[GoseiWonder]

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Originally Posted by Annuga

They're creating the product and doing it like that because it works. If the show gets good ratings, which it likely will, why should they bother? The angry minority isn't as important as the people who actually watch the show. TV Business 101

And extremely limited, lazy animation in the 1970s “worked.” The shows do not get good ratings. They get “meh” ratings. They break even. At best.

It’s the business model of Illumination Entertainment and Sony Pictures. Make a cheap can’t make it quick, appeal to the lowest common denominator. This is why the entertainment must be challenged. What “works” should not work. For what “works” is lazy. Lego brings in big bucks with licensed sets. But guess what? There is an ungodly glut of liscensed sets. There is nothing but stagnation. The toy brand based on creativity and fresh ideas and being different is now the same as everything else. How about Transformers? Everything they are doing is just G1 over and over and over again. And half the brand is pointless awful gimmick toys that clog shelves. But hey, “it works!” And let’s not forget Nickelodeon Power Rangers. How all the content was boiled down to garbage, bathroom humor and very basic plots with no characterization and one cut filming. So do Super “seasons.” I guess that’s perfectly OK and it should not be challenged!

Things should not just “work.” Art should not just “work.” You can make a comedic spin on an old 80s cartoon that takes the piss out of it. That’s fine, the problem is that it is being done with such a horrifically lazy art style. Every single Twitter artist doing their own redesign that still keeps the goofy cartoonish vibe isn’t freaking out over ThunderCats getting a comedic cartoon, they are showing disgust with the lazy, ugly, stale art direction.