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Generational gaps in television
So the net is chock-full of people reminiscing over 80's shows, and even though a lot of them sucked, people are still fondly attached to them and they get a lot of love through revivals. I grew up in the 90's and early 00's era, so I got to see a lot of those revivals, but there were a lot of good cartoons and some not-so-good, but nostalgic ones. After that era, I'm pretty sure there are still some good cartoons around, but at this point, I can't really get into them anymore, so I often wonder what the kids of the later 00's and 10's are interested in or what media will define those in the future.
And yes, just media this time because it gets a lot more complicated when you factor in political/social issues, though I don't mind if the thread direction goes that way.
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Honestly, I'd say that there are some quite good cartoons out there these days.
--imagine a lengthy pimping rant about superhero cartoons--
Every era has good and bad things. Pretending any era is inherently superior is dumb.
And as social/political stuff goes I don't mind people missing transformers as much as I mind people who miss the days when black people had to drink from different water fountains.
I know. When I say I cannot get into them, it's simply because I am no longer a preteen and so children's cartoons don't speak to me in the way they would to that age group. And really, most nostalgic cartoons are only good for that, which leads me to be curious about what's going to be considered nostalgic in the future.
Quite honestly, I've found a lot of children's cartoons these days that speak to me much more than CSI or 24 ever did.
The thing about a good kid's show is that it aims to be entertaining to the adult audience(ie parents who watch it with their kids) as well as the kid's themselves. Doing something like this lets the show retain an older fanbase who can pick up on stuff they missed when they were kids, or just have fun watching it.
As a long-term viewer of that show, I can confirm that you are as likely to find a magical kingdom inhabited by talking ponies as you are a police forensics lab that solves most of its cases, single-handed, in about two days' flat.
On topic, I too really stopped being able to get into cartoons after about my mid-20s at the latest, so it tends to be the 80s and 90s ones I have most fond memories of. Work and other social activities tend to eat into time for watching TV, I suppose.
That, and from random background scribbles in Twilight's house, it appears one of said magical talking ponies legitimately has a better grasp of math and physics than said forensics lab.
Also this.
^^ Yeah, that nailed it. I really enjoy CSI, but some of their science is complete bullshit. My Mum laughs when they do stuff like that "image enhancement" and she knows even less about technology than me. You have to approach the show with a healthy dose of scepticism.
There were a lot of flaws
We can argue that for other properties as well, the lack of realism doesn't make it suck.
I don't think any of us said it sucked
I think Lack of realism isn't CSI's problem so much as Lack of Realism in a world that's supposed to be ours.
i'd say that formulaic plots and boring characters are why CSI sucks.
Yeah, even David Caruso's quips can get boring after a while.
Yeah CSI just kind of blows every dimension, not just the sciencefail.
I admit that I got bored of it a bit before Gruesome left (Some of the episodes just before Warrik died were bizarre and seemed to jump the shark. ESPECIALLY the dear in a ballerina's outfit)
This needs that image of the Ordo Hereticus official stamp with "Heresy" on it.
I don't watch it as regularly myself since Grissom left and they started reducing the role of my namesake (I thought). They were/are the best characters. CSI:Miami was always the silliest of the series though - like a particularly unserious comic.
You called?
For the record, I found Caruso annoying after one video.