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<blockquote data-quote="Mark" data-source="post: 4993210" data-attributes="member: 5">Oh, I don't think being resigned to something is the same as being happy about it at all.&nbsp; Dash has grown, which is a requirement of the narrative, but he can still in no way find fulfillment or happiness in the competition with the slower schoolchildren.&nbsp; He and his parents have come to an understanding and his being given some leeway helps him to adjust.&nbsp; His happiness derives from his new arrangement with his parents which marks of rite of passage for him.Unless we concede that within that universe the duality paradigm is the only one available to supers.&nbsp; In which case it would be impossible for them to ever achieve happiness except as an artificial construct required as part of a movie aimed at an audience primarily of young age and thus not really mature enough to grasp the concept of pathos.&nbsp; It, of course, resolves somewhat differently in your Superman/Batman analogies where the supers are meant to be in such an extreme minority that it is largely inapplicable.&nbsp; Look toward something like Hancock for that model to be more fully explored, particularly in regard to the physics of that universe being set up to exploit the pathos.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mark, post: 4993210, member: 5"] Oh, I don't think being resigned to something is the same as being happy about it at all. Dash has grown, which is a requirement of the narrative, but he can still in no way find fulfillment or happiness in the competition with the slower schoolchildren. He and his parents have come to an understanding and his being given some leeway helps him to adjust. His happiness derives from his new arrangement with his parents which marks of rite of passage for him. Unless we concede that within that universe the duality paradigm is the only one available to supers. In which case it would be impossible for them to ever achieve happiness except as an artificial construct required as part of a movie aimed at an audience primarily of young age and thus not really mature enough to grasp the concept of pathos. It, of course, resolves somewhat differently in your Superman/Batman analogies where the supers are meant to be in such an extreme minority that it is largely inapplicable. Look toward something like Hancock for that model to be more fully explored, particularly in regard to the physics of that universe being set up to exploit the pathos. [/QUOTE]

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