Obligatory disclaimer: real life sucks; the initial dead striped skunk was removed from the spot where it’d died on the road, but now there’s a second one, maybe a cub of the first deceased one – I don’t know, and I don’t particularly care, but what affects me is the fact that no one cares to do anything about the dead animals; the remains of the first skunk are still lying close to the curb, and the second skunk is lying not far away from the first – but since it is a public road, they’ll probably lie there until they break down completely – and can you imagine the smell? No, you probably cannot. Where are we?
Well, I’ll be absent from my blog for the next two
or three weeks, maybe even more; the skunks will probably be still lying there
when – and if – me and mine will get back home; and the PJ Masks?
Again, yes, obviously that the genre of the PJ Masks’
show is such that who cares about realism there – ‘the asteroid of badness’, or
whatever it is called, is a plot device almost completely… to do what?
Again. The cartoon aspect of the ‘PJ Masks’
franchise was almost purely fable, with little personal development on the
characters’ side, and almost equally little amount of interconnected continuity.
The bad guys appeared to be incapable of learning anything from their
misadventures and the good guys… would learn from their episode of the week/day/whatever…
and that was it, they never implemented that knowledge in the future episodes…
especially in the earlier seasons; later on, there would be some references to
previous episodes in the more up-to-date ones, but not too much. And now?
And now, again, ‘PJ Masks’ seem to be stuck between
genres; aware or not, but they’re moving away from their fable origins into a
more generic superhero show; there are already clips showing all of the show’s villains
getting new looks, and the heroes probably won’t be too far behind. Ergo?
Ergo, it is a soft reboot, not unlike the ones AoS
went through in the latter seasons, (around their S4 and S5). On one hand, the
old cast is present, on the other, this does not mean anything, as there is no
character development, again. We have talked about how Luna Girl (and Mothsuki)
had been all over the place, alignment-wise, but the same now can be said about
other characters, such as the Ninjalinos, Pirate Robot and his mate Sally, and
the Speedy twins. They used to be allies of the PJ Masks, but now they are back
to being villains with nary a regret – but it is not their fault, it is the
asteroid’s fault. Right. I did not do it, the robber sock did it. That sort of
thing. The ‘PJ Masks’ is aimed – supposedly – at educating children (and their
parents?), how to be good and proper, but…
…But the show itself is caught on a cultural crossroads
that is affecting the entire USA, (and maybe the rest of the Western world) –
whether they will stay monotheistic, (officially – Christian), or polytheistic,
(aka pagan, by the modern terminology). The ‘PJ Masks’ cartoon is trying to
teach its’ audience ‘the good old-fashioned Christian values’ (or whatever they’re
called), but-
…But any ideology is costly, and the current American
culture hates paying, as simple as that. Earlier in spring 2023, the team
behind the Budweiser beer got an LGBTQ+ spokesperson to represent them.
Immediately, some straight celebrities went hostile and proclaimed that they
will never have to do anything with Budweiser again. Now what?
Now everything comes down to money, whether or not
it is better financially to associate with the sexual minorities or not. I am
certainly not saying that faith and religion are good, they are not – they are
as flawed as the rest of humanity’s inventions, money included, but without them,
there is no ideology, no actual reason to decide anything, and nothing that you
do matters. In RF, the local cultural elite – some of them – tried to defy
Putin’s government in relation to ‘the special military operation’ on the Ukrainian
soil. Because the West did not support them, this defiance came to nothing. Go
West!
Getting back to mass media, does anyone here
remember ‘The 10 Commandments’ film, since Easter-2023 has been only recently
as of this moment. No, not the sanitized Disney-tired ‘Prince of Egypt’ film, which
wisely stopped just after the Hebrews finally came from of the Egyptian yoke –
the much older version, with live actors? There, the final act went down as
follows: Moses goes up the mountain and receives the titular commandments from
the Lord. Meanwhile, some of the film’s last villains stage a coup and create ‘a
Golden Calf’ complete with a good old-fashioned pagan cult, complete with free
booze and free sex. When Moses comes back, he goes berserk, smashing the
tablets with the commandments on the ground and sending the last of the movie’s
villains into – a fiery pit. Impressive, but in the actual Bible Moses rather
summoned the Levite tribe, the tribe of which he was a member, (the Bible
presumes so), and they slaughter the opposition, several hundred people – and then
Moses keeps the Hebrew people isolated in a desert for several decades, for the
rest of his life, to keep them isolated from the temptations of the decadent
pagans. It… works, sort of, for even now, centuries, (if not more), after those
events the Jewish faith has kept its’ identity and allowed the Jewish people to
endure centuries of prosecution, including the atrocities of WWII. That said,
that faith and those people turned out quite different from how Moses intended
them to be, so Moses’ way is not a panacea either, no matter how much Putin
seems to be trying to imitate him those days. Back to the West?
Now, ‘PJ Masks’ do have a pharaoh-style villain
among their number, true, but the monotheistic world isn’t Jewish, rather it is
Protestant Christian, meaning that the ‘Moses incident’ doesn’t apply. See,
whereas in Judaism it is admitted that ‘you can’t serve both God and Mammon’,
(aka greed and money and the Golden Calf from the previous paragraph),
Protestantism increasingly tried to do both; especially once the Europeans
arrived in North America and began to colonize it. Unlike other versions of
Monotheism, Protestantism is much more individualistic and de-centralized… not
unlike the country of the U.S. itself. The result?
Well, take a look at ‘PJ Masks’, for example – their
morals/lessons are rather Christian in outlook, (rather than of any other
faith), but because a good deal of their franchise comes down to them all being
sellable, the impact of those morals/lessons is diminished and what the
audience gets is a series of toy commercials, where the (pre-teen) heroes and
villains battle it out episode after episode, going nowhere… at all. Just as
the dead skunks on the road are here to stay, until they decompose completely,
that is. But then again, all things, including TV shows, have to end some time or
another.
…This is it for now. See you all soon.
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