You'd be doing yourself a disservice to skip over this. This show is very similar to Breaking Bad in a sense that what you get at the beginning is not what you'll have by the ending, similar also to Breaking Bad, 'In the night garden' is truly a show about the process of transformation, about going from one state to another, and I don't think I'm alone in saying that it did it better than BrBa. The relationships between the characters never seem forced or pushed, they all develop naturally as the seasons progress. It's rare to come across a show that has the perfect balance of dramatic tension, comedic relief, and epic story-lines. Ted's Evaluation - 3 of 3: Worth watching. Yes, some of the characters and objects have winning appeal, but it is the way this layered world is built that I think can teach my kids something worthwhile. He alone seems to be able to communicate with the narrator, a sort of higher self. The crossover character, Igglepiggle once in his dream world has only a few expressive dimensions. This follows Ted's Law of abstraction: the abstract distance between those drawings and the puppet/animated world is the same as between that world and ours. Then finally we have the fourth inner world: the story we have seen in the abstract garden is recounted in drawings. Again, think like a child and how they see the world. Many things that happen, just happen without cause or consequence. Several things go on, only a few of these make complete sense. Once in the garden, we have some events, which one could think of as a day in the life of these characters. It isn't what happens in the world of the story so much for them, but what that world is, how it works and how they get there. If you think kids don't get and appreciate this deep folding of reality, you haven't been around bright kids. The stars become blossoms that surround and cover the night garden, where most of our time is spent. in this level of reality, the boat then drifts and we transition to yet another layer under reality. The boat becomes his bed and the sail his blanket. A simple being pulls down his sail at the end of a day. That hand morphs to a boat in another enclosing situation, one that is amazingly rich. Consider: The thing is nested in a vignette of a toddler's hand being stroked to sleep. Good ideas seldom can be they are in how you get to the thing in the first place. Oh, the ideas are not in the story at all. I don't have a TeeVee in my house, but I do allow my one and two year olds to watch this, because it has some very clever ideas in it. If they are abstracted by nitwits, then they learn to be nitwits who cannot think critically. Kids learn by what they see of how things are abstracted. Either you need to include an alphabet in your song like Sesame Street or have some obvious moral conclusion. Such a stance presumes that kids need explicit teaching and preaching. There seems to be quite a consensus that this doesn't have any educational value.
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