Emerje wrote:Nemesis Reformatted wrote:And I couldn't stand the Filmation MOTU cartoon. In 81 MOTU was aimed towards teens but in 83 the cartoon dropped it from teen to toddler. As a kid I loved the more mature realistic cartoons like Transformers, GI Joe, M.A.S.K., Robotech & vehicle Voltron.
All of this stuff was made for little kids under 10, including the 81 MOTU comics. Nobody made action figures and cartoons (for US TV) for teens and adults in the 80s. "More mature realistic cartoons".
Emerje
Forgot to react to that because I facepalmed so hard, I knocked myself out.
As a young child in the 1980's, I never saw those show as "mature". At all. Because I've seen "mature". See, as a Québécois, our Saturday mornings at Radio Canada was filled with "cartoons" imported from France. France was really into anime hardcore so in Québec, we got so many anime by extension. The "toy commercials" cartoons were relegated to
the other one French language channel out of 3. Those shows didn't last for long because Karens went to war against those and won.
Anyway, back to Radio Canada's anime. Those anime were filled with mature themes and they never shied to show actual DEATHS on screen. Goldorak (U.F.O Robo Grendizer), Albator (Captain Herlock), Le Petit Castor, Astro le Petit Robot (Astroboy), Demetan, Cat's Eye, and so on. Those shows were awesome and they made me a weeb decades before "weeb" was a term. Japan don't treat their children like idiots and it shown.
Then, after around 1987, Radio Canada ditch ALL anime and the Saturday mornings literally turned into the Disney Chanel. No "toy commercial" cartoons" either at the other chanel, and the Karens even killed the French dub of the WWF. At 12, I felt like a nostalgic old fart...
Speaking of old farts, kids these days are damn lucky. Because we were too poor to have Cable as a child, I was stuck with only 3 French channels. A 4th one appeared when I was 11 though. That new channel only shown old show at it's beginning so I watch a lot of Flintstones (dubbed in Québécois French). I didn't knew a single English word at the time so I never watched the 2 English channels we had. That 5 or 6 chanel total.
Kids these days have an infinity of options with a million chanel and the internet at their fingertips. So they are not stuck at watching subpart shows or shows they don't like.
These days, if kids want to watch Transformers, they can watch any shows at any time however they want, whenever they want.
Karens be damned.