Does anyone think this is odd?
The kids who would be the focus of this particular campaign for education are the same ones most likely to see war up close and personal. You know, the kind where anti-personnel mines are scattered among the fields, unmarked and unremarked upon until they blow someone's foot off, or kill someone outright. Where the bombs fall or the guns blaze while UN peacekeepers sit idly by and take notes (probably to provide more realistic smurf bombing campaigns for future cartoons.
UGH. The Steel Deal has more, including screen caps. Gargamel would be impressed by the carnage.
Ah, but there is humor in them, thar hills:
I shot a Smurf in Reno,UPDATE 10/11/2005:
just to watch him die.
The campaign to produce and distribute this nonsensical cartoon was for a European audience, not necessarily an Asian or African one.
That figures.
Don't history books contain photos of what happened in Europe during World War II (or WWI, or the Franco Prussian War, or the Napoleonic Wars, or any of the hundreds of other conflicts that played out on the European continent?) Aren't live bombs routinely found throughout Europe in the course of construction projects? And we're supposed to believe that this project was needed?
Was there any need to produce a cartoon featuring smurfs being blown to smithereens? Yet, we hear that US history taught in US schools is lacking. Hmmm.
UPDATE:
Dave at Garfield Ridge thinks that the Apocalypse Now treatment of the Smurfs couldn't come soon enough.
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