Reply #8: Which is the briliance of the episode--

[bliss_eternal]

it's horrible to think of ever doing harm to your child, no matter how bad they are--it's horrible. How can something that should be guileless and innocent be so completely evil? It's hard to watch that episode and not think it about how miserable all the people in the town appear to be, living under the whim and will of a child with unbelievable powers.

The clever thing is that they constantly have to say 'how good' everything is even when it is absolutely not good. Though they all have their lives, how good are their lives really when this child is running everything in the town, unchecked, unchallenged because of the power he wields. Creating monstrous creatures and turning humans into jack o lanters, making it snow and ruining the crops and their source of food.

Makes one think of a lot of situations in life, of unchallenged power gone wrong doesn't it?
;)