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Probably true, but honestly I don't think kids care nearly as much about super heroes as we did (do). I really think there is something to these recent observations that there is simply too much entertainment to choose from. 24 hour cartoon channels. Notice the plural. We had Saturday morning. The toy aisle and Toys "R Us. We had the Sears and Montgomery Wards catalogs. And that's not even mentioning this little tool we call the internet.
Justice League and JLU were great. I still break out the DVDs from time to time.
I think the stories were better in the first two seasons ("Legends", "Hereafter", "The Savage Time" and the stuff with the Justice Lords), but it was still just as fun when it went to the expanded cast of League Members.
>I don't think kids care nearly as much about super heroes as we did (do).
I think, ina way, this was a big problem. As a non-superhero fan (even as a kid) I gota say the shows were okay but not great. The biggest kick seemed to be spotting all the old stuff they snook in. If you're not a silver-age fan most of it was lost on you.
Sometimes you have to take control of the remote, and make those little guys watch super heroes like I do! I can only take so much of Spongebob, Fineaus and Ferb, I Carly, and Zack & Cody. Man, I'm kind of embarrased that I remembered the names
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Probably true, but honestly I don't think kids care nearly as much about super heroes as we did (do). I really think there is something to these recent observations that there is simply too much entertainment to choose from. 24 hour cartoon channels. Notice the plural. We had Saturday morning. The toy aisle and Toys "R Us. We had the Sears and Montgomery Wards catalogs. And that's not even mentioning this little tool we call the internet.
Don't forget about comic books! I think b/c most of us had maybe 7 channels, and actually had a to a whole week for the next ep of our favorite shows, we would read comics. Today it seems like "graphic novels" (as they've come to be called ) are more for the geeky adults than for the kids. Who needs to read comic books when you have cable, DVDs, internet, cell phones not to mention endless after school activities like karate and soccer?
I really feel bad for the kids today.
"Do you believe, you believe in magic?
'Cos I believe, I believe that I do,
Yes, I can see I believe that it's magic
If your mission is magic your love will shine true."
>Today it seems like "graphic novels" (as they've come to be called ) are more for the geeky adults than for the kids.
Pretty much. This one comes around all the time and it made me think of the Wii. The "serious" gamers hated it, but normal people loved it and it took off. Superhero comics need something like that. Tragicly, they've become hideously intellectually inbred since the late 80's.
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