What happened to the TV animation age that slowly started dying by the late 90’s and seem to be worsening as we move on forward. The fantastic animated series we watched when we were growing up has been disfigured by time and devolved into garbage plaguing developing minds with utter nonsense. There was a time when cartoons had not only fantastic animation but also decent stories. There used to be a good deal of animations that educated good moral values to the viewers. Shows like Jetsons, Flintstones, dungeons and Dragons, Bionic Six, muppet babies and many like them imbibed values of the power of family, friends and being united against a just cause. There are a still a good number of animations in the present times that are fantastic and imbibe these values and with beautiful stories and characters like Ben 10, The Saturdays, and fantastic four.
The number of these amazing animations is slowly diminishing. The focus of this blog is notably to point out that the animated series should have evolved and improved with time. Toony is good but where do u draw the line at good toony and extremely warped; sometimes disturbing toony.
We have the amazing duo of Tom and Jerry and then we have the absurd partnership of Cow and Chicken – the age old war between cat and mouse will beat the weird stories concocted by a cow and a chicken born to humans who exist literally from the waist down ( a rather disturbing image to present with no decent explanation to explain the characters ). Computer technology has helped improve animation but most of it has been wasted on the present shows.
Many Cartoons mostly in the 80’s and 90’s had more realistic looks as opposed to their future counterparts. He- man, Thundercats , Bionic Six, G.I.JOE were always considered fantastic till present day as opposed to their future incarnations. Exaggerated styles seem to be the medium toward the modern animation. Hence we see animations like The Misadventures Of Flapjack, Rocko’s modern life, Cow and Chicken, sheep in the city and the list goes on and on - which are look more like a kindergarten child would draw.
Animated series like the very popular Ben10, Juniper Lee, The Saturdays, and Kim Possible is where TV animations should be headed. They maintain a sense of decency in content in all – animation, story and character development. Viewers; not comprising of only kids will always be drawn to these series because they will forever have a timeless appeal as they are meant to be entertaining rather than just disturbing. Animation should stay closer to these lines even if it is experimental rather than working on really twisted absurd inexplicable content.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jetsons
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flintstones
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bionic_Six
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantastic_Four:_World's_Greatest_Heroes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_10
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_and_Jerry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_and_Chicken
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThunderCats
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He-Man
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Marvelous_Misadventures_of_Flapjack
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheep_in_the_Big_City
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocko's_Modern_Life
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Possible
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Life_and_Times_of_Juniper_Lee
