Thomas the tank engine (the island of Sidon) always seemed like a sort of dystopian world.
The show never sat right with me. There’s something sinister just below the surface of it.
I know nothing about paw patrol.
Count your blessings. Basically a 10 year old and some dogs keep all the incompetent adults from dying.
Ryder is like a gazillionaire with no apparent means of income generation.
My guess is that he’s a drug lord.
When asked how he managed to afford yet another Paw Patrol rescue mission thingamajig, Ryder responded, “You just, like, pay for it.”
Paw Patrol is a Randian dream. This (I swear) is a verbatim conversation about the pups’ equipment costs with my four year-old.
They have such cool stuff!
I know, how do they afford it?
What?
How do the pup’s afford all of their vehicles and equipment?
The people they rescue pay for it.
The people they rescue? Chicoletta? The mayor?
Yes, those people pay for it.
What if they can’t afford to pay for it?
They don’t get rescued.
“Because it focuses on being useful,” says my brother in law. His young son now plays with trains from a different storyline.
Apparently Paw Patrol is also “problematic.”
Um. Ok. It appears that this idea has been around for a while now, but I’ve only just recently learned of it.
Here’s the Google search.
Did you ask him if he is teaching your nephew how to be more like AMTRAK? How to be late? Provide the least amount of service? Never make money? How to be late (wait, I already said that)?