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my look today is inspired by sleep deprivation and anxiety

Catherine Hicks as Karen Barclay • Child's Play (1988)

19 years after it premiered and Lost is still the gold standard that I hold all other TV shows to

centric episodes ≡ 2.09 what kate did (kate austen)

Republicans spread trauma.

#soulmates know

having so much love in your heart is beautiful and amazing right up until you’re alone in your bedroom clutching at your chest and whimpering like a wounded dog

I love you so much I hope we get reborn as housecats who sleep together like puzzle pieces

This is us in the next life

They De-Tumblrized Ms. Frizzle

@transfagsculine​

#how do yall whitewash a white woman 

why would you leave this in the tags lmao

Allow me to explain:

Everyone dropping this pic

And talking about how the new frizz her is her niece, allow me to do a direct side by side instead

These are STILL not the same woman. Where is the icon fashion, the earrings (the chameleon, which might be in the new show idk I haven't watched it), the prominent hooked nose, the broader shoulders, the volume to her hair, the LIFE IN HER EYES

This frizzle looks like she's been called into the school board for inappropriate behavior and dress one too many times and has been broken.

Also others have said it before me but I couldn't find it in the scroll backs but they whitewashed all the kids too. They same face syndromed everyone to either be easier to draw or be more ambiguous so as not to offend or both or something, and it just makes me sad

Fuck it I did the digging cause I'm still mad

And that’s not even to mention what they did to the bus itself.

The old bus had a personality and life and fun and now it’s just… a bus.

HOW DO Y’ALL WHITEWASH A BUS?!

It's gives "anti abortion Jehova's Witness cartoon" now

This, I find, is an excellent example of how “aesthetic cleanliness” usually just means making something less interesting. Taking the bus and Frizz’s dresses as a relatively unproblematic, but very stupid, example first. What the showrunners have done here is seen the visuals of the original show and tried to declutter them for the tastes of modern audiences. The issue is that the taste they’re catering to is that of parents because they are generally choosing what children watch, and those parents don’t like clutter, and they see all of those fun shapes and colors as visual noise. YouTuber Tantacrul has a great video on how this effects children in music education. In short it’s why no children’s music toys have the capabilities for experimentation that normal instruments do, parents can’t stand “inharmonious sounds”

The much bigger problem here comes when this design philosophy bleeds into the character designs. What they’ve tried to do is make the show easier to look at by smoothing everything out making it all look a little more “cohesive.” Problem is that when you homogenize everything you, well… homogenize everything. Skin tones are lightened, curls are straightened, Noses are smoothed, fat kids are made skinny, it all becomes less diverse and less interesting. It paints a picture of an executive who thinks that people of color and other marginalized people won’t sell, their version of the magic school bus will be much neater, much more fitting to show our kids.

TL;DR:

Problem a) they tried to declutter the visuals to cater to modern parents who like “clean aesthetics,” without considering what will be fun for kids to watch

Problem b) in doing so they whitewashed the character designs and send the deeply insidious message that certain people don’t fit the desired aesthetic and are thus, not fit to be represented in kids tv

Brutally I suspect it's also because the 'cleaner' visuals are less detailed and therefore take less time to animate and are therefore cheaper to produce

Why pay an already overworked animator for ten hours of actually good content when you can pay them for five hours of 'modernised' (read: shittier) content?

I had to see how this looked animated, and holy fuck this is so bad. The intro to the show is just a direct copy to the original, but with all the fun and personality drained from it. It looks like one of those youtube channels that animates user submitted stories crossed with the avatars from snapchat. Also, it sounds like they even whitewashed the theme song itself.

I also want to talk more about the bus. If you watched the original show, you'd know that the bus is the most expressive character in the whole thing. It bounces, it smiles, it dances, and its shape is constantly changing as it moves. It has the emotional range of an actual living thing. Not to mention that the bus also shares the wacky designs that relate to the subject of the day like Ms. Frizzle's dress.

Now compare that to the new series' intro (I dunno why they tried to copy it 1:1, it's like they wanted people to compare it to the original), and that's all gone. The bus is stiff, lifeless. Maybe it moves a bit, but it doesn't really bounce like it used to. It's almost like they took the image of the bus and started moving it up and down. There's no designs on the bus, it's just constantly blank. I don't even know if the new bus is capable of making any expression, it doesn't even have a mouth. It has eyes, but they kind of just stare forward blankly.

It's just so sad, how could you take a series like that and suck out all of the fun and wonder?! This was one of the shows that got me excited to learn about science! I would get so excited when we were able to watch this in class, or even beg my parents to rent the vhs from Hollywood Video.

they white washed the fucking themesong