Orange Lightning

I wouldn't know and I don't care. Besides who gives a shit if he's Jewish or not.

See for yourself: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FA57H6/ref=pd_lpo_k2_err_k2a_3_img/102-8391425-4572962?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=130 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FA57HG/ref=pd_bxgy_img_b/102-8391425-4572962?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=130 July 25... I'm waiting patiently now. Anyone else jizzing with excitement over this? Animaniacs is, to me, the funniest, most intelligent "children's" cartoon ever made. Today's kid's cartoons just don't hold a candle to it.

Am I the only one who absolutely hates that animated movies and TV shows nowadays have all reverted to using digital techniques instead of hand-made techniques? It's taken the art out of animation. And not just with anime, but with American cartoons as well. They're all too crisp nowadays, and I hate that. I personally like a little bit of dust on the film in my cartoons. Gives it a more "authentic" look. Besides that, now that cartoons are all digital, they cost so much less to make that we now have a HUGE load of crappy cartoons being made. It's like anyone can get a cartoon made nowadays because they cost so little to make. Back in the day, when cartoons were still hand-made and animated on cels, companies had to be very careful and picky about what cartoons they gave the go-ahead to, because otherwise it'd be a major waste of money. That's why we got superb shows like Batman: the Animated Series and Animaniacs, that were inteligent, mature, and clever. Now, we get bullshit like Spongebob Squarepants, which thrives on not making any sense, or crap like Yu-Gi-Oh, which only exists to sell merchandise. When I look back at the cartoons I watched as a kid (such as the aforementioned Batman and Animaniacs), I look back with a sense of pride, because those shows were, and still are, amazing peices of animation. They were inteligent, and didn't treat the mostly-child viewerbase like they were idiots. I can go back and still watch those over and still enjoy them, not because of a sense of nostalgia, but because they are genuinely entertaining. When today's generation of kids look back at the cartoons they watched as a kid, they'll have nothing but disgust, thinking "why the hell did I ever like that?", much in the same way I look back at Thundercats. I attribute this regression in animated entertainment to the digitalization of today's animation. If it's cheap, a company will make it. Why put the effort into making timeless, inteligent mini-films, when you could just as easily make cheap, childish rubbish with so much less effort? Makes sense from a business standpoint, and therein lies the problem. Nothing is original anymore, nothing is creative anymore, and it's all because animation costs less to manufacture since it's become all-digital.