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Batman: The Animated SeriesRecently I bought the three Volumes containing all the episodes of this show, and damn brings back memories! This cartoon had it all: it was dark and gritty, great action, love it. My favorite episode is Dreams in Darkness.
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Erikjust
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Yup Batman the animated series certainly had more then most show today has.
One of my favorite episodes is Heart of Ice whit mr Freeze
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'Batman:TAS' was very revolutionary for it's day. Setting the bar really high for action cartoons at the time. Paving the way for what we would eventually call the 'DCAU', as well as other great shows in the years since. Sadly, not very many action cartoons come close to the quality, and high standards set by 'Batman', and it's ilk today. (With the exception of 'Spectacular Spider-Man', but some people are mixed on that one.) I feel bad for the current state of action cartoons right now.
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Erikjust
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It has become about making cheap cartoons the faster you can spew them out the better.
Plus its all about the toys, if you canīt sell the toys no need to even bother whit a show.
Why do you think that the Transformer franchise has plummeted to the lvl it is at now and there is absolutely NO chance at all that we will ever see a PG-13 Transformer show whit great animation.
The answer is simple TOO expensive and far too little chance of selling any actual toys.
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launchpad25
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| Erikjust wrote: | It has become about making cheap cartoons the faster you can spew them out the better.
Plus its all about the toys, if you canīt sell the toys no need to even bother whit a show.
Why do you think that the Transformer franchise has plummeted to the lvl it is at now and there is absolutely NO chance at all that we will ever see a PG-13 Transformer show whit great animation.
The answer is simple TOO expensive and far too little chance of selling any actual toys. |
Indeed. It's the 80's all over again, but without the fun, or the imagination. Many people in the animation field tend to criticize cartoons from the 80's for being driven by toy sales, and in some cases they're right. But anything that resembles quality is lost in most of these current revivals. (Especially 'Transformers') While others that had great potential died way too soon. ('He-Man', anyone?)
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Erikjust
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| Quote: | | Indeed. It's the 80's all over again, but without the fun, or the imagination. Many people in the animation field tend to criticize cartoons from the 80's for being driven by toy sales, and in some cases they're right. But anything that resembles quality is lost in most of these current revivals. (Especially 'Transformers') While others that had great potential died way too soon. ('He-Man', anyone?)) |
Donīt forget the 90īs either there was some great Cartoons there too.
But as you say a lot of those cartoons ended far too quickly, or their reputation was destroyed by a crappy sequel (beast machines anyone?)
Let take Transformers Beast Machines, back to cybertron at last and whit a package such as Transformers Beast Wars it had the best possible site to lunch from as it was possible.
But what happen suddenly HASBRO got a little to big and decided to change far to much whit this new show the result DISASTER.
Most TF fans today HATE Beast Machiness and whit good reason, in fact most fans just want to forget that beast machines ever happened.
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