I can, but I lost interest in these things growing up.
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.
AND SLAY OUR ENEMIES
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.
Adulthood is mostly a social construct. You are never too old to have fun.
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…
90% chance it’s an African immigrant doing that for bullshit wages with barely any social protection over there. It’s fucked
What?
It’s exploitation
Okay, who put a camera in my apartment?
I’m sat here cuddling my cuddly toy!
Ah, okay. Hope you like Rocko’s Modern Life!
Things that remind me of my childhood give me emotional flashbacks. When people are nostalgic for things it just makes me think “congrats on the not-shitty childhood.”
I’m immune to all the new Star Wars stuff, which is a silver lining.
I’m immune to all the new Star Wars stuff
I was 10 when the original Star Wars came out. I remember being emotionally crushed when I learned that Lucas intended to make nine movies altogether and realizing how long it would take for all of them to come out. Fortunately I stopped giving a fuck entirely after Empire Strikes Back. I only watched Return of the Jedi on rented VHS and the cackling muppet made me shut it off. I’m pretty sure I returned it without rewinding.
After a certain point, activities like this are the only way to enjoy those feelings of childhood freedom, because all of the places you grew up in are unrecognizable or gone.
Yeah, this unfortunately. You never realized how good it was until it was gone
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.
Is he sitting on the floor? My old back, my old hips, and my old legs would be complaining in the first 5 minutes.
Relive the childhood sensations of scuffed knees, but this time they’re scuffed on the inside!
The time was always lost, there is only the forward.
So many good things in the now.
So many good things in the now.
Still a pretty shitty substitute for the back then, though.
Wait! Y’all stopped?
NOPE!!
Also sharing them with the next generation. You’ll be happy to know Marvin the Martian still slaps.
My 11yr old boy and I just watched Raising Arizona and he LOVED it. I could cry. Army of Darkness next.
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 :)
Watch DBZ Abridged.
Once Team Four Star get into their stride it’s much better than the original.
There’s movie length cuts of different dragon ball z sagas out there that make them WAY more watchable as an adult
Try Dragon Ball Super. Higher animation budget and better writing.
Better writing? Nah. It’s basically the same quality.
Higher animation budget you say?
A still image is a pretty poor representation, even if it’s fetal alcohol syndrome Goku
Ah yes, fetal alcohol syndrome Goku
