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Glenn Weldon

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
556 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Pop Culture Happy Hour
Lord of the Flies

And I wondered if it was the source's fault.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Lord of the Flies

But ultimately, I just feel like this doesn't do anything to make me feel

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Lord of the Flies

Anything like the way that I felt the dread, the doom, the idea that it could, in fact, be worse.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Lord of the Flies

These guys are either single-dimensional, flat representations in a passion play, or they're deeply nuanced.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Lord of the Flies

traumatized children of the 21st century.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Lord of the Flies

And I think by not making that decision, because they try to go both ways with it, you really create a mess, in my head anyway.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Lord of the Flies

The whitest kids, the village of the damned versus...

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Lord of the Flies

Ralph and Piggy, who doesn't fit the body type.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Lord of the Flies

I don't need to go back and say, well, actually, white supremacists are cowards.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Lord of the Flies

He's actually the most afraid kid.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Lord of the Flies

I don't need to know why.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Lord of the Flies

I don't need to know this.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Lord of the Flies

And again, that kind of

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Lord of the Flies

pedantry that you got, Glenn, from this, I really got from the show.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Lord of the Flies

There is one major moment of sanitization that I'm just remembering now, which is in the death of Simon.