Opus 2025-149: Is Paw Patrol Next?

I was never a big reader of comic books.  A large part of that was having no money.  I don’t know if I would have bought Batman if I did have the resources.  When it came out on TV I remember watching it because it was so tongue-in-cheek.  I loved the fight scenes with the comic balloons.  I don’t think I have seen any of the movies.  My general feeling was that the fun aspect was replaced by dark and dystopian themes.  I had no interest.

I wonder if Paw Patrol will someday go adult and dark like Batman.  My grandson loves Paw Patrol.  My wife keeps her eyes open at yard sales and has been able to make walking space rare in our livingroom because of all the cool stuff she brings home.  At this point it is mainly innocent nonsense although I understand one of the spin-off’s was trying to introduce homosexual characters.

It is hard to preserve the innocence of our children.  I know that when our kids were young we searched out the old additions of the Hardy Boys.  You may not have had it on your radar but in the originals they went to church and prayed over meals.  That has all been redacted.  The edited versions are not evil, they just lack the cultural aspects that made America great.

Sometimes progress isn’t.

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