silverthorne

I'm watching the scene where they get caught out in the farmlands during a battle between the army and the aliens and the son is all 'let me go, I want to see!' and Tom's character has to chose between trying to talk the kid into not going...or retrieving his daughter from a pair of well meaning strangers that are about to make off with her.

I have to say this.

If that were my son being such an idiot? I would clock him and drag his sorry, unconscious ass down the hill and not even bother with the whole 'talking sense' thing. None of this 'I gotta see it!' BS in the middle of a battlefield, either. He wants it that bad, he can sneak off later when we're all in a relative safe place. I'm not into child abuse,or even much physical discipline, but I do think that would be one time where knocking the kid out in the interest of saving his fool life would be appropriate.

What can I say? I'd be a tough mom.