Because we're ON VACATION, we're watching far more TV than I normally allow

[conuly]

Two or three episodes a day. Well, it won't kill them, and everybody in the house BUT them and me sleeps in, so they need to be contained.

In the past, I've watched Dora. God is that an obnoxious show. If you have to cajole children into participating, you're doing it wrong. It's insulting to everybody to be asked an already insultingly simple question, and then be nagged into giving the reply, or have to sit through several seconds of silence before the answer is given.

But you know what really annoys me about this show? What really, really annoys me?

Nobody on that show seems to understand that the possessive of Boots is not Boots, but Boots'. Maybe it's just me, but if I were refering to Boots' boots, or his books, or his birthday, I'd say "Boots-iz such-and-fuch" not merely "Boots such-and-fuch".

Drives me batty.

Comments

[l33tminion]

Well, I admit my perceptions my be colored by nostalgia, although I stand by my opinion of Mr. Rodgers' Neighborhood. (Just compare how Mr. Rodger's deals with imagination compared to the treatment of imaginative play in Barney. Or note the lack of hyperactive scene changes and incessant repetition. Or the quality of Mr. Rodgers as a role model.) Still, I can't help but feel educational television has become less education-focused and more commercialized. I think long-running classics like Sesame Street have gone down hill as well, although some would suggest that the old Sesame Street "may not suit the needs of today's preschool child".

(Criticism based on that last point seems to be a variation on the "everything was more hardcore back in the day" mantra... still may be valid, though.)