Quote Originally Posted by PwrdOn View Post
I mean, MOTU has always been a pretty vapid franchise, from inception its only purpose was to cobble together as many marketable concepts as possible in order to sell toys, trying to incorporate any meaningful message into the story is always going to feel tacked on. The series is really popular more for its iconography and the chord it strikes with kids' imaginations than any of the actual content they made for it. Oh sure, everyone loves the character designs and theme song and the "by the power of Grayskull!" bit, but the cartoon itself has pretty much always been cheesy and borderline unwatchable.
Yep, like most Saturday morning cartoons of that era there was really nothing to them.

Seriously, the cartoons themselves had no lore no properly developed backstories..nothing. Transformers and G.I Joe got fleshed about by Marvel comics, the cartoons themselves were the equivalent of a 6 year old thinking up stories just to smash their toys together. He-man was particularly nonsensical, there was pretty much nothing in the cartoon. Some of the old stuff is on YouTube for anyone to watch, they’re crap.

Even the Japanese cartoons that were adapted for the American market then were almost completely butchered to remove the adult themes, violence and the likes.

The “poison of nostalgia” is becoming a real thing because geek culture has become mainstream. People now look back at the stuff they enjoyed with rose tinted glasses and can’t even appreciate them for what they were. It’s like the politics in comics argument, you have some folks jumping up and down screaming about how comics didn’t have politics. Which is utterly bizarre considering X-men, Captain America and a lot of comics were explicitly political, we were just too young to understand.