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Disney's 'Dinosaur' - is it worth watching?

Image from Wikipedia Good morrow readers, I am the Lady in the Hat, and today I'm going to talk about dinosaurs. Now, I don't know anything about you lovely people, but I absolutely love dinosaurs. I'm forever looking up new discoveries on the news, searching articles on Google Scholar, or poring over the beautiful fossils from China which preserve details such as feathers and skin colour. I look at the birds outside my window and marvel at how strange and wonderful it is, that these creatures are cousins to Tyrannosaurus rex and Velociraptor. So yes, I might be a tiny bit obsessed, and I'm afraid this obsession started young. As a child, I can remember seeing the trailer for Dinosaur just before Toy Story 2, and you'd better believe that it blew my seven-year-old mind. However, after watching it, I can remember being quite disappointed. For one thing, I found the whole storyline rather dark and depressing, and even as a kid I found it uninteresting and

'Disenchantment' - is it worth watching?

Once upon a time in a far-away, not-especially magical kingdom suffering under austerity, a Lady in a Hat logged onto her Facebook account to converse with friends and catch up on the latest top quality shitposts. As she was scrolling through her news-feed of baby pictures, friends' humble-brag holiday photos and dank birb memes, she came across an advertisement for a new animated show on Netflix. With its distinct character designs and animation, this Lady at once knew that she was looking at Matt Groening's latest animated offering. So as soon as this new show was released, she dutifully watched all twelve episodes, and having mulled over her thoughts, she penned them thus... Good morrow, readers. I am the Lady in the Hat, offering erudite analysis of fantasy, sci-fi and whatever it is the Internet likes to advertise to me. For my first review, I thought I would do Disenchantment - Matt Groening's new animated show currently streaming on Netflix. I am a huge fan of (