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
Appreciate the list, but I think the assignment was how do they hold up rewatching them as an adult…
Inspector Gadget. Ooof. Did not age well
Mysterious cities of gold and Real Ghostbusters 👌👌
Edit: to clarify, i mean the don adams cartoon series of Gadget.
I was probably a bit harsh - it’s not designed for an adult mind in any way shape or form, which is fair enough.
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.
Two years ago when I had cable there was a channel that showed old He-Man episodes. They came on around midnight so I would stay up to watch. The animation style is looser and very experimental, which I remembered, but I really enjoy how rough and non-commercial it is. Reminds me of the Dungeons and Dragons cartoon in its fantasy style.
The only catch was it was in Spanish but I don’t think it lost much. Plus since the dialogue is simple, I could practice deciphering. All and all was fun to watch again.
The animation style is looser and very experimental, which I remembered, but I really enjoy how rough and non-commercial it is.
I get what you’re saying and I agree, but it’s kind of funny because the cartoon was literally created to promote sales of the toy. They still had creative freedom though because the toy didn’t start with a backstory
Really? I mean I know they did that in the 80’s but this was a wild bet in 1983 when it aired…
The Mattel company released the first wave of the Masters of the Universe toyline in 1982. After the Federal Communications Commission relaxed its ban on toy-based children’s programming, Mattel decided to commission a cartoon to promote their toyline.
Holy shit. I was such a dopey kid.
Samurai Jack. Still awesome.
