Grow up, Disney Channel!

 

Seriously, f**k them!

The Disney Channel TV original shows have a sort of love-hate reputation in the world of youths contents and in the industry. By known that several of the Canadian Disney Digital specialties are for long gone, I had stumbled to the main Disney Channel one, with a constant drip on the line-up and excessive overlaps by airing the same shows around every three-four hours. Since the CRTC, Mark Carney and others governments keep to get busy with big plans that have no place of what the logicals of our reality need, there's something bizarre by looking of the way current Disney Channel shows are usually diving there.

Since when Lizzie McGuire became a succesful hit to all audiences (In 2001), the patrons of the network thought that maybe, the library of classic Disney movies, shorts and shows have no longer place for ran just the new stuff instead. The only consolation for classic Walt's era fans out there was on the DVDs like the revolutionnary Walt Disney Treasures Two-Disc sets (It actually need a 4K/Blu-Ray upgrade!), which compiling around the complete history of the studio, on the Walt's own era. I have snagged myself a fewer of them, including the most noteworthy one-- The Oswald the Lucky Rabbit collection, over a year after the rabbit character turning back home after a deal was set in motion between one Universal/NBC employee (The Oswald-character onwers at that time) and Disney, and where picked Oswald at legitimate first Walt Disney's star back to his roots was a dream come true for all 20th century fans. We would expected better things to them in the future, if only...

When this blog was mostly themed of the Brandy & Mr. Whiskers TV series and my own admiration to it by reviewing and critiquing the show segment-by-segment, it went also of how the whole company was in dry spell at that time. The multiplication of kidcoms and cartoons for the channel was done without that they ever calculated or consulting the youth audience in the background. When fewer originals stays memorable like Even Stevens or That's So Raven, they all share a bad common point: The shows themselves suffers of murky dialogues, bad pacing and characters says one-liners, not so on an amusing and charming way, but at cringe-worthy and grating by point us to how rude these kids really are. I am rather glad to not have my nephews/nieces having to watching these.

Looking of the newer Wizards of Waverly Place revival or Electric Bloom only collapse that this mentality of rude and irritating characters-leads (mostly pre-teen girls) keep its ugly head again, in 2025. In short, these shows are written by themselves, and when you trying to mimic the genuine one-liners of Mel Blanc, Daws Butler or a certain Jack Benny for that matter, you have to known how the audience will react and also, lots of works and training. Be rude and treating your colleagues like assholes are not comedy, and it's very dreadful that almost everything from Disney Channel-- movies, TV or otherwise-- went with that sadistic logic.

When France has shuttered down their own Disney Channel past January, there was articles here and there that speaks about the nostalgia of what fans of these shows has occured. Well, I don't know if they watched the same shows than in the America. Maybe it's an iteration from what were shown on the America, but teaching moral values to the audience after 20 minutes of lame canned laughing-tracks and characters been rude and stupid each other are rarely what we wanna be entertained for. This is like this the youth entertainment in the 21th century.

This is more so the "Girls Only" channel or anything, and where the Disney name itself looks to be withdrawn on the network too. This seems to me obvious that these shows are wrote by the same kind of 50+ years executives white males, them who are came obsessers of the way the girls characters are dress when it's not their wives who tell them how to wear in public. In spite of that, there is many problems about sexual harassment, rape, pedophilia or mean subliminal messages that were translated on these Post-Productions. That wonder me, who are THE real audience for these?

For the Disney Channel of 2025, everything is been repetitive and predictable. The network needs more of Andi Mack (A TV dramedy that proven that you don't need of lame comedy and canned stock-laughing to engaged a fanbase) and less... what they've playing on current times.