Crittenden: “Your fanatical, suicidal enemy is human, too.”
Dave Trowbridge: “As a matter of fact, yes. It would be so much easier if they weren’t, wouldn’t it?”
As a parent who watched cartoons with children back in the 80′s and early ninteties, I noticed how the Teenage Mutant Turtles and the Transformers and such heroic bands invariably fought off hordes of robots rather than living, sentient beings. They waded into the violence with no reservations, experiencing all the goodness of battle’s adrenaline rush, not having to worry that they were murdering some poor sap who had been forced into killing for the villain of the week. They never had to be concerned about innocent victims in bombarded houses. They never had to face a parent holding the tiny dead body of a son or daughter. Nor did they ever suffer from crippling mutilations or permanently debilitating head wounds.
Sometimes I think people like Crittenden want that kind of experience from a war movie.
