I'll start off honest, I was watching Nickelodeon one day as a few of my childhood shows were playing (nostalgia is amazing 
) and on a commercial break, they promoted a new episode of their newish show, "Danger Force," a spin-off of a superhero sitcom show called "Henry Danger." Bear with me, there's a purpose to this post. It was about the characters visiting a zoo and somehow later on in the episode, they get transported to an alien zoo where they're mistreated and prepared to be eaten by the aliens. To see the route this was going, I watched the episode, and in the beginning, after the characters return from a trip to their city zoo, one of the characters rants about how bad zoos are and how the animals are mistreated, and the others respond saying zoo animals love it and are fed, spoiled, and receive attention from the public via their faces being put on souvenirs and other things. However, the other character continues his rant and teleports the characters into a poorly-designed gorilla exhibit to "teach them that zoo animals are unhappy," and the rest continues from there.
So, my concern is if now kids' shows are doing this, how will this affect the outlook on zoos? They already face so much backlash from people who use their emotions over facts, but now with these new shows doing things like this, I'm afraid it'll make the children, teens, or parents watching start developing ill feelings towards zoos. Sounds like a stretch, but kids are easily influenced. All it may take is their favorite show to say one thing and it all goes downhill from there. Any opinions?
Just finished it, the anti-zoo character forces the captured characters to say zoos are bad for their freedom from the hungry aliens. One character doesn't admit to it, so although he's back at their normal setting, he's left in the cuffs the aliens used to bound the characters, and the anti-zoo kid teleports the gorilla earlier in the episode in the room with the one who won't bash zoos, leaving whatever happens after to the viewers' minds. Funny thing, too, Dian Fossey is mentioned at the end of the episode by the pro-zoo character, so if the writers know about her, I'd assume they should've known her gorilla fund and its partnership with a zoo, showing they aren't horrible, but I guess that wouldn't make the episode interesting.
) and on a commercial break, they promoted a new episode of their newish show, "Danger Force," a spin-off of a superhero sitcom show called "Henry Danger." Bear with me, there's a purpose to this post. It was about the characters visiting a zoo and somehow later on in the episode, they get transported to an alien zoo where they're mistreated and prepared to be eaten by the aliens. To see the route this was going, I watched the episode, and in the beginning, after the characters return from a trip to their city zoo, one of the characters rants about how bad zoos are and how the animals are mistreated, and the others respond saying zoo animals love it and are fed, spoiled, and receive attention from the public via their faces being put on souvenirs and other things. However, the other character continues his rant and teleports the characters into a poorly-designed gorilla exhibit to "teach them that zoo animals are unhappy," and the rest continues from there.So, my concern is if now kids' shows are doing this, how will this affect the outlook on zoos? They already face so much backlash from people who use their emotions over facts, but now with these new shows doing things like this, I'm afraid it'll make the children, teens, or parents watching start developing ill feelings towards zoos. Sounds like a stretch, but kids are easily influenced. All it may take is their favorite show to say one thing and it all goes downhill from there. Any opinions?
Just finished it, the anti-zoo character forces the captured characters to say zoos are bad for their freedom from the hungry aliens. One character doesn't admit to it, so although he's back at their normal setting, he's left in the cuffs the aliens used to bound the characters, and the anti-zoo kid teleports the gorilla earlier in the episode in the room with the one who won't bash zoos, leaving whatever happens after to the viewers' minds. Funny thing, too, Dian Fossey is mentioned at the end of the episode by the pro-zoo character, so if the writers know about her, I'd assume they should've known her gorilla fund and its partnership with a zoo, showing they aren't horrible, but I guess that wouldn't make the episode interesting.
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