Friday, January 04, 2008
Davey and Goliath Volumes 1 and 2
I actually watched these a while back but sadly I have not blogged so much lately and have never given my review.
For those who don't know, Davey and Goliath was a television series made by Gumby creator Art Clokey under the sponsorship of the Lutheran Church in America. Thus each show had a moral or scriptural lesson to teach which can be backed up by Biblical truths. Each disc had a handful of the 15 minute shorts as well as one longer short. All episodes are fairly decent but there are a few gems to be found.
On the first disc we get the controversial (for its time) episode of Blind Man's Bluff. Davey's best friend Jonathan (who quite possibly was the first black kid in a cartoon series depicted as a normal human character) invites him over to take care of his cousin Scottie who hates White people. What's so interesting here is that the tables are turned from the conventional White Supremacy that is used to display racism. Sadly even to this day we have groups of people who don't even believe that Black people can be racist against White people or that it is somehow excusable. Davey and Goliath got it all those years ago.
The second disc has more Biblical stories in it with one episode, Good Neighbor, mirroring Jesus's parable of the Good Samaritan and Halloween Who Dun It where Davey learns that not even the masks we try to put on can hide us or our sins from God. However much in the same way that the Doughnut shop owner forgives the children and pays for the damages Jesus forgives us of our sins and makes things right for us by saving us from the punishments we deserve.
Davey and Goliath is a classic that I think many children today could benefit from. The messages are simple and don't overload kids and best of all come from the truths of the Bible which Jesus gave to us. Davey and Goliath aren't teaching the universalism and tolerance crap of most new shows which tell children to abandon principals and to accept just about anything as normal and decent.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
For those who don't know, Davey and Goliath was a television series made by Gumby creator Art Clokey under the sponsorship of the Lutheran Church in America. Thus each show had a moral or scriptural lesson to teach which can be backed up by Biblical truths. Each disc had a handful of the 15 minute shorts as well as one longer short. All episodes are fairly decent but there are a few gems to be found.
On the first disc we get the controversial (for its time) episode of Blind Man's Bluff. Davey's best friend Jonathan (who quite possibly was the first black kid in a cartoon series depicted as a normal human character) invites him over to take care of his cousin Scottie who hates White people. What's so interesting here is that the tables are turned from the conventional White Supremacy that is used to display racism. Sadly even to this day we have groups of people who don't even believe that Black people can be racist against White people or that it is somehow excusable. Davey and Goliath got it all those years ago.
The second disc has more Biblical stories in it with one episode, Good Neighbor, mirroring Jesus's parable of the Good Samaritan and Halloween Who Dun It where Davey learns that not even the masks we try to put on can hide us or our sins from God. However much in the same way that the Doughnut shop owner forgives the children and pays for the damages Jesus forgives us of our sins and makes things right for us by saving us from the punishments we deserve.
Davey and Goliath is a classic that I think many children today could benefit from. The messages are simple and don't overload kids and best of all come from the truths of the Bible which Jesus gave to us. Davey and Goliath aren't teaching the universalism and tolerance crap of most new shows which tell children to abandon principals and to accept just about anything as normal and decent.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
Labels: Animation, Christian, Family
