From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: graemecree@aol.com   
   Subject: Re: To Boldly Go Where Cliches Have Gone Before: Top 10 Bad Messages   
   From Good Movies   
      
   On Nov 17, 2:13apm, MotherTrek...@TrekMe.com wrote:   
   > 4. Unconventional creative play is very, very wrong (from Toy Story).   
   > Sid, the kid next door, is portrayed as basically evil. The movie   
   > makes him out this way because he pulls toys apart and reassembles   
   > them in strange ways, and likes to blow things up. In other words,   
   > heAs a geek. If the toys werenAt alive u and Sid can probably be   
   > forgiven for not realizing that they were u his behavior would be   
   > perhaps a little extreme, but not in any way wrong, especially for a   
   > boy his age.   
   Disagree with this one.  Sid is a child sadist with torture fantasies   
   that he mostly acts out on toys because at this age that's all he can   
   get away with.  You only need to see how he treats his sister to see   
   that.  To describe him as unconventional but "not wrong in any way" is   
   to obfuscate the facts to claim that the movie sent a message that it   
   clearly didn't.   
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