for real, grave! i wasn't that into beast wars when it first came out, but started watching the episodes on VHS a couple years later, and it was actually pretty good. especially in the later seasons.
There are probably more children in the cartoons because executives honestly think that kids can't relate to non-human characters. Yeah, that's why when you ask kids who their favorite characters are from such shows they're almost never the children they're supposed to be relating to.
And they wonder why Beast Wars (Beasties on this side of the border...stupid arbitrary rules) did so well despite having no human characters at all.
shit, jer...are you reading my notes over my shoulder?
here's some fun PJ trivia: it's no mystery that Jer (the PowerJeff version and the Real Life version) has an affinity for the transformers. the whole jer-bot arch was written as amends for jer being the fartmutant for so many years. and us being real life friends, i learned WAY more than the average person about transformers and their various incarnations and what was the pure essence and what was bastardization. and just looking at where they've taken the story line from a "silly children's cartoon" over the past 25 years, leaves me scratching my head......when the original concept worked so well, why change everything? why is there no justice in the cartoon world? why keep adding little kid characters into the story for no fucking reason....even in "animated"?!? are kids entirely unable to relate to the story unless there is a human kid? hogwash!
i'm ranting again........
json at 7:37PM, April 19, 2010
for real, grave! i wasn't that into beast wars when it first came out, but started watching the episodes on VHS a couple years later, and it was actually pretty good. especially in the later seasons.
The Gravekeeper at 10:30AM, April 19, 2010
There are probably more children in the cartoons because executives honestly think that kids can't relate to non-human characters. Yeah, that's why when you ask kids who their favorite characters are from such shows they're almost never the children they're supposed to be relating to. And they wonder why Beast Wars (Beasties on this side of the border...stupid arbitrary rules) did so well despite having no human characters at all.
json at 12:58AM, April 18, 2010
shit, jer...are you reading my notes over my shoulder? here's some fun PJ trivia: it's no mystery that Jer (the PowerJeff version and the Real Life version) has an affinity for the transformers. the whole jer-bot arch was written as amends for jer being the fartmutant for so many years. and us being real life friends, i learned WAY more than the average person about transformers and their various incarnations and what was the pure essence and what was bastardization. and just looking at where they've taken the story line from a "silly children's cartoon" over the past 25 years, leaves me scratching my head......when the original concept worked so well, why change everything? why is there no justice in the cartoon world? why keep adding little kid characters into the story for no fucking reason....even in "animated"?!? are kids entirely unable to relate to the story unless there is a human kid? hogwash! i'm ranting again........
Jason of Powerjeff at 11:22PM, April 17, 2010
Are you back in school again, Jer?
drunkenpaladin at 6:13PM, April 17, 2010
Whatever universe he's in, it must bastardize the physics of material strength and modulus almost as much as the last one.