Twitch Mr. Rogers Marathon

[A Black Falcon]

Oh yeah, they stick to those silly times quite closely -- when King Friday says 'I will be back in 59 seconds', he is back in, well, about that amount of time. It's a realistic show after all, stick to your schedule!

I'm not opposed to weird at all. It's great that he shows glass blowers and so on. I have fond memories of that. I'm more specifically talking about stuff that can't happen, like the fairy muppet casting magic spells in modern Sesame Street. There's nothing a kid can relate to there, it's just in there because kids like magic. Better would be a muppet master of illusion, since stage magician is something a kid could actually one day do.

... Those first two sentences don't really connect, the first is Mr. Rogers and the second Sesame Street. But as for why that character's there, I haven't watched any of it, but I assume it's because of the whole 'girls like faries' thing that does seem to be popular these days. Sesame Street's just following along with it.

The thing about the lesson to not be bad and be good or a lesson to improve yourself is it works at every age level. Thing is, there's lots of kids out there in bad situations, and Mr. Rogers did speak to them. Rogers did seem to try to be teaching kids not to pick on their peers just because they were different. That's good, and I like that. It's just that, well, you know, inconsistent rules can come back to bite you. We've got a LOT of adults today who don't care who they hurt because that's just who they are and we should just totally accept that. I'm not really "blaming" Rogers here, but frankly that lesson really is flawed, and it really should be refined.

I agree with the former part, 'don't pick on others because they are different, everyone is' is definitely an important part of his message and it's a great one.

But as for that latter part, that modern right-wing line of 'everyone is special so I have a right to say anything I want no matter how obnoxious' twists his message beyond its meaning. That may be the superficial reading of his words, but even if he didn't make the "and try to be a better you" message as strongly as you might like pieces of that definitely are in the show, maybe most importantly by example -- he may say 'even I am bad sometimes in that song I referenced', but you never see it on screen, you only see the good. And there are also the episodes where he says 'don't set fire to things', 'don't play with delicate glass objects since they are not toys', and such. Or in the episode just airing, Daniel Tiger broke a glass ornament he was going to give Mr. McFeely as a gift. He is very sad about it, but the lesson is a variation on the series' common theme of getting up, admitting your mistakes, (not doing the really bad things like setting fire to buildings), and doing better next time. There is an assumption of basic decent behavior in that core message of his, "I like you just the way you are". Just by being who he is, even if he isn't saying "and you should be good", don't you want to be to be more like he is? Not that many people actually can live up to that standard of course, but it's a good ideal.

Edit: Do you think they'll put Twitch on the Switch?

You may just be making a pun, but the Switch needs video apps, yeah -- Amazon Video, Youtube, Twitch, Netflix, Crunchyroll, etc. The Wii U has that stuff, and a browser too, and its tablet is barely "portable"! I know they rushed the Switch out as soon as they could in order to have it ready, but since the Switch is an actual portable it really should have that stuff, yeah. From what I hear the store is incredibly basic too, they need to work on that.