I made the mistake of watching the pilot to the original 80s Voltron. I was obsessed with that show as a kid, and I think the art still holds up, but wow. I was getting flashbacks to watching Speed Racer on Mtv "ironically" given all the useless filler dialog to fill in the unedited talking animations from the Japanese raw footage, read by actors with distinct voices but no idea the emotional tone the scene was supposed to be going for.
My favorite show as a larvae was ThunderCats, a show more responsible for creating a generation of weebs and furries and furry weebs than anything. I'd sit down as it started, blink, and wonder where the previous 30 minutes went.
A story my father used to tell me: My grandfather would say something like "Did you watch some ThunderRats?" I'd get very cross as it was unforgivable for someone to misname something so important: "No grandpa, not ThunderRats, Thunder
Cats!" "Rats?" "Cats!" "Rats?" "Cats!" "..... Rats?"
At this point, I allegedly would get too mad to restrain myself, and bite his toe. I have no idea if this story is actually completely true, but it always sounded feasible enough to me.
I watched a few episodes of Real Ghostbusters (something I never liked back in the day, but what else was there on TV? Matlock wasn't on at that timeslot) and Extreme Ghostbusters (something new to me) over the past year, since GhostCorps has been putting them up for free on the youtube. Most of it is rather dire, but the good episodes were a little better than I remembered them.
The core issue is how these shows are written for five year old kids and younger, we're not their audience anymore. That they're scrubbed of any awesome violence (so many awful old people
hated Ninja Turtles and Power Rangers), and anything else doesn't help either.
It's still fun watching those Youtube clips of Speed Racer being an absolute sociopath.
Oh, at least kids these days at least get decent voice actors and coherent writing and theme songs that aren't just the
name of the show repeated aggressively on repeat consistently. You can probably see a ton of comments in this
Dragon Ball Kai comment section about their nostalgia growing up to this as a rugrat.
It does make me feel a little sad they didn't get to experience the same kinds of things we did, for good and bad. But on the whole I'm glad their #1 tv show didn't have to be Matlock.
Mischief Maker wrote:Myself, I threw my back out this last week
The fuck is up with your back. Tell it to stop being an asshole >_<