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Whenever this comes up, I'm reminded of this series: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codename_Icarus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codename_Icarus http://www.imdb
by salgernon 13y ago
Whenever this comes up, I'm reminded of this series:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codename_Icarus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codename_Icarus
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0301116/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0301116/
Very popular with the teens in my family with fantasies of being whisked away 'cause they're just so damn smart.
- presidentender 13y agoI used to harbor similar fantasies (witness my username and the television series 'Pretender'). But you can't just put some supergenius 8-year-old in a special school and have 'em pop out with the diligence required to achieve great things early in adolescence.
- textminer 13y agoThat's sort of the basis of Plato's Republic, no?
- pyrocat 13y agoFor the darker side of that fantasy, see: Firefly
- tootie 13y agoOh yeah, a Chosen One fantasy: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheChosenOne http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheChosenOne