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Just the visualization of an idea.

No sense of purpose whatsoever, and a very abrupt ending.

Not a very interesting ending to have him eaten by a ghost shark. Almost anything would have been more interesting.

Icarus.

I know that some young people just don't learn some things in school anymore. But even a cursory reading of Icarus would be this short beautiful episode. As the Elder teases the Younger of many things, not paying attention, etc., he still shows patience. As the night circus begins and the Younger becomes entranced, all he can see is the beauty, while the Elder, still amazed, can sense the danger coming but can do nothing to stop it.

One must be able to dream but still be able to be practical.

Fantastic visuals but the story and characters held it back. Were the visuals hallucinations of the older man or real? Was the younger man a figment of the old guys imagination? Why didn't the bottle break on the rock? So many unclear plot holes and the story isn't enough to provoke your own ideas. The writing was bland, and the characters were nothing special.

Why did the young man suddenly get hyper out of nowhere and dive into the scene? Just seems it happened for him to get eaten by the shark, and for it to end. Is there a bigger message or nah? Could have been so much better, promising idea for an adaptation.

An interesting idea, but the short never becomes more than that. The writing is pretty clunky and the way things play out, it feels like someone had an idea (ghost dinos), but never bothered really making an intriguing story (which you could definitely do with that idea). It also doesn't help that the animation style is reminiscent of the Tell Tale games. Not horrible, but the weakest short in LD&R so far.

It wasnt straight-forward and on the nose as the other episodes for sure, but it actually brought me to a few tears for some reason. Im not super-emotional, but the real fear in the dad's heart mixed with the ignorant bliss of the son really hit me hard.

This was a metaphor similar to icarus who flew so high he flew too close to the sun. There was a blatant alcohol reference, but that was just a detail to the allegory. We all tend to seek happiness as if its some goal, when in reality, it is this state of bliss that invariably precedes shocking tragedy in life, and in this story. Be grateful, be thankful, and never try and fly too close to the sun.

Didn't care for it too much. It wasn't any huge twists and the end still left the characters stranded

I didn't mind a feel good episode about some people enjoying a beautiful sight without any story and with basic dialogue. I didn't mind a metaphor for whatever idea this episode might have tried to convey (there's a few theories that could fit, but probably nothing very substantial). I didn't mind watching a night in the dessert gone wrong in some way. But all these together just don't mesh well... The ending especially does not fit at all - the tonal whiplash from the abrupt ending frankly killed my interest in trying to interpret this episode in any way (so yeah, maybe this episode is better that I give it credit for, but it didn't make me care about it by the time it was finished). The story feels not only like a first draft, but unfinished because of the cut to black just as I began to get into the episode. Could have been great or at least a very nice spectacle, but it ended up as just disappointing.

Great animation style, but the writing was weak. The night before the dad wonders about what creatures roamed before when the desert was still a sea, and coincidentally exactly this happens when they fall asleep? Just didn't make a lot of sense.