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From: franka@tekcad.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Re: sat morning tv - (nf)
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Date: Sun, 25-Dec-83 13:46:26 EST
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tekcad!franka    Dec 25 10:46:00 1983

>Interesting, isn't it, how Keith described American tv animation as
>technically excellent but otherwise real garbage.  That is exactly
>the problem. 

	And what causes the problems? It's very simple. All animated TV
shows made in America are aimed at the Saturday morning kiddie market.
And parents are so busy trying to blame someone elser for their poor raising
of their kids that anything realistic (such as a thief being the hero of a
show or kids using drugs) is kept out for fear of being used as a target
of TV being a "bad influence on kids".
	Japaneese TV shows are not the only ones butchered. If you've seen
the old Warner Brothers cartoons lately on network TV, there are scenes
hacked so badly one can barely stand to watch any more. The new shows are
filled with nothing but goody-goody wimps who can overcome evil only because
the bad guys are so inept that they are not really menacing. I guess that
for intellegent animation we all will have to look for independent stations
and independent producers who still show and make decent cartoons.

               				From the truly menacing,
   /- -\       				but usually underestimated
    <->                                 and soon to be gone,
               				Frank Adrian
               				(tektronix!tekcad!franka)