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matt_zimmer) wrote2006-01-12 09:07 am
matt_zimmer) wrote2006-01-12 09:07 am
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Eighties cartoons
I originally wrote this in response to Bleu Unicorn's journal but I had so many nagging questions that I decided to post it here too.
I watched an episode of Thundercats on CN a couple of years ago and I was unsurprised that like practically all eighties cartoons did not hold up well. Like you said all the villians in those days were two-dimensional and I'm kind of jealous that kids in the early nineties got all of the COOL superhero cartoons.
By the way, that day I watched Thundercats I also rewatched an episode of Silverhawks. While Thundercats is kind of dumb Silverhawks is actually bat-poopy insane. What was up with that alien mime kid? Or that toadie who was a cross between a snake and Smithers? (His name was actually Yesman) Or that weird alien cab driver with the crazy bird in the back seat? I am frankly surprised more kids from the eighties didn't grow up to be serial killers.
After I wrote that I realized that Silverhawks had a LOAD of insane crap in it when you come right down to it. It also had that monster that turned into a robot who rode a giant squid in outer space and that guy who was like a giant molecule. That show was MESSED UP. It seriously needs a DVD release so new generations of kids can have their heads explode.
I watched an episode of Thundercats on CN a couple of years ago and I was unsurprised that like practically all eighties cartoons did not hold up well. Like you said all the villians in those days were two-dimensional and I'm kind of jealous that kids in the early nineties got all of the COOL superhero cartoons.
By the way, that day I watched Thundercats I also rewatched an episode of Silverhawks. While Thundercats is kind of dumb Silverhawks is actually bat-poopy insane. What was up with that alien mime kid? Or that toadie who was a cross between a snake and Smithers? (His name was actually Yesman) Or that weird alien cab driver with the crazy bird in the back seat? I am frankly surprised more kids from the eighties didn't grow up to be serial killers.
After I wrote that I realized that Silverhawks had a LOAD of insane crap in it when you come right down to it. It also had that monster that turned into a robot who rode a giant squid in outer space and that guy who was like a giant molecule. That show was MESSED UP. It seriously needs a DVD release so new generations of kids can have their heads explode.
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