Apart from the 10 percent that was objectively good, you know the Animaniacs, the Gargoyles, the Batman the Animated Series, and the other things that gets brought up when you deride some one else's childhood, the 90s was a there decade.
I remember the 90s being driven by cynicism and nostalgia a lot more than other decades.
It was a decade that was built on formulas. Disney made money by making the same animated movie about 8 or 9 times, you know the, "But she has a talking dragon, so totally different" era. If Backstreet boys had a hit, that successful formula can will be copied 50 times by years' end. Other generations did this, but this one feels more blatant. Hell, even "good" music like Nirvana was copied and mimicked a dozen times by year's end.
It was a decade where people wanted parody and familiar. Die Hard with a Vengeance was a hit in the early 90s, then every big movie for almost 10 years used that formula. Hercules: the Legendary Journey was a successful mixture of action and comedy and 2 years later a dozen shows copy that same format: Xena, Charmed, Buffy, Angel, Roar and so on. Also, stow it Whedonites: Bringing up Buffy the TV series being a copy of Hercules' formula" does not deride the show's writer. Quit treating him like a delicate flower.
The 2 pillars of television, Seinfeld and Friends sum up the decade nicely. Both shows are about nothing and style over substance.
I remember the 90s being driven by cynicism and nostalgia a lot more than other decades.
It was a decade that was built on formulas. Disney made money by making the same animated movie about 8 or 9 times, you know the, "But she has a talking dragon, so totally different" era. If Backstreet boys had a hit, that successful formula can will be copied 50 times by years' end. Other generations did this, but this one feels more blatant. Hell, even "good" music like Nirvana was copied and mimicked a dozen times by year's end.
It was a decade where people wanted parody and familiar. Die Hard with a Vengeance was a hit in the early 90s, then every big movie for almost 10 years used that formula. Hercules: the Legendary Journey was a successful mixture of action and comedy and 2 years later a dozen shows copy that same format: Xena, Charmed, Buffy, Angel, Roar and so on. Also, stow it Whedonites: Bringing up Buffy the TV series being a copy of Hercules' formula" does not deride the show's writer. Quit treating him like a delicate flower.
The 2 pillars of television, Seinfeld and Friends sum up the decade nicely. Both shows are about nothing and style over substance.