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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 1492765" data-attributes="member: 151">There are plenty of good cartoons on, but the nature of the beast has changed. Back when Saturday Morning was the King of Cartoons, and weekday fare was more often than not just recycled stuff from Saturday Mornings past, you got what you got. It's much harder to compete, when you've got base cable, videos and DVDs to contend with. My kids can watch Spongebob whenever they want. If I missed an episode of Mighy Orbots when I was a kid...I missed it FOREVER. A lot of the feelings for those old cartoons comes from nostalgia, as many of them really aren't that good, when you get down to it. I mean, there were plenty of really bad shows, back in the day. You can tell some of our relative ages by what shows we value: when I hear someone refer to the original Mighty Morphin Power Rangers as a really good show, I cringe. I mean hey, He's no Ultraman. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> I half expect someone to pop up and defend shows like <a href="http://www.bcdb.com/cartoons/Filmation_Associates/S-Z/The_Secret_Lives_of_Waldo_Kitty/" target="_blank">The Secret Lives of Waldo Kitty</a>. Mighty Orbots is an interesting case, in that it caused a huge uproar at the time, with declarations of unfair comptetion, and accusations that it was destroying the American animation industry. Ultimately, I think it failed mostly due to financial reasons. It was an expensive show, relatively speaking, and it didn't garner ratings that were so far beyond some of the far less expensive material to justify it.  Modern shows that are quite good: the current incarnation of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles makes up for the previous version's attrocity; Jackie Chan Adventures is truly one of the best shows on television, let alone cartoons; Kim Possible is reasonable light fare; Most of Nickelodeon's stable of cartoons are pretty good, My Life as a Teenage Robot and Spongebob being good examples, and Shaolin Showdown is good silly fun, too. I consider Justice League to be more of a show for older audiences, as I can't let my kids watch it (if you want more detail on that, do a search on previous threads, where we discussed it ad nauseum). And that's not counting imported shows like Shaman King, which my kids love. And what, no love for <a href="http://www.flyingclodhopper.com/thundarr/" target="_blank">Thundarr the Barbarian</a>? I mean, c'mon. (and while were at it, the original Johnny Quest kicked ass then, and it kicks it now...too bad they had to keep remaking it.) <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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