Unpopular Opinions About Western Animation

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Archer is the only adult animated show to go from strength to strength, with the exception of Season 5, while swapping locations, lore and writing staff.

Season 6 and Post-coma (latest seasons) Archer are as good as the OG seasons, which can't be said for Southpark, Simpsons, American Dad, Family Guy.

On that, I prefer the hand-drawn jank of OG family guy and simpsons vs the clean, crisp, digital look.
 
TVB dijo:
ftfy. Futurama is still bad. American Dad is still consistent with quality, though I do agree that it has also declined in quality for years since the TBS move
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Unpopular opinion: Futurama went to shit in season 5 and 6, but season 7 (the one where they travel backwards through time) was a fun season. It was less trying to get the characters to have some emotional break-through and more "let's put fry and bender in different situations and see what happens".

The writers understood the strengths and flaws of the characters and had fun with it. I haven't seen the newest seasons.
 
Mexican_Wizard_711 dijo:
Wouldn't that be Seth MacFarlane
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No. While Family Guy and American Dad are two of the most iconic animated shows, he's not seen as an actual animator but more of a TV writer and actor, a mainstream jazz musician and a businessman, being adult animation's own Illumination or even the modern day equivalent to Hanna-Barbera. However, whether or not he is responsible for ruining adult animation is up for debate.
 
IdaRita dijo:
A few more:
- Call me hipster, but I really preferred when cartoons were less popular among adults and teenagers. People who liked them were more of genuine passionats, now western animation fandom became more and more like anime fandom and everybody knows how fucked up anime fandom is. When I was younger I wished for cartoons to be more popular and respected and now, when it became reality I regret that. I guess I'm just not fandom person. And the most popular thing is the more mad people get interested in that.
- I never considered Disney films dumb or sacharinne and find Disney Princess stereotype unadequate and 90% based on pre-war Snow White. I'm also a bit worried for modern Disney to became too willingful to fight this stereotype and for example completly avoid male love interest in movies, because "princesses are not independent then" or something. Of course it's only my small fears, probably not true.
- More historical cartoons or cartoons based on literature works would be nice. They were popular in Europe in 80-90 but seem to be dead now. As history enthusiast I like almost all series I watched from that "genre".
- Second season of Mysterious Cities of Gold was not that bad, season 3 seem to be really, really good based on leaked information and this is a series when continuation after years/rebood actually makes sense - continuation was planned from the beggining.


I agree.
Also darker =/= better/more mature.
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as an anime and western animation fan growing up i really do miss when it didn't feel like much of a community. Even early internet you saw the buddings of the consequences of things becoming more mainstream and eventually you fast forward into the drab outlook of entertainment in general. The problem is peolpe make it their who personality like just because they like Naruto or Spongebob they have to scream about it everywhere they go and annoy people.
 
Snake of Diamond dijo:
as an anime and western animation fan growing up i really do miss when it didn't feel like much of a community. Even early internet you saw the buddings of the consequences of things becoming more mainstream and eventually you fast forward into the drab outlook of entertainment in general. The problem is peolpe make it their who personality like just because they like Naruto or Spongebob they have to scream about it everywhere they go and annoy people.
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Avatar fans were, ARE, like that, as well.
 
Lt. H. DuBois dijo:
Morel Orel was Adult Swim's best show. Alot of people including the Execs at the studio said it was just too damn depressing to go on, but it was really clever along with all the heavy shit. And it introduced me to the Mountain Goats which I will always be grateful for
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OP asked for Unpopular Opinions, not objectively correct takes.
 
Wot Zit Too Yah0996 dijo:
Avatar fans were, ARE, like that, as well.
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From The Uncanny Valley dijo:
How can such a "mature" show attract such retarded, brain damaged fans? It is truly a mystery.
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The Cunting Death dijo:
Avatar fans are just Harry Potter fans but with a weeb sensibility.
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Gorillion others dijo:
Legend of Korra was worse.
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It was also ironic that Total Drama fans ended up being more mature than ATLA/TLOK fans in the end, I think. Then again, it's probably because the later seasons (aside from Ridonculous Race, which they didn't chose to do again for some reason) were so lackluster that they drove away fans of the earlier seasons, and Christian Potenza being axed from voicing Chris McLean due to bogus #MeToo accusations didn't help.

Total Drama being a much simpler show also lessened the autism factor, compared to ATLA and TLOK's autism levels.
 
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