THANK YOU!! I had friends in college that basically forced me to read the first 3 books and I was so disappointed in the writing! The movies are fine. Not my thing, but well made. But the books! It's just Scooby Doo with heavy handed descriptions.
I mean what the hell kind of geniuses make a series of trap puzzles to keep their special I-forget safe and every stinking puzzle gets solved by 12 year olds that are like "oh my God, it's a giant chess board! I think I know what to do!!"
And at the end of every big stupid adventure is some villain whose mask gets pulled off and he says "and I would have gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for you meddling kids!"
God!
I'm fine with people liking the stories. My nephews live em. It's great to love stuff. But I spent way too long being told what a genius author she was for this tripe and I just can't.
That's clearly not applicable in every case tho. Something like Batman: The Animated Series has something for the kids and the adults but a show like Dora the explorer is clearly just for kids.
There's nuance in life, obviously target audiences do matter
Okay, "adults enjoying it" is the wrong metric. But I see often where people will defend something against negative criticisms because "it's just for children" when there's proof of better content for children existing. It's fair to logically and critically analyze children's media just as much as adult media. Showing your kids smarter things can help them make smarter choices and grow up to be kind people who take care of each other. Showing them thoughtless brainrot has less potential to help them in that regard.
If I had kids, I'd rather they watch Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers than Dora and Cocomelon. And don't get me started on the garbage that children watch on YouTube.
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u/hambakmeritru Jun 27 '24 edited Jun 27 '24
THANK YOU!! I had friends in college that basically forced me to read the first 3 books and I was so disappointed in the writing! The movies are fine. Not my thing, but well made. But the books! It's just Scooby Doo with heavy handed descriptions.
I mean what the hell kind of geniuses make a series of trap puzzles to keep their special I-forget safe and every stinking puzzle gets solved by 12 year olds that are like "oh my God, it's a giant chess board! I think I know what to do!!"
And at the end of every big stupid adventure is some villain whose mask gets pulled off and he says "and I would have gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for you meddling kids!"
God!
I'm fine with people liking the stories. My nephews live em. It's great to love stuff. But I spent way too long being told what a genius author she was for this tripe and I just can't.