Pic is from tumblr, I know, but honestly wondering, You know how School often is the main setting for many cartoon ? Do you think that soon enough, pic related will be considered a daily routine as part of the story setting ? One of those thing the character have to deal with on a regular basis, as normal as the main character being sent in detention or being caught with a school pass ? Or like a fire-training episode, but instead, it's a school shooting episode. The cartoon not actually having any school shooting ever, but training for it is now the norm and part of the background ?
Would a Bob Burgers start doing that ? Or Arthur ? They made a 9/11 episode, after all.
Also, mods, please be nice, I swear I am not trolling, I am genuinely curious how a media that is often aimed at kids would address an issue they actually deal with in their daily life, not actual School shooting, but the fear of it happening and how many schools now prepare them for that.
Jackson Anderson
If you are being genuine then I'll spell this out to you as politely and straightforward as possible can: ain't no cartoon wants to touch that topic with a ten foot pole. If they actually wanted to directly teach kids about what to do, the topic would have to directly be a school shooting, and that would make audiences go ballistic. But to avoid that they'd have to make it an allegorical situation which they'd have a hard time conveying the message of what to do without raising a lot of eyebrows, and a lot of criticism for 'not making it clear' and 'making something complicated too simple'. It's a lose-lose situation and nobody wants to purposely stick themselves in it. For example, we all saw how well the gun control episode in OK KO went over.
Nolan Stewart
Didn't Gargoyles and Static Shock made episodes about school shootings? I guess OK KO too but in that one it was a metaphor.
Cooper Roberts
Static Shock
Mason Johnson
Thing is there's already an unspoken embargo on certain subjects for children's media, its basically the only substantial reason for why standards and practices even exists. I doubt anyone's willing to risk their job security in media production to make that kind of statement casually, unless its like the entire point of the project, which defeats the point of what you're suggesting.
That said I'm pretty sure south park's latest season did exactly that.
because fuck me if it isn't way more common than school shootings, and aint nobody telling young boys how to fucking manage their emotions and not pathologize themselves into utter spergs who become hikikomori as adults.
Camden Campbell
>If they actually wanted to directly teach kids about what to do They do'nt need to. school are already doing it. It's already part of their daily routine. that my point, it's already as much part of their regular life as detention. Meaning it could technically also be part of the setting of a cartoon based in school.
Static shot talked about the event of a school shoting, in a setting where it was still considered unusual. I am talking about a cartoon were school shooting doesn't happens, but training for it and expecting it to happens is already the norm. It's more about the after-effect than the actual events.
