I would just like to say that being a woman in my early 30s makes me appreciate some of the older and more antique cartoons that are being offered by other networks but lately I've been taken aback by the reaction that some of the 80s and 90s generation kids griping about how we old farts like to remember about our younger years and how our cartoons were much better than the after-generation's cartoons. I am by no means saying that my generation is better than anybody else's generation. I'm saying that my generation of animation is better than the now generation.

Let me just say that the younger generation of kids don't have it quite as good as we did but that's beside the point of this article.







Okay let's get down to the thick of it. I hate cartoon shows that are just one huge half-hour long fart joke but maybe that's just the "old fart" in me. Seriously RJ people. I'm not really that old but I'm 31 and I know what I like.




My gripe about today's animation is that it's poorly executed where the animation is concerned. The voices are even worse and where there's bad animation and bad voice over work a bad cartoon is sure to follow.







I like to watch shows that have some substance and aren't so poorly executed in their animation not unlike the new generation that should get.............




and all the new generation is getting is




I mean what's the point in making things new if the animation is executed so poorly and the voice actors are so bad?

YES I'm afraid that even the Gobots aren't immune from bad animation. I mean it's Sabellia Dern Productions so what do you expect?

As an 80s generation child you would expect to get




And all you get is




This was just a lot of supposed "fan wank" that was done on purpose to make people who are Gobots fans stop complaining. The truth is that the Gobots fans can't stop complaining because of what's been done to their beloved mighty robots. Seriously folks a two year old with a crayon in their hand could draw better than this.

What has 4 Kids Entertainment fan wank done to my beloved Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? They went from being animated like......

To being animated like......




The Transformers aren't safe from fan wank either. Optimus Prime went from being like.........




To being animated like........






The next segment in my article is about the thing I hate the most about today's animation....... THE VOICES! It isn't just the animation that bothers me about today's cartoons but it's the voice actors that come with it. To me that's equally as bad as the today cartoons.







Pokemon, for example, was one of my favourite anime shows of all time. Now because of some chintzing out and squandering,and some contract crap in the form of a "no competition" clause in 4 Kids Entertainment's contracts, it doesn't sound the same anymore.




Another example of bad voice acting is when Meegan Hollingshead left Yu-Gi-Oh to persue other things. They replaced Hollingshead and, well, let me just say that Mai Valentine hasn't been the same since Hollingshead left.

The only cartoon that I can think of that's not that bad is The Batman. In fact I like Batman as much as the next person but take a look at this.







So let's recap.

This is not in any way a gripe about the 2000s generation as a whole but a gripe about the cartoons. Yes my generation, as well as every other generation afterwards had its share of bad cartoons, but noone's generation is better than another one.
I just happen to think that the cartoons that I grew up watching are better to me. Today's cartoons are just not funny, not well animated, and don't have very good voice characterizations.
In short TV today does suck but it doesn't suck entirely. :)

That's it! Take it for what you will younger generations of RJ users. Just take my gripes with a grain of salt. :)