Antidote To Nickelodeon
Nov. 19th, 2009 05:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dr_pretentiousAnd boy did I need one!
It wasn't so bad when Gareth was satisfied with The Backyardigans. Run the "Samurai Pie" and "Mission to Mars" episodes on infinite repeat, and I can live with that. But then he discovered Kai-Lan, which is written right at his level, with no layer of anything that engages adults. We don't watch a lot of tv in our house, but it doesn't take much Kai-Lan to make a grown-up twitch.
Thank goodness for Li'l Cthulhu. What every parent needs to counterbalance all the blasted cuteness of kid-focused marketing is a heavy, if much-sweetened, dose of vintage horror.
It wasn't so bad when Gareth was satisfied with The Backyardigans. Run the "Samurai Pie" and "Mission to Mars" episodes on infinite repeat, and I can live with that. But then he discovered Kai-Lan, which is written right at his level, with no layer of anything that engages adults. We don't watch a lot of tv in our house, but it doesn't take much Kai-Lan to make a grown-up twitch.
Thank goodness for Li'l Cthulhu. What every parent needs to counterbalance all the blasted cuteness of kid-focused marketing is a heavy, if much-sweetened, dose of vintage horror.
