Jacky shan being the biggest for me, found almost all episodes and binged in a few days. I realized the show is actually very formulaic. Bad guys want to collect a number of artifacts, the good guys tries to collect them all before the bad guys and succeeded but then the bad guys get all the artifacts in the end and the good guys have to stop them. This was plot for season 1,3,4,5,6 and with 2 having the most episode but are all filler. I also watche 50 Code Lyoko but got bored, there almost 100 episodes
Obviously those shows weren’t meant to be binged but even then they are repetitive, however with jacky shan i have nostalgia and its still special to me
I watched Batman: The Animated Series recently. Obviously still very good, I think everyone agrees with that. I don’t think I appreciated the uniqueness of art deco Gotham when I was little.
I also watched a few episodes of Animaniacs a while ago, and I definitely did not pick up on some of the jokes in that show when it was first on. :P
PS: what dou think about a lemmy community for talking about cartoons both old and new
I ended up rewatching a few episodes of Thundercats some years ago and it was… not great. Can’t remember too many specifics (I think for one thing the dialog was pretty bad) but it definitely wasn’t really appealing as an adult.
Thundercats! Not great, for sure, but I remember that the same weaknesses were still there in the 80s
Snarf was always insufferable. My idiot brother and I hated Snarf. Why was he not humanoid like the other Thundercats? Why was he a ripoff of Lost-In-Space’s Doctor Smith? Why did he have weird crocodilian qualities? “snarf snarf”
Liono was just one dimensionally dumb. Kit and Kat were clearly there for the littler kids to relate to.
Tigra and Panthro were solid dudes. Cheetara and Pumyra were the closest thing to making me question my sexuality at a tender age. Mumm-ra was great - he had a nice pyramid and flying wrappers. Mumm-ra’s henchmen have probably aged the worst.
Well, transformers holds up better than GI Joe, which holds up better than he-man, and that was the holy trinity back then.
But, the older cartoons held up better than any of those. The old Hanna Barberra, Warner brothers, and Disney stuff works as well on average as it did then. They were awesome back in the eighties, and they’re still awesome.
Samurai Jack. Still awesome.
