AG Monday!
This week: cartoons!
When we were kids, Saturday afternoon cartoons were a staple of our popular culture diet. So, too, were weekday afternoon cartoons. Not surprisingly, we liked the really geeky ones that featured science fiction, fantasy, and superheroes. Space Ghost, Macross, The Herculoids, Starblazers, Super Friends, Battle of the Planets, Johnny Quest…These shows shaped our tastes, as well as those of a generation of geeks.
Annoying sidekicks! Too many monkeys! Superheroes in space! Giant robots! Giants in giant robots! A science fantasy world that’s perpetually invaded! Child endangerment! Obscenely expensive merch! It’s all here.
Ancient Geeks is a podcast about two geeks of a certain age re-visiting their youth. We were there when things like science fiction, fantasy, Tolkien, Star Trek, Star Wars, D&D, Marvel and DC comics, Doctor Who, and many, many other threads of modern geek culture were still on the fringes of popular culture. We were geeks before it was chic!
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One I liked was The Galaxy Trio. Not because of the stories, but because one of the trio was a woman. The cartoon was shown in between two eps of Birdman.
I recall seeing plenty of cartoons of the era, but I don’t think I recall many of them or that I thought they were much good at the time. Oh, and many feature what I call Explosive Robot Syndrome. This is when the evil robots blow up when shot or hit in any way.
Kids cartoons these days are vastly different. At least judging by Star Trek prodigy, which I understand was a kid’s show, yet nevertheless was really good Trek.