I've read the article, and I must say: if those are the worst cartoons they've seen, they don't watch many cartoons. Where are infamous "classics" like Super President? Rapsittie Kids? Titanic the Animated Movie (where everyone survives in the end)? How about the old Sub-Mariner cartoon that wasn't animated, but
literally cut and pasted from the comic? Ten minutes of any of those, and I'll be
begging to watch Silverhawks... if I haven't fainted from the pain.
I can't help but notice, too, the vast majority of the "worst cartoons of all time" there listed come from the eighties. Either eternity's shrunk since I was a moppet, or this is yet another example of the mysterious bias against the 'toons of Generation X (you know, the bias that likes to pretend "Dungeons & Dragons" or "The Mysterious Cities of Gold" didn't happen?). The description of "Jem" all but confirmed this suspicion, as under the trappings, it basically says, "Jem's actually not a bad show at all, but we're listing it anyway because it's contemporary with Transformers and Silverhawks." Sound logic, that.
Transformers-specific: one line of the article struck me as particularly false, because it brushes off what I consider G1's strongest point as a flaw: "Why exactly are the Autobots good and the Decepticons evil?"
They aren't. The faction lines aren't supposed to be that clear cut, especially not in season 3 (that's what the episode "The Killing Jar" was about). You see Autobot vs. Autobot and Decepticon vs. Decepticon just as often as Autobots vs. Decepticons. As someone who has watched G1 in the last ten years- last night, in fact- I
like that I'm 'allowed' to root for either faction (or
neither faction) if I choose.
But as the standard disclaimer goes, I may not agree, but they've got a right to their opinion.
...Although I think it'll change, and fast, if they google the shows I mentioned.
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