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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mad Mac" data-source="post: 2044570" data-attributes="member: 27873">Not really the same thing, I'm afraid.  Animaniacs was great, but it created it's own characters, rather than mutating bugs into Wakko, for example. That's kind of my point. You can do homage without lifting things wholesale, and be better off for it, instead of creating a supervillian version of Foghorn Leghorn.  Tiny Toons was really an attempt at creating a "modernized" looney toons, with characters aimed more directly at younger viewers. It did well enough, but it was still a direct homage to it's roots...  Making it a show where "Buzzsaw Bugs", ruthless infernal kung-fu death machine and leader of a ragtag group of "badarse" (in the worst, designed by committe looking way possible) intergalactic superheroes is...something entirely different, and would be better served by creating new characters, imo.  Like I said, I'll watch it. That doesn't mean I can't point out that the concept so far strikes me as...wrong, as many others have noted.  Nor does it invalidate my earlier point, that I'd rather see people coming up with their own ideas, instead of relying on characters drawn up over half a century ago. I mean, call me crazy, but back when people were first doing Looney Tunes, they seemed able to handle making stuff up on their own. Sure, most new ideas were based on older ideas, but that's fine...a good character will mature over time.  Bugs started as a blatant Daffy Duck clone, you know. Over time he surpassed Daffy and became a star in his own right. This isn't a gripe directed soley at WB either...the latest Batman show(He's a teenager! He's cool!) just leaves me cold, as well.</blockquote>

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