> From: Gary Nunn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> > Justice League is geared to a bit of an older crowd than Super
Friends.
> > Super friends is an inferior product when compared to the earlier (in
the
> > 60s) Justice League Of America cartoon that sprung from the
> > Superman/Batman
> > hour.
> 
> This episode WAS good. I was just a bit surprised that it implied that
the
> superheroes were causing death - even if they were Nazi deaths.
> 
> 
> > Super Friends was a dumbed down version of superhero stories written
by
> > people whose contempt for the sophisticated minds of children
> > showed through
> > in every episode. Kids really do enjoy a good story and do not
> > require silliness added in or comic relief as some adults presume.
> 
> I think that you are absolutely correct. My daughter loves a less than
> obvious plot line. She is rapidly becoming a mystery fan. As much as I
hate
> to admit it, she loves movies like "The Fifth Element" and "Stargate"
and
> thrives on "who done it" types of story lines. We watched a mystery
show
> recently and she predicted the ending in an uncanny fashion. After
being
> amazed for a few hours and mentioning it to my mom, she (my mom) told
me
> that my daughter had watched the show at her house the day before.  :-)

Try _Twin Peaks_.  Heh.

> 
> > I like the old silly cartoons too and think that they are
> > important. A broad
> > development of humor is a good thing.
> 
> Quick Draw McGraw, Hong Kong Fooey, Speedracer, Snagglepuss, Yogi
bear......

Cartoons from the sixties and seventies are cheap, badly drawn, with poor
plotlines.  Compare them to cartoons from a decade earlier when Looney
Toons was supreme.  Looney Toons had vastly superior art and backgrounds,
music, plots, etc.   The sixties broght on a dark ages for animation that
lasted (in america) in the eighties.  Looney toons were aimed at adults,
and not children.  Adults and Children love Looney Tunes.  Children also
seem to love cartoon networks saturday night adult swim action block.

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