Honey, I Shrunk the Kids But They're Dead!

Have you ever seen the movie, Honey I Shrunk the Kids? If you have, you know I'm about to ruin the magic for you!

I was thinking on it some time ago and the thought of how terrifying that experience really would be. Imagine being that size and confronting the terrors that are microbes and parasites! The reality to which you would be subjected would render you catatonic.

Imagine wrestling with a mite or some such! You, a fleshy, soft bag of water, fighting for your life against multitudes of arthropods with their missing spines and spiky, sharp exoskeletons!

I think maybe I should write a short story on it, but Miyazaki adapted the Borrowers in The Secret World of Arietty and beat me to the punch.

Is nothing original anymore?

 

P.S. Happy over-a-decade-since-my-last-post!