Not even five minutes into this new movie I realized that Ebenezer Scrooge was gay. OK, so... Even back when he was a kid he knew he was different from the other boys. He felt apart from them, and it being an all boy school he had no outlet to understand what that was. Back then, it was unheard of to even think those thoughts so he did what he thought was right and married a woman. No doubt he did love her, but it was more out of companionship than love. Nope, not until later in life when he met Jacob Marley did the candle in his heart truly begin to burn. The two men started a business and Scrooge turned his passion to that business, the partnership, rather than on his own wife, who eventually left him because she knew he didn't really love her. She understood it only as a love for money, not knowing the underlying emotion that drove his focus to money.

When Marley died, it devastated him. Harder than the supposed love of his life leaving him, even. It changed him and over those seven years he grew darker and darker with grief of his lost love until finally the three ghosts shook him, reminding him that he's not dead yet and should go on living life to his fullest. They showed him that he should be grateful for the time he has here, move on with his life and get over his loss. A final gift by a long dead "partner," Marley, showing he loved Scrooge and wanted to help once more, even after death.

Now that's a happy ending, isn't it? Now tell me you don't see those undertones when you watch it.

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Pure awesomeness.