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Post by James Fabiano on Jan 22, 2018 9:53:52 GMT -5
And what shows would adjust to 90s-and-back style and not be too watered down?
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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on Jan 22, 2018 9:55:42 GMT -5
And what shows would adjust to 90s-and-back style and not be too watered down? Look at franchises that have kept going, Transformers has been basically the same for like, 35 years. |
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Jan 22, 2018 11:04:38 GMT -5
I don't see TV executives taking a risk on shows like Friendship Is Magic or DC Superhero Girls in the 1990's. I imagine their mentality would be "oh, they're too much of a niche market." Orange Is The New Black or RuPaul's Drag Race would have likely too risky for them as well. FiM is not a risk, it is an estabelished franchise. There is nothing to stop it from existing int he 90's(excluding the quality). It would probably be one of the safest bets. There's no way that Hasbro would have allowed the showrunners to try and make a show that would appeal to multiple demographics. FiM would still exist in some form, but I think the executive control over the series would have been much more rigid. With that, I can't see it taking off in 1991 to the degree it did in 2011. |
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Post by Burst on Jan 22, 2018 11:13:26 GMT -5
Honestly pretty much any of the lore-heavy continuity-heavy animated series we've had. As nostalgic as we get for Disney Afternoon and the Warner cartoons from that period, they were still honestly purely episodic, same for even Batman TAS. I feel like it's really only the past 15-odd years that you've finally seen a pushback against "Kids are stupid they won't know the difference" or "Kids won't understand a complex story".
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Jan 22, 2018 13:20:28 GMT -5
People seem to forget that everyone got easily offended back then too. The Walking Dead is a good example of something that in no way would have aired like in the 90s and before. Its surprising how far tv gore has progressed. And sex that borderline on softcore. Same with Breaking Bad. Other examples? Walking Dead? I'm surprised at some of the gore that showed up as "incident re-creation footage" in CSI and it's spawn, that would never fly on network TV in the 80s. CSI has had levels of gore that would get an R if not a NC 17 rating if it showed up in a film. |
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Jan 22, 2018 13:22:45 GMT -5
I can't imagine Will and Grace or Modern Family being able to exist any year before 1990. SOAP managed to get a decent run in the 70s. So those 2 shows had a chance back then. |
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Post by Cyno on Jan 22, 2018 13:36:37 GMT -5
FiM is not a risk, it is an estabelished franchise. There is nothing to stop it from existing int he 90's(excluding the quality). It would probably be one of the safest bets. There's no way that Hasbro would have allowed the showrunners to try and make a show that would appeal to multiple demographics. FiM would still exist in some form, but I think the executive control over the series would have been much more rigid. With that, I can't see it taking off in 1991 to the degree it did in 2011. Yeah, if FiM was around the 90's it would've been FAR more like previous generation shows and heavily skewed towards a young girls demographic versus something that appeals to multiple demos. Hell, that was the case with the generation just before FIM and I think that was in the mid 00's. Bronies certainly wouldn't have been a thing, though that's a likely a positive if anything. |
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Jan 22, 2018 14:44:32 GMT -5
There's no way that Hasbro would have allowed the showrunners to try and make a show that would appeal to multiple demographics. FiM would still exist in some form, but I think the executive control over the series would have been much more rigid. With that, I can't see it taking off in 1991 to the degree it did in 2011. Yeah, if FiM was around the 90's it would've been FAR more like previous generation shows and heavily skewed towards a young girls demographic versus something that appeals to multiple demos. Hell, that was the case with the generation just before FIM and I think that was in the mid 00's. Bronies certainly wouldn't have been a thing, though that's a likely a positive if anything. I don't think of Bronies as anything other than "men who enjoy MLP". There'd still be jerks and weirdos who just happen to be Bronies hovering around. The showrunners aren't responsible in these situations. A 1990's FiM probably wouldn't be quite as popular. So you'd still see those few bad apples, just on a smaller scale. |
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Post by MrElijah on Jan 22, 2018 15:27:40 GMT -5
Honestly pretty much any of the lore-heavy continuity-heavy animated series we've had. As nostalgic as we get for Disney Afternoon and the Warner cartoons from that period, they were still honestly purely episodic, same for even Batman TAS. I feel like it's really only the past 15-odd years that you've finally seen a pushback against "Kids are stupid they won't know the difference" or "Kids won't understand a complex story". Yet they used that excuse to take Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes off the air. |
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Post by wildojinx on Jan 22, 2018 18:30:09 GMT -5
There WAS a 90s MLP show, and it was basically Doug or Arthur, but with ponies:
No Unicorns, Allicorns, or Pegasus ponies either.
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Post by Alice Syndrome on Jan 22, 2018 20:42:20 GMT -5
Regular Show. Well, it'd be Adult Swim instead of CN anyway.
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