Pilot

Fun and fills an important gap in kids' TV
What a great show! Preschoolers have a lot of educational TV options out there but there's less and less educational stuff for older kids. This really should be on TV. It was also great seeing non-stereotypical characters too.

However, there was one thing that bothered me. Nick correctly calls the robots "robots", but Anne corrects him and calls them "androids", and they're referred to like that for the rest of the show. Androids are a very specific type of robot that closely resembles a human to the point of being nearly identical (like the replicants in Blade Runner). Anne's creations, even Pal, are very much robots and not at all androids (actually the pidgeon is technically a cyborg, but let not add any more confusion). That might sound like a minor detail but since this is supposed to be an educational show it was annoying to see them get the basics wrong, just like if Sesame Street messed up the alphabet!

Anne-tastic!
Both my 5 and 7 year old girls loved this. When they watched the preview and saw that their would be apps to go along with the shows they flipped out and thought that was the best thing ever. I would surely pay for apps that go along with the show for the their kindles.

Not Bad But Needs to Explain The Science a Little Bit Better
This scientific based kids show is pretty cool. I am not a kid but decided to try out a few of Amazon's shows. The art was decent and the tone of the show seemed to fit the subject matter quite nicely. The only thing I would recommend is that if you are trying to make this show stand out among the other simplistic, air-headed cartoons, I would take the time to explain the science behind Anne's experiments. The whole pilot revolved around Anne getting vinegar but not once did she explain why she needed it. Since you are trying to extend science to kids, you should actually make this show scientific. We never found out what she was mixing the vinegar with so in the end this show just seemed like an average cartoon. I actually sat there expecting to learn something. You should explain that Anne wanted to mix vinegar with baking soda to cause a chemical reaction that would cause both ingredients to react and explode. What appears to be one reaction is actually two, happening in...

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