Crushing Disappointment
POSTED BY: seryn
UPDATED: Monday, September 15, 2008 18:53
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I was watching the Sci-fi channel today and to my joy The Train Job starts. Perfect I think, my seven year old neice is sitting next to me and apart from that one bit with Niska's newphew, its plenty suitable for a kid that age (who had, afterall, been reared on Buffy).
So we are watching it and initially the signs are promising, she's looking at the tv screen anyway. And I think great, another convert - its inconcievable to me at this point that she won't start to love it.
And then her attention starts to drift, and she goes to bug other people in the room, and then finally I look up and she's left entirely.
Where did we go wrong? How did we produce such a child? Why oh why!
It wouldn't have been so bad if less than an hour later she hadn't walked in to the room as The Real Hustle was starting and gone 'oooh, i like this - its that robbin' show, I like it'
hmmmm...
maybe it did have something of an effect.
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Give 'er time. Sounds like she's progressing already. ;) Ever try and consciously introduce people to it before?
-- Gerry
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no - well, i've always just handed them the DVD and said 'this is fab - you'll love it' and they have.
there's a first time for everything i suppose.
I think we are still in Pink country. She's left Barbie and Bratz behind to replace it with Hannah Montana and HSM. Its the girly thing and I don't mind it i suppose.(Apart from one thing - does anyone else find Zack Effron really really slappable? He just has this irritating face).
She's got fantastic taste in music etc and she's always willing to try new things and engage actively with em, so her interests are varied at least.
She's a great kid. I'd stop panicking about it but its fun.(edit - the pink thing I mean)
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This is a joke, right?
None of the Firefly episodes are appropriate for a seven year old. And your neice wasn't bugging anyone....she was just acting like a normal seven year old.
Let children just be children as long as they can. Why subject them to a TV show which deals with many adult subject matters?
The 'verse is great but it's not for children. Let's keep this Browncoat thingy in prespective.
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Now don't be slappin' Zac Effron - he played young Simon!
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Originally posted by BlackCatLady:
This is a joke, right?
None of the Firefly episodes are appropriate for a seven year old. And your neice wasn't bugging anyone....she was just acting like a normal seven year old.
Let children just be children as long as they can. Why subject them to a TV show which deals with many adult subject matters?
The 'verse is great but it's not for children. Let's keep this Browncoat thingy in prespective.
Have you watched what is considered "appropriate" for a 7 year old?
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Quote:Yep.
Originally posted by BlackCatLady:
Let children just be children as long as they can.
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Actually i don't feel that many aspects of Firefly are inappropriate for children. Oh and she was 'bugging' people, she does it well and of course its natural.
With regards to content I checked which episode it was and consulted her mum who was in the room at the time and she didn't have a problem with it. I warned her in advance the there were scene's that she might not like, and that I'd tell her when it was coming up so she could look away. She also knows full well that we let her decide what she wants to see (within reason) and that if at any time she's scared and doesn't want it to go on we will stop. We had to do this with Harry Potter - there far worse things going on in those children s books and movies. As always the key words are informed choice.
Obviously its not for me to say how to raise your children but with my niece we judge how she's going to react to certain things then we introduce her to programmes that will entertain and challenge her. I think some episodes of Firefly are perfect for that. It goes with out saying that if shes not interested, shes not interested.We don't censor her same as we don't wrap her up in cotton wool and keep her naive and ignorant.
As for adult themes, what are you talking about? Firefly deals in human themes, at least in that episode. I agree fully that sex and graphic violence are adult but there are none in that episode (apart from the aforementioned scenes) But the rest of what it deals with? Family, working for your living, looking after your friends, making the right choice and illness - these aren't the exclusive preserve of the over 18's, these are all things she coming across already. Anything that helps her make sense of it (and for all its shooting people Firefly has its morals screwed on straight) is a good thing.
I've gone on for far to long - all i intended to say was 'You do know i was joking right? I'm not going to force her to watch a TV show just cause I like it.'
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Originally posted by elvenbookwyrm:
Now don't be slappin' Zac Effron - he played young Simon!
Tahts where i've seen him before!
Ok, I won't slap him. In all fairness its not his fault. He just looks smug all the time, but I suppose everyone would if they had achieved fame fortune and the adoration of pre teen girls everywhere before their hormones had even properly kicked in.
I think its also though because he look exactly like a boy who i used to hate in school (because he was the one who made up the nasty nicknames - not just randomly)
As for HSM itself i think its great. Rhe (the niece)went to see a stage version recently - She wore her cheerleader costume, as did her favorite bear, and waved her pom poms around like a lunatic the entire second half. i think for the next Potter movie we are going to change the lettering and let her cheer the Quidditch match.
Not in the cinema, obviously.
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Originally posted by seryn:
Not in the cinema, obviously.
Well, why not?
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