What happened to my cartoons?
My 10 year old has been watching Cartoon Network on SkyTV all morning, and I’ve had the, um, priviledge of watching it on and off with him. This has unfortunately lead me to realize, I’m an old fart.
I confess! I don’t know what these cartoons are! I can’t follow them! They don’t make sense! What happened to Duck Tales, The Flintsones, The Jetsons, and all those other cartoons from my childhood!? I had a glimmer of hope when Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles came on, but this one is set in 2150, and doesn’t make any sense at all. All the characters have the same names, but they look, sound, and act different. Its like I’ve woken up in an alternate dimension!
What I did notice however is the difference modern computer based animation has made to the cartoons. They lack a certain depth, a style, and movement that the older cartoons have. They also seem to be very heavily influenced by the Japanese style cartoons. I’m not sure if this is because they are targeted at this market, or if because this style is the preferred style by the youth of today.
I certainly miss Duck Tales, but I am reassured my 10 year old that it is still on, he just doesn’t know when, but he’s seen those old cartoons somewhere.
August 27th, 2007 at 12:46 am
Mmmm I read through all the technical stuff and decide to post on this. Go figure.
The service you want is available in Australia, and is called Boomerang. Unfortunately (to my knowledge) not available here. Sky’s Cartoon Network when I was in High School used to play the older stuff, but obviously thought that was out of date when Cartoon Network from the US started airing in Aussie properly.
When I actually had free time to watch Cartoon Network recently, I’d usually go with anything by Genndy Tartakovsky, The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, Teen Titans. meh everything else was pretty much mindless noise, like the rest of TV really. Oh a bit of adult swim, but usually only if that was initial d – most of the good stuff on that’s gone too.
I generally tape (for lack of a better verb) simpsons, family guy, the startrek’s on Sunday, House (ended) Boston Legal (in reruns) Top Gear (ended) Dr Who (started), Numb3rs and the odd movie. so not much is on TV for me right now during the week heh.