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BY ANGELICA L. PFLEIDER
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Thursday, March 23, 2017
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FOR THOSE of you who haven’t watched Logan yet, then here is a SPOILER ALERT for you: All the X-men die.
Logan (Wolverine) is the last one who dies from his injuries from fighting experiment 24. Their legacy does not die though; it lives on through the children who contain traces of the original mutant’s DNA, including Logan’s. So they start a new chapter where the X-men left off.
That is how life goes. The only thing constant is change. The X-men were my favorite Marvel characters. I grew up watching the animated series, dreaming of owning the comics, and looking forward to each movie even though they started getting confusing with all the changing timelines.
Now, if they make a spinoff of the lives of those kids, children now will watch them with as much awe as I did the X-men when I was their age.
Not only the X-men have this fate. Little kids paint a different picture of Disney characters in their heads. They will picture Belle as Emma Watson, Maleficent as Angelina Jolie, Cinderella as so many many faces, the latest being Lily James. When I was their age, these characters were 2D animations who decorated school bags, pencil boxes, and even toothpaste.
The same goes for Emma Watson. Kids now will find her name and face synonymous with Belle while when I was a kid, she was Hermione Granger to me. I saw her grow up from cute kid to the elegant woman she is now. I’m sure if kids watch the Harry Potter films they are going to enjoy it but the emotional connection my generation feels with their story is much greater since our ages were near to theirs during the movies. I hope the connection kids will feel to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them will be as strong as ours to Harry Potter during that time.
The stories we love are not the only things that change after time. New things are developed every year. New models of phones, new trends, new food crazes, new medicines, they break us away from the old. Typewriters, print media, phones with keypads, landlines, these are becoming a dime a dozen with new developments.
Times change, it’s true. It can be sad when you see something strange and new take the place of something you were comfortable with. It can’t be avoided that those old things you were used to will be forgotten by the new generation, but at least we can all take a little solace in this; every idea and every new thing comes from somewhere.
Those old things we were so used to are actually the inspiration of all these new developments. It is basically those things with a new face. Old versions are not obsolete. They are simply a different phase of the new things you see around you. (angelica.panaynews@gmail.com/PN)
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