I've been unironically saying this for years. Cartoons and other media for kids used to be subversive. It always pitted kids against comically absurd adults, and the kids always won, which I thought was a good message along the lines of "don't talk to strangers"
Paw patrol is such a meme by now, but everything people say about it is completely true. Whoever has creative control of it is a fascist, 100%. At best they're a bootlicking "libertarian" AKA... a fascist
I watched the first twelve segments of season 1 just to see if it was as awful as people say. I suppose that some of the themes are vaguely neofascist, like tenderness being a joke and nearly everybody being too incompetent to solve problems theirselves (preventing problems is nowhere nearly as important as solving them), but so far the most disturbing thing that I’ve seen is how the writers repeatedly demonize seagulls. Otherwise, it feels like just another long toy commercial.
I should watch more episodes, but it’s hard to when the show is so boring. I’ve been playing the episodes at 1.5 speed, something that I don’t normally do when I’m watching fiction.
The movie they made involves a very clearly gay coded black woman with blue hair and cat eye glasses being so stupid that she accidentally burns down a police station.
At one point the villain zips through space leaving a trail that is literally just the trans pride flag.
In the show the black mayor is the character who is known for being a total, absolute moron, who is constantly saved from her incompetence by the independently wealthy entrepreneur child and his private police force.
Oh wow, I haven’t gotten that far yet but that is awful. It was unclear to me if the PAW Patrol was either a state agency or somebody’s private enterprise, but the latter makes more sense. Also, I did a little research and I found out that a white person provided Mayor Goodway’s voice for the first several seasons even though the character is black.
Wait, what? Are there more than one Paw Patrol movies? Because that didn't happen in the one I watched, the one where Humdinger becomes the mayor of Adventure City and causes a storm because he sucked up all the clouds.
For what it's worth, there was some Musk criticism (Humdinger builds a loop-de-loop of train and calls it the Hyperloop and everyone thinks it's stupid and it immediately breaks).
Toy commercial is right - there's so much emphasis put on their mechs and their transformations that it feels like an ad break every time they get in. And they all have variations too like when they're in the jungle or the ocean, so that there are more toys to sell of course.
And I'm confident that Zuma and Skye were added as vehicles first and characters second because those two never do or say anything (Skye is the obligatory girl character and is girly, but Zuma the water rescue dog has 0 character traits).
I've been unironically saying this for years. Cartoons and other media for kids used to be subversive. It always pitted kids against comically absurd adults, and the kids always won, which I thought was a good message along the lines of "don't talk to strangers"
All cartoons now are just boot licking.
Paw patrol is such a meme by now, but everything people say about it is completely true. Whoever has creative control of it is a fascist, 100%. At best they're a bootlicking "libertarian" AKA... a fascist
I watched the first twelve segments of season 1 just to see if it was as awful as people say. I suppose that some of the themes are vaguely neofascist, like tenderness being a joke and nearly everybody being too incompetent to solve problems theirselves (preventing problems is nowhere nearly as important as solving them), but so far the most disturbing thing that I’ve seen is how the writers repeatedly demonize seagulls. Otherwise, it feels like just another long toy commercial.
I should watch more episodes, but it’s hard to when the show is so boring. I’ve been playing the episodes at 1.5 speed, something that I don’t normally do when I’m watching fiction.
The movie they made involves a very clearly gay coded black woman with blue hair and cat eye glasses being so stupid that she accidentally burns down a police station.
At one point the villain zips through space leaving a trail that is literally just the trans pride flag.
In the show the black mayor is the character who is known for being a total, absolute moron, who is constantly saved from her incompetence by the independently wealthy entrepreneur child and his private police force.
Oh wow, I haven’t gotten that far yet but that is awful. It was unclear to me if the PAW Patrol was either a state agency or somebody’s private enterprise, but the latter makes more sense. Also, I did a little research and I found out that a white person provided Mayor Goodway’s voice for the first several seasons even though the character is black.
Yeah that kind of shit does not happen in an organization filled with normal ass people
Wait, what? Are there more than one Paw Patrol movies? Because that didn't happen in the one I watched, the one where Humdinger becomes the mayor of Adventure City and causes a storm because he sucked up all the clouds.
For what it's worth, there was some Musk criticism (Humdinger builds a loop-de-loop of train and calls it the Hyperloop and everyone thinks it's stupid and it immediately breaks).
yep apparently 2 movies
Toy commercial is right - there's so much emphasis put on their mechs and their transformations that it feels like an ad break every time they get in. And they all have variations too like when they're in the jungle or the ocean, so that there are more toys to sell of course.
And I'm confident that Zuma and Skye were added as vehicles first and characters second because those two never do or say anything (Skye is the obligatory girl character and is girly, but Zuma the water rescue dog has 0 character traits).
It’s honestly work to try and make sure my kids aren’t subject to any copaganda in their TV shows for literal toddlers.