(I am far from disdainful of those decades' animation on the whole; the '90s were a magical time, the 2000s were kind of malaisey, but I get sick of the pedestal that junk like CatDog is placed on)
It's like people who actually care about Rise of the Guardians. While I don't necessarily hold their choices against them, they do not represent all of cartoon-viewer-kind.
But didn't He-Man/She-Ra have at least one or two actual characters, sort of?
^ Huh.
He-Man has a Jack Kirby's Fourth World thing going on I like.
GI Joe is the cheesiest crap and has many stupid characters, which I like.
Transformers G1 is just ugly robots battling for who knows what. I will admit later series have some good points, and Beast Wars actually sounds decent, crappy old CGI notwithstanding.
You know what I did this morning? I played the voice of a toy. Some terrible robot toys from Japan that changed from one thing to another. The Japanese have funded a full-length animated cartoon about the doings of these toys, which is all bad outer-space stuff. I play a planet. I menace somebody called Something-or-other. Then I'm destroyed. My plan to destroy Whoever-it-is is thwarted and I tear myself apart on the screen.
80's animation was all about concept and general aesthetic and rarely had any concern for execution. 00's cartoons tended to be... pretty damned fantastic, actually. Sure there's a lot of bland, bad, or forgettable stuff but there IS also Avatar, early Spongebob, Ed, Edd, and Eddy, and Megas XLR.
I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
I do notice that nerd culture in general doesn't seem very fond of animation that predates the '80s, unless it's a Disney movie (or possibly Looney Tunes and Tom and Jerry)
This. Some people just didn't grow up with this stuff at all.
Another factor is that while some of that stuff still really holds up, a lot of it is very much of its time. Some of these shows rely on pop culture tropes that would be familiar to a 60's child but not a 90's child. Others were just not that great to begin with despite their nostalgia value, as many shows from the 80's and later were as well.
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I also liked The Real Ghostbusters and My Little Pony (G1)
GI Joe is the cheesiest crap and has many stupid characters, which I like.
Naturally, they were the bad guys
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
there now, that's better