Based on Books Part 2

Ok so now it's time to slice Jane and the Dragon up and examine it under a microscope. I must say that after Gerald McBoing Boing just about anything would look good. But really though, Jane and the Dragon can certainly hold it's own and really is actually a pretty decent show indeed. One of it's most impressive features is it's imaculate design. The show is animated using CGI but it's also made to look hand drawn. This sounds a little artsy and weak in words but seeing the product is something else altogether. The animation and design is BEAUTIFUL and that's not a description I throw around alot. It's oozes with vibrant colours and even though it looks handrawn it feels very much alive. This aspect of the show alone is enough to carry it along. My mother has actually commented on this aswell, albeit only saying "this show looks really nice" but really my mother doesn't like to go into the elaborate detail that I do. Compare that to what she has said in the past about Gerald McBoing Boing, "this show's quite strange", and you can appreciate the difference between the two.


Anyway onto the plot turf. Storywise Jane in the Dragon is less unique. An opening theme song reveals that Jane became a knight in training, despite the mocking laughs and jeers of sexist friends, after rescuing the Prince from a dragon. Perhaps demonstrating an issue with having female knights and confirming the doubts of her friends by, instead of killing the dragon, befriending it. Hault! Do not start typing that comment about how woman SHOULD be knights and how making friends is better than killing people. It's not really that I disagree with either of those things but really, this is the freaking 9th century we're talking about here. You can't just befriend everybody if you're a knight for fucksake I mean you'd have to win over freaking armies who speak other languages. Speaking of language the dragon is a wise-cracking english speaking carefree character who often finds himself in miscommunication with Jane. The running themes are ones about loyalty, friendship and trust (ie what every childrens show bleets on about these days). But really though this is just nitpicking. The show has a decent story with a variety of characters who are all as well defined as they are aesthetically pleasing all plonked in the most vibrant medieval world ever created (forget fucking Oblivion, this looks better!). But does it pass the test of greatness? Is this the kind of show that people will fondly remember from their childhoods. To be honest I don't know. I know for a fact that there are a couple of shows that people I know can remember that, on reflection, I'm not all that fussed about. This is certainly a great show and definately deserves adoration. But I have no faith in humanity regarding taste. Nobody seems into pleasant surprises anymore. In the gaming world, as an annoying example, people mindlessly lap up sequels and totally ignore exciting, creative new titles that challenge you simple desire to shoot soldiers from outer space. So don't come whining to me when the world is grey and people live in steel cubicals forgetting how to show any sort of emotion at all because it was your own damn fault for not reading my blog. Now where was I? Oh yes, Jane and the Dragon = Thumbs Up, Gerald McBoing Boing = Vomit.