Charles Liu
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Because we do see animals, insects, things like that that are smaller than us do amazing superhuman things if they were scaled up to size.
Right.
So we imagine that if they're even bigger than we are, they'd be even more amazing and powerful.
But the physics prevents that.
Right.
that doesn't make them any the less cool.
And so modern monsters are looking more and more friendly and cuddly.
Less and less evil and scary.
Yes.
That's right.
That's right.
Right.
And, and a giant monkey, ape chimp type creature who was benign and perfectly friendly.
And it was living on a skull Island and doing great until the,
Humans decided to take him to New York and show him off as the eighth wonder of the world.
And only then did he become bad and harm people.
The movie, now that I'd forgotten this, was quite sympathetic.
It was.
Very much so.
It was the... It was...