The differences in Canadian and American educational systems? Or at least systems in the past; in high school we had a whole unit on Japanese history, and learned about the samurai, the daimyo, the shoguns, etc, and the Ainu. Didn’t learn about China, Russia, African nations, or Turkey, though, in terms of European and Asian history.
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you may be on to it there.
my primary education was in the texass public schools - very rural texass, at that. what did we learn about history? oh, you know, just how Very Heroic and Totally Not Racist texans like Houston, Travis, Lamar, Bowie, Crockett, et. al. were. and how texass was and is the greatest country ever and the US is so very lucky that texass deigned to join them.
what else would we ever have needed to know?
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We may have learned more about American and European history than Canadian history, because Canadian history is pretty boring, at least as it was taught to us; very few military events, and aside from the War of 1812, and the two World Wars, pretty small, isolated and short lived. Of course, history is more than wars and exploration, but that’s what the emphasis was on.
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There was also the Alberta Rat War!
ETA: In keeping with the thread, here is Joe Pera’s episode during which he makes a musical about the Alberta Rat War:
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One of my favorite bits of Canadian history that involves Americans (IRISH AMERICANS!)… (Thanks, Kate Beaton)!
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Yep; they’re called The Rat Patrol.
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Rings a bell.
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It’s such a weird event… I wish people would make a movie of it.
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and don’t forget the Pig War (1859):
when DB was an undergrad at UW, he was on a dig at American Camp on San Juan Island studying the site. across the island is British Camp.
Canadian history is fun!
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This war should also have a musical about it.
ETA: Hey Arnold! season 3 has an episode about it (episode 11 or episode 17, depending on whether you believe Paramount Plus or Wikipedia). Paramount is asking for age verification, so it sounds like it might be gruesome.
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That’s a coincidence; when I was an undergrad at the University of Toronto, I dug at Fort Malden, across the river from Detroit, in Ontario. It was burned down during the War of 1812. We got to dig the enlisted men’s latrine, which was a multi-holer. They would use the latrines as garbage pits for broken pipes and pottery, etc. We found a lot of uniform buttons.
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Uh oh…
Not sure how i feel about this…
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I kinda think you’d want a director with a lighter touch than Eggers.
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I’ve been quietly anticipating this would happen, not that i want a sequel but its unsurprising to me. I can imagine follow ups that would work for me, but i’m sure they’re going to go with nostalgia-wanking which is just tiresome (looking at you Beetlejuice 2)
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I dunno… I’m just not sure there is a need to make a sequel to Labyrinth…
Yeah… 
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I’m confused.
Isn’t whether there’s a profit to be made the point, rather than some kind of need?
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I think the world of Labyrinth is rich enough that more stories could be told, i have a few of Brian Froud’s art books and the stuff in there has so much character and potential… but i’m coming at it from an artistic/story-telling point of view. As you say, there’s money to be made so story will take a back seat to “Hey, remember these characters???” and i just find that infuriating.
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I mean… sure, some people will profit off of it and that’s probably the motive for whoever owns the IP for the film (is it Henson), but I think there are plenty of cases where old films or series got reboots or sequels, and it didn’t just feel like a cash grab… the sequel series of Twin Peaks, for one… I’m sure Showtime saw dollar signs, but having seen it, it had artistic and narrative merit.
Yeah. We’ll see how Eggers handles it.
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I definitely try not too be too much of a hater. The choice to make a sequel is in other people’s hands so all i can hope for is something not terrible, and if it is i just won’t watch it. I am curious what a Henson movie made or produced by Guillermo Del Toro would be like, maybe some day.
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