In its 33rd season, Sesame Street is being reconstructed, due to a younger demographic.

I'm not sure how I feel about it. Though I haven't been a viewer since I was ten, I liked it for what it was. I've got to think that maybe the reason that it's getting a younger demographic (2-4 year olds), even in a world with Teletubbies and Blue's Clues, is because it doesn't pander.

The concept that a creative work should change itself to 'dumb down' to fit the perceived desires of the demographic drawn to it has created many shameful works, sprung from fine beginnings. Can't people get the concept that the audience was drawn to the existing product? Why second-guess your patrons, and tell them what they really want?

I wonder what these people would think.