Mesozoic Mind

Hoo boy, strap in... So on Sunday the 13th, Dinosaur - With Stephen Fry  premiered on the british Channel 5. Remember how I said I was interested in it?  That as the first major palaeo-documentary after Prehistoric Planet and had the rare "Human host back in time and interacts with them" format I love and want to see more, I was hyped and eagerly awaited more after its announcement. But then came the trailer , and all that hype pretty much vanished. Once did premiered however, the Palaeosphere literally flipped on it overnight. Why? Stephen Fry's Dinosaur was not very good. At all. It feels like the monkey's fist flipped me and us all off, a cheap cash in on the success of Prehistoric Planet . The basic premise is that Stephen Fry imagines himself going back in time to interact with dinosaurs. The first episode focuses on the Jurassic period and focusing on both Diplodocus and Allosaurus  and a confrontation between them, before Fry watches the Diplos do other stuff...

Ah, sweet young Gen X nostalgia Hello, and welcome back to Mesozoic Mind . Today, we're gonna be doing something different and try an epoisode of a show that normally doesn't feature dinosaurs or even focus on prehistory. Shows for younger kids do this a lot, mostly beccause of the errenonous assumption kids and only kids like dinosaurs (a topic I may discuss latter). Today, will be Nick Jr.'s classic, Blue's Clues . Yeah. I am going into a show for 5-year olds. Why? I just want to, and it's my show for 5-year olds, growing up with it. I’ve recently started watching Blue’s Clues out of nostalgia, and boy I love it. One reason I’m doing and like  Blue’s Clues  rather then say, its comtemporaies  Dora the Explorer or Go Diego Go!  or the more recent PAW Patrol because honestly, its a lot more watchable and peaceful then most of toddler shows, then and now, which other other are pretty hot garbage in my book due to talking down to them and having way too many stimul...