[Zbu Manowar]

I've been watching GI Joe on Saturday Nights and so far it's proved superior to a lot of cartoons today. Sure, it's not fucking gold and a few of the episodes were obviously written in a day to get past the whole Joes/Cobra angle...but come on, just because they were crudely animated doesn't mean they suck as much ass as most of the toons today.

Let's face it: what made Joes and Transformers and Thundercats wasn't the animation values, it was because the people who wrote this had a good sense of dramatic license and knew how to tell a good story (even if the voices didn't portray it) or knew how to make it all seem real. Today's cartoons look like they're written by a group of mothers with a vague handle on what appeals to children and a less grasp on the drama of it all. To them, conflict is something that could be talked over and about...which is a pretty damn naive thing to tell children.

So, in short, cartoons back then were great because they saved all the unimportant educational shit for the end and one line instead of shoveling it up kids's asses during the whole fucking thing.