[Saka]

I watched the Scrooge animation on Netflix yesterday. I liked it, the visuals were very pleasing and the added humour did not ruin the storytelling in my opinion. It was mostly small accents, like the Christmas ghosts or a dog acting goofy. Scrooge got a dog. 😁

[DoctorEldritch]

@Saka Reviving this thread from last winter, one year later I have this to say: they gave a dog to the Grinch too. Which, to be honest, ruins both Grinch and Scrooge for me a bit: the character taking care of an animal can't really be all that bad. Both the Grinch and Christmas Carol are stories where characters, through personal experiences, growth and moral transformation discover or rekindle a spark of goodness within them. But them both having a dog shows that it was there from the start, which changes the narrative focus a bit. But that's also me being a nerd and looking too deeply into it 🤓

[Saka]

@DoctorEldritch I don't know, some of historical villains liked animals and cared for them as well. Which didn't stop them from doing foul deeds.

[DoctorEldritch]

Originally Posted by Saka

@DoctorEldritch I don't know, some of historical villains liked animals and cared for them as well. Which didn't stop them from doing foul deeds.

It's funny, just this holiday I was playing Assassin's Creed Odyssey, I finished Origins during Christmas and moved on to that. Speaking of Origins, I remembered you mentioned Bayek's wife when we were talking about it before and how you were sad about what happened to her, so all the while I was playing I was expecting her to die in some way, so it was a nice surprise that they only separated, sad though it is. But it may make you feel a bit better if we remember that, although they stopped being a couple, they were still buried (is that the right word? Mummified, maybe?) together, so their companionship at least endured in that form.

So, as I was playing, with that Mercenary system they have there, I had to dispose of one named Praxiteles the Benevolent with a bio something like this:

Praxiteles was an interesting man for a misthios. It's said that he liked to befriend every stray dog in a town until they followed him around. After every kill, he would bring the body to the dogs in order to dispose of it.

So your point checks out 😉

[Saka]

@DoctorEldritch Gotta keep the hounds fed! 😉

[DoctorEldritch]

@Saka I don't know why, but this conversation made me remember the song by Baha Men.

Maybe I imagined Praxiteles bringing a new cadaver to his dogs, only to see that the gate is open and all the dogs are missing, and there is no way for him to dispose of the body and hide his crimes, so in desperation he started to sing that song.

Something like that 😅