In and out of the sleepy space this evening, and barely enough brain juice to put together this post. I’m going to stick with a handful of loose thoughts:
- It is difficult to figure out exactly what kind of information you can teach to an 8 yr old. As a flag football coach I’ve been developing an ‘on the fly’ play calling system to really help the kids move through the offense quickly. I am not certain it will work, but I started implementing it today, and some of the kids seem capable of running it. The key is putting the ones who aren’t in the headspace to figure out verbal quick plays an easy way to know exactly what they need to do without being caught up in anything else I say when calling the rest of the play.
- The obsession with vampires and werewolves, which is really about the quest for immortality and self-importance (all the things a teen needs) seems to be drawing to a quiet lull. No, not an end, because these things can need truly be over, but the books i’ve seen coming out and even being written by my students point away from that type of fantasy.
- Speaking of stories, I’m noticing that there are a wealth of happy endings in the stories I’ve been reading. I am not sure I am a fan of happy endings, especially in fantasy and sci-fi. I feel like a more natural option is to have a balance where the protagonist wins but suffers a cost that is relative to the victory.
- The League is done. Haven is on the way out. Funny, I once read that the cells in the human body renew over the course of seven years, leading to, essentially, a new version of yourself every seven years. That number seems to be a common one in terms of how long it takes for a show to run its course.