TV/Movies Megathread

[The Larch]

He-Man sucked. I found it boring when I was a kid (but still got the action figures).

I mean every character had like only 4 different animations. It was a terrible cartoon. 

You were already artistically jaded as a kid? 

I had a very weird obsession with He-Man's shitty animation indeed 

You'll now tell me that you also disliked the moralistic lessons at the end of each episode. 

[Valmy]

Damn straight

[celedhring]

Yes, we always switched channel when those came up 

[celedhring]

A forgotten 80s show that I loved was M.A.S.K. I even have some of the tie-in books   

[Syt]

A show that was arguably ahead of its time in terms of story telling and tragically canceled after 21 episodes was Pirates of Dark Water.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirates_of_Dark_Water

[celedhring]

A show that was arguably ahead of its time in terms of story telling and tragically canceled after 21 episodes was Pirates of Dark Water.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirates_of_Dark_Water

Oh yeah that one was awesome. I remember when it was on, it felt so different in a good way.

Incidentally I always kinda envy the current generations. We never had stuff as brilliant and dramatically sophisticated as say, Avatar, when we were children. 

[Barrister]

A show that was arguably ahead of its time in terms of story telling and tragically canceled after 21 episodes was Pirates of Dark Water.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirates_of_Dark_Water

Oh yeah that one was awesome. I remember when it was on, it felt so different in a good way.

Incidentally I always kinda envy the current generations. We never had stuff as brilliant and dramatically sophisticated as say, Avatar, when we were children.

Or even just more basically - as a kid you were excited for Saturday morning cartoons because that was the only time you could watch cartoons!  Now kids can watch cartoons (on demand no less!) any time of day or week.

[Barrister]

Since we're getting nostalgic for old cartoons - did anyone out there watch the 90s very early CGI cartoon ReBoot?  It was about the lives of computer programs inside a computer.  It started out as a very episodic kids show, but within a year or two it suddenly went serialized with an extended story (and got a fair bit darker too).  I wasn't a kid anymore when it came out but I enjoyed it.

I think it was made in Canada so I'm not sure how much more widely seen it was in the world.

[celedhring]

A show that was arguably ahead of its time in terms of story telling and tragically canceled after 21 episodes was Pirates of Dark Water.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirates_of_Dark_Water

Oh yeah that one was awesome. I remember when it was on, it felt so different in a good way.

Incidentally I always kinda envy the current generations. We never had stuff as brilliant and dramatically sophisticated as say, Avatar, when we were children.

Or even just more basically - as a kid you were excited for Saturday morning cartoons because that was the only time you could watch cartoons!  Now kids can watch cartoons (on demand no less!) any time of day or week.

Over here we had cartoons all week long. They started after school so parents could conveniently park us in front of the TV until early evening.

Weekends usually had my favorites though: TMNT, Thundercats, Transformers... Except Dragonball, that was a weekday cartoon and absolute appointment TV until my teenage years.

[celedhring]

Since we're getting nostalgic for old cartoons - did anyone out there watch the 90s very early CGI cartoon ReBoot?  It was about the lives of computer programs inside a computer.  It started out as a very episodic kids show, but within a year or two it suddenly went serialized with an extended story (and got a fair bit darker too).  I wasn't a kid anymore when it came out but I enjoyed it.

I think it was made in Canada so I'm not sure how much more widely seen it was in the world.

Yeah, it was a hit on the Catalan TV. I loved it. As you say it got more sophisticated with time.

[Syt]

Oh yeah that one was awesome. I remember when it was on, it felt so different in a good way.

Incidentally I always kinda envy the current generations. We never had stuff as brilliant and dramatically sophisticated as say, Avatar, when we were children.

The best storytelling was often found in Japanese shows, particularly World Masterpiece Theater which was one of the staples of my childhood and adapted various literary classics:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Masterpiece_Theater

[HVC]

ReBoot was a great show. the early season didn't age well visually though. The pirates of penzance summary is still a great segment

[Oexmelin]

We had a couple of Franco-Japanese efforts - the Mysterious Cities of Gold and Ulysses 31 - which I loved, and which included really meaningful character arcs. After that, all the American cartoons seemed cheap and light fluff.

[celedhring]

Oh yeah that one was awesome. I remember when it was on, it felt so different in a good way.

Incidentally I always kinda envy the current generations. We never had stuff as brilliant and dramatically sophisticated as say, Avatar, when we were children.

The best storytelling was often found in Japanese shows, particularly World Masterpiece Theater which was one of the staples of my childhood and adapted various literary classics:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Masterpiece_Theater

Didn't know that one.

But yeah, when I was 10 something like Dragonball was just wildly more creative and ambitious than any other western cartoon of the time.  Same with other anime shows like Saint Seiya, Captain Harlock or Ulysses 31*, to name other staples from my childhood.

*I think that was partly French.

[Syt]

We had a couple of Franco-Japanese efforts - the Mysterious Cities of Gold and Ulysses 31 - which I loved, and which included really meaningful character arcs. After that, all the American cartoons seemed cheap and light fluff.

Speaking of, the French Once Upon a Time series was very popular in Germany and I still like to watch episodes when I catch them randomly (though the space one was weakest):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_Upon_a_Time...

Really liked Man (world history), The Americas (history of the Americas), Discoverers (inventors and researchers) and Explorers (well, explorers).