If I've picked up anything from being in the classroom the last couple of years, its that the kids love anything to do with music. I can't count how many times a kid has mentioned watching Glee even if I think that kids is way too young to be really enjoying it. Then, you start noticing the traveling music shows featuring the cast and the documentary movies trailing the traveling movie show featuring the cast (that's a mouthful), and then you really understand how much this is a tween phenomenon, cause believe me, teens don't pay to go to shows like this. It wouldn't be "cool."
So I decided to watch the season premiere through Tween eyes. There are cute characters in the Disney bubble gum way where they're almost too perfect and too cute, even if they are suppose to be dirty and grungy they are still somehow cute (ie Quinn's transformation). They may deal with bid kid issues like sex and pregnancy but its still handled in a cheeky, it can't really hurt you manner that is not scary to kids...and then of course, there is the music. I do honestly believe that the kids probably aren't even paying attention to the plot itself, but instead are just waiting in between the musical numbers. They're big and colorful and larger than life and never makes sense to the show (oh, hey look there just happens to be a full band waiting here for us.) And the creators slip in lessons whenever possible which is a sure sign that its really a show for kids (think Jesse Spano's breakdown on Saved by the Bell.)
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