The wrong of Balto

Riley · **Posted:** Mon Jan 31, 2011 9:29 pm

My main concern is how a dog managed to get all the way up on the roof of that bar :shock:

sunkissin · **Posted:** Tue Feb 01, 2011 8:17 am

Riley wrote:

My main concern is how a dog managed to get all the way up on the roof of that bar :shock:

LOL this. ^

watermaster222 · **Posted:** Thu Apr 14, 2011 4:57 am

the other two dogs look like nikki and kaltag

Lakota WolfDog · **Posted:** Wed Jun 08, 2011 12:15 pm

beers fine so long as you don't over drink!

Echo · **Posted:** Wed Sep 21, 2011 12:44 pm

This isn't promoting any bad behavior what-so-ever, i think you guys are being a little paranoid.
So people drink in Alaska, at least we're being a little more realistic now. After all the talking dogs and clueless adventures you'd think they deserve a little bit of realism

AceOfSpades · **Posted:** Sun Dec 11, 2011 10:15 am

Saberwolf wrote:

Okay, I know it's in every town, but why put into a kids cartoon?

There's another thing I've noticed about that screen shot and I'm sure many of you already have but doesn't that grey dog on the roof of the bar look anything like Balto?

AceOfSpades · **Posted:** Sun Dec 11, 2011 12:16 pm

Roi Doberwolf · **Posted:** Sun Dec 11, 2011 1:04 pm

spirit3001 wrote:

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That doesn't really contribute anything to the conversation and is considered spam.

Jake Razor · **Posted:** Sun Dec 11, 2011 8:06 pm

JerseyCaptain wrote:

John, your concern has some merit, but what has been said is right - old Nome was a place of vices...alcohol, "ladies of the night", gambling...all manner of things. And while they don't show that in detail (thank goodness), it was still there nevertheless.

Of course, most people don't seem to realize that prohibition laws were in effect in the 1920s, even in the Alaska territory. And Nome experienced them as much as any other Alaskan town. So there would have been no open bars or speak easys. Any drinking was done under cover and illegally.

And yet, many buildings of the gold rush era of Nome, including old bars and saloons, were standing abandoned, and were probably lived in by squatters, or repurposed into other businesses. And then, when the prohibition laws were eventually lifted, some of those old saloons (or all new ones) were once again opened and did a thriving business.

I never really gave this topic much attention, but I think this hostorical note is worth consideration. As for the bar, I'd say don't pay it any mind. Now if it were one or two of the other vices associated with bars, that would be another matter in my book (I wouldn't want to see, for example, a positive character smoking; why do you think the tobbacco companies pay celebs to smoke in movies?).

Honestly, I think as reasons to give this movie a thumbs-down go, Stella is way ahead of a closed-down bar.

Juuchan17 · **Posted:** Sun Dec 11, 2011 11:18 pm

Dragon Tamer wrote:

JerseyCaptain wrote:

John, your concern has some merit, but what has been said is right - old Nome was a place of vices...alcohol, "ladies of the night", gambling...all manner of things. And while they don't show that in detail (thank goodness), it was still there nevertheless.

Of course, most people don't seem to realize that prohibition laws were in effect in the 1920s, even in the Alaska territory. And Nome experienced them as much as any other Alaskan town. So there would have been no open bars or speak easys. Any drinking was done under cover and illegally.

And yet, many buildings of the gold rush era of Nome, including old bars and saloons, were standing abandoned, and were probably lived in by squatters, or repurposed into other businesses. And then, when the prohibition laws were eventually lifted, some of those old saloons (or all new ones) were once again opened and did a thriving business.

I never really gave this topic much attention, but I think this hostorical note is worth consideration. As for the bar, I'd say don't pay it any mind. Now if it were one or two of the other vices associated with bars, that would be another matter in my book (I wouldn't want to see, for example, a positive character smoking; why do you think the tobbacco companies pay celebs to smoke in movies?).

Wow, I didn't know that either, so that just ups the historical ante of this film - first with the US Post Office in the Alaskan Territory, the whole bush plane v. dogsledding stuff, and now this about bars and prohibition. Yay, the last Balto movie is possibly more accurate than its predecessors - OH MY DOG what is this.

Again, most kids wouldn't notice it unless it was paused, so I've got no problem with it. And to answer the whole "how'd the dog get up there" question: Surely that dog's got some mad climbing skills, like Balto had in WQ to get to Jenna's window. That or he knew of some secret hideouts in that bar?

Dragon Tamer wrote:

Honestly, I think as reasons to give this movie a thumbs-down go, Stella is way ahead of a closed-down bar.

And LOL, this is so true, DT. Quote-worthy even.

- Juuchan17

Jake Razor · **Posted:** Mon Dec 12, 2011 1:54 am

Glad we agree. As for the climbing, we're talking a town with varied levels of roofs and probably soe major stacks of firewood up against buildings. I could probably do it with both feet tied together.

Alicane · **Posted:** Thu Jan 05, 2012 3:53 pm

Bars are not a bad influence. Beauty and the Beast had a bar and we don't bother them about it.

Jake Razor · **Posted:** Fri Jan 06, 2012 11:26 pm

Alkan wrote:

Bars are not a bad influence. Beauty and the Beast had a bar and we don't bother them about it.

True, but if I remember that one correctly (I think it holds my personal record for longest time since I last saw a movie) the characters seen there were generally cast in a pretty negative light (Gaston as a case in point).

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