The Kwiasatz haderach (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} i_muad_dib) wrote,@ 2008-04-20 17:46:00 |
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Good old times
I have gotten a couple of inquiries about my current main icon. It is Captain Flam, AKA Captain Future.
For the last few years I have become retarded and very nostalgic about the cartoons that I watched when I was a kid. Indisputably, I grew up with the best cartoons ever made. Captain Flam was shown on Portuguese TV in the late 70's and I also got to enjoy Future boy Conan (Miyazaki), Goldorak, Astro boy,Chapi-Chapo, Les Mysterieuses Cites D'or (which with each episode gave you 5 minutes about European history and South American culture) , the Once upon a Time series and crapload of others. In the late 80's I came to Canada and had wide access to American TV and 2 PBS stations to which I was often glued. I devoured anything from the Children's Television Workshop like 3-2-1 Contact and Ghostwriter .
That quality is gone and can't even imagine what kids are watching but I do know that they seem dumber than ever. Dunno if I can blame that on the quality of cartoons these days but I must stress, for example, the Once Upon a Time series.
There where 3 that I know of:
Once upon a time Man (which had a kick ass opening)
Once Upon a Time in Space
and Once upon a time Life
These were really well done and tackled science education,space exploration, how the body works and human evolution.
Granted, I have been away from American TV for a while but as far as I know, there is not one mainstream cartoon or TV show outside of PBS that bothers teaching Kids anything. Please, PLEASE correct me if I am wrong...
I have gotten a couple of inquiries about my current main icon. It is Captain Flam, AKA Captain Future.
For the last few years I have become retarded and very nostalgic about the cartoons that I watched when I was a kid. Indisputably, I grew up with the best cartoons ever made. Captain Flam was shown on Portuguese TV in the late 70's and I also got to enjoy Future boy Conan (Miyazaki), Goldorak, Astro boy,Chapi-Chapo, Les Mysterieuses Cites D'or (which with each episode gave you 5 minutes about European history and South American culture) , the Once upon a Time series and crapload of others. In the late 80's I came to Canada and had wide access to American TV and 2 PBS stations to which I was often glued. I devoured anything from the Children's Television Workshop like 3-2-1 Contact and Ghostwriter .
That quality is gone and can't even imagine what kids are watching but I do know that they seem dumber than ever. Dunno if I can blame that on the quality of cartoons these days but I must stress, for example, the Once Upon a Time series.
There where 3 that I know of:
Once upon a time Man (which had a kick ass opening)
Once Upon a Time in Space
and Once upon a time Life
These were really well done and tackled science education,space exploration, how the body works and human evolution.
Granted, I have been away from American TV for a while but as far as I know, there is not one mainstream cartoon or TV show outside of PBS that bothers teaching Kids anything. Please, PLEASE correct me if I am wrong...
