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Lesbian Melodrama Masquerading as a Kids' Show Author: messages-lc from Los Angeles, CA 17 July 2015 This review may contain spoilers ** I have to say, the dialogue, voice-acting, and writing are all quite good. It's easy to get absorbed into the show despite its faults and the fact that it's obviously intended as a kids' cartoon. On its surface, the show seems to be a simple show about the adventures of a boy and his otherworldly hero companions and one made in the innocent fashion of 1970's cartoons However, the show has very obvious undertones of complex relationships that go beyond your typic al children's show. These undertones are what makes the show compelling, but they disturb me in two main ways First, the show infantilizes all of its male characters, while depicting most of its female characters as ultra- competent, ultra-intelligent demigods. I think that presenting a show to CHILDREN in this format continues a dangerous trend in children's entertainment towards promoting an extreme ultra-feminist agenda Second, the show makes thinly-veiled hints at sexuality and non-traditional relationships, which comprises the true essence of the series While I have no problem with this content, and have said above that I find it compelling, I find its presentation to be troubling The show maintains a very 1970s feel and its marketing is aimed at younger children (In fact, the first few times I saw the show, I believed it was a rerun of a 40-year-old series intended as filler for parents of young children in a dead mid-day programming slot). I believe this is an attempt to get past the guard of parents with conservative or religious values to influence children in a very propagandistic manner Make no mistake, this show's subtext is far more mature than either its marketing or animation style suggests. The number of intimate love triangles that have existed among the core characters is impressive. The im episode, one of the heroines pines over the loss of her fellow heroine, searching out her "sword" and claiming that nothing fills the "scabbard" quite like it. The description of the sword continues, using features that can be metaphoric ally linked to veins on a certain male appendage, as well as a rose (which has an analog so obvious I won't go further). imagery used to convey this can even be quite sexualized. In one I just don't like the fact that this type of material is disingenuously presented to young children in a format more suited to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles than thinly-veiled lesbian melodrama Update: I get a laugh when writers/producers/directors (and their friends) write reviews of their own shows Was the above review useful to you? Yes No

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