![]() The octonauts are headed by a sea creature, an octopus that oddly breathes air not water and seems the most human of the band. We explore with them and also get educated by them, but the emphasis is on exploration and care of the explored. ![]() The representative of our world is a band of anthropomorhized animals. Much harder is deciding how to span our world with theirs. Choosing the oceans is almost a no-brainer because of the diversity and strangeness of the creatures, plus the fact that kids normally don't encounter sea creatures. Suppose that a goal of the project is to introduce kids to the marvels of living creatures and systems of living creatures. Let's set aside the specification of the character set, the determination of the animation style, the jokes, the pace What impressed me is how the synthetic world is placed. Well, here we have something that is educational in a narrow sense, but very well engineered for kids. Sesame Street cannot possibly be as educational as advertised, but great effort is obviously spent convincing parents that it is. Actually, for much of this media, I think parents are that target audience. Saying something interesting about children's programming requires a critical shift, acknowledging that we are not the primary consumer. And of course, it is much better than most of the (animated or live action) show of Discovery Kids. ![]() Even if "The Octonauts" isn't the best cartoon from the recent years, it is still a pretty good one, a shining gem among the usual boring stuff from CBeebies. Fortunately, this is not the case of "The Octonauts" a cute and enjoyable show, that not only has a cast of adorable (but non-annoying, or stupid) characters, but also a good stories: At first it seems like all the episodes follow the same pattern (The Octonauts meet some marine animal with a problem, the Octonauts bring their help, the problem is solved, and then they sing " creature report", a song that recaps the events of the episode) just like "Phineas and Ferb", this show manages to keep fresh and interesting, avoiding most of the annoying clichés from modern kid's shows (Such as toilet humor, cheap cultural references, lame puns and stupid characters who keep saying stupid things) The animation is simple, but good: The designs are appealing, the use of colors is good, fitting very well to the light-hearted and gentle atmosphere of the series. It's quite hard to see a good children's television series on this days, and most of them are annoying, dumb and patronizing.
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