hot" guy is going to get the girl. Because you're ugly, and nobody really loves you as anything other than that one guy who saved their life that one time.
Second, what the hell. The bad guy was pretty much killed by a stone gargoyle. Really, Disney? Are you going to try and push the whole "But Quasimodo is so pure of heart that he can't kill anybody!" shit?
Because that's what it is.
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