Welcome and Introduction

Hi all,

I'm the parent of a three-year old who recently got very into the Disney Junior show Sofia The First.  Part of our evening routine has been watching episodes of Sofia before she goes to bed.  This helps give my wife a bit of a break and lets me fulfill my evening parenting responsibilities in the easiest way possible.

Although I'm a Disney fan, I knew very little about Sofia before my daughter got a book featuring the story of the first episode last fall.  We still didn't really watch the show for a few months, even though she was very interested in the book (and another one, which was an alphabet book that introduced a lot of characters).  I finally broke down and showed her an episode after she was able to sit through all of Mickey's Christmas Carol this past Christmas.  And a new evening routine was born.

As I watched Sofia, I became kind of fascinated about a lot of aspects of the show.  And because my daughter has trouble moving on from episodes she likes (or just the last one she's seen), we tended to watch the same ones over and over.  I started to fancy myself kind of expert on everything that was happening in each episode.

And, so, why not start a blog?  Doesn't everybody blog?

I'm a huge fan of somewhat tongue-in-cheek episode reviews of some of my favorite shows (particularly the cartoons I grew up watching in the 80s, like Masters of the Universe, G.I. Joe, and Transformers).  And I also like the somewhat more serious rewatch blogs for shows like Star Trek on sites like Tor.com.  So I thought I would give this a go.

Now for a few disclaimers.  I've never maintained a blog before (although I've written for one at work), so I will apologize in advance for the primitive look of the page.  I also am writing these reviews as my daughter and I move through Sofia for the first time (at the time of this writing, we've almost finished the first season . . . after watching one to two episodes per night for almost three months; this shows the pace we are keeping).  When I'm writing the reviews, I don't have any knowledge of what happens to the characters or the show in later seasons. So hopefully my takes will be somewhat fresh.  I also have never read another blog about Sofia or done much "research," except occasionally looking up a character name for my daughter on the Disney wiki.  

I will try to be responsive to comments and post reviews at least at the rate of two a week (or until my reviews catch up to where we are in the show).  

Emulating the Star Trek rewatch blogs at Tor.com, I think I'm going to divide each post into a section including an episode recap, sections on each of the characters that appear, and then my final thoughts.  I will do my best to do thorough episode recaps each time because I appreciate that when I'm reading other blogs of this type, but it is also the most tedious part of doing this so we will see how that goes.

So with that all out of the way, enjoy, comment, and thanks for reading!