The subject of revamped cartoons came up on a "discussion" I had recently on Second Life with some aquintances that I know. And it seems to me that the topic is a delicate one.

Now, I know of a few new cartoons that were revamped, rewritten and redrawn over the last few years. There's probably more out there that I have yet to know of though. Let me give you my opinion about the ones that I know of.

First of all, I remember the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on good old VHS. NOT hero turtles, it's NINJA turtles. Thank you FCC bastards. That was a cartoon that i enjoyed over the years. Good old Shredder in the massive underground mobile lair with the big eyeball ontop, the people from the alternate universe in the Star Mobiles, the Rat King, Khang, you know. all the good stuff that made the series enjoyable.

Now, the series has been revamped and it is not as good as the original. One thing I hated about it, was that no matter what was thrown at them at the end of the episode, they ALWAYS found a way around it. Plus, they had no eyeballs. And master Splinter was not the least bit attractive as a rat anymore. and the storylines sucked badly. new and improved my ass.

Now, lets look at Biker Mice from Mars. That was a cartoon series in which wet dreams were made of. They were hunks, plain and simple. They bikers into leather. they looked good, the series were fun, and Throttle, Vinnie and Modo pretty much carved out a niche into the furry world simply by being a hot male on a bike.

Now, it has a new series. and it sucks. they don't look anything like htey used to. they look like their faces were smooshed into a box. I watched ten minutes of one episode, and i could not watch any more of it.

and now i hear that they are doing yet ANOTHER batman series. Ok. this is where i want to draw the line on revamping.
Batman, the animated series was the bomb. plain and simple. it was fantastic. it wrenched itself out of hte grip of the shitty sixties version and made batman the dark knight again. Batman of hte future was just as equally good, bringing another generation of batman for the new times. now we have The Batman. a piece of shit animation that makes no sense, looks crap and doesn't even work properly. And now, because that is no good, they are bringing out some piece of crap that looks like an animated version of Adam west dancing. can you believe it? they are goign to continue to wreck the best parts of batman jsut cause they think new and improved is better then old and classic.

To me, if it's a classic like i have afore mentioned, then it does not need to be revamped at all. it just needs to be brought out on dvd so we can continue to enjoy its awesomness like we used to on vhs.

just because it looks different, sounds different and is nothing like the orginal will never gaurentee that is will be better.