Impression of the Viva Pinata Cartoon
I just finished watching the premiere of Viva Pinata with my 5-year-od son. He loved it, I thought it was typical empty children's programming.
Obviously, the show is made for children, but I find that children's cartoons come in two flavors: the kind that only children can enjoy and the kind loaded with jokes that only adults get. This one is definitely of the first sort.
While I found Viva Pinata relatively boring, Tristan really seemed to be into it. He thought it was funny that the show was peopled entirely by Pinatas and asked when the show would be on again.
Despite what I thought, the game didn't really seem loaded with game references. Sure, there were a couple: Every time a pinata broke in some way candy would spill out and a bunch of other pinatas would rush over and eat it. I think it was meant to be cute, but I found it more disturbing than anything else.
I did learn one thing from the second episode in the half hour broadcast. A plot point lets you know that if a Horsetachio (that's a horse pinata) eats blackberries and daisies they turn into a Zomba, which looked to be a striped horse pinata.
Meh.
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