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Re: The Second Golden Age of Television: A Comprehensive List
« Reply #10 on: April 10, 2014, 02:15:03 PM »
I'm pretty sure Drake and Josh is a gamechanger.

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« Reply #11 on: April 10, 2014, 02:18:15 PM »
Updated the list. I would love more discussion on what needs to be rearranged. Let's perfect this list, people.  8)

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Re: The Second Golden Age of Television: A Comprehensive List
« Reply #12 on: April 10, 2014, 02:27:04 PM »
Are shows in your top tier the highest quality, or did they literally precipitate some kind of shift? Or both?   
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« Reply #13 on: April 10, 2014, 02:30:17 PM »
I'm pretty sure Drake and Josh is a gamechanger.


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Re: The Second Golden Age of Television: A Comprehensive List
« Reply #14 on: April 10, 2014, 03:07:23 PM »
Phineas and Ferb tailored a Family Guy sensibility to a young audience while building a complex mythology with meta references that comment on the repetitive nature of Children's television. It should be an Essential.

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Re: The Second Golden Age of Television: A Comprehensive List
« Reply #15 on: April 10, 2014, 03:10:20 PM »
If any children's show goes in, it should Spongebob, the show that laid the ground for any children's show to be more than basic.
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Re: The Second Golden Age of Television: A Comprehensive List
« Reply #16 on: April 10, 2014, 03:17:11 PM »
Amen, children shows shouldn't end up not going in because of their simplicity or basic humor, its is geared more towards the younger audience anyway. Spongebob for Tier 1!

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Re: The Second Golden Age of Television: A Comprehensive List
« Reply #17 on: April 10, 2014, 03:24:46 PM »
The 2nd Tier: The Essentials
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4th Tier: The Standards

I've watched all four seasons of this program and I wouldn't consider it an essential TV program. The first season was great, even with the episode plagiarizing Mrs. Miniver. But subsequent seasons have seen a steady drop in quality, with this last season becoming pretty trite. At first, I thought it was me, because during the hiatus between seasons 3 & 4, I watched all five seasons of Upstairs, Downstairs, a much superior Edwardian Age effort. But then I spoke to close to a dozen fans of DA, and they all seemed to think it jumped the shark, starting in season 3.

I think it belongs in the 4th category
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Re: The Second Golden Age of Television: A Comprehensive List
« Reply #18 on: April 10, 2014, 03:27:53 PM »
You're missing The Office.
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Re: The Second Golden Age of Television: A Comprehensive List
« Reply #19 on: April 10, 2014, 03:32:19 PM »
The highest quality children's show on the television is, without question, Gravity Falls. In a single season it effectively built up an entire world of its own layered with memorable characters, clever jokes, an overarching narrative, countless mysteries, and a myriad of other traits that puts it in a league of its own. And, unlike something like Phineas and Ferb, it doesn't settle for simply pointing out the repetitive nature of children's television before simply engaging in those tropes, but subverts them and gets surprisingly mature at times without ever leaning too heavily in that direction.

GF is the top of the top. Realistically I can understand a case being made for Adventuretime, because I get what it's doing and how it does it, I just don't much care for it, but the clear plans from Gravity Falls that are apparent at the beginning and only further open up on repeat viewings is startling.