Oh, the Suck Fairy. That bitch has gotten into so many books I used to love, Spellsinger and pretty much everything else by Alan Dean Foster, Redwall, Hitchhiker’s Guide, Piers Anthony…
You suck, Suck Fairy!
I’ve found my opinion on shows to change multiple times as I get older. When I was a child, I watched the old Adam West Batman show and I loved it. By 1989, at the ripe old age of 13, I decided those old shows were lame and couldn’t figure out why I liked them. I was probably in my 30s when I reassessed Adam West’s Batman and decided to appreciate for what it was. It was good campy fun.
I first watched it as an adult, and didn’t have a problem with it. I thought it was a decent episodic show.
Great theme songs, though!
The Myth books hold up better than other things by Asprin, though even the Myth books went way downhill after the first few. The graphic novel adaptations by Phil Foglio of the first few are better than the books and hold up.
Considering almost all the action/adventure shows in the 80s were animated in Japan (although Tokyo Movie Shinsa shows seemed to have the best quality), I wonder what you would consider good 80s animation not done in Japan. Filmation? Hanna-Barbera? Saturday morning network shows with a fraction of the budget of the syndicated toy advertisement shows?
And Julie Newmar.
I quite like Filmation. I know there was a lot of use of stock footage and recycled cels, but the lines were bold (not like the grainy ones coming out of many Japanese studios), the backgrounds were very well done, the colors were bright and varied (especially in “Bravestarr”), and there was a clear in-house style with characters with distinctive facial features.
McGyver is still pretty watchable, with a dose of nostalgia to help. A little naive, a little cliched, but hey, it was 35 years ago. Way better than Knight Rider etc.
1: One of the movies that really scared me when I was a kid was Puppet Master. I rewatched some of the best scenes and, though some of them are creepy, they’re mainly funny now.
2: For some reason, songs and intro videos of kids’ TV shows can still get me. I get flashes of myself in childhood and it awakens the same state of mind as I had then. I’m finding myself being as impressed by the TMNT intro as when I was a kid.
TMNT?
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Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles!
Well, in the UK (and SA, for some seasons), anyway.
I KNEW it! Loved that series as a teenager. Came back to them a few short years later and, not as good.
I would like to give his book “Steppe” another try though. I only ever read it once, but the idea of teaching history via a gigantic, society defining, modernized, interstellar, reenactment has stuck with me ever since.
Yes, there were a lot of plot holes, as I remember it. But the basic idea, I wonder if it would make a good movie
I read the hell out of R.A. Salvatore’s Drizzt novels in my early 20s. I imagine I’d find them incredibly cliched and lazy today.