Having seen many a movie over my lifetime, your Mandarin can readily admit that there were quite a few that elicited an emotional response. I’m sure that it is every director’s dream to create a movie that audiences can connect with, but really, the Avatar blues, this has to be some kind of joke.

To summarize this new disorder – coming soon to a Diagnostic and Statistical Manual near you – the movie viewer is left with a deep depression and a sense of loss due to the inability of realizing the dream of Pandora.

Some movie goers have even contemplated suicide with one viewer stating, “I even contemplate suicide thinking that if I do it I will be rebirthed in a world similar to Pandora and everything is the same as in Avatar.” Your Mandarin really misses the days when these geeks just wanted to be Jedi Knights.

So how long do you suspect it will take some shyster lawyer to sue James Cameron over the death of some maladjusted putz who can’t separate fantasy from reality?

What have we done to our children? Have we given them such sheltered and privileged lives that any adversity – whether real or in a movie – is damaging to their psyche? We have created a generation of children (and Democrats) that feel that they are entitled to a perfect world and that the state/government owes them the “American Dream.” And what happens when that dream is not handed to them, do they take life by the reins and seize the opportunity, no, they wallow in self-pity, are overly medicated, and demand that the government do more to alleviate their suffering.

You know, I “almost” hate to say this, but if you can’t cope with life after seeing a stupid movie about some fantasy world, then maybe you should consider suicide. Although with the quality government education that most of you have received, you would probably try to kill yourself by carbon monoxide poising running the car in an outdoor parking lot.

God help us all if these people go and see Schindler’s List. The suicide helps lines will be overrun.

The Mandarin

The Mandarin, whose real name is 吏恆, joined the order in 1309, and introduced the Gormogons into England during the 18th Century.

The Mandarin enjoys spending time with his pet manticore, Βάρἰκος, or Barry (who can be found in the Bestiary). When not in the Castle…well, frankly, nobody is quite sure where he goes.

The Mandarin popularized the fine art of “gut booting,” by which he delivers a powerful kick to the stomach of anyone that annoys him. Although nearly universal today, the act of gut booting or threatening someone or something with a gut boot is solely due to him.