kids TV needs more coherent narratives
Jul. 17th, 2018 08:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
deird1Once 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.
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Date: 2018-08-05 08:51 pm (UTC)1)kids at school. Personal dilemma- Gecko kid too shy to read in front of class, so teacher says read another tomorrow. Bad guy appearing. Oh no, trouble.
2) day passes. Sun travels across sky, night falls. Kids getting into their pjs which happen to be magical superpower pjs.
3)kids fight the baddie named Romeo. Kids struggle with personal dilemma, then they are victorious. Presumably go back to bed and parents didn't notice a thing.
4) NEXT DAY, as seen by the fact the Gecko kid is now reading out loud a new poem he wrote himself, and makes it through just fine.
...so yeah, not sure how you're getting disturbed by it. Just watch and enjoy, like my kids did. :-)