User blog comment:NasuHime/NOSTALGIA/@comment-4494553-20121104065639/@comment-53539-20121104094838

Hmm... Depends on the show.

Though some things weren't good like Captain Planet. I got the message but found that show a little "lame", yet there was some good character building going on even then. The guy with the fire ring got a LOT of character building at times. Its just it was pretty corny at times. :-/

Captain Bucky o'hare... Theres another one of those shows I'd throw in the block with this, wierd and somehow it worked.

And honestly, Beetlejuice the cartoon was no better, but, I think what let BJ and Bucky get awy with things was they made it work. I mean beetlejuice had its rare moments where you sympathised with BJ, nd there were a few moral lessons thrown in. Like, one episode BJ gets a fortune in money, and he spends it making his friend happy. Sadly, with all the crap thrown at him, she asks why he is putting up with it, he tells her about tryng to make her happy. But she says to him, she isn't happy and she was happy when he was poor. BJ only was allowed to keep his money if he behaved, and BJ normally ran riot, but he stood up for his friend and himself and letting people working over him just so he could keep the money wasn't the BJ she knew. So he defedns her and himself, looses his money, but things are cheerie again.

I'm not saying all old shows were bad, I'm not saying all new shows are good, or vice versa, but its the context of which a show is put in for value that you haver to wonder. For example, MLP;FiM is BETTER then the older MLP show I grew up watching because it had a lot more in-universe building and teaches kids moral lessons, while having fun doing it.