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    7 months ago

    Bear in mind that back then you had an underdeveloped brain. Literally.

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    7 months ago

    New Magic School Bus fucking rocks.

    Teen Titans Go fucking rocks.

    Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fucking rocks.

    They aren’t the same as the versions we grew up on, but give them a chance, really.

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      7 months ago

      I haven’t watched the others, but yeah, Teen Titans Go was hard to get into because of nostalgia fever. After a few episodes I saw it for the new thing it is and not what it was, and yes, it fucking rocks.

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      7 months ago

      That fandom nostalgia is a helluva drug. Mix it with updated norms and politics and you’ll get 10,000 word essays on why purple-hair Dr. Sattler can’t use a hyperdrive as a weapon because it’d make Star Wars unrealistic.

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      7 months ago

      The best thing is that they’re made by people who grew up on the same stuff. Like OK KO is this wild blend of Looney Tunes and 90s/early 2000s Shonen and I love it.

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    7 months ago

    Loonatics, teen titans go, Ben 10. It’s a shame what companies do to such great things.

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    7 months ago

    SpongeBob, what have they done to you?

    Teen Titans, what have they done to you?

    Dexter’s Lab, what have they done to you?

    Muppet Babies, what have they done to you?

    Garfield, what have they done to you?

    Tom & Jerry, what have they done to you?

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      7 months ago

      My two year old loves Sesame Street. Having grown up with it myself, I can say it’s perfectly acceptable l and is in tune with this generations needs.

      Is it my kind of perfect? No. But then again nothing is.

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        It’s not so much that they cut it in half to 30 minutes, but more that so much of it is copy paste content. Having Anderson .Paak or Feist on is cool, but they got them to record 5 minutes then put that same 5 minutes in what felt like 6 episodes of the season for some reason. So much of it is 2D animated now where it used to have way more actual human interaction. Idk, it’s not awful by any means and the inclusionary aspect remains, but it’s not close to the same quality in my view

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      Part of that is because their mission statement isn’t literally regarded as radical anymore. When Sesame Street launched, and really up through the early 90s, it was radically progressive to have a kid’s show that tried to teach kids things, and more specifically targeted inner-city kids by using surroundings they would be familiar with. Most of us grew up with Sesame Street just being on the air normally, and most of us here didn’t live through the Senate hearings on public television. It’s a minor miracle shows like Sesame Street and Mr Rogers’ Neighborhood are regarded as mainstream and boring now.