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Apr. 24th, 2012 08:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darchildreSo, 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.
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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Date: 2012-04-26 01:42 am (UTC)