Alice in Wonderland (the Disney and live-action version) traumatized me as a kid. Watching Slayers retread through it didn't do me any favors. :P
Ha! No, Applejack isn't, but we have Rarity and Spike around for romantic woes, now don't we? And Spike is a baby dragon, so it's pretty weird that he'd be so into a romantic relationship at such a young age... Seriously, what kind of message are they telling young boys? (Throw yourself at the girl you love, even if she doesn't return your feelings? Ignore the girl that actually cares about your wellbeing?)
Honestly, I miss the days when cartoons like Scooby Doo didn't focus on love and relationship drama. Remember when the cartoon used to be about the gang solving mysteries while Scooby and Shaggy ran off to raid the pantry?
I always liked Velma too, but for different reasons. Mainly, that she was smart, and not afraid to flaunt her smarts to solve mysteries. I'm pretty bummed that society as a whole still regards women according to how they look, instead of their intelligence level. That's not an issue the cartoon started, but perpetuates. And with the success of series like Twilight, where it's all about a girl not being able to function without her vampire/werewolf lover, who can blame them? They're riding the wave of dysfunctional relationship societal popularity.
Really, you ought to be horrified that the first season did well enough to even get a second season. Seems the target audience liked what it saw, for better, or for worse.
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Date: 2012-04-19 06:42 pm (UTC)Ha! No, Applejack isn't, but we have Rarity and Spike around for romantic woes, now don't we? And Spike is a baby dragon, so it's pretty weird that he'd be so into a romantic relationship at such a young age... Seriously, what kind of message are they telling young boys? (Throw yourself at the girl you love, even if she doesn't return your feelings? Ignore the girl that actually cares about your wellbeing?)
Honestly, I miss the days when cartoons like Scooby Doo didn't focus on love and relationship drama. Remember when the cartoon used to be about the gang solving mysteries while Scooby and Shaggy ran off to raid the pantry?
I always liked Velma too, but for different reasons. Mainly, that she was smart, and not afraid to flaunt her smarts to solve mysteries. I'm pretty bummed that society as a whole still regards women according to how they look, instead of their intelligence level. That's not an issue the cartoon started, but perpetuates. And with the success of series like Twilight, where it's all about a girl not being able to function without her vampire/werewolf lover, who can blame them? They're riding the wave of dysfunctional relationship societal popularity.
Really, you ought to be horrified that the first season did well enough to even get a second season. Seems the target audience liked what it saw, for better, or for worse.