On DVD, the girls have been watching Jim Henson's The Storyteller, a 1980s TV show that dramatizes ancient myths and legends from the Mediterranean, Germany and elsewhere. They're often quite dark, and after they watched an episode tonight Cici and I had this conversation.
DADAM: Well, did you like the show, Cici?
CICI: Yeah, I did.
DADAM: Well, there are two more left to watch, and they're pretty good stories: "Perseus and the Gorgon" and "Theseus and the Minotaur."
CICI: Do good things happen in them, or bad things?
DADAM: Well . . . some bad things do happen. Bad things can make stories interesting. You know, if nothing but good things happened, it wouldn't be much of a story. But when you get a story where somebody falls in love with somebody who doesn't love them back, or somebody is trying to get away from bad people who are chasing them, or somebody is sailing across the sea and the ship sinks - well, those are the most exciting and interesting kinds of stories, don't you think?
CICI: No.
DADAM: No? Well, what do you think makes a story interesting?
CICI: Care Bears.
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