The opening sequence was animated in Canada by the same studio that recently worked on The Backyardigans.The show's logo appears and the pups howl very loud. The child falls down from the cliff and Chase uses a launcher to rope a child. The egg tosses to Marshall and Cap'n Turbot (like Everest, he never appeared in the Season 1-2 sequence) sees a baby pteranodon. The pteranodon and Skye's helicopter fly. Marshall has a big problem with a child, who is on the cliff while holding a egg. Ryder uses a motorcycle along with the pups, taking us all places. The pups pose, jump up, slide and hop on their half doghouse-vehicles. Transition to bones, Ryder points the emblem.
The pups (along with Everest) are in a pitch and playing soccer, glowing their emblems on their collars. The remote clicks and the monitor shows all of pups' emblems. I hate to go all Frankfurt School in a light column like this one, but it is always worrying when citizens of a democratic society are taught to worship the police, to accept so-called “states of exception” without question, and to delight in the machinery of punishment.The sequence starts with a view of Adventure Bay, zooms in with The Lookout where the pups enter in. I can’t help but think that in addition to their deleterious effect on children’s imaginations, shows like Paw Patrol are a serious political threat. Where else is all the production happening? There are no visible factories, but someone has to build all the machines and tools and perform the necessary agricultural work to keep the mayor’s chickens fed. Which is when it occurs to me: they’re all freaking dead, aren’t they? Or maybe we are talking about a gulag situation. I like to imagine that somewhere in Adventure Bay there is some sort of resistance movement, a faction of poets and religious types opposed to the mayor’s tyrannical regime. (One thinks of those lines of Auden: “Somebody chose their pain, / What needn’t have happened did.”)īut perhaps the oddest thing of all is the fact that apart from the pups, the dictator Goodway, and the handful of people whom they routinely assault, the island seems somewhat sparsely populated.
The Ruff-Ruff Pack, collar-less and dirty, are clearly working class dogs no attempt is ever made to reform or otherwise induce them to behave better. Worse still than the omnidirectional sense of faux-crisis is the depiction of the offenders on the receiving end of the Paw Patrol’s mob justice. It is the most influential work of fascist art since Ezra Pound. There is no society or even commerce in Paw Patrol, only the relentless unthinking force of the police state, ostensibly responding to a never-ending crisis. Paw Patrol is Giorgio Agamben’s nightmare, a country in which a permanent state of emergency exists, under which governments have limitless power to rule unilaterally. (I say “subjects” rather than “citizens” because as far as I can tell, there is no evidence of elections ever being carried out.)
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She is very much a ruler in the Nero fiddling or Elagabalus line, a deranged eccentric who collects chickens (curiously enough, they cannot speak in this universe otherwise full of anthropomorphic animals) and seems totally uninterested in the actual well-being of her subjects, much less the material and other costs of maintaining a rather large police force. In a typical episode, the Paw Patrol send an entire fleet of vehicles - cars, trucks, boats, aeroplanes, submarines, and even, insanely, a recycling van - to respond to an attempted misdemeanor or a minor traffic accident.Īll of this activity is carried out under the aegis of one Mayor Goodway. Every episode revolves around some poor citizen finding himself on the wrong side of the law or the victim of an alleged natural disaster or public health crisis. In a typical episode the Paw Patrol send an entire fleet of vehicles to an attempted misdemeanor.Unfortunately, emergency services seem to be the only thing going on in this horrifying world.
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