On this week's desperate attempt to program for Pride Month, we take a look at a series with a notable pedigree that was often bandied about as a stellar example of representation in children's television...after the first couple of seasons, that is. It's Netflix's The Dragon Prince, a series from one of the minds behind Avatar: The Last Airbender (with a fraction of the budget and production time that went into making that series thanks to Netflix's production/releasing methods that are inherently hostile to creativity). This mostly just turned into yet another bull session over how inhospitable the streaming era is for new animated properties and how Netflix specifically is to blame, but we also chatted about what would could gleam from the first episode of the show. Spoiler alert - it wasn't a lot.
Episode covered for the podcast is "Echoes of Thunder." Directed by Giancarlo Volpe and written by Aaron Ehasz and Justin Richmond. Release date September 14, 2018.
(Editor note: we do not mention it in the episode, but there are presently allegations against Ehasz over the creation of a toxic and abusive work environment for women in the studios and writer's rooms he oversaw. Just making a note of them here for posterity and because it should be taken seriously).
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