...I had nothing to talk about. How about that!
Even so, since I dream of becoming a writer I need to accustom myself to writing a certain amount of stuff in a certain amount of time, but I also need to write sincerely because I have something to write about, instead of just randomly blabbering. This means I need to combine the two systems above. How am I supposed to do that, you ask? Well, surprisingly I found the answer pretty quick: I just need to go out often and get an inspiration to write! Simple. But not that easy, especially since I'm a slave of a very cruel mistress named LAZINESS! :(
Still, I actually do have something to talk about today, so yeay, a topic! :)
Now, I was born in the early 1990s. People my age whose family owned/owns a television and subscribed to several famous international channels should know what I'm talking about when I mention Catdog, Aaahh!!! Real Monsters, 2 Stupid Dogs, Hey Arnold!, Yakkity Yak, Rocko's Modern Life, The Angry Beavers, and more. These are some of the 90s cartoons that I used to watch and love, and I know for a fact that a lot of other people around the world share my sentiments. Then
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Ahh yes. Good times. Good times. Boy, I'm getting such a premature midlife crisis here.
What's that? What am I trying to say here? Oh right, I need to explain this. Ahem! OK, so basically, the cartoons I mentioned above are old cartoons. By "old", I mean they were at the top of their game (most of them, anyway) during the late 1990s to the early 2000s. All of these cartoons, as far as I know, were aired on either Cartoon Network, Disney Channel, or Nickelodeon, and most of them have either finished their run or were canceled, with only a few of these cartoons airing reruns nowadays and even then on obscure time slots.
Personally to me these old cartoons were great! Some of them, like Samurai Jack, Xiaolin Showdown and Kids Next Door, were beyond great that they reach the level of pure awesomeness! :D And again, I know for a fact that a lot of people in my generation (that is, the kids of the 90s) think the same. To us, these cartoons were some of the best TV shows ever! They were our loyal companions throughout our childhood; always there even when the bullies have taken all our lunch money, the teachers unfairly giving tons of homework, and the parents grounding us for no logical reason. OK, maybe not everyone experienced those but I hope you get my point. Basically, these cartoons were our not-so-imaginary friends, and they stick with us through the good times and bad. Recently, I've been going through the opening themes of all of these cartoons on a certain video-sharing website (it's YouTube), and MAN IS NOSTALGIA POWERFUL! :'") Seriously, taking a walk down memory lane is frightening in that it could make you feel really sad and really happy at the same time. I know that times change and all, but if I could I'd wish I could watch these cartoons all over again. Just to waste my lif - I mean, just for old times' sake.
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However, if you have ever been to YouTube, you'll know that all videos have a "comments" section. This can be disabled at the uploader's leisure, but the vids for the opening themes of these old cartoons that I watched still had their comments. And the majority of those comments are something along the lines of "the cartoons of the old days/90s were the best" or "cartoons today suck; kids don't know what they're missing" or "[insert profane curse here] Cartoon Network/Disney/Nick for canceling these shows!" and a lot more stuff that you can find on your own. Now, not that I disagree with the general public on this matter, but in my opinion, people need to start growing up. I loved these cartoons too, believe me I do and will always do, but they've passed and we need to move on. Yes, I know today's cartoons don't match up to the old ones, and yes, I know what the kids of today are missing, but don't you think that's a relative thing? By that I mean it's a matter of personal preference. What kind of cartoons we like is just what we like, and that means other people, the younger generation in particular, don't have to like what we like. We of the 90s need to let the past go here, people! Things change and that change isn't necessarily always up to our personal standards, but they might be the peak of excellence to other people, or in this case, people of another generation.
Also, this is something that's been on my mind for quite a while. Don't you think that these cartoons were so great to us because we grew up with them? I mean, when we're still young, we absorb things much quicker than when we're grown-up, and also we tend to take in the things we see and hear and incorporate it into our own points-of-view. I don't know about you, but to me this means that the cartoons we of the 90s love are loved by us partly because they were aired when we were young enough to be impressed by them, not necessarily because of good quality. In retrospect, I'd call a lot of the above cartoons pretty stupid and nonsensical, but I'd still watch them nonetheless because of sentimental reasons. Do you understand what I'm saying? By extension, it means that the kids of the mid-to-late 2000s (2005 and after) will love many of the cartoons they're growing up with and will presumably hate the newer cartoons that will come out after they've reached adolescence in much the same way as we hate the cartoons of today. If you doubt me, then try to find people of the older generation, like our parents or uncles and aunts, and ask them what they think about our cartoons. The way I figure, not a lot of them will say they liked it, or even understand what it's supposed to be about. That's because they had different means of entertainment when they were young, and those aren't necessarily better or worse than our form of childhood entertainment. That also explains why a lot of old people like to shove "when I was your age..." stories down our ears so much: because, when they were our age, they saw, heard and did things that are sentimentally still attached to them. Now I hope you get my point.
In conclusion, I would just like to say that, first of all, I think I'm a terrible blogger, 'cause I don't write about stuff that good nor do I write often D: And second, about old cartoons. Remember: we of the 90s love them so much because we grew up with them, and the generations above and below us like different things because they grew up with something else. That something else might not be so bad nor good, but in general we just don't like them because they weren't our not-so-imaginary friends from way back when.
