|
Post by BettyNewbie on Apr 4, 2017 13:34:26 GMT -5
Shame you weren't a kid when I was. Oh, don't get me wrong, I love the Internet and all the modern conveniences. However, there are times I wish I could be back in the 1980's again, when I was young. I don't feel that way at all. The 90s were an awesome time to grow up in, especially since it was sort of a renaissance period for animation. It was a GOOD thing that kids were no longer beholden to cheesy Saturday morning cartoons and had options beyond that. Now, the 00s, on the other hand, can go completely screw themselves. Awful decade. I think most of the audience currently watching Charmed are those who discovered it for the first time on Netflix and such, because they were too young to have watched it when it originally ran (don't forget that it's been almost twenty years now since Charmed premiered). Megan, for example, was born during the second season of Charmed (she wasn't alive when Rex and Hannah roamed the halls of Buckland Auction House). No doubt she's one of those people that discovered the show after it had ended its original run. The thing is that most of those people watching the show on Netflix are doing simply that. They watch the show for entertainment value and no more, never really connecting to it on a more dedicated fandom level. That's why the fandom itself is still dying despite so many people bingeing the show on Netflix.
|
|
|
Post by Melinda Halliwell on Apr 4, 2017 13:51:29 GMT -5
I have to admit I watched original Power Rangers as a teenager to and I'm a girl so what can I say.
I liked Tommy Oliver and his relationship with Kimberly.
I think the 90's were a fantastic time for cartoons which I watched a lot of in my teenage years like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, X-Men, Batman, Spiderman, Johnny Quest, Tiny Tunes, Animanics, Captain Planet and original Pokemon to name a few.
I've not seen Charmed on Netflix because A. I don't have it and B. Don't need to see it because it's shown on TV everyday.
I think the kids shows put on back then are much better than what's shown now of course because to me the ones I watched were memorable in terms of storylines and characters which I remember still till this day and made you anxious and excited to get up early in the mornings Saturday and Sunday to find out what happened next or the times you'd stay up late if you had satellite TV watching late night marathons on Cartoon Network, Boomarang or Toonatik.
It's also good having different interests to otherwise life would be very boring in my opinon at least.
|
|
|
Post by adzpower on Apr 4, 2017 16:04:24 GMT -5
Actually I think the 90's cartoons in particular the superhero ones were very well done, good animation, good voice acting, and the storylines were pretty dark for kids shows. Especially the Batman one. Sadly kids shows these days have very much been dumbed down for the audience, I find it pretty insulting but then maybe kids nowadays enjoy that stuff.
|
|
|
Post by Melinda Halliwell on Apr 4, 2017 17:00:27 GMT -5
With all the wrong things going on in the world at the moment TV execs probably think children's programmes need dumbing down obviously.
|
|
|
Post by Tim on Apr 4, 2017 17:17:28 GMT -5
Of course, as I said, no such options existed in my day. It was nice that the kids of your generation got a lot more options that mine did, however, I feel that something special was lost, IMO. Saturday morning was no longer a big deal. I mean if you eat turkey sandwiches every day, Thanksgiving no longer seem so special. Still, I have all the Saturday morning shows I loved on DVD (Superfriends, Land Of The Lost, Space Academy, etc). So whenever I feel nostalgic, I just pop one of them in and suddenly, I'm a kid again in the 1970's/80's, at least for a little while
|
|
|
Post by BettyNewbie on Apr 4, 2017 17:55:32 GMT -5
Of course, as I said, no such options existed in my day. It was nice that the kids of your generation got a lot more options that mine did, however, I feel that something special was lost, IMO. Saturday morning was no longer a big deal. I mean if you eat turkey sandwiches every day, Thanksgiving no longer seem so special. Still, I have all the Saturday morning shows I loved on DVD (Superfriends, Land Of The Lost, Space Academy, etc). So whenever I feel nostalgic, I just pop one of them in and suddenly, I'm a kid again in the 1970's/80's, at least for a little while 90s Nickelodeon made up for it by making Saturday night special. Nothing was lost.
|
|
|
Post by Tim on Apr 4, 2017 23:16:38 GMT -5
You had your cartoon era, and I had mine. Mine was Saturday mornings, yours was Saturday evenings
|
|
|
Post by Squad 51 on Apr 7, 2017 9:49:56 GMT -5
In the GDR, saturday mornings was reserved for school, and only later we got cartoon afternoons, of course more from the East side but the government was already more opened back then. So, it's torn for me. Even Saturday mornings and afternoons. lol
|
|
|
Post by Tim on Apr 7, 2017 11:38:06 GMT -5
Do they show cartoons on Saturdays over there now? Or do the cartoons have their own channels, like they do here in North America?
|
|
|
Post by Squad 51 on Apr 7, 2017 12:44:39 GMT -5
They have their own channels meanwhile. It's really rare now that they show cartoons on a Saturday morning. We've become a copy of the USA in that case.
|
|
|
Post by Tim on Apr 7, 2017 17:20:09 GMT -5
Saturday morning cartoons are pretty much a thing of the past now. Something us old timers can remember fondly.
|
|
|
Post by Tim on Jul 7, 2017 23:33:57 GMT -5
They also had live action show, like my favourite, Land Of The Lost. Here is the opening: Yeah, it's cheesy, but it was made more than 40 years ago, on a Saturday Morning show budget. Still, it was a fun show.
|
|
|
Post by Tim on Aug 22, 2017 0:16:13 GMT -5
Another cartoon I liked, a 1980 one called Thundarr the Barbarian.
For a Saturday morning cartoon of its time (early 80's), this was pretty graphic. I mean MILLIONS must have been killed in the cataclysm that devastated Earth. -how could humanity have been caught unaware by the rogue planet? Long before it got near us, we would have felt the effects (weather going crazy and such). -funny, I don't remember any such cataclysm happening in 1994. -where do all the strange creatures Thundarr and Co. encounter come from. There is no way they could have evolved in just 2000 years. Evolution just doesn't work that fast. I guess they must have mutated from normal animals somehow. -I supposed the wizards and other magical beings Thundarr met were always here. Charmed and Supernatural have shown that such beings could walk among us unknowingly. We humans outnumbered them, so they kept their heads low. No doubt with most of humanity being wiped out by the cataclysm allowed them to become dominant. -most of the episodes had Thundarr and Co. roaming the former United States on horseback. However, one episode finds them in London!? How did they get there? Did the cataclysm cause the British Isles to run into North America?
|
|
|
Post by Jean on Dec 5, 2017 0:01:10 GMT -5
I grew up watching The Flintstones and Scooby Doo. I really do miss Scooby Doo and would love to relive my childhood. But I haven't seen many of the newer ones.
|
|
|
Post by Tim on Dec 5, 2017 0:17:12 GMT -5
Oh yeah, Scooby Doo was a childhood favourite of mine too.
The current generation just doesn't understand that we had only Saturday mornings for cartoons.
|
|