I was playing with my six year old, and I discovered the way to have fun is to deliberately get yourself into second place, and then make it your goal to get the other player to finish first.
Which is how I’ll play until she’s ready, and then I’ll start truly destroying her… until she starts beating me and I will have fulfilled my calling as her parent.
That’s a good theory! The development of one could have led to the other. A beam that remotely disassembles something to its subatomic particles without an explosion would have been a necessary part of transporter development, regardless of which was invented first.
But the trays are all wet.
It’s got to be something more exotic than simply dumping energy into the target until it turns to vapor, otherwise there would be horrifying explosions of steam and guts and molten rock, instead of a soft hum and the disappearance of the target.
The Wizard of Oz, because of what the actors, especially Judy Garland, went through.
The Shining, because of how Kubrick treated Shelley Duvall.
Powder and Jeepers Creepers, because of how Victor Salva emphatically put his own predilections into his work.
It mostly works, though at the early edge it’s a little dicey. I’m not sure I’m cool with a 20 y.o. dating a 17 y.o. Maybe require a firewall between high school and college, excepting HS seniors dating college freshmen.