A long time ago, when I was nine years old, there was a TV show on Cartoon Network called "Time Squad" that I watched all the time. It was funny and educational!
According to the Wikipedia article about Time Squad, "Time is like a rope, and, as it is woven at one end, ages and gradually unravels and frays at the other. In the context of the show, this often means that historical figures have made different, and often anachronistic, choices in life, and as such will not be able to fulfill the role that history says they fulfilled." Basically, historical figures messed up big time and it was Time Squad's job to clean up their mess.
Time Squad consisted of a buff man named Buck Tuddrussel who was in charge of the team, a robot named Larry 3000, and an orphan boy named Otto Osworth. It was a goofy group but they always got the job done.
One person they helped was Eli Whitney. He invented flesh eating robots instead of the cotton gin. They really had to fix that! Another was Edgar Allen Poe. Instead of writing dark, scary poetry, he was really happy and writing children books. The Time Squad simply could not let Poe enjoy life. They had to make him suffer and hate the world so he would write poems like "The Raven." They did. Good thing they did because otherwise, juniors in Honors English would not have the pleasure of reading Poe's poems and searching for literary devices. Yay Time Squad!
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It's ironically scary to think of Poe writing joyful children books. Too bad the Time Squad is just a show, though. It would have been much better off if Poe was only dark because the actions of four cartoon characters rather than it being because of him witnessing the death of four very close people to him.
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It's amazing how happy cartoons can make everyone. They can even give false impressions of real people that children easily remember. Good connection; sadly, like storkafork said, it's only a cartoon.
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