Dude all of that is awesome. Like, shows that are directed towards people at your age group (and a little bit to my late teens age group) don't match that nostalgia the old shows have. Idk about you, but Gundam and Yu Yu Hakusho just make me feel good inside. That doesn't make modern shows bad, TV is pretty good right now at least

, I don't ever watch it though :/.
EDIT: Someone in here said watch community, I highly suggest you do that. That show is hilarious, I've watched it off and on since season 1, its SO good.

FromShouri

United States862 Posts

February 04 2013 04:34 GMT

#29

On February 04 2013 12:02 Emzeeshady wrote:
Maybe you are not trying the right shows. Here are some examples of great shows.

Community (favourite show forever, might not be everyones cup of tea however)
Breaking Bad (if you have given this a chance and you still don't like it then that sucks man :/)
30 Rock (hilarious)
Game of Thrones (For obvious reasons)

Don't watch crap like The Big Bang Theory or procedural cop shows. TV is in a great place right now. You just gotta look for the good stuff.

Watched a few episodes of community and while there are funny moments just wasn't for me...just didn't click.

Breaking bad is on my to watch list, just haven't found the right mood to watch it. Seems interesting enough but also seems kinda heavy.

same thing as community, i liked it for the first few seasons then it just wasn't my brand of comedy.

I gotta say I must be one of the few that isn't that interested in Game of Thrones, I guess because I never read the books I don't have this epic background, but I did watch a few episodes over at my friends house and while good it wasn't good enough to me that I have to watch.

Big Bang Theory is my "oh its like midnight and I can't find anything to watch and I'm too lazy to get my DVD case or hook up my external" show =D, no point for me since I live the life of a nerd every day minus working at NASA.

The Fish

United States176 Posts

February 04 2013 04:51 GMT

#30

I see no one has recommended Archer, so I will. Danger zone!

ElizarTringov

Bulgaria317 Posts

February 04 2013 05:05 GMT

#31

It's not that TV sucks "These days", it has always sucked and always will suck, you just happened to notice just now that it does.

OmniEulogy

Canada6600 Posts

February 04 2013 05:50 GMT

#32

On February 04 2013 13:51 The Fish wrote:
I see no one has recommended Archer, so I will. Danger zone!

I can not tell you how happy I am that my wait has finally ended for new episodes

3FFA

United States3931 Posts

February 04 2013 08:02 GMT

#33

Scooby-Dooby-Doo, Where Are You? We got some work to do now!
Scooby-Dooby-Doo, Where Are You? We need some help from you now.
Come on Scooby-Doo, I see you... pretending you got a sliver
But you're not fooling me, cause I can see, the way you shake and shiver.

You know we got a mystery to solve, so Scooby Doo be ready for your act.
Don't hold back!
And Scooby Doo if you come through you're gonna
have yourself a Scooby snack!
That's a fact!

Scooby-Dooby-Doo, here are you. You're ready and you're willin'.
If we can count on you Scooby Doo, I know we'll catch that villian.

:D <3 Scooby Doo.

edit: I have an idea for a blog now!

Leeoku

1617 Posts

February 04 2013 08:09 GMT

#34

idk but the cartoons these days suck.. like i watch some show i randomly turn on and say wtf this is being shown on a kids network

Zealously

East Gorteau22261 Posts

February 04 2013 09:09 GMT

#35

On February 04 2013 17:09 Leeoku wrote:
idk but the cartoons these days suck.. like i watch some show i randomly turn on and say wtf this is being shown on a kids network

There actually are a few good cartoons out there. Avatar, for example, comes to mind. There are other good shows but they are admittedly rarer than they were in the 90s when seemingly every other cartoon was freaking brilliant.

Tobberoth

Sweden6375 Posts

February 04 2013 09:52 GMT

#36

I honestly just think it's that you don't like to "invest". "Adult shows" usually require more of the viewer, while kids shows are just... fun. kids have shorter attention spans and probably can't keep "bigger plots" in their minds as actively as adults, so it's a bit more simplified, and there's nothing wrong with an adult to prefer that kind of shows. It's like most people who watch anime prefer simple casual action animes like DBZ rather than the more "heavy" animes for older people like Mushishi and Monster.

I guess, to use a gamer term, you're a "casual TV viewer".

r00ty

Germany1066 Posts

February 04 2013 10:00 GMT

#37

Nothing wrong with that.

I'm behind 30 and still love One Piece and Naruto. I don't run around in anime shirts and talk about it all the time, but there's no reason to be ashamed of imho.

AmericanUmlaut

Germany2594 Posts

February 04 2013 12:13 GMT

#38

On February 04 2013 14:05 ElizarTringov wrote:
It's not that TV sucks "These days", it has always sucked and always will suck, you just happened to notice just now that it does.

I hate this attitude. We're living in a golden age of television writing, with some of the greatest narrative fiction of our generation being written for the TV, and still you get people looking down their nose at the medium. What are you basing this opinion on? Honey Boo Boo and American Idol? I barely watch TV, and even I could list a dozen amazingly good shows produced since 2000.

As for your list of cartoons, feel no shame. Dexter's Lab -- and everything else by Genndy Tartakovsky -- is watchable by kids, but it nails the Muppets formula of hiding a ton of adult humor in a kid-friendly show. The same with Animaniacs, which is one of my favorite all-time TV shows. If you like that kind of thing, you should check out Invader Zim and Spongebob, too, though in the case of Invader Zim I'd argue that the show is actually not that great for kids, even though it ran on Nickelodeon.

More generally, you shouldn't ever feel the need to "confess" to what you love. It's what you love! Society these days is much too filled with cynicism and irony, and people (like ElizarTringov above) find it much easier to hate on something than to express their passion of it. Well, fuck that noise. If you like DBZ, be proud of it :-D.

FFW_Rude

France10201 Posts

February 04 2013 13:26 GMT

#39

I'm 28 and watch some reruns of DBZ (but French version are aweful imo) and some "Fairy Tale" and clone wars (Vo though)

I have a hard time keeping with TV shows. The only one i watch now are

Mentalist (not bad not really good too)
Supernatural (The "stupid" episode keep calling me back on this one)
Vampire Diaries. (A little girly (and girlier) but i just love Damon lol).

But if you want to try a really good TV show (imo). Try looking for Firefly. That's just the awesomness in a TV show !

And don't worry. I got friends over 30 that CANNOT miss a One piece épisode.