I had a great attachment to Arthur as a kid, I even had both an Arthur and D.W plush toy. It always surprises me when people mention PBS as the place for kids without cable to watch stuff, I had cable, and had originally 3 , later 2 PBS stations and they were part of my time as much as Nickeloden, Disney Channel , and Cartoon Network. Anyway, back to Arthur. I've also kept up on the show over the time, even would watch sometimes just because it was on and there's something fun about it.
I even know about how some feel about the I guess, the flash seasons, but the show still felt alright then, I think it's more werid because the show was in modern times and it felt off, "The Simpsons" is the way. I think for a show that ran so long, it never had a crash in quality, Marc Brown was always part of the show , maybe that helped. ( It's kind of funny, it's the only long running animated show where I can watch a later season and be pleased, it's hard for me to do that with some other shows. )
Anyway, I watched the final season come out today ,and the episodes were pretty fun and the show ended alright. It is kind of sad it's ending but we have about 500 episodes of fun and the marathon this past week was fun to have . I'm glad the show will stil rerun as long as WGBH and PBS is intersted, I would buy a entire seires box set if they did one. (That should be a donation thing or something, I'll do it !)
There is also one problem, that PBS hasn't seemed to been making more programs for older kids, they used to do that, and that's what the very lightly remembered PBS Kids GO! was trying to do, I do hope they will try to find programming that does hit the "Word Girl" , "Arthur" spot.
I'm glad Arthur existed it was a fun series and was glad to see many in general having fond memories of it.
I even know about how some feel about the I guess, the flash seasons, but the show still felt alright then, I think it's more werid because the show was in modern times and it felt off, "The Simpsons" is the way. I think for a show that ran so long, it never had a crash in quality, Marc Brown was always part of the show , maybe that helped. ( It's kind of funny, it's the only long running animated show where I can watch a later season and be pleased, it's hard for me to do that with some other shows. )
Anyway, I watched the final season come out today ,and the episodes were pretty fun and the show ended alright. It is kind of sad it's ending but we have about 500 episodes of fun and the marathon this past week was fun to have . I'm glad the show will stil rerun as long as WGBH and PBS is intersted, I would buy a entire seires box set if they did one. (That should be a donation thing or something, I'll do it !)
There is also one problem, that PBS hasn't seemed to been making more programs for older kids, they used to do that, and that's what the very lightly remembered PBS Kids GO! was trying to do, I do hope they will try to find programming that does hit the "Word Girl" , "Arthur" spot.
I'm glad Arthur existed it was a fun series and was glad to see many in general having fond memories of it.
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