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What if we did away with this kind of reductive analysis altogether and just acknowledge that "good" means different things to different people, and people just have subjective but still legitimate preferences for one thing over another? https://twitter.com/TheEpicDept/status/1303096647912763394
Like what if it's possible to acknowledge that both Teen Titans and TTG are "good", but that they're doing different things, and if you liked what the original was doing, maybe it's valid to be sad that its legacy is being overwritten by a reboot that no longer does those things?
Maybe the issue here isn't if cartoons in one decade are "better" than cartoons in another, but that kids' media in every decade is homogenized as a result of creative timidity and fad-chasing which inevitably leaves large swaths of kids uncatered to
What if we just had a more varied media landscape where the things people liked about previous decades of animation were still being developed alongside the trends of this decade? What if we didn't just go "oh kids don't want that anymore" anytime something new is successful?
I've been begging people to understand that kids, as a demographic, are as complex and varied in their tastes as the adults they turn into and that trying to figure out what "kids" want is as absurd as asking what "adults" want, but it never sinks in for some reason
