Quote:and it might suggest that this is the only valid behaviour for girls; and I think that is wrong.
And I still highly doubt our kids are so brainless and that this show would even appeal to a girl that wasn't already pretty girly in the first place. Like with Grapes kids, I think they would just get bored otherwise and move on to something else.
Furthering something that's been bothering me. It's not TV's job to parent our kids and teach them what is valid behavior. That's the parents job. A Televsion cartoon's job is to entertain that kid, to let them have some fun and if they are wholesome enough that shouldn't' be a problem. I think it's still wholesome for the type of girl this show would appeal to, and if that doesn't appeal to that type of girl, My Little Pony is on right after Strawberry Shortcake on the HUB, maybe she'll walk away, play with her toys, do something she actually enjoys them come back to it. I didn't watch shows that I didn't like when I was little, and if I liked this show then I'm sure it already is appealing to the type of girl that I am.
The only children I think this other logic applies to are children where their parents constantly use their Television to baby sit their kids, and then it isn't Strawberry Shortcake's fault a girl thinks that, it's just bad parenting.
Quote: Wrong! Strawberry Shortcake is an educational cartoon.
I still think that 2003 Strawberry Shortcake is just a show aimed at entertain the very early young audiences, and when developing that kinda series you have to make sure that it has a good morals and some sort of redeeming quality to it or parents are likely to not like their kids watch it. It was not developed to educate as much as it was developed to entertain while still being wholesome. A show that has educational merits is different from say, Dora the Explorer or Blue Clues that is truly designed to have some sort of educational merit, having preschoolers interact with the show the way they do. That might be something only really I think, I suppose.
Quote:I turn around your reasoning: I think it's OK to have this kind of show with its super-girly characters and all, but why does it has to be Strawberry Shortcake, which has some kind of heritage? Why couldn't they just create an entirely different show from scratch? After all, the new Strawberry Shortcake is so different from the previous renditions that basically it has nothing to do with them, because it doesn't respect anything from the previously established heritage. Just change the names, and that's it: you have a new show totally independent from Strawberry Shortcake!
To be honest, I think this same thing, with a slight variation could have been said about the 2003 version. It was very different original Strawberry Shortcake, was very different in a lot of ways, and yet it was still good. A lot of the time, especially with young girl's cartoons different versions of the same show can have very little to do with each other. The newest season of My Little Pony, for instance could be said that other than keeping the pony names that was extremely different from all the pony series before it but because that one is highly thought of apparently that doesn't matter. Every pony even had dramatically different personalities then previous versions, sometimes ponies getting other ponies personalities even. I think people only complain when they don't like the changes, which I find honestly a tad hypocritical. This all goes under my opinion that ..
Every Strawberry Shortcake has been different from the one before it. This Strawberry Shortcake has plenty of slight nods to 1980 series, and is just developed for what in their mind is the modern slightly older than the previous target audience girl these days. In the end Strawberry Shortcake was a doll series first and a television series second and the [1980] television series originally was just to help sell more dolls and toys, and this [2009 version] is what they believe a older perhaps 5-9 aged girl who wants to buy a doll, a very girly toy at that age, that's entire enjoyment tends to become dressing it up and having fun with other girls playing various slice-of-life events, would enjoy. I understand that, and I'm not thinking it's doing anything wrong.
THAT BEING SAID.
I still do understand where you are coming from, the points you are trying to make. As a fan of the 2003 version, I understand the sadness that my favorite Strawberry Shortcake is no longer existent, but there are plenty of merchandise, DVD's, television episodes, and all sorts of goodies to enjoy. Every TV series dies, every series gets a makeover, in the end it all changes eventually. That's just life. You gotta be able to hold on to the things that make you happy and still be open to some new happiness.