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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Darth Shoju" data-source="post: 2741130" data-attributes="member: 11397">Newer stuff; pretty much all I can think of has been mentioned...1) Justice League Unlimited; maintains the traditional dominance of DC in the Saturday-morning cartoon "genre" (although Marvel had some good stuff with their two X-men series and various Spider Man iterations).2) Avatar: the Last Air Bender; this one is *really* good IMO; really smooth animation, lots of detailed martial-arts (they even list martial-arts advisors in the credits), very imaginative and cool "magic" (element-bending) and neat characters. Moderately anime style but strong Western animation infuence too.3) He-man and the Masters of the Universe (2002); made a lot more sense than the original He-man series and the animation was superlative; some of the best I've seen on TV. Main drawback is that the series was cancelled before the story-line was resolved.4) GI Joe Sigma Six; has a heavy anime style but in a more conservative way. Definately action-packed and really neat/smooth action. Story line seems allright although nothing to write home about yet (dialogue can be rough too). Has the main characters (Cobra Commander, Baroness, Destro, Zartan, Snake-Eyes, Scarlet, Duke, Storm Shadow) but inexplicably replaces other old favourites with different versions of the same archtype (a guy who is basically Road Block but called Heavy Duty, instead of Mainframe they use someone called High Tech). Shows that came out in the last 10-15 years that were cancelled but worth watching;1) Gargoyles; I can't say enough about the epic story-line, compelling characters and top-notch animation. But this one is famous enough I doubt I need to say much. The first season is out on DVD and the second is coming out soon.2) Roughnecks; based on the Starship Troopers movies, it is much better than the film was (IMO of course). Told from the POV of a reporter in the unit containing some of the characters from the movie, it uses CGI graphics that were very solid and had some very deep characters and sophisticated stories. Not sure how many eps were made but it was pretty good.3) Beasties; some people didn't like this series much but I give them props for tying into the original Transformers story line. Again CGI, but somewhat more dated looking. Avoid Beast Machines.4) Pirates of Dark Water; fairly short lived but incredibly imaginative. I've always thought it would make a pretty decent D&D campaign. Classic animation style.5) Disney's Aladdin; better than the movie in many ways. Actually developed the characters a bit and covered a wide-range of Arabian Nights tales and original stories. Very fun stuff.</blockquote>

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