Subj : Saturday morning cartoons
To   : All
From : Daemon
Date : Sat Jul 09 2005 10:59 am


  Remember when Saturday morning cartoons were something to look forward to
each week?

  I'm sitting here this morning watching them with my son and they just SUCK
now.  Many of them aren't even cartoons - they're computer animations, giving
them all a generic "quality" where pretty much any of the characters could be
yanked out and stuck into any other show, and you wouldn't even notice much.

  Too many cartoon channels now, I guess.  Diffused the whole genre into
nothingness through massive over-saturation.

  Hell, I remember when that trend started.  The "USA Cartoon Express" would
run long stretches of the best of them throughout each day of the week and we
were all like, "Wow - this is great".

  Then came the Cartoon Network et al and a "24-hr news"-style dumbing-down of 
it all, where there's only so much quality and content to go around.  It just
seems to me that that quality is spread REALLY thin nowadays. 

  Probably bugs me more than it should, but I really consider it quite a shame.
They used to inspire role-play outdoors when they were done, with everyone
running out of the house to pretend to be "Thundar the Barbarian" with his
flaming sword, or any number of good/evil-type make-believe neighborhood
romps.

  This new stuff is nothing more than eye-candy designed to keep the kids quiet
through the shows, with as little engagement of the imagination as possible.


       [daemon]                 
       In the shuffling madness...      






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