![]() ![]() ![]() People had the chance to watch the show, it didn’t get the viewership it needed, it got cancelled, and now the property is trying a new approach to see if it works. So when people wish that Thundercats Roar looked more like the 2011 reboot, it doesn’t make a difference. People didn’t tune in to watch the 2011 reboot, so it was cancelled for low viewership. Fact of the matter is, if people actually watched the 2011 reboot as it aired, then we wouldn’t be in this position. Another reason people have decried Roar is that visually, it’s a massive downgrade from the 2011 series and that its anime-inspired visuals were infinitely superior to the goofy and loose animation of Roar. It’s more appropriate to compare it to Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends, a hyperactive and often annoying kids show about a group of different creatures living together that I watched all the time growing up.Īnd speaking of the 2011 reboot, let’s talk about that just for a quick minute. Not only that, but it isn’t great to compare Teen Titans Go! to Teen Titans really since they’re both completely different shows in terms of themes and intents. And yes, because I just need to remind everyone of this, these shows are aimed at CHILDREN, not adults. I wouldn’t call it good, but it has enough stupidity to make it enjoyable for young kids and has a few clever moments in it. It was more focused on showing off the fun villains and using them to explore each of the core Titans and develop them into true heroes.īut, and I can’t believe I’m doing this, Teen Titans Go! isn’t as horrible as people have made it out to be. Teen Titans Go! is clearly aiming for a younger demographic and is focused on being a comedy, while the original series has a bunch of comedic episodes, but comedy wasn’t the focus of the original series. Comparing Teen Titans to Teen Titans Go! is hardly fair, seeing as how one show I grew up with and one show I saw only a single season of, but the quality between the two series is shocking. So in a complete stroke of luck, I’ve actually been rewatching all of the 2003 Teen Titans when this whole scandal broke out. Does any of that matter for the overall quality of a show? Absolutely not. Samurai Jack, Powerpuff Girls, Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends, and The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy all were big hits on Cartoon Network, but they had different visual designs to them. Did cartoons on Cartoon Network a decade ago all sport different visual designs to separate themselves from each other? Again, yeah, they did. They share a lot of visual similarities and it’s hard to deny that. All you need to do is look at this picture just to get what people are talking about with the CalArts style.ĭo cartoons nowadays look very similar to each other? Yes they do. Most of the biggest cartoons sport the same character designs, facial animation, and are generally indistinguishable between one another. Essentially, people are saying that a majority of cartoons nowadays looks like cookie cutter copies of each other because one of the biggest animation colleges in America, CalArts, teaches future animators one method of creating cartoons, then funnels them off to studios to homogenize the American animation industry into one singular style of animation. A bunch of animators and fans online have decried Thundercats Roar not just because it’s a revival of Thundercats, but because it has an animation style referred to as the CalArts Style. They both are trying to appeal to the same demographics, but one is clearly not as destructive as the other.įirst thing’s first, we should probably address the elephant in the room. A movie like The Secret Life of Pets may be a silly kids movie, but it at least is not as toxic to a child’s development as The Emoji Movieis. The difference is how those products are marketed and whether or not they’re even good for kids. Not every show has to be a super serious show that challenges both adults and kids, just as not every show has to be a dumb comedy that kids can laugh and reference with other kids. There can be a balance between the styles of kids’ shows. I always advocate for animation and stories that challenge and teach kids valuable lessons as well as entertain them with goofy and dumb fun. I’ve always been a big proponent of animation of what kind of shows/movies kids watch. Cartoon Network has pretty much gotten under the skin of anyone that had access to a keyboard that grew up watching the channel in the late ’90s and early 2000s. People have insulted the show for pissing on the legacy of the original series, how much worse modern kids shows are compared to the ones we grew up on, and how American animation has become nothing but garbage. For the past couple of days, my newsfeed on Facebook has been ablaze with people talking about the new Thundercats TV show, Thundercats Roar, and none of it has been positive.
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