Biased, pontificating blowhards successfully purged. I hope.
Six episodes of Dae Jang Geum, four episodes of Chuck and three episodes of Lark Rise to Candleford later, and I think I am sufficiently deprogrammed from 4 days of FOX News and children’s programming. Actually, I’m more worried about FOX News. I don’t think I’d ever like that station, but I likely wouldn’t mind it as much if it weren’t so blatantly biased while claiming to be unbiased.
Also, I got The Princess and the Frog on DVD on Tuesday, and Mom and Jackson both wanted to watch it. He told us I think seven times that he liked “the girl frog” (he hasn’t seen it enough to know the names yet) best and had narration like “When’s the frog going to show up? When the frog shows up she’s going to kiss him.” (He said “kiss” in the classic toddler conspiratorial whisper.) His parents like romantic movies, can you tell?
Three year olds are such fun. Especially when you can give them back after a few days.
Meanwhile, is it just me, or is a lot of the animation for children’s shows and movies now really bad? I mean, I don’t like most of the CGI movies, which is largely taste, but the animation for a lot of the shows just looked ugly to me. It may be because it’s what I grew up with, but the animation from the 90s and earlier, heavy lines, sometimes-blobby-backgrounds, and no-longer-stunning coloring and all, seems to be much better than the newer shows, which seem more hung up on having a distinctive style than anything else. The only shows I didn’t dislike (that weren’t reruns of older shows) purely in terms of animation were the Dora and Diego shows, which have more old-school styled animation. (Also, both shows annoyed me immensely, but seemed much better than the other cartoons, and were practically progressive in comparison. Which, actually, is on the depressing side.)
Moving on to animated shows I’d actually want to watch: does anyone know where I can get subtitled eps of Earl and Fairy and Mononoke? I’ve given up on either ever getting licensed (If I’m wrong, tell me!) but have only found E&F raw, and no Mononoke. (Of course, most anime I’d watch gets licensed, so I know few places to find them, rarely needing to.)