Just Another Insult
Originally, X-Men debuted as a mature comic-book. An intelligent take on meaningful fantasy that I may compare even to Watchmen.
It was then made into an ANIMATED series, whose visual style, story-arch and character design was very much faithful to the original works.
It's true, that it was marketed to teenagers, but it had that 90's style to it, which gave it credit as art.
Gradually, though, as the world changes, so do the people, and so does the demand.
In 2001, a new X-Men series began. This time, the X-Men are teenagers themselves, and they have to rival and tuffle as such.
However, the artistic faithfulness was mostly in tact, with the artwork, voice acting, etc.
The X-Men movies were both good and bad.
On the bad side, they weren't quite as faithful. They, too, had the smear of big-box-office comedy movies. The casting wasn't nearly as good, and the plots were a bit silly.
On the good side, it put Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart together, as friendful adverseries. Nothing could do the series more justice.
In 2008, a new show came about called Wolverine & The X-Men.
It had the reek of a saturday-morning cash-cow spin-off, but oddly, it was more faithful to the 90s cartoon than anything before it.
It was truly sad that the show was cancelled due to financial issues, even though it was very lucractive. Very odd, as well.
Around all these decent shows, and around the cancelling of Wolverine & The X-Men, a bunch of other shows came around which no one expected.
I'm talking about the pseudo-Saturday-morning kid's shows, which are not ANIMATED shows, but full-fledged CARTOONS and are targeted at small children.
This is where it gets insulting.
Because of the intellectual decline of society ever since the millenium, every piece of entertainment now proactively targets its potential audience on THEIR level.
That means that comedies are stupid because only stupid people watch them.
And, unfortunately, it means that kids shows are.. made for KIDS. That is to say, they are made to be radically infentile, lacking any bit of cerebral challenge.
They are created to keep whoever is watching from watching anything else.
"The Super Hero Squad Show" is one these monstrosities.
It's an X-Men: Babies show, or X-Men kids.. but with more super-heroes laid on top, such as the Hulk, a creative, interesting enigma in the films, reduced to a retarded puppet for the amusement of toddlers, and soon.. small children who grew up from those toddlers and were never challenged by anything, never expected or had the ability to want something better.
I've been reading the posts on this board, and it seems like everyone is more concerened with being "politically correct" (as expected) than denouncing a show that is bad for being bad.
It sickens me that 24-28 year-olds with small children, the people who were of age to watch the great animated shows of 90s, could treat their offspring to such utter garbage.
Make no mistake, this isn't about ME and my dislike for this show.
It's about you, about your kids and about SOCIETY as a whole and the sewer it has plumetted down to.
This show is both a mockery to cinema and entertainment as whole - what would you think of a "Lost: Kids" show, recreating the entire series.. for kids? - and the proof of our society downslide into intellectual feces.
I pray (Atheistically) that you all stop watching this nonsense and give your kids something meaningful to watch, like the original X-Men series.. or any 90s cartoon.
Im ashamed to say I would spred my legs so fast it would cause a sonic boom -Nweishashare