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[darchildre]

So, Beth showed me the Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes cartoon while we were at con and I may have now watched all of it. Possibly. So now there is no more cartoon (alas!) and I went browsing around Netflix to find something else to take its place. And yeah, this is old news, but the 90s Spider-Man cartoon is streaming in its entirety. And the 90s X-Men cartoon.

What you have to understand is that, until I got to college, tv was a thing that only happened on Friday afternoons and weekends. Superhero cartoons did not come on during the weekend - they came on weekdays in the afternoon. That was fine for Batman: TAS (which was my favorite) because it was fairly episodic, with few multipart episodes. But Spider-Man and the X-Men? They sometimes did serialized stuff that expected you to have watched previous episodes. Which meant that I never had a frelling clue what was going on (especially on the X-Men), but I watched them anyway. (I was also often confused by Gargoyles, but that one isn't streaming. And Beth and I watched a good bit of it in college.)

Guys, tell me it is a bad idea to now try to watch these shows in their entirety. I am pretty sure that they are terrible, but my inner 12 year old really kinda wants to do it.

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[scribbled_lore]

The voice acting for X-Men is atrocious and the dialogue doesn't help. I have fuzzy memories of it from when I was younger but when we got Netflix it was one of the first things we watched and it was.. something else. Rogue's dialogue and Gambit's voice don't work for me. Wolverine is Wolverine, Xavier is Xavier.. same for Storm, Jean Grey and Cyclops but for Rogue and Gambit it's not pretty.

Throughout the show I had to keep reminding myself that it's a 90's cartoon, an American cartoon marketed for American children, that it's meant for children and based on values/beliefs that I don't share ... and that's okay - I can love it anyways because Storm! Rogue! Jean Grey! Mystique! Nightcrawler! The possibilities! People can teleport and shapeshift and be blue and furry and it's awesome because they're not from space - they're mostly normal people. And the intro song? I have a Pavlovian response to hearing it even to this day.

If you can take it with a silly stride then I think it's worth watching. I like to include liberal amounts of liquor when watching it myself. (At least after I sat through the first 3-4 episodes sober.)

[darchildre]

I watched the first couple episodes last night. And yes, they are kind of awful (OMG, Gambit, what the hell?) but also kind of amazing.

And you're right about the theme song. I had completely forgotten about that theme song but it is completely epic.

[silveradept]

Oh, totally. Get 'em all. Marathons or measured, either way. I think the laughs, the "zOMG, we used to like that?" and the rest will be more than worth the price. (Much like how I went to watch some of the Super Mario Brothers Super Show...)

[darchildre]

I did the first couple eps. They were terrible, but in a really entertaining way.

(Every once in a while, I am seized with a desire to rewatch Thundercats. Thus far, I have been able to resist it, which I think is for the best.)

[silveradept]

Once you're there, you may as well go for the whole thing. Including Thunder-Thunder-THUNDERCATS!

[scheherezhad]

No one will ever convince me that there is a wrong time to watch 90s superhero cartoons, because they are like nourishment for my very soul. Which is to say, you should totally watch ALL the toons. Always. *intense stare* ;P

[darchildre]

I totally get that - I have an endless tolerance for rewatching Batman: TAS, after all. I did the first couple eps of X-Men and they were kind of awful in places but also really entertaining. I think I'm going to start Spider-Man tonight.