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Your Friend the Rat (2007)
Dreadful messaging
Great idea to put out a pro-rat 'infomercial', the whistle-stop tour through history was nicely done and there is a lovely range of animation styles...
But the whole thing was ruined for me by the appalling pro-animal testing messaging and repeated references to humans/people as "man".
The whole thing comes across as if it was scripted in the 1980s not the 21st century.... Sorry Disney/Pixar, you need to do better. WE knew better when this short was made and even more so now - it really hasn't aged well. It's disappointing that your output doesn't better reflect current sensibilities and instead perpetuates old fashioned exclusive language and the myth that there is any benefit to torturing animals in the name of science.
Station 19: Something About What Happens When We Talk (2020)
The most unrealistic therapist in the world
Great idea for an episode and a useful way to fill in some more back-stories and rest the show's path a little, BUT I just couldn't get past the terrible, unrealistic, inappropriate depiction of therapy.
If any professional therapist really operated like that - sitting behind a massive physical barrier of a desk, closed body language, aggressive and leading questioning, talking more than her 'clients', disclosing personal details.... she'd be fired before the end of her first week.