I know, I *know*, I know I said I wouldn't, but ...
Wendy said: <If we've already agreed that the rocket is a metaphor, than the children thing can be a metaphor too, can't it?>
Sorry and all that, but no one *has* agreed with the rocket-metaphor, have they? And no, IMHO, the children can't. It's just stock footage; they're just a plot device, like the ones in Time Squad.
and in answer to Neil's : <I think it's clear by now that the subliminal message of the text is so subliminal that most people haven't even noticed it before ...>
<but why *is* it that people miss out on this subliminal message?>
Well, if something's so faint one can barely see it with a microscope, one tends not to notice it when simply gazing at a TV screen ...
But, as I hope I've made clear, I *do* see the sexist message, I just see it as skewed and turned into something rather richer and stranger by the actual characters involved, especially Avon.
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