Subj : Saturday morning cartoons
To   : Daemon
From : Finnigann
Date : Sun Jul 17 2005 05:21 am

-=> Daemon wrote to All <=-


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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Many of the cartoons are little more than 30 minute ads for whatever toy tie-in
they have.

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