On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Mark J. <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On May 26, 8:15 am, Wesley McGee <[email protected]> wrote: > > From EW.com -- please vote for the best animated show from this list we > are > > claiming is the "25 Greatest Animated TV Series", but is really a list of > 25 > > shows we saw on TV at one point and liked. > > I don't really get the bile here. > > First of all, Ken Tucker, who is the chief TV critic at EW, is not > involved with this feature. > > Second, for the most part I think most people would agree with most of > the selections (I don't watch anime, but those who do have praised > "Cowboy Bebop," and I'd leave :"Scooby-Doo" on the list for reasons of > popularity and staying power). They are all legitimate animated > series. The nature of the beast of lists always means that there are > omissions ("Tiny Toon Adventures," ""Powerpuff Girls," "George of the > Jungle," "Space Ghost Coast to Coast"--and if you're going to list > "Aqua Teen," you might as well list the show that started the Adult > Swim philosophy of animation), but I accept that. I just can't get > worked up over an interactivity gimmick no better or no worse than > EW's other interactivity/page-view increasing gimmicks.-- > This is a list that includes an anthology of re-purposed theater short subjects ("The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour" --> "The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show"), plus one or two Adult-Swimy show, various old shows that have to be on this list because they're expected to be, a number of flavors of now "Adventure Time", "Archer" which if this list was written five years later might be mentioned in your omissions list. If you are going to put Cowboy Bebop in the list, you need to be prepared to tell me why they make it, and not Ghost in the Shell, Pokemon, Voltron or Macross, This is Entertainment Weekly insulting anybody who makes the mistake of clicking through the slideshow to learn something, anything about what EW thinks is a great animated feature or why. This list required no thought to compose, and they didn't even try. I can probably pick another set of 25, and you could argue *that* list would get a lot of agreement. http://www.ign.com/top/comic-book-heroes Compare that to IGN which recently did a "Top 100 Comic Book Heroes" list, which they actually took the harder route of ranking each hero, and then they spent several paragraphs justifying the inclusion or placement. And this is a list that includes comic heroes as well as the more traditional superheroes, and they included independent books as well as the DC/Marvel stuff we all know. Wesley McGee http://www.ambivi.com http://drawing-a-blank.tumblr.com -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
