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Upcoming Episodes
| Date | Episode | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 08-21 | SNW 3x07 | "What Is Starfleet?" |
| 08-28 | SNW 3x08 | "Four-and-a-Half Vulcans" |
| 09-04 | SNW 3x09 | "Terrarium" |
| 09-11 | SNW 3x10 | "New Life and New Civilizations" |
| TBA | SFA 1x01 | TBA |
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@ValueSubtracted As a former Scout, I really want to like this show. As someone who's watched too much cartoons, the "every line is yelled children's voices in high-gain microphones" and a straight up *fugly* animation style are massive put-offs.
Shows for preschoolers use higher pitched voices that they hear and decode better at that developmental stage.
They also feature characters with big rounded bobbleheads that they relate to better.
These are a few of the things from early childhood development research findings that were taken up almost immediately by the children’s television industry.
We all lose hearing in the upper frequencies as we age, but young children with smaller ear canals really understand high pitched voices better than low ones. And this show is targeted at them.
@StillPaisleyCat It's not that I can't hear the voicework, it's that the voicework is seemingly intentionally awful, even for preschool programming. Contrast to, say, Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood or Carl the Collector, which manages to target that age group without screaming every line.
You won’t get any debate from me that the Canadian produced shows for younger children are better produced. Especially the ones produced for public broadcasting rather than commercial.
Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood and many other PBS children’s shows are actually coproductions with production companies that work regularly for public broadcasters CBC or TVO (Ontario’s public broadcaster).
TVO does have to answer for launching Paw Patrol though. It started here, enabling Spinmaster (originally an educational toy company) launch a toy line and a show together, and then able to absorb many classic American toy lines such as Erector, Etch-a-Sketch and Melissa & Doug.
We always found the Nickelodeon and Disney show the lowest quality options when our kids were small. Even the Corus commercial cable channel shows for children were better.