Subj : Re: Saturday morning cart
To   : Daemon
From : Tracker1
Date : Sun Jul 17 2005 03:23 am

Daemon wrote:
> Remember when Saturday morning cartoons were something to look forward to
> each week?

Yeah, I remember them being worth watching too... then there was power 
rangers, then they started putting news on every channel, now you're lucky to 
see one 1/2 hr cartoon program on broadcast tv in the am...

>   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.

Neah, I think it started going to the wayside before Cartoon network...

>   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.

Yeah I remember that, it was fun... I think the downhill trend started when 
they found that shows like power rangers, etc were cheaper, and faster to 
make, and that a few people wanted news, then they all did it.. now it's 
mostly crap.. there's some good stuff, but just about anything worthwhile is 
on cartoon network too...

>   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.

Agreed... lets not forget a lot of PC in them as well..

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