I have a couple questions/comments, one on topic, the other regarding our secondary topic.
On topic. I've not watched many of the shows all of you are listing but it seems to me that they are all linear. In other words they all are telling a story over a period of time and if you miss an episode you could miss something important. Are there any good shows out there that use the stand alone format? Where the individual episodes can stand on their own and still be entertaining? I think back to The Twilight Zone, Quantum Leap, Mayberry RFD, or even Married With Children.
Off topic. Reading (Perhaps we should start another thread?). I have a lot of youg-uns in the family as well as some friends with children of toddler age and I am frankly surprised at the lack of reading. Too often I see the kids glued to the TV, playing on a laptop, or even on their very own Ipad (the horror!). I read to all my nephews and nieces when I visit them, because I enjoy doing it and it's easy to see that they do as well. Occasionally I'll do a book/movie combo. For instance I'll read the book, Where The Wild Things Are, and then we'll watch the movie. When my daughters were in K/1st grade their school had a program in conjunction with Pizza Hut. Read, or have read to you, 5 books a week, and you get a coupon for a free personal size pizza. I tell you we had a family Pizza night every weekend for 2 years! We'd do 5 books the first Monday night when they came home with the form we had to fill out listing the books. I don't see this sort of reading incentives given out anymore, at least in my circle of kids.
Anyone see this sort of incentivized program anywhere?
