Our eyes cut the distance as loving eyes must

[sovay]

spatch just came into my office to warn me that he had some news I would not like and when I asked who had died he said David Collings.

He was correct. I do not like that at all.

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[gwynnega]

I think my parents took me to see Scrooge when it first came out, which would have made it one of the first movies I ever saw in a theater. I don't think it measures up to the earlier Christmas Carol films, but it does have Albert Finney.

[sovay]

I don't think it measures up to the earlier Christmas Carol films, but it does have Albert Finney.

I did retain the passive-aggressive total earworm of "Thank You Very Much" to the point that I was sorry when Anton Rodgers died. I really objected to the future scene where Scrooge is shown his office in Hell since, although I don't know that I could articulate it as such at age elementary school, it seemed superfluous to me beside the emotional horror of Scrooge realizing that no one will mourn him, miss him, or feel anything but perhaps financial relief when he dies. That was much worse to me than the weight and breadth of the chains he forged in life, about which Marley's already warned him. It probably still is.