I think I liked Shortcake and MLP when I was REALLY little, as well as Jem. Never really cared for them past like age 5 though (and even before then I thought Dragontales was better). I was too busy watching shit like Inspector Gadget and Super Friends, or maybe Thundercats and Transformers if I was lucky. The girls in those shows weren't losers, and the guys were cool, so I was a lot more engaged by them.
I haven't seen many for obvious reasons but one that I caught bits and pieces of is the original WITCH animated show. It seems pretty girl oriented and it's animated by a French studio. I'd say it contains some mature elements suited for early teens. Animation style is similar to that of Code Lyoko's.
I remember my little sister used to rent the Rainbow Brite move a ton from Blockbuster, and even as a kid I noticed how dark it got.
Not that Faust herself was actually that good a writer or anything. Apparently some of the dumber ideas (including them fighting a chaos god for the season two opener, and Twilight being trained to be Celestia's "successor") were actually her ideas.
I've seen a few episodes of MLP. Wasn't bad, but not something I'd be interesting in binging.
Exactly.
It’s more of like animators having to know to know who their audience is and how big is that audience for that series to succeed. However, instead of directing children’s cartoons to children, they direct it to themselves and people who act like them (aka manchildren) and they know it but are too egotistical to recognize that as a problem. That is why most children cartoons in Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon nowadays fail because animators are too stupid to see that their audience that they want is a minority and the majority of the audience on a children’s network is children that are not interested in watching their self-inserts. That is why series like Bluey despite being watched by manchildren should still dedicate their future episodes still to children. If you want to add a more mature theme, they have to make it universal and understandable and enjoyable for not just the adult or teen to enjoy, but mainly the child. That is why George Lucas, no matter how much you hate his prequels or not, always intended for Star Wars to be directed to children in episodes I-VI, which is why millions have fond memories of the original trilogy and prequel trilogy. Compare that to the sequels which was made for manchildren who are nostalgic for an old era.
It's still funny how MLP consistently somehow understood Q better than fucking Picard
I hate how a lot of modern Western animation (and anime) tries to appeal to modern pop culture (including Klaus, which I liked), because if there is anything that I wish to be bombarded to oblivion, one has to be Western pop culture, especially if that culture is very Californian/West Coast-based. I wish to see stuff that is periodically unrelatable yet relatable in a humanistic sense, like the 1960s of The Iron Giant and The Incredibles, the old London aesthetic of One Hundred and One Dalmatians, and the Victorian atmosphere of the Corpse Bride.
I feel so bad for a fictional father
this is so cringe because they honestly missed the bandwagon. there are a few people still fighting the robin diangelo fight, but she was only hip like two years ago and the discourse has moved on and now it reads like disney-come-lately desperately trying to be relevant. they bet that in the year it takes to bring an animated episode to completion that she would still be respected and she's not, not even among super wokes.
Gee its almost like animation is a medium you can't use to voice a topical opinion with, because it's a long drawn out process and what's topical and relevant one minute can suddenly change the next.
Admittedly yeah, when he turned good and became more like a stealth mentor, it seriously redeemed his character. But he just did not work as a villain.
Faust wanted to create a more superhero styled show with Milyway and The Galaxy Girls, but was pushed to develop MLP instead. This may explain the capeshit aspect of the show. Funny enough, Faust now makes exactly that, as DC Super Hero Girls is now back under her control for the 3rd rendition since she made the DC Nation shorts. So she was there for gen 1 and 3 of that, not sure about gen 2, but I am guessing no.
