People are so quick to discount entire genre's or even mediums of storytelling for the pettiest of reasons.

Blowing off sitcoms as fluff because of a laugh track, like ALL IN THE FAMLY, MASH, or THE JEFFERSONS didn't CHANGE America.

Blowing off animation as being 'for kids.'

I see this all the time.

Like...even if something is FOR KIDS that doesn't mean it is lesser...if anything it has MORE impact. What is the message embedded in it? What is is teaching children?

These stories are literally what SHAPES us and our perception of the world.

Storytelling is such a POWERFUL thing in it's ability to impact and shape lives, and you can see it at work in almost everything.

What is a court of law if not two storytellers trying to convince people that they have a better, truer, story?

Even if you think a sitcom with a laugh track is whack, you cannot simply discount what is being SAID and how that will impact and shape people.

Reminds me of Alan Moore, "I wrote comics because I wanted to teach kids...so I put my lessons into something they'd actually READ."