When I Was Supposed To Be Served
The current storyline on the webcomic Shortpacked! is about the "remastering" that ABC did to the first season of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers...the exact way done to the first season of Transformers to make "Generation 2" years ago.
Well, the subject creeped to "what fandom defined your childhood?", a question I tried to answer by looking at a Wikipedia Saturday Morning TV schedule from the year before I entered Kindergarten. To my dismay, very very little that year was "new". In fact, the "new" was really the same-old-same-old. Hanna-Barbera and Filmation and Sid & Marty Krofft doing whatever they wanted. Reruns of MGM/WB/Universal short cartoons from the preceding four decades. Animated retreads of past primetime hits/pop culture. Everything I was supposed to be "into" had already been around from before I was born.
No wonder I felt like I wanted something that was my own.
Well, the subject creeped to "what fandom defined your childhood?", a question I tried to answer by looking at a Wikipedia Saturday Morning TV schedule from the year before I entered Kindergarten. To my dismay, very very little that year was "new". In fact, the "new" was really the same-old-same-old. Hanna-Barbera and Filmation and Sid & Marty Krofft doing whatever they wanted. Reruns of MGM/WB/Universal short cartoons from the preceding four decades. Animated retreads of past primetime hits/pop culture. Everything I was supposed to be "into" had already been around from before I was born.
No wonder I felt like I wanted something that was my own.