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Fae said:
frying pan lol GIF by Disney
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Good Night Lol GIF by Evan M Cohen
 
Wow, I just noticed this forum is back. I was never that active on here given that I was slowly losing interest in online forums when I found this place, but I'm pretty glad that not only is it revived, but pretty much everything was saved, including accounts. Might have to check back in here depending on the activity.

Funny thing is I would have found about it much, much earlier if not for the fact that the email I used to register on this site was a really old one I never really opened as it was an email that I only ever used for a now-deleted Facebook account.
 
Good Morning! What are all your plans for Spring? Anybody have even more flowers popping up? My mini daffodils are spent now but I have some others that bloom later on.
 
ZandraJoi said:
Good Morning! What are all your plans for Spring? Anybody have even more flowers popping up? My mini daffodils are spent now but I have some others that bloom later on.
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Good morning to you as well. I don't have any plans. Just doing what I've been doing. Mowing is back in season!
 
Fae said:
What do you like about Gaston?
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I don't know.... :thinking:
Gaston's narcissistic, sure...vain? Definitely. Snarky...sure!

But the interaction btwn. Gaston & Belle; its' the unstoppable snark meeting the immovable beauty....just like the two of us! :evilgrin: :evilgrin: :evilgrin:
 
Webster said:
I don't know.... :thinking:
Gaston's narcissistic, sure...vain? Definitely. Snarky...sure!

But the interaction btwn. Gaston & Belle; its' the unstoppable snark meeting the immovable beauty....just like the two of us! :evilgrin: :evilgrin: :evilgrin:
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Was Gaston worse than the Beast? People seem to think he was evil in the movie. I don't really think he was despite his short comings.

Picture this: The year is 1760, and you live in a poor provincial town somewhere in France. All your life you’ve been exceptional at everything you try. A master hunter and sportsman, you have the undying respect of everyone in town. Then disaster strikes. Word reaches you that a monstrous beast is terrorizing your town. Two people, including the girl you love, have been abducted. You don’t know when or where the beast will strike again, and the townspeople are terrified and panicking. A natural born leader, you take it upon yourself to lead an expedition of 50 men to protect the town.

These are the real-life issues that faced the character, Gaston.

I want to say first off that Gaston is not a good guy. He is arrogant, selfish, and tried to put Belle’s father in an insane asylum (not cool).

What I am saying is this: Gaston didn’t do anything throughout the entire movie that even compares to the atrocities committed by our hero. The Beast, with his bipolar fits of rage, threatened Belle constantly, withheld food from her, and kept her as his prisoner. Like Gaston, the Beast tried to lock up Belle’s father – only he actually succeeded.

Why are we so quick to judge Gaston for going after the Beast? Given the circumstances, would any of us do anything different when it came to protecting the town? Do we just sit by and let the Beast abduct people at will?

For all his faults, in the end Gaston was merely trying to rescue Belle from a terror that was all too real. A terror that she herself couldn’t possibly have even recognized.

Once again I would like to reiterate that Gaston is not a good guy. But is being selfish and arrogant enough of a crime that we should condemn him to death? I think not.
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GASTON: TRUE DISNEY VILLAIN OR JUST MISUNDERSTOOD? – The Wise Guise

thewiseguise.com
 
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