I.R Joey
03-28-2002, 03:08 PM
The talk about the Gargoyles episode Lethal Force got me thinking about this just a few minutes ago. While I never got to see much of the show, I understand that this was perhaps one of the most poignant episodes of the show ever. Where one of the main charecters is actually injured by a shot. Yet Disney insists on not showing the episode because they feel it's to "intense" for the kids. It seems to me that this ep had a very strong non-violence messege. Or heck lets talk about Toonami and Gundam's edits. The show is about the travesty of war and how horrible it is yet they take out refrences to death and civilian casualties, because less we ever forget nobody ever dies in war right? I mean it teaches plane and simple that war is not a good thing, and how we should try and avoid it (and makes it interesting too.)
Instead they feel it is there place to make all such episodes (I think they demand it the networks and parnet groups) boring and tedious. With kids saying "No" to the weird plant their new group of "freinds" is trying to get them to use. The Flintstone kids special comes to mind when we talk about this kind of stuff. I mean it just seems so artificial and blank it's like they're trying to make it bad, or all the educational things that are tacked onto the end of shows (the 80's where more guilty of this then now, I must admit but there still are some cases) Instead (especially in Sci-fi shows) they could be incorperated quite creativly into the fabric of the show. I tell you to look no further then the WB animated shows of the mid-90's, with their catchy songs that actually taught kids stuff. I personally think that the writters held a similar view to mine in the fact that they hated (read loathed) how other kids shows handled educational values to their shows. Remember.
"Balony and freinds is brought to you inpart by this station and other stations that lack clever programing."
Or the oh so infamous wheel of morality which was intentionally tacked on to the end of alot of episodes. Now I ask you why can't more shows handle it this way?
Instead they feel it is there place to make all such episodes (I think they demand it the networks and parnet groups) boring and tedious. With kids saying "No" to the weird plant their new group of "freinds" is trying to get them to use. The Flintstone kids special comes to mind when we talk about this kind of stuff. I mean it just seems so artificial and blank it's like they're trying to make it bad, or all the educational things that are tacked onto the end of shows (the 80's where more guilty of this then now, I must admit but there still are some cases) Instead (especially in Sci-fi shows) they could be incorperated quite creativly into the fabric of the show. I tell you to look no further then the WB animated shows of the mid-90's, with their catchy songs that actually taught kids stuff. I personally think that the writters held a similar view to mine in the fact that they hated (read loathed) how other kids shows handled educational values to their shows. Remember.
"Balony and freinds is brought to you inpart by this station and other stations that lack clever programing."
Or the oh so infamous wheel of morality which was intentionally tacked on to the end of alot of episodes. Now I ask you why can't more shows handle it this way?