I don't know how anyone can NOT like cartoons.

Anonus

See title.

Tre

Same.

People are strange creatures, though.

Sredni Vashtar

All cartoons and animation? That I don't get. But cartoons in the usual sense? I can understand it. A lot of mainstream Western cartoons (and the majority of Japanese animated comedy) rely on broad slapstick, exaggeration, frantic action and reference humour; and most work within limited animation budgets with designs that are either very over-the-top or bland, and are sometimes both at once. This is particularly true in American "adult" animation, which is basically just an extension of the sitcom format with more elaborate scenarios and gags.

Now, this is not to say that this is entirely warranted by any means. I am a lover of animation myself, and do roll my eyes at the assertion that cartoons are either just for children and manchildren or lack depth and nuance. I'm just saying that there are reasons that make sense.

Imipolex G

depends on the cartoon

Salix Babylonika

I don't understand how people enjoy narrative live-action television.

Like, it, as a medium, is uncanny valley to me, in its entirety.

Epitome

Magic Jane said:

I don't understand how people enjoy narrative live-action television.

Same. It just...mostly all seems the same to me. And the mainstream ones with the most popularity are all the very much straight white dude focused, which is eh.

Salix Babylonika

oh for me it's not even that (though that's true), it's just like....I don't wanna watch a guy get shot. I don't care if it's fiction, that is a real person who looks like the real people around me, getting shot.

Change "getting shot" to any unpleasant situation.

Tre

Joyeux said:

Magic Jane said:

I don't understand how people enjoy narrative live-action television.

Same. It just...mostly all seems the same to me. And the mainstream ones with the most popularity are all the very much straight white dude focused, which is eh.

Depends where you're looking, of course. (Scandal and OITNB both come to mind as examples that buck the trend.) But generally speaking, I guess I'd agree.

I'll still watch live action TV if I take interest in the concepts, though honestly I've stopped watching anything regularly in the past year. If I'm watching any TV at all, it's either through Netflix or, ahem, Perfectly Legal Means.

Yarrun XIX

Live-action TV just bores me. Always has, with certain exceptions.

Imipolex G

Live-action TV is a punishment in hell

Yarrun XIX

iCarly was enjoyable, but it was practically a live action cartoon anyways.

One-Winged Eagle

I don't like YOUR FACE

Imipolex G

whatever d00d

Sredni Vashtar

Magic Jane said:

oh for me it's not even that (though that's true), it's just like....I don't wanna watch a guy get shot. I don't care if it's fiction, that is a real person who looks like the real people around me, getting shot.

Change "getting shot" to any unpleasant situation.

What about movies or plays?