Is he sitting on the floor? My old back, my old hips, and my old legs would be complaining in the first 5 minutes.
Wait! Y’all stopped?
NOPE!!
Also sharing them with the next generation. You'll be happy to know Marvin the Martian still slaps.
Not a childhood show, but I'm watching Cardcaptor Sakura for the first time, and it gives me heavy nostalgia. Everything about the show is just so cute and fun to me, and it makes me think of other cartoons and anime from my childhood ♥️
But it also gives me jealousy that Japanese girls were watching awesome shows like that as kids rather than Disney & Nickelodeon's shitty live action shows. iCarly is the only one I actually liked, and thinking back on the directors thinly veiled fetishes kills it for me.
We got a taste of that in the 90s with shows like Sailor Moon and Cardcaptor Sakura coming over (albeit altered) and being quite popular.
Playing my old GBA games on an emulator lately has been a comfort
I struggle to enjoy childhood stuff these days (TMNT, Knight Rider, Star Trek etc). They’re not as good as I remember them (and ADHD makes it hard to be patient if it’s not excellent). And yet the new interpretations are even harder to relate too.
I’m exploring new ways to unwind and have fun, and thankfully there are many.
My childhood shows were The Incredible Hulk, Emergency, Hill Street Blues, Dallas, M*A*S*H, Cheers, The Dukes of Hazzard etc. I guess M*A*S*H was sort of OK but it's not especially hilarious in retrospect (the movie still holds up, at least). The rest are all not that great.
I recognise most of those:) It’s like a tug of war because the part of me looking for comfort is drawn to the old stuff but I also want novelty. The lesson I’ve learned is to help my kids form attachments more to better things than games and TV.
If you're the same age as me you might have watched the Roots miniseries. I recommend not rewatching that one. It had a huge impact on me as a kid as far as awakening me to some of the horrors of my country's past. I tried rewatching it and couldn't make it past OJ Simpson wearing some sort of pseudo-African clown costume.
It was broadcast here when I was a kid, and I’ve always been very glad I saw it. It taught me about structural injustice and solidarity. But I can imagine exactly what you mean too.
Whilst you might not be able to turn back time, you can stop it:
https://groups.google.com/a/list.nist.gov/g/internet-time-service/c/o0dDDcr1a8I
I love Dragon Ball but I don't believe any grown up would be able to sit through it.
Try DBZ Abridged.
I'm 38 and I fairly recently finished rewatching Dragon Ball Z Kai and I'm about 100 episodes into Dragon Ball Super.
I really tried watching Dragonball Z agaib some time ago, but this show is so stupid and shallow, I don't know why I could ever watch it back as a child. Good message otherwise :)
Try Dragon Ball Super. Higher animation budget and better writing.
There’s movie length cuts of different dragon ball z sagas out there that make them WAY more watchable as an adult
But we can eat childhood snacks
Not unless we can replicate them at home (which last time I tried took way too much work), we can't.
They don't make them anymore.
Or if they do, they don't taste the same.
Started watching Dragonball this year for the first time since I was a kid. After the last half and latest with Dragonball Z I realized how bad it actually was and that my kid's brain just saved it as good.
So much!! Since I discovered My Hero Academia it made me realize how half-assed DBZ really was 😅 We just didn’t know better…
I can, but I lost interest in these things growing up.
90% chance it's an African immigrant doing that for bullshit wages with barely any social protection over there. It's fucked
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