Posted by Kane
on 2/26/2009, 1:10 pm, in reply to "Re: Question about hypothetical series"
C'mon, Tann, this is Sean we're talking about. 
I give Sean more credit than that. He wouldn't make it lame. I trust his sense of what the fandom wants. I have total faith in him. 
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: Okay, first off, are we assuming these are the same kids from
: the 1980’s? If so, they wouldn’t be in their twenties “if the
: kids grew up in real time with us fans” — they would be in their
: forties and late thirties. If these are the same kids, but as if
: they had been made for a contemporary cartoon, I myself would
: prefer to see them at the same ages that they were in the
: original series; I don’t see why the particular group of fans
: who are in their twenties now should be more catered to than any
: other generation. Now, as to the ratings, I personally would
: loathe an R-rated series, because they were never R-rated type
: characters in the first place, nor were they ever the kind of
: low-class kids who strewed their conversations with “d—ns” or
: “s—ts” (I will defend this opinion with fire and sword); it
: would not be “realistic” to depict them that way, but mere
: pandering to a regrettably adolescent idea of what “adult”
: means. I strongly deprecate the idea that an adult-oriented
: series is one adorned with obscenity, profanity, gratuitous
: violence, and mindless sex. An adult show should deal with
: ideas , not body parts.
:
: That Dungeons & Dragons in its original form could deal
: with serious subjects is proven, I think, by episodes like “The
: Dragons’ Graveyard,” in which (despite the existence of the
: network censors) the question of whether one can use the enemy’s
: methods without becoming like him is very well handled. Who
: needs potty-mouth when he actually has something to say?
:
: On the other hand, yes, there was far too much childishness,
: particularly early on in the series. (Cloud Bears, anyone? Da
: Giant Wid Da Brooklyn Accent?) I am not sorry that cartoons now
: are not, as in the Eighties, quite so badgered by educational
: “experts” who worried that the idea of COBRA agents being blown
: up would incurably scar little Billy’s and Susie’s psyches. (
: Jonny Quest never worried about that; Race Bannon blew away
: commies and Arab nationalists with the most impenetrable
: sang-froid . What’s a corpse or two among friends?) One hopes
: never again to see Filmation-style morals tacked onto the end of
: cartoons (“In this episode, Skeletor showed that you should
: never leave a campfire burning unattended…”). For myself, a
: level of sex and violence of, say, Batman: The Animated Series
: — or perhaps even a little higher — would seem about right.
:
: On the OTHER other hand, though, I would hate, loathe,
: despise, and abominate anything imitating the Nipponese scale of
: brutality and copulation. I say, leave that to the barbarians
: who have no sense of characterization, plotting, or style to
: disguise the complete lack of anything of interest in their
: loathsome anime . Western animation has always risen above
: that, even from the days of Gertie the Dinosaur , and I hope it
: shall never sink to that dehumanized level.
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: Tann
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