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kids TV needs more coherent narratives
Jul. 17th, 2018 08:16 amOnce again, watching childrens television...
This time it's PJ Masks, about a group of children who become superheroes at bedtime.
The standard plot goes:
1) The kids are at school and something weird happens.
2) Night falls! And the kids become superheroes!
3) They investigate the weird thing, and defeat the supervillain!
4) It is daytime again, and their school is back to normal. Huzzah!
The thing is, as I see it there are only two options.
Option A: The kids are supernaturally able to make the sun go down at will.
Option B: The kids get to school, see the weird thing, go "Well, we'll find out when the sun goes down", and then shrug and go about their normal school day while, for instance, everyone else at school is inexplicably stuck in slow motion.
...I'm not sure which one of those disturbs me more.
This time it's PJ Masks, about a group of children who become superheroes at bedtime.
The standard plot goes:
1) The kids are at school and something weird happens.
2) Night falls! And the kids become superheroes!
3) They investigate the weird thing, and defeat the supervillain!
4) It is daytime again, and their school is back to normal. Huzzah!
The thing is, as I see it there are only two options.
Option A: The kids are supernaturally able to make the sun go down at will.
Option B: The kids get to school, see the weird thing, go "Well, we'll find out when the sun goes down", and then shrug and go about their normal school day while, for instance, everyone else at school is inexplicably stuck in slow motion.
...I'm not sure which one of those disturbs me more.