Kids Deserve Better
May. 8th, 2013 11:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloYesterday afternoon I sat with Zhayam next door while his mother attended a funeral. We watched superhero cartoons, generously interspersed with ads for plastic toys. I don't know what Channel this was- Disney perhaps. Some of the superheroes were out of the Marvel stable.
The animation was as basic as it gets- nothing moved unless it absolutely had to- and the stories were all the same story- told without charm. Bad guy does or plans something bad- like kidnapping an heiress. Heroes with necks wider than their heads challenge bad guy. Bad guy gains advantage. Thick-necked hero bounces back through use of super-power or handy gadget or the timely arrival of thick-necked reinforcements.
Apparently writers are paid to extrude this drool. I saw their names. If I were one of them I'd use an alias.
The animation was as basic as it gets- nothing moved unless it absolutely had to- and the stories were all the same story- told without charm. Bad guy does or plans something bad- like kidnapping an heiress. Heroes with necks wider than their heads challenge bad guy. Bad guy gains advantage. Thick-necked hero bounces back through use of super-power or handy gadget or the timely arrival of thick-necked reinforcements.
Apparently writers are paid to extrude this drool. I saw their names. If I were one of them I'd use an alias.
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Date: 2013-05-08 03:28 pm (UTC)And we need to remember that high-end animation- Pixar, Wallace and Gromit- is as good as it's ever been.
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Date: 2013-05-08 03:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-05-08 03:41 pm (UTC)I've watched 'Flushed Away' a number of times and I still find more visual jokes and references each time.
Le Frog still makes me cry with laughter.
'Of course I laugh at your pain! I'm French.'
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Date: 2013-05-08 03:57 pm (UTC)