My Little... Pony?

[strredwolf]

Okay, I have not watched the latest spin on this. No, I remember watching MLP with much better, conventional American animated style. It kept things nicely sized and in proportion, well within the toy series that Mattel was selling at the time. Here's the original series theme to give you a refresher.

You got to remember, the time I watched cartoons in 1980's or so, they were selling toys related to most of the cartoons. This included MLP, Transformers, and G.I. Joe.

Now, the cartoons return back to the main formula with the added job of being educational. This seemingly causes the artistic style to suffer:

Transformers goes from highly technical, classic Japanese anime to mutated spinoff interpretation. The guy who did "The Batman"? Yeah, that guy who did "The Crapman" did the art style for this one.

G.I. Joe? Went to the movies, the team got cut down, and the specialization went out the window in order to make it live-action. *sigh* This port got forked.

My Little Pony? Okay, I've only seen screenshots. The artwork is MUCH WORSE than the original. This isn't conventional American like the previous version pre-FCC-edict. This isn't Japanese anime ether. This is worse. It's worse than "Crapman" Transformers. It's worse than Homestar Runner. I'm actually having a hard time thinking of anything that sinks lower than this current series, and that includes kindergarden-age kids' fridge art!

And parents now are subjecting their kids to THIS?!?!?

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[strredwolf.livejournal.com]

Home Movies I believe was animated on an RAM-expanded Atari 520ST using it's 16-color 320x200 resolution screen. It was blocky, pixelly but for the place it had in Adult Swim, it worked.

This series of MLP? You can't compare it to Adult Swim's Home Movies because it's supposed to be a kids show. It's supposed to have a certain level of cheesiness that is requires from kids cartoons.

Unfortunately, someone ordered several orders of magnitude too much cheese, and poured it right in. It's TOO cheesy. It not only shows in the artwork, it spews out of the artwork and makes a mess all over. I won't be surprised if I actually watch the show, I'll start farting a third of the way through due to my lactose intolerance, and WILL SOMEONE GET A MOP FOR F***'S SAKE??! IT'S GETTING VELVEETA ALL OVER THE LIVING ROOM FLOOR!

[kesarra.livejournal.com]

What do you really expect from Genndy Tartakovsky? He worked on Power Puff Girls and Dexters Lab.