Originally Posted by
RemiusTA
This is hardly the problem. The problem is that they dont care anymore -- i have yet to see just genuine animation in a long time. In fact, the last animated series in the longest thats been worth anything in its weight of paper would be that Avatar series nickelodeon ran...which sounds alot like your description of a "fuzzy puppy" cartoon. Doesn't matter, it was the best non-japanese animated series i think ive watched in my entire life. Never cared for it, but sister was a fanatic of it. She had all 3 seasons on DVD, i got sick and was in bed for a week and was bored and was like "oh what the hell", popped it in my DVD player and watched the whole series in 2 days. The animation was top-notch through the whole series, there was no filler bullshit, the comedy was actually quite hilarious. Not to mention it had the most impressive fight scenes in any animated show. Ever. (Yes, im including Dragon Ball Z.) Good stuffs.
Stories dont have to murder all their characters off to be good. In fact, most of the time characters are killed off in a story to facilitiate a certian emotion about the story in general -- skilled writers can do this without killing off main characters.
I'd bitch about animation all day, but really thats not what saddens me about entertainment today. What REALLY pisses me off is what it's been replaced with -- fucking Hannah Montana and High School Musical. Entertainment is just dying. Its easier to program a cute child into being a Cash Cow into actually creating something genuine. And lets not forget that FUCKING stupid "Twilight" bullshit all these Teen dumbasses are into these days. And now every female between the ages of 15 and 23 wants to cut themselves, shop at Hot Topic and marry vampires.
Im just sad kids have no reason to wake up early on Saturday Morning anymore. Do you people realize we used to actually be AWAKE at 8:00 AM to watch television? Off the subject of children...do you realize how every celebrity and their MOTHER (yes, literately) has a "REALITY" tv show now? Everytime someone turns to or holds a conversation about a TV Show on VH1 or MTV, I die a little inside.
So yeah, my TV consists of nothing but Spongebob, Tom & Jerry, and various Science/Discovery Channel shows that show intelligent people actually advancing mankind in one way or another. However, the fact that there is no equilivent of Animaniacs or anything these days is quite sad.