this is NOT OKAY

so I was sitting here, minding my own business, trying to watch Critical Role on Youtube--my other DnD friends all love it and I trust their judgement, but attempting to podcast it didn't go great so I'm giving it another shot when I can't be so overwhelmed by the voices. So far I'm having trouble fighting my way through the getting started stuff, which was CRUELLY AMPLIFIED when Youtube took the opportunity to force me to watch two and a half minutes of advertisement for this terrifying movie. In which a dog, uh, haunts a human child and eventually adult and eventually the human child's grandchild over the course of several lifespans, breeds, and bodies, apparently finangling its way into their lives by sheer canine obsessive force, and... apparently discovers a life's purpose in some way? which it has not worked out in any of the previous canine lifetimes?

I can't not take this to the horror place. My dog Tribble is not, like, the secret incarnation of my childhood Jack Russell Terriers or the pointer I had later on. Dogs aren't interchangeable, they have personalities and lives and desires that don't revolve around me! It's the kind of thing that probably seems really cute and heartwarming if you think the world revolves around you, like oh even if you didn't know it this immortal dog spirit loves you enough to follow you around for all eternity with no effort or awareness on your part, but when someone fixates on me without my knowledge or consent it all just comes off as creepy.

Also, the trailer heavily implies that the grandchild's mother chooses to move the grandchild across the country (TERRIBLE woman, ofc) but the grandparents MISS HER and YEARN FOR HER and SHOW UP UNEXPECTED ON HER DOORSTEP and this is all portrayed as very heartwarming and could you not?

afghkdfljgl.

I just wanted to listen to goblins!