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azurelunatic) wrote2002-10-06 02:18 pm
azurelunatic) wrote2002-10-06 02:18 pm
Why I dislike Spongebob Squarepants so very much:
The show is stupid. I don't mean that in a childish, "I don't like it just 'cause" sort of way. I think it actively encourages lack of thought.
No one is going to argue with me over the topic of that starfish guy. That starfish guy, whatever his name is, isn't smart. That's part of the character. I don't have a real problem with that.
I don't have a problem with Spongebob being easily amused. Spongebob can pick up anything, and have a blast with it, even if he's not using the thing in the way that it was intended to be used. In one episode, Squidward litters, and Spongebob has a ball with the little piece of paper.
What I do have a problem with is the way Spongebob consistently fails to think. Marx read a Spongebob book aloud to Nephew, and I didn't like it at all. The starfish gets Spongebob built up into hysterics about aliens, which Spongebob has already been told don't exist, and through messing with things that they shouldn't have been messing with, they launch off in Sandy's rocket ship, get turned around, fail to realize they're back on Earth, meet "aliens", and at long last come home. Throughout the incident, the only characters displaying any level of thinking are Sandy and Squidward, and Squidward's usually portrayed as the bad guy.
I am accustomed to books featuring protagonists who use their minds to get around problems that might have seemed too big for other people to get around. Even in kids' books, that's what I'm used to. I have no patience with a storyline based around someone's carelessness, or failure to step back and take a good long look at things. I'd rather read about heroes being strong and brave and smart despite bad situations than about people bumbling into scrapes and out of them through sheer dumb luck. I don't value that at all.
No one is going to argue with me over the topic of that starfish guy. That starfish guy, whatever his name is, isn't smart. That's part of the character. I don't have a real problem with that.
I don't have a problem with Spongebob being easily amused. Spongebob can pick up anything, and have a blast with it, even if he's not using the thing in the way that it was intended to be used. In one episode, Squidward litters, and Spongebob has a ball with the little piece of paper.
What I do have a problem with is the way Spongebob consistently fails to think. Marx read a Spongebob book aloud to Nephew, and I didn't like it at all. The starfish gets Spongebob built up into hysterics about aliens, which Spongebob has already been told don't exist, and through messing with things that they shouldn't have been messing with, they launch off in Sandy's rocket ship, get turned around, fail to realize they're back on Earth, meet "aliens", and at long last come home. Throughout the incident, the only characters displaying any level of thinking are Sandy and Squidward, and Squidward's usually portrayed as the bad guy.
I am accustomed to books featuring protagonists who use their minds to get around problems that might have seemed too big for other people to get around. Even in kids' books, that's what I'm used to. I have no patience with a storyline based around someone's carelessness, or failure to step back and take a good long look at things. I'd rather read about heroes being strong and brave and smart despite bad situations than about people bumbling into scrapes and out of them through sheer dumb luck. I don't value that at all.
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It's very much a grown-ups' show...
For whatever reason, I like The Simpsons. Go figure.
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Hell, look at Nickelodeon.
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