Oh, I'm all over the adult/teen thing (holdover from my own teen years I'm sure) so I was more making a distinction between child-as-proto-adult and teen-as-actual-adult.
Buffy has never been about the adolescence issues for me, though obviously I see in the text a lot of the metaphors Joss uses for such. When I think about meta for the text I think about issues of good and evil, and while I was watching the show I was always engaged and desirous to continue most because of the characters and caring about them and what happened to them.
I still support child suffrage, although not in the same way or quite as vehemently as I did as a child.
Oh, man, I have to restrain my cravings for competency requirements for adult voters (though my desire that everyone be ridiculously well-informed would be appeased somewhat if the people making the laws and running for the offices -- and those opposing such -- made real efforts to disseminate information amongst the populace).
I well remember my adolescent insistences that I had solutions to major problems, and I equally well remember my father hearing me out and pointing out the ways in which matters were more complicated than I saw.
I think the ending montage is as much about Miss Honey reclaiming the happy childhood Miss Trunchbull never let her have than it is about Matilda
Oh, I definitely agree. I said in response to the original post that "I rather suspect that the ideal in Dahl's children's books is eternal childness," and even leaving aside that claim, happy childhood is clearly an important issue in Dahl's kidlit, and there's a huge element of mutuality in the Matilda/Miss Honey relationship with them being able to save each other in some ways and give each other what they had been denied.
Movieverse Matilda and Jenny Calendar? Interesting.
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Buffy has never been about the adolescence issues for me, though obviously I see in the text a lot of the metaphors Joss uses for such. When I think about meta for the text I think about issues of good and evil, and while I was watching the show I was always engaged and desirous to continue most because of the characters and caring about them and what happened to them.
I still support child suffrage, although not in the same way or quite as vehemently as I did as a child.
Oh, man, I have to restrain my cravings for competency requirements for adult voters (though my desire that everyone be ridiculously well-informed would be appeased somewhat if the people making the laws and running for the offices -- and those opposing such -- made real efforts to disseminate information amongst the populace).
I well remember my adolescent insistences that I had solutions to major problems, and I equally well remember my father hearing me out and pointing out the ways in which matters were more complicated than I saw.
I think the ending montage is as much about Miss Honey reclaiming the happy childhood Miss Trunchbull never let her have than it is about Matilda
Oh, I definitely agree. I said in response to the original post that "I rather suspect that the ideal in Dahl's children's books is eternal childness," and even leaving aside that claim, happy childhood is clearly an important issue in Dahl's kidlit, and there's a huge element of mutuality in the Matilda/Miss Honey relationship with them being able to save each other in some ways and give each other what they had been denied.
Movieverse Matilda and Jenny Calendar? Interesting.