Re: Children on TV and Children's TV

On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 08:02:32 -0700 (PDT), FCS
<sipston_777@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I remember we were told some awful, awful
things about the old factories and the risks
and dangers ever present, particularly where
child labour - which, past providing food and
board, was rather the antithesis of what it's
become - was concerned.

Yeah yeah, we've all had the hysterical twit
going nuclear neurotic by a deep lock on a
canal over the poor trapped spirit that fell in
one night after a long long day legging the
mountain tunnel cut. Or maybe some of you
haven't but at least we do know suggestion
works.

But I feel reasonably sure we tend to get,
and give, a sanitised version and that, in
the event, back in the day, camouflaged
perhaps to some extent by the traumas of
intervening wars in the demotic memory,
subconscious and imaginations, not all
these children - and in this instance I do
mean children not kids, the kind that make
you go "awwww" rather than "urrgghhhh..." -
didn't sleep walk their ways into the roller
coaster of the belt-drive on the loom but
took a decision.

Obviously, also, there are areas of this
fair country in which reproductive products
are clustered and proximal chronologically
but apart from the odd nod, generally a
kind of clumsy ham-fisted semiotic for
self-styled sick-puppies to seize in apologia,
we never really get this side of historical
children's lives portrayed in kids' TV. This
seems somewhat odd, though perhaps I
am looking too hard at where the lemmings
are all flocking.

There may have been some allusions on
such lines in the BBC thing about the early
Police service recently, its foundation and
the soho-style backstory woven in between
the wrought iron courtyard gates. Yet we still
have this almost bubble effect. On balance,
perhaps this element of fatality, whilst tending
to become more and more prime time and
mainstream in the popular soap opera genre,
slipped away like a shy RHINO from the whole
ethos of Grange Hill.

But all the ghosts of children that ever featured
seemed to have such prosaic histories; it seems
odd how in a time at which we shun dogmatics
such a questionable element should be, almost
as if in aspic, preserved in the narrative of kids'
TV. Then again I don't tend to watch much, so
perhaps it's as well I get a lot of my fibre from
cereal.

But yeah, I reckon there are close analogies,
particularly in the judgemental, superstitious
and patrician-moral frameworks of the late 19th
Century that exhausted, driven pre-teens might
not feel a million miles from the lethargy to which
our contemporary adolescents so extensively
documentedly succumb.

G DAEB
COPYRIGHT (C) 2008 SIPSTON

I suppose I'd be wasting my time asking you to change the way your
messages "wrap" ?
.

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