Popeye's 90th Anniversary Web Series

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Be thankful you are allowed to die with something of dignity instead of being unceremoniously dredged up and have a stick shoved up your ass to shoddily entertain people who most likely never heard of you.

I dread the point when we can raise the actual dead they'll do similar shit to us.
They got my boy Frankenstein already. Peter Cushing's CGI eyes haunt me. Frankenstein turned into the monster lol. When we're old there'll be new CGI Peirce Brosnan Bond films and shit.
 
I have three answers to offer
1) People appreciate old cartoons in general for their inherent value in the history of animation and thus dislike it when attempts to "modernize" them are made since this is seen as utterly pointless at best (since comedy tastes have moved on so much since the time these cartoons were out that trying to refit them to modern times would change most everything thats endearing about them) and cheapening the brand at worst

2) People really fucking hate cheap ass early 2000s flash animation as a matter of principle

3) Latin america. Seriously those fuckers are as obsessed with old murican cartoons as they are modern jap cartoons

Also, the whole point of Popeye was him coming across someone or something mean, popping a can of spinach and kicking the Christ out of it.
 
Why did they try to make the characters younger?

The whole Popeye-Olive-Bluto triangle was about two older, rough sailors going after a woman who isn't exactly Jessica Rabbit but is attractive to them. But it makes sense for two men who look like this to vie for the love of someone who looks mature and a little plain looking but that was part of its charm.

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In the new show both Bluto and Olive look younger while I'm not even sure how old Popeye is supposed to be. That blonde hair doesn't disguise the fact he still looks like an old man.
 
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