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In the Night Garden : A complaint
Willbert
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Good evening.
I'd like to use this forum just here to complain about a particular childerns program, In the Night Garden.
Now, although I have various other issues in regards to these types of programs, there is one thing about this childrens show that just bugs the hell out of me.
Ready?
Ok.
This program has no sense of scale.
Now, I imagine you're thinking " wtf is he talking about", well let me explain.
I have watched this program time and time again due to having a small child. Now, I expect that the makers of the program have the best interests of the children at heart, but on numerous occasions I have seen the sense of scale on this program mislead people.
For example, on todays program, the Tomblyboos were in the Pinky Ponk, drinking some juice. Now, they were able to get in and out of the Pinky Ponk with relative ease. However, later on the same program, Iggle Piggle and Upsy Daisy also went in to the Pinky Ponk. All of these characters were displayed as the same size. Now, at the end of the show as they were doing the dance, Iggle Piggle was depcited as a giant in comparision to the rest.
But but but but but, this facade does not end there.
I have seen other episodes, when the Pinky Ponk is, lets say the size of a football, when Iggle Piggle is portayed as being the same size of a normal human being!
Clearly, the sense of scale in this program is deluding the mind of my son.
I have seen Makkpakka sit in the Ninky Nonk and come out the door side by side with Iggle Piggle, yet when they are shown together, they are completly different sizes!
I could go on.
The contsant disrespect that this program makers show for the sense of scale. I fear that if I were to allow my son to continue to watch this program, he may become deluded regarding the scale of objects and any sense of perspective.
I read a short story written by Will Self a few years ago about a man who loses his sense of scale. This man wanders in to a model village and is able to enter a house. When he exits, he is a smaller scale model of himself! Is this the future for our children?!!
I dread the day he asks for a Lego Pirate ship at xmas. After too many episodes watching this distorted view of scale and perspective, we may end up with a 1:100 child.
Thanks for listening.
I'd like to use this forum just here to complain about a particular childerns program, In the Night Garden.
Now, although I have various other issues in regards to these types of programs, there is one thing about this childrens show that just bugs the hell out of me.
Ready?
Ok.
This program has no sense of scale.
Now, I imagine you're thinking " wtf is he talking about", well let me explain.
I have watched this program time and time again due to having a small child. Now, I expect that the makers of the program have the best interests of the children at heart, but on numerous occasions I have seen the sense of scale on this program mislead people.
For example, on todays program, the Tomblyboos were in the Pinky Ponk, drinking some juice. Now, they were able to get in and out of the Pinky Ponk with relative ease. However, later on the same program, Iggle Piggle and Upsy Daisy also went in to the Pinky Ponk. All of these characters were displayed as the same size. Now, at the end of the show as they were doing the dance, Iggle Piggle was depcited as a giant in comparision to the rest.
But but but but but, this facade does not end there.
I have seen other episodes, when the Pinky Ponk is, lets say the size of a football, when Iggle Piggle is portayed as being the same size of a normal human being!
Clearly, the sense of scale in this program is deluding the mind of my son.
I have seen Makkpakka sit in the Ninky Nonk and come out the door side by side with Iggle Piggle, yet when they are shown together, they are completly different sizes!
I could go on.
The contsant disrespect that this program makers show for the sense of scale. I fear that if I were to allow my son to continue to watch this program, he may become deluded regarding the scale of objects and any sense of perspective.
I read a short story written by Will Self a few years ago about a man who loses his sense of scale. This man wanders in to a model village and is able to enter a house. When he exits, he is a smaller scale model of himself! Is this the future for our children?!!
I dread the day he asks for a Lego Pirate ship at xmas. After too many episodes watching this distorted view of scale and perspective, we may end up with a 1:100 child.
Thanks for listening.
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Oh I did. But after being fooled by this program before, I am slightly suspicious as to how Tiny and Teeny they actually are.
Actually my two year old loves it and I daresay I would too, after coming back from the pub after a few beers - I expect the sense of scale wouldn't then bother me so much...:)
No, on a serious note for a second, the scaling issues (especially regarding the Ninky Nonk which trundles on, seemingly minature, at the end of each edition (compared to Iggle Piggle) has already been queried many times to the programme makers, Ragdoll Productions and series deviser, Anne Wood (off Teletubbies fame)...
The basic answer is that the whole show is a "dream like" world that has "no sense of scale" and that the intended pre-school audience wouldn't really pick up on such issues...
Either that is true, or it's a cover up for a post production error that wasn't spotted in time!!!!!!!
If it is a computer program,there must be some sort of virus.
Television programmes are purely fantasy.
What about reality tv programs?
The fun character Godzuki varied scale depending on what the scene called for. One moment godzuki would be hiding in a wardrobe, and a few seconds later he would be floating in the sea with two children playing tennis on his belly.
..Anyway here is a clip, not demonstrating the scale issue , but showing that godzuki was indeed a "fun character"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrQjr6KAJvU
Is anyone else concerned about the character Makka Pakka who clearly has COPD . He is obsessed with cleaning and collecting large stones which he places in intermittant piles and brings back to his cave home - even takes one into his bed at night. :rolleyes:
I think he has an "identity" issue
all the others have mates - Iggle has got Upsy, the Tombliboos have each other, as do the Haahoos - poor old Makka has no one!
I think he takes the stones home with him, for just something to talk to.....
*stifles a tear thinking about Makka Pakka's loneliness
:eek: You've never watched it?:eek::D
C,BEEBIES for the teenies!!!!
I've seen bits when I'm at a friends house cos her little boy LOVES it! It all seems very... trippy!!
We should get social services onto the Ponypines. The whole family sleep in one room and two beds and there are ten of them.
Oh I don't know about that..Mary was always 'home alone' in that block of flats, with only a dog and a mouse for company.
same here! the names alone intrigue me, think im gonna pack my job in and start watching kids daytime tv!:D:D