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Originally Posted by carissa
Sheesh I'm a bad mommy today. I'm letting Aiyana see season 3 of G1. She hadn't seen the movie, since it had the death of Optimus Prime. She caught on right away to Rodimus Prime and asked me where Optimus was.
I had to tell her that he was on vacation. She asked me if he was having a vacation at his home and if he'd come back. I told her he'd come back eventually.
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Wouldn't it be funny if the "Optimus departs" mythos that started with the '86 movie was just that? That he needed a break and took off? I wonder if "stress leave" would be easier to comprehend than the finality of death and dying.
For my 7 year old son and 4 year old daughter Optimus' death was easy to explain in the context of machines that no longer work so they turn off. But when my wife's grandfather died recently it wasn't that easy. Being Catholic (or at least pretending to be Catholic like all good Catholics do
) we had the concept of "heaven" that we could use but I sensed in my older one some uneasiness caused by the suspicion that there may be really nothing at the other end.
Sorry folks, sippping my coffee and depressurizing after a rather harrowing bicycle commute to work today. I guess it's Murphy's Law that I'd be nearly killed by a speeding dump truck on the clearest, brightest, most dry morning in a while
