Blogging in November: Day 5 - blasts from the past! (with youtubes to pass the time)
What show from your childhood would you love to bring back?
Define childhood.
Well, in all honest, Mr. Rogers' Neighbourhood. Bring it back on DVD, on the television as reruns, but bring it back. It's a great show for kids.
(This 7-minute clip is when Mr. Rogers went to the US Senate to defend PDF funding)
But I suspect that's not what was ( Read more... )
Define childhood.
Well, in all honest, Mr. Rogers' Neighbourhood. Bring it back on DVD, on the television as reruns, but bring it back. It's a great show for kids.
Click to view(This 7-minute clip is when Mr. Rogers went to the US Senate to defend PDF funding)
But I suspect that's not what was ( Read more... )
Oh - and Orson and Olivia, which was absolutely amazing. Nearly all the episodes are available on youtube and I suggest you do yourself a favour and check them out. Incredible storytelling about street children scraping by and adventuring in the Victorian era.
Also the X-Men animated series and Batman the Animated Series that ran in the early nineties and ensured my comic book affections forever (Rogue/Gambit was the first couple I ever shipped, before I knew what shipping was).
Astro Boy is the one that really stuck with me though, on an unconscious level. I'm talking about the oddly dark, mature remake that was done in the 80's and snuck some rather sombre and moving concepts into a show aimed at pre-teens. In one episode Astro falls in love with a fellow robot who dies and then asks that some of her parts be incorporated into his design so she can always be with him. In another he encounters a police detective who hates robots because robotic surgeons treated his severe trauma by replacing his human body with a robotic substitute, which he hates. And then there was the one with the man who didn't know he was actually a robotic substitute for his maker's dead son . . .
This was brain stretching stuff for a little kid growing up in the late eighties and I still remember those stories fondly - they packaged big ideas in a format that was safely accessible to quite young children and cemented my love of science fiction forever.
Then came puberty. And Buffy. And Daria.
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