The great reveal?
I’m a fool for magic shows. I’m mesmerized by how quickly the magicians’ hands move objects without touching them. I’m also a fool for children’s theater and cartoons. And so it comes as a surprise that there are the equivalent of photo bombers and spoilers in these two types of entertainment.
“America’s Got Talent” grand winner Shin Lim has many admirers and some spoilers. Shin beat the splendid singers in this year’s AGT using his skill in executing card magic.
Shin raised magic tricks to a new level. He uses music, awesome stage design and most of all what he does. It’s like ballet of the hands when he flips a card with his nimble hands. After he won came may so-called great reveals on how he did his work. I’m sorry I got kick-baited when I opened some channels on how magic tricks, including Shin’s, are done. I don’t think I will enjoy watching magic shows now that the illusion has been dispelled.
Let me get historical, if I may use that pun. In 2014, Sanrio admitted that (Hello) Kitty was not a cat but a little girl who was born in England.
So many childhood memories were stained or downright shattered. My friend Meme said: “I grew up following Kitty. After I learned she was a fake, do you still wonder why I have trust issues?”
Just four years after Kitty sort of came out, comes this trending topic—actually decades-long topic. However, only with emergence of the allears, all-eyes and all-mouth social media has it become officially a trending topic.
It is the Internet contention that Bert and Ernie are gay. My friend Rosse G said, “It’s being forced on them, if you ask me.”
The “Sesame Street” characters, according to nbcnews.com, were created by Frank Oz. He is also the voice of many Sesame denizens.
NBC quoted Oz as saying he created Bert and “I know what and who he is.” The issue on their gender designation was gobbled up on Twitter when Mark Saltzman, a former Sesame writer, told Queerty blog that Bert and Ernie are a couple. He based his assessment on his “real world relationship with film editor Arnold Glassman.”
Oz said that the issue arose after Saltzman was asked about the real score between Bert and Ernie. Oz tweeted that Saltzman can think what he wants, the two as gay. Oz added, “But why that question? Does it really matter? Why the need to define people as only gay? There’s much more to a human being than just straightness or gayness.”
He explained that a certain character is developed as what it should be. In the case of Bert and Ernie, they were created as friends to teach children about friendship and that people get along with those who are different from them.
Some now call it bromance. I call it please don’t give too much meaning into things. Let’s not shatter the illusion. This being children’s month, let’s allow children to enjoy the show in its pure essence. Let’s not make another Meme.