Cringe meme, I know, fight me.
I still rewatch Spongebob sometimes. Lots of children's media are interesting, I just get tired when grown ass adults obsess over its "maturity" like star wars fans with the Clone Wars lol
This pretty much sums up my feelings. There's a lot of media that my kids enjoy that adults also do (myself included to an extent). I just want them to be able to enjoy it just as kids, and have it be for kids. I just don't want everything to become more adultified. This is the reason I refuse to attend any event where children aren't welcome, even if I wasn't intending on bringing my kids.
if you've never done a tab of acid and watched spongebob until it kicks in, you haven't lived
warning: ren and stimpy might be a bit too far for this
I certainly don’t “obsess” over the “maturity” with Clone Wars and Rebels but I do go “Huh, wild that this is a children’s cartoon about the unrelenting horrors of war and failures of liberal democracy/a violent armed insurgency against a fascist state”
Same with avatar. Why can't people admit that what they like is a children's cartoon
I enjoy movies with my kids, but when they wanted to watch Moana, I had to explain to them that we don't watch movies with The Rock because he cheated Mankind out of that I Quit match in 1999. Truly the synthesis between edgy teen and being a normal enjoyer of family friendly media.
I enjoyed Amphibia and really love Owl House so far. I enjoy media that isn't filled with constant weird nihilism, use of fucking endless bathos humor (the shitty MCU bathos), or random acts of violence and actually can be somewhat emotionally vulnerable (Adventure Time looking at you).
Yeah, I like media that is good. I dont even think about the demographic when I watch something. So my tastes range all over the place. Some of the stuff I like is all ages, and some of it is stuff aimed at adults.
Telling people they're not allowed to watch something animated because they're an adult gives me the same vibes I felt when I was a kid being told "you can't like video games, they're not for you, you're a girl!"
Truth, gatekeeping and lanepushing is fuckin' annoying. I honestly don't mind the MCU stuff it just annoys me when, due to how marketing has become dominant over expressive art, it is the most reliable way to make money for animation (that or do Family Guy or South Park clone 3 million) that adults are expected to watch and anything outside of that is a no go. It's why shows like Close Enough, Infinity Train, and others end up getting cut because they begin pushing outside of established and profitable market lanes (Hell that's why we have gender designated gatekeeping with toy and animation marketing).
Bluey is very much an example of a TV show that is more about parenting than it is about kids, though kids make up a majority of the screen time. Fantastic show.
The episode where they draw the chase seen is just
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So what you're saying is you don't want to watch my essay on why Bulgarian Treasure Planet is secretly a deep commentary on society? :kitty-cri:
If it’s deeper than it actually is sure, but kids shows are allowed to have deep meanings
I'm just tired of all the violence and gratuitous sex scenes, or both combined. Really does nothing for me
There's tons of great shows for adults that don't have a bunch of gratuitous sex and violence.
Some great recent shows off the top of my head:
Atlanta
Reservation Dogs
The Rehearsal
How To with John Wilson
White Lotus (season one)
Andor
Severance (don't watch the trailer, it gives away the central premise and the first ep will be way more interesting if you don't know it)Adult shows aren't for adults because they have sex and violence
Like the only thing they watched was gambeaux and assumed it's all like that
a lot of it is like Netflix's Another Life (2019-2021) except set in NYC instead of science fiction.
But it's "Prestige TV!" :so-true: I have to watch this torture scene that definitely isn't trying to normalize Bush policy!
When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly.
- C. S. Lewis
I think C. S. Lewis is kind of biased when it comes to people reading fairy tales, given how he wrote them for a living.
Still right though.
It's a very low bar indeed but watching Frozen 2 with my kid made me realise that it gives a much better answer to colonisation and exploitation of native peoples than almost all adult media that approaches the same subject matter.
Yeah 90% of adult media seems to be 'streamline the plot and themes till it's as subtle as a lead brick and whack in some tits and people getting mutilated.' Coupled with the whole 'yeah things are bad but don't try to change them' which weirdly I think might just come from damn near every writer and director coming from an affluent background. Funny how they wouldn't want stuff to change even if loads of people are suffering.
Media has this weird paradox where good is bad and bad is good. Like, what is the best movie? Citizen Kane. However that movie sucks. Pick any garbage movie. You are gonna have a good time watching it
why do you think Paddington 2 is like the highest rated film of all time?
If media talks about something I want it to be at my level. Winks and nudges are fine, but in family-friendly media, adult themes have to relegated to winks and nudges or otherwise defanged. I think this is too restrictive; although some great art comes from genre restrictions, I don't listen to fugues all day. So that's why I personally don't seek out kid's shows, and think it's a odd for a non-parent to primarily watch them. About as odd as only watching Western movies, or only capeshit, etc.
It is very important that I learn to like the media my kids like, because I will be exposed to it a lot.
I've seen a few kid's TV shows haven't changed much, only they can randomly be incredibly based. Turns out if you can write whatever the hell you want in a 'dumb kids show', you can sneak in some praxis.
I keep seeing these cutesy cartoon shorts by ChikinNuget show up on YouTube, and I was recently watching a compliation of the little dragon character and the little rabbit demon character who are in love, because I am a total softie who finds stories of totally different people finding love to be heartwarming, and I feel embarrassed watching it but oh god they're so cute together
