I dunno. It'd be nice to be able to disassociate the actor behind the puppet from the puppet as a character, but for me, that requires work. My first, gut reaction to the whole thing was "oh come the fuck on, really?" I can't help that. I actually can and do separate feelings for the personal lives of artists and athletes, and generally without such a knee jerk reaction. But something like this is different.
As a kid I was lucky enough to be free from knowledge of all the things that I now consider dark, unsightly, wrong, etc. and these kids shows I watched were magical to me. They regularly evoked a feeling that, as an adult, I'm lucky to get even once a year (estimate pulled out of my ass). Some people claim to have stopped getting it altogether. As an adult, you know that the shit you watch is fantasy and that real people create them, and have real lives and real problems. But it's nice if you don't EVER have to realize that about things that were magical to you when you didn't know any better. Sure, if you think about it, you'll realize it, but I honestly never thought about. And this news brought that shit to the fore front for me with a flying dragon kick to the teeth. It's a shame.
Well that's nice, but the damage is done, for me anyway. What an asshole.Originally Posted by UChessmaster
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