Childhood Television Trauma
Jan. 27th, 2009 11:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
meddowAnyone else used to watch The Animals of Farthing Wood as a kid? It was British kids cartoon that aired in the early 1990s from the book of the same name about a bunch of animals travelling from their home which had been destroyed to a nature reserve. I ask because a random, completely unrelated thing I'm working on for Uni got me onto thinking about the series and how much I loved it.
And then, I remembered the Hedgehogs and the motorway, and I actually cried. I watched that when I was seven, I'm now twenty-three and just thinking about it still makes me cry. But he couldn't move because he was terrified, and she went back for him and there was a lorry…and…*whimpers*
I think it's official that a children's television series has actually scarred me for life.
(Of course I could hunt it down and watch it, but there's no chance that series is as good in reality as it has become in my mind, and I'd rather stick with my trauma than lose my beloved show).
And then, I remembered the Hedgehogs and the motorway, and I actually cried. I watched that when I was seven, I'm now twenty-three and just thinking about it still makes me cry. But he couldn't move because he was terrified, and she went back for him and there was a lorry…and…*whimpers*
I think it's official that a children's television series has actually scarred me for life.
(Of course I could hunt it down and watch it, but there's no chance that series is as good in reality as it has become in my mind, and I'd rather stick with my trauma than lose my beloved show).
