Unpopular Opinions About Western Animation

The Pink Panther said:
Was it because Chuck Jones always turned shit into his own style whereas Freleng always stays in tact while still maintaining his style?
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That was, essentially, Ted Geisel's problem with the Chuck Jones specials. They were clashing a lot on those. Things went more smoothly at DFE.
 
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Trilby said:
It's often said that Friz made the most pedestrian cartoons during his career.
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It's a good thing he had the help of Maltese, Pierce, and Foster for the good majority of his WB career as good writers.

As well as people like Virgil Ross and Gerry Chinquy who did the best with his limited style.
 
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The Pink Panther said:
It's a good thing he had the help of Maltese, Pierce, and Foster for the good majority of his WB career as good writers.

As well as people like Virgil Ross and Gerry Chinquy who did the best with his limited style.
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True!
 
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WinterMoonsLight said:
I like the animated Star Trek series. It looks like ass, but the stories were still on par with the live action series.
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Yesteryear is a seriously good Star Trek episode. The rest are at least no worse than any of Season 3 TOS when it's dumb. There's some nice followups to TOS eps, and even more importantly there's not a whole lot of stuff with the TOS cast doing their thing together so you take what you can get.
Pokemonquistador2 said:
The animated segments were superb. Uncle Remus is a great character, but the rest of the movie is just a bland family drama. I really don't see why people went apeshit over it saying it depicted black people being happy about slavery when it was set after the Civil War. The movie had a naive view of race, but since it was depicting everything through the eyes of a child (who probably wouldn't be able to pick up on serious issues like racial hardship and the subtle fears that governed society,) it seemed fitting.
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Weren't the stories mostly parables about escaped slaves having to rely on wit and cunning to avoid recapture? And to be honest other than "zip-a-dee-doo-dah" I really don't recall anything about the non-animated parts at all. It's been probably twenty years since I got a bootleg VHS of it, and nearly twenty before that when I saw the last revival of the movie Disney did.
 
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Bread Fetishist said:
Is that really all that unpopular?
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Back when it first came out there was a lot of hate, mostly from fans of the “golden age” of Nickelodeon (despite said age being full of clunkers too.) and older audiences who were starting to grow out of the target audience for Nicktoons. It was also criticized for not being as edgy or “adult” as shows like Rocko and Ren and Stimpy. Then you had the Invader Zim fans who accused it of replacing their show (despite Chalkzone technically starting in the 90’s and its production being delayed until 2002, long after Zim was cancelled.)
 
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I've always felt that FlimFlam (Scam Artist from the Thirteen Ghosts of Scooby Doo) and Googie (Shaggy's girlfriend from The Reluctant Werewolf) are actually pretty decent characters who should be viewed in the favorable light that gets shown on the Grimwood Ghouls, Calloway Cadets, and Vincent Van Ghoul. Also I think A Pup Named Scooby-Doo is on par with the live action films and Shaggy and Scooby Doo Get a Clue in being one of the worst things to happen to the franchise
 
8777BB5 said:
Which fucking suckssssssss
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Speaking of Glen Kennedy....

Imagine watching a TMS-animated Tiny Toons episode and then right after, watching a Kennedy Cartoons animated Tiny Toons.

Stark difference in quality. Hare Today, Gone Tomorrow (first Kennedy animated Tiny Toons I watched) took me by surprise at how low quality it was when I first watched it.
 
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The Pink Panther said:
Speaking of Glen Kennedy....

Imagine watching a TMS-animated Tiny Toons episode and then right after, watching a Kennedy Cartoons animated Tiny Toons.

Stark difference in quality. Hare Today, Gone Tomorrow (first Kennedy animated Tiny Toons I watched) took me by surprise at how low quality it was when I first watched it.
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I remember noticing that the first time I was watching the series and paid attention to the credits to notice the studios that were used and saw which ones did the episodes I liked (TMS).
 
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The Pink Panther said:
Speaking of Glen Kennedy....

Imagine watching a TMS-animated Tiny Toons episode and then right after, watching a Kennedy Cartoons animated Tiny Toons.

Stark difference in quality. Hare Today, Gone Tomorrow (first Kennedy animated Tiny Toons I watched) took me by surprise at how low quality it was when I first watched it.
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Shows like TTA and Animaniacs were extremely obvious in how they shows off which studio did which episode (or segment). It's a wonder how or even why they would hire a studio like Kennedy's, AKOM or Freelance Animators New Zealand.
 
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