Do You Remember He-Man/Voltron/Tranformers/Thundercats/Blackstarr/Go-Bots/Silverhawks
I was reminiscing with a friend, who is about my age, on 80's cartoons. Some we still remembered vividly and others we had to google. You will note above that I listed several mainstream cartoons and there knock-off counterparts. Not that the knock-off's were bad, but they didn't have the same success. Anyway what I wanted to get to is how looking at these cartoons now they seem so diffrent. Things I didn't pick up on as a kid I see now. As a child it was so easy to be amazed and dazzled by the colors and action. The characters doing amazing things. Now that I am older its hard not to analyze and find the faults in the writing and see how bad some of the animation is, including reuse of footage from old episodes spliced into new ones. To see messages they were trying to feed my mind. Not to say they were bad messages or become some kind of conspiracy theorist, but looking at it now there were definetaly agendas being advanced with some cartoons (I'm looking at you Captain Planet). Its hard not to say man I was so gullable as a child to be hoodwinked into watching these cartoons and begging my parents for the action figures, yes action figures not dolls. In the same way now that I have "grown up" I am amazed at how I used to so easily trust in and beleive without question. How easy it was to be manipulated by the crowd to say this is cool and that is whack. This is how you should talk and how you should dress. Now I can look back and see the flaws in what some of my peers and society told me. The "toys" they want me to buy. The "heroes" they want me to cheer for, and the "villians" they want me to hate. I guess my point is we can't be children forever, so easily amazed. We must advance our knowledge and analyze what we see and what we are being shown.
I was reminiscing with a friend, who is about my age, on 80's cartoons. Some we still remembered vividly and others we had to google. You will note above that I listed several mainstream cartoons and there knock-off counterparts. Not that the knock-off's were bad, but they didn't have the same success. Anyway what I wanted to get to is how looking at these cartoons now they seem so diffrent. Things I didn't pick up on as a kid I see now. As a child it was so easy to be amazed and dazzled by the colors and action. The characters doing amazing things. Now that I am older its hard not to analyze and find the faults in the writing and see how bad some of the animation is, including reuse of footage from old episodes spliced into new ones. To see messages they were trying to feed my mind. Not to say they were bad messages or become some kind of conspiracy theorist, but looking at it now there were definetaly agendas being advanced with some cartoons (I'm looking at you Captain Planet). Its hard not to say man I was so gullable as a child to be hoodwinked into watching these cartoons and begging my parents for the action figures, yes action figures not dolls. In the same way now that I have "grown up" I am amazed at how I used to so easily trust in and beleive without question. How easy it was to be manipulated by the crowd to say this is cool and that is whack. This is how you should talk and how you should dress. Now I can look back and see the flaws in what some of my peers and society told me. The "toys" they want me to buy. The "heroes" they want me to cheer for, and the "villians" they want me to hate. I guess my point is we can't be children forever, so easily amazed. We must advance our knowledge and analyze what we see and what we are being shown.
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