Encontré una noticia muy interesante en Tumblr sobre Hora de Aventuras, donde se preguntaban si este show, además de para los niños, puede ir dirigida para los adultos.
Count plenty of grown-ups among the millions of fans of Adventure Time,
a kids' show on Cartoon Network. Some are surely Emmy voters.
(It's won three.) Others are very possibly stoners. Still others are
intellectuals. Lev Grossman falls in the last category. He wrote two
best-selling novels, The Magicians and The Magician King, and he's
Time's senior book critic.
Grossman's critique of Adventure Time? "It's soooo smart!
It's sooo intelligent!"
Hang on. He's just getting started.
"I am a little bit obsessed with it," Grossman continues. "It's rich and
complicated the way Balzac's work is, which is a funny thing to say
about a cartoon."
For the uninitiated, Adventure Time is set in a surreally pastel post-apocalyptic
kingdom crawling with mutated candy creatures, bizarre princesses — think
Slime Princess and Lumpy Space Princess — and our two heroes.
They're Finn and Jake, a gangly human boy and his moon-eyed yellow dog.
The show's creator, Pendleton Ward, modeled Jake partly after
Bill Murray's sardonic camp counselor in the 1979 movie Meatballs,
a cooler-than-cool older-brother figure who can laugh at his charges
without being mean and whose teachable moments are anything but cloying.
"Jake sees his own death in one episode," says Ward. "And Finn has to dea
l with that. Jake's a hip guy. He can watch his own death, and he's comfortable
with it, and that's a weird thing, especially for Finn, who's superyoung, and it's
really hard on him."
In the episode, called "New Frontier," Jake experiences a vision during
which he's taken to an afterlife of stars and darkness by a little bananalike
creature (voiced by Weird Al Yankovic).
"When I die, I'm gonna be all around you," Jake reassures Finn. "In your nose
. And your dreams. And socks! I'll be a part of you in your earth mind.
It's gonna be great!"
"That episode was really tough to tackle, writing it for a children's television
show," Ward remembers. "It was hard for us to really not make it so sad and
scary that you feel really sad and scared watching it."
Adventure Time insists on emotional honesty — even in its bad guys, usually
depicted as cardboard villains in kids' cartoons.
Grossman offers the shrill, socially maladapted Earl of Lemongrab as an
example. An unlikable character, his story is movingly explored and raises
questions nearly every kid has wondered about: Why do I seem weird to
other people? Why do I seem weird to myself?
Or take the buffoonish, bandy-legged and morally compromised Ice King. "
[He's] psychologically plausible," Grossman observes. "He's an old lecherous
man who has a magical crown. It's made him into this strange, awful individual
who goes around capturing princesses."
The king's crown wiped his mind and warped his body. He'll die if he takes it off.
"Which is this rather moving tension, and he doesn't remember who he used
to be, but other people do," Grossman says. "It's very affecting. My dad has
been going through having Alzheimer's, and he's forgotten so much about
who he used to be. And I look at him and think this cartoon is about my father
dying."
In spite of the critical admiration, the warm feelings of fans and the prestigious
awards,Adventure Time nearly never aired. "It actually felt like a great risk,"
says Rob Sorcher, the Cartoon Network's chief content officer. "It's not slick.
It doesn't feel manufactured for kids, so who's it for?"
Um, perhaps partly for the kind of grown-up who might watch Yo Gabba Gabba
with a little chemical assist?
"For me, it doesn't come from that place," says Ward. "For me, it comes from
my childhood, wandering in my mind. You can't really go anywhere when you're
a kid. I don't have a car, I don't have anything. I just have my backyard and my
brain. And that's where I'm coming from when I'm writing it." He pauses.
"I can't speak for all the writers on the show."
Ward and his mother used to watch cartoons together when he was a kid,
but he claims today he's not writing specifically for a co-viewing audience of
parents and kids. Still, author Grossman says Adventure Time works for him and
his 8-year-old daughter, Lily, equally.
"It's really important for us to have something we can enjoy together and talk
about together. It gives us in some ways a common language for talking about
more important issues," he says.
Adventure Time's world used to be our world. Then it was destroyed by a war.
It's strewn with detritus such as old computers, VHS tapes and video games
from the 1980s.
"It takes my childhood, the shattered pieces of it, and builds it into something
new, which is now part of Lily's childhood," he says, almost in wonder.
Os dejo aquí abajo el link. ¡Saludos!
http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2013/06/17/192385255/an-adventure-for-kids-and-maybe-for-their-parents-too?
