I have a gripe.
Has anyone ever had a nostalgic moment when they have to bust out an old cartoon just for the sake of watching it, and you have all these memories of the show rocking your face off on saturday mornings, or even on weekdays?
Yeah. No more of that. I downloaded a couple episodes of Ghostbusters and Transformers just for the hell of it. ....I must have been retarded as a child or something. I will refer in particular to the boogey man chronicled in the ghostbuster cartoons. When I watched these as a kid, I was terrified by him. Now? He's a really badly animated goat.
Transformers will always have optimus prime, which I think will never be outdone, but the animation on that show is just completely terrible. I watched a few Aeon Flux episodes, which at the time on MTV involved amazing animation. now? looked so outdated. These same gripes go for old video games. I cant even play a first person shooter now if it isnt halo, thank you frame rate advancement!
The same goes for old movies (pre 1990 it seems), but to a lesser extent. I'll always appreciate old comedies, and of course the classics. I just hate that everything I used to watch now feels like its been butchered by my own mind. in ten years am I going to watch an episode of family guy and feel the same way? In the words of , mostly anyone at different points of their life "time flies ".
This is why books are awesome. your imagination can never be outdated or replaced.
I'm surprised that you didn't mention half the decepticons are effeminate and sound as though Richard Simmons is just slightly changing his voice for each character. Still, you cannot beat robots in disguise.
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OMG I so relate...my younger brother and I were into the Thundercats and the TMNT, I barely remember the Ghostbusters, but damn I loved it too. Oh, and the Smurfs...but sadly, yes, they are crap on animation now and OMG so lame in general...what were we watching back then? Sadly old movies are the same way for me...if they're old enough and dark (colorwise) they hardly hold my attention.
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