Tot TV Watch

Tomorrow, January 3, 2009, the new show called Huntik - Secrets & Seekers premieres on the CW 4Kids Saturday morning block. This new show’s target audience is ages 6 to 12 like most of the other shows in the CW Saturday morning line up. It is an animated show categorized as an action adventure comedy. The website’s short description of the show is that it is “about a group of seekers traveling around the globe in search of ancient amulet that can evoke different types of monsters.” It sounds like it fits in with the CW type shows and likely to be enjoyed by those who like watching the shows.

In this show the Huntik, who are the Seekers, travel around the world including South America, Europe, Africa, and North America as they search for the hidden Titans. The Titans are the monsters that are powerful and magical creatures that can help fight the dark forces from the underworld. The Seekers I assume are looking for them for the use of Good. The Evil group that wants to try to control the Titans are a secret organization led by The Professor.

The main characters that are part of the Huntik Foundation include Lok Lambert (a high school aged boy), Dante Vale (the king of treasure hunters), Sophie Casterwill (a high school aged girl with book smarts), and Zhalia Moon (a tough streetwise woman). The main characters that are part of the antagonists are The Professor (his goal is to conquer although the exact reason is unclear and his greater purpose is a mystery) and The Suits (the lowest level of the Professor’s organization and are used as his pawns to achieve his goals).

Today is national Take Your Daughters and Sons to Work day in the US. Since my son is a little young to actually participate this year, I asked my seven-year-old nephew if he would like to work with me today and write about his favorite TV show. Here is what Dylan had to say about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles:

My favorite show is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Fast Forward. It is on 4 Kids TV at 10:00 on Saturday morning. The master is Master Splinter. He is a rat. There are four turtles. One is named Raphael. He has a red mask and he has two sias. Leonardo is the leader of the others. His mask is blue and his weapon is two swords. Michaelangelo is really silly and he loves pizza. His mask is orange. The weapon is two nun chucks. Donatello is very smart. He invents many things. His mask is purple. His weapon is a stick. Cody is smart like Donatello, only he was already in the future. He made a time window so he could see the turtles. The turtles accidentally got in the time window and came to the future while they were fighting over the tv. Cody is a good sidekick. Sherling is a robot. He likes things cleaned up. He may be a cleaning robot, but he can always be transformed into a fighting robot. Cody’s uncle is owner of O’neal Tech.

They have many enemies. Raphael often hurts himself because a lot of times the enemies are holograms. Leonardo always tells him that they’re holograms, but he doesn’t listen. Michaelangelo usually doesn’t concentrate. He always ends up in trouble. Donatello is always inventing new things to help the turtles get around and fight.

You should only watch this show if you are old enough to understand not to fight like the turtles unless you are in danger. I like this show because I like turtles and I like to watch them fight bad guys. I often switch who is my favorite turtle.

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