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Attitudes towards this vary. Some see it as a rich source of CharacterDevelopment, and allowing more scope for {{Story Arc}}s as opposed to the formulaic shows of the "immortal" characters. Others see it as pessimistic and rather sad -- it can be argued that cartoons are meant to be an ''escape'' from reality, and bringing up the nature of time is enough to depress most adults, never mind children. Even more, becoming an adult is supposed to be a ''good'' thing, making you a Real Person who can Do Stuff; why are we telling kids to avoid it at all costs? It's also breaking to the story; by implying the characters were not [[UpTheRealRabbitHole real]], but not wanting to flatout admit it because it was AllJustADream tends to irritate people. So they were...[[LostAesop sorta real; but not anymore, and abandoning them now is growing up, really.]]
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Attitudes towards this vary. Some see it as a rich source of CharacterDevelopment, and allowing more scope for {{Story Arc}}s as opposed to the formulaic shows of the "immortal" characters. Others see it as pessimistic and rather sad -- it can be argued that cartoons are meant to be an ''escape'' from reality, and bringing up the nature of time is enough to depress most adults, never mind children. Even more, becoming an adult is supposed to be a ''good'' thing, making you a Real Person who can Do Stuff; why are we telling kids to avoid it at all costs? It's also breaking to the story; by implying the characters were not [[UpTheRealRabbitHole real]], but not wanting to flatout admit it because it was AllJustADream tends to irritate people. So they were...[[LostAesop sorta real; real, but not anymore, and abandoning them now is growing up, really.]]
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It might be said that actually this {{trope}} is not directed at kids at all, but instead to and from adults, a wistful longing for the ideal of childhood as seen most clearly in movies like ''Film/{{Big}}'' and ''Film/FreakyFriday''.
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It might be said that actually this {{trope}} is not directed at kids at all, but instead to and from adults, a wistful longing for the ideal of childhood as seen most clearly in movies like ''Film/{{Big}}'' and ''Film/FreakyFriday''.
''Film/{{Freaky Friday|1976}}''.
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It might be said that actually this {{trope}} is not directed at kids at all, but instead to and from adults, a wistful longing for the ideal of childhood as seen most clearly in movies like ''Big'' and ''FreakyFriday''.
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It might be said that actually this {{trope}} is not directed at kids at all, but instead to and from adults, a wistful longing for the ideal of childhood as seen most clearly in movies like ''Big'' ''Film/{{Big}}'' and ''FreakyFriday''.
''Film/FreakyFriday''.
