anew posted:

i like 0-2-5-8-8
i like 0-2-1-5-8-9-12-11 too

sithlordjp posted:

The Evil that Men do.

My 8 years old son loves Batman. He has now reached the age when we can geek out together and I can share my love of comic books with him. We had been looking forward to see The Dark Knight Rises together for the past 6 months, ever since all those cool trailers started popping up online. This was going to be his introduction to Batman on the big screen, since he was too young to attend the previous chapters of the Christopher Nolan’s trilogy.

We counted the days leading up to the premiere, humming the theme score as we were playing with his (and mine!) action figures. We would have these plastic toys reenact the story beats from the trailers, putting Batman & Bane through epic fights and all. We were connecting on something awesome and exciting.

Then something changed. My Friday morning started with tales of horror coming from a movie theatre in the US. A deranged man took lives during the midnight screening of the film. I knew I wouldn’t be able to keep this hidden from my son, as it was all over the news, and in the conversations all around us. So the kids who were playing the day before had to have a grown-up conversation.

I had to explain, with words that he would understand, what had happened. But the trick is, how do you explain something like that? I tried my best to tell him that the bad guys were not just in movies. Sometimes, no heroes show up in time to prevent a tragedy. Sometimes, we don’t have the answers. And just like that, my son got a little older, and wiser about the world around him.

He had many questions, not about the gruesome details, but about what would happen to the killer. I told him that hopefully he would be locked up so he could never hurt anyone ever again, so people would be safe from him. I asked him if he still wanted to go see the film, that if was fine if he wanted to wait a few weeks, or even skip it entirely and wait until the Blu-ray disc came out. He wanted to go still, because he was looking forward to see his hero on the big screen with me.

So we went, and before the movie started, we took a little moment to remember those whose lives were cut shorts, just because they were trying to escape reality by following the adventures of a caped crusader for a few hours, just like we were.

We loved the film.

I love Batman.

I love my son.

July 23rd 2012.

ghostshot posted:

We never truly know, how much our lives are interconnected...I don't have any children(that I know of), but Sir, you have shown me a whole new world! Nice write up...very nice...thank you

ghostshot posted:

I saw your son as you TRIED to tell him, seriously I don't know how you did it but it had to be done. Talk about raw...I'm glad that you shared.