"The Wonderful World Of Disney", do you remember the announcers voice? Mr. Walt Disney in front of the camera talking about the latest project, or the show itself. I remember looking forward to seeing it on TV, I believe it was on Sunday nights when I was growing up.
Those days are really over, just about 3 years ago we turned off the satellite and subscribed to Netflix, it has been nice to avoid the crazy commercials that repeat and what I would call the game-show mentality and reality viewing. On top of that it is an insult to ones intelligence some of the stuff that is on these days. As for me I like to be entertained, that is for sure, I also like to watch something that does not have to be explained. Sure there are some movies from the 60's that really seem to defy explanation, but for the most part some of the older stuff isn't to bad.
The tuff thing is making sure that we dads (moms too) help our children make good choices in viewing. Recently, Jr. was very upset with the release of the new Transformers movie. The reviews from multiple sources gave the opinion that it was a lot more "Hollywood" for a second movie. He asked me why they just can't make a good movie, that’s a very good question. Family friendly movies make a ton of money at the theater. They always mess up a sequel, the first one is good, your hooked and then, well we have to see the next one, which is usually worse in content and language than the first. A lot of parents don’t look at reviews; they trust others to do their job. Some times there is a lesson for a family to discuss, to be sure, but for the most part children and young adults are with friends, not parents. The lesson is that we dads need to be aware of what our child sees.
I used to be in the printing world and we had a saying that applies here. It was "garbage in garbage out", basically what comes in can't always be improved. Same applies with children, what they see (garbage) is what comes out.
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