{"id":26809,"date":"2012-03-03T04:19:32","date_gmt":"2012-03-03T11:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/03\/trying-to-give-some-animated-perspective-to-my-daughter.html"},"modified":"2014-06-13T17:04:55","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T23:04:55","slug":"trying-to-give-some-animated-perspective-to-my-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/03\/trying-to-give-some-animated-perspective-to-my-daughter.html","title":{"rendered":"Trying to give some animated perspective to my daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#39;m trying to explain to my daughter why the &quot;Star Trek&quot; animated series was such an <i>incredibly awesome<\/i> thing to people who were starved for &quot;Star Trek&quot; (or any TV SF taken seriously) in a world before VCRs and DVDs and DVRs and cable and the like.<\/p>\n<p>Having only seen one episode of it (&quot;More Tribbles, More Troubles&quot;), she just wasn&#39;t getting it.<\/p>\n<p>Which made me come up with the analogy of a &quot;Lord of the Rings&quot; animated series, of all-new stories, half-hour in length, with really crude Filmation animation, and all the content restrictions of Saturday morning cartoons.<\/p>\n<p>That got the picture across to her. And also gave her an incurable case of the giggles.  &quot;That means they couldn&#39;t do the drinking contest. Mwah-ha-ha-ha!&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Bingo. But she&#39;d still watch it. Heck, so would I.  #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fen%2Fthumb%2F5%2F5d%2FST-The_AS.jpg%2F250px-ST-The_AS.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Star_Trek:_The_Animated_Series'>Star Trek: The Animated Series &#8211; Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t[edit] Production. The series was produced by Filmation in association with Paramount Television and ran for two seasons from 1973 to 1974 on NBC, airing a total of twenty-two half-hour episodes. An e&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#39;m trying to explain to my daughter why the &quot;Star Trek&quot; animated series was such an incredibly awesome thing to people who were starved for &quot;Star Trek&quot; (or any TV SF taken seriously) in a world before VCRs and DVDs and DVRs and cable and the like. Having only seen one episode of it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/03\/trying-to-give-some-animated-perspective-to-my-daughter.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Trying to give some animated perspective to my daughter&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,45,108,382,360,40],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-26809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-cartoons","category-history","category-lord-of-the-rings","category-media-tv-star-trek","category-media-tv","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":38943,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/01\/space-the-pixar-frontier.html","url_meta":{"origin":26809,"position":0},"title":"Space: The Pixar Frontier","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 1-Oct-13 9:49pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Yyyyeah, I'd watch this.(\"Captain, I calculate the odds are 1,347,295.37 to 1 that this will never actually happen.\")The trick would be finding the right balance between ironic humor and actual drama. \u00a0That, I'd love to see.(h\/t +George Wiman)Reshared post from +Veronica BelmontI want this to be real. 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