Another phenomenal essay! I love the images you chose as well, they really add atmosphere to the piece! I also recall the pursuit of the illusive Charizard card when I was kid, so the nostalgia here was real!
Love it! One tiny suggestion: the past of "slay" is "slew". (Of course you probably knew this, but the ol' fingers sometimes go faster than the mind)
It's interesting to think of the dragon as a serpent/raptor/big cat combo. One of the things I really liked about the Rankin-Bass animated "Hobbit" movie was that Smaug had a cat nose. For some reason that really made him seem more real to me than the cut-rate-dinosaur dragons usually depicted for kids. It must also have resonated with the artists who created "How to Train Your Dragon"— that is one kitten dragon they created there!
Another phenomenal essay! I love the images you chose as well, they really add atmosphere to the piece! I also recall the pursuit of the illusive Charizard card when I was kid, so the nostalgia here was real!
Love it! One tiny suggestion: the past of "slay" is "slew". (Of course you probably knew this, but the ol' fingers sometimes go faster than the mind)
It's interesting to think of the dragon as a serpent/raptor/big cat combo. One of the things I really liked about the Rankin-Bass animated "Hobbit" movie was that Smaug had a cat nose. For some reason that really made him seem more real to me than the cut-rate-dinosaur dragons usually depicted for kids. It must also have resonated with the artists who created "How to Train Your Dragon"— that is one kitten dragon they created there!
Thank you.
Must have been thinking of phrases like "he slayed it" in contemporary slang.