[ SECRET POST#1819 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1819 ⌋


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Comments

[megalomaniageek.livejournal.com]

Crappy theory or not, it's MFTE. I still hear the Cracked folks talking about shitty 80s cartoons like they were the height of culture because they're about ten years older than the 90s crowd (of which I am a part). I feel a lot of nostalgia for the 90s too but I think people make a bigger deal of it than necessary. I think cartoons DO go through up periods and down periods, but we're currently in a big upswing as far as I'm concerned. Adventure Time, My Little Pony, Phineas and Ferb, and a number of other cartoons are widely regarded as legitimately good.

Part of it is that some people don't have enough self-awareness about their reactions to cliches. You know what sounded really original the first time you heard it? Just about everything. So things that older people look down on as cliches because of the boredom and frustration that comes from predictability, younger people with less experience are legitimately surprised and impressed by. You see this also in Final Fantasy fandom; if you tell me a person's age, I can give a pretty decent guess about what Final Fantasy was their favorite based on which one was at the height of popularity when they were 10-12, weighted toward more famous and well-loved ones (IV, VI, VII, and X mainly). I'm in the VII camp, and some part of me still sees the X people as "young whippersnappers new to the party" even though the game is ten years old (and yes I know it's ridiculous). But I've seen X fans who look down on the new PS3 generation just for being new, and the entire time I've been in fandom I've been dealing with the IV and especially VI fans who look down on the VII crowd and the X crowd for the same reason.

tl;dr A little pattern recognition goes a long way.

[hiyami.livejournal.com]

I'm from the generation that watched cartoons in the 80es, and I think the ones from that era still top those from the 90es and the 2000es and now.
But that's because I always thought most US cartoons sucked anyway, and my reference is anime from the 80es and the cartoons that were co-produced between Japan and Europe (Cities of Gold, for example).

As of nowadays cartoons, I can't get over how ugly the art looks, for most of those I know... (I didn't see MLP, but that's not my cup of tea anyway).

[(Anonymous)]

Thiiiiis.

Except I actually watched cartoons of my age. But I remember having to stop my Saturday morning cartoons because the writing went downhill and my god, the art SUCKED.

I mean, compare Recess and Doug (charming stories of growing up and friendship with vaguely whimsical but solid animation) with Phineas and Ferb. I can't talk about the plot of that, but I can just not watch the art. Shouldn't animation have improved in the last ten years?

I remember buying X-Men evolution on a whim for 1.99 someplace and watching it made me nostalgic for the relatively softer lines. It seems everything is sharp and angled now, to the point where the characters barely look human.

...*sigh* I sound like a old person waxing about 'the good old days', don't I?