morgana
04-04-2003, 12:31 PM
<font color="lime">how many of you get cartoon network?
they've been running reruns of thundercats and gi joe, two of my favorite cartoons from my childhood. i remember running home from school pretending i was cheetarah and fast as the wind. those were the coolest cartoons ever!
and now when i watch them, i...just don't get it. they're so cheesy. the stories that captivated my imagination as a child seem completely unbelievable to me now. i couldn't watch more than a few minutes of an episode before feeling a little depressed.
when do we lose that wonder? are life and experience so horrible that our innocence is stripped away day after day? if this is the cost of adulthood, why do we push our kids to grow up faster every day?
now they're doing remakes of my other favorites: masters of the universe and the transformers. i've watched these remakes with a little indignation. i watch them change the symbol on he-man's chest; once an iron cross, now some unintelligible sigil. i watch the interaction between the male and female characters. everything is treated so differently. where once the women were soft and girl-like, the females are curvier, bustier, sexier...but more butchlike in attitude. i remember teela being almost helpless in the original he-man. now she's a kick ass commander of armies, heaving bosom and all.
when did it become more PC to make female characters sex symbols with attitude? it kind of bothers me. they could have just made her more capable without making her look like a swimsuit model.
i feel old.
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they've been running reruns of thundercats and gi joe, two of my favorite cartoons from my childhood. i remember running home from school pretending i was cheetarah and fast as the wind. those were the coolest cartoons ever!
and now when i watch them, i...just don't get it. they're so cheesy. the stories that captivated my imagination as a child seem completely unbelievable to me now. i couldn't watch more than a few minutes of an episode before feeling a little depressed.
when do we lose that wonder? are life and experience so horrible that our innocence is stripped away day after day? if this is the cost of adulthood, why do we push our kids to grow up faster every day?
now they're doing remakes of my other favorites: masters of the universe and the transformers. i've watched these remakes with a little indignation. i watch them change the symbol on he-man's chest; once an iron cross, now some unintelligible sigil. i watch the interaction between the male and female characters. everything is treated so differently. where once the women were soft and girl-like, the females are curvier, bustier, sexier...but more butchlike in attitude. i remember teela being almost helpless in the original he-man. now she's a kick ass commander of armies, heaving bosom and all.
when did it become more PC to make female characters sex symbols with attitude? it kind of bothers me. they could have just made her more capable without making her look like a swimsuit model.
i feel old.
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