Do you miss the '80s?

[Lord_Zed]

Yeah the 80's had their moments, but a lot of that love for the 80's is just nostalgia.

I remember fondly all those 80's cartoons, but looking back some are pretty crap. The truth is back in the 80's I was watching them for the first time, and everything was new and exciting. Had I grown up in the 90's I'm pretty sure I would have the same fondness for the nuances of that period. Now I'm older and have seen more, heard more, read more It's harder to find something new and fresh.

The 80s was great because back then they weren't afraid of trying out new things. There was a massive explosion of creativity which they have continuously been exploiting to this day.

The 90s was more like a progression of the 80s. Many awesome concepts introduced in 80s such as cartoons were refined in the 90s with more mature and wide reaching stories and better developed characters. 80s cartoons suffered from having very kiddy and formulaic stories despite the excellent character concepts and awesome worlds they inhabited.

There was a massive explosion of creativity, but also the a surge in capitalism, greed, mass consumption culture pretty much starts in the 80's (although Star Wars Helps kick it off in the 70's). Everything had to be flashy and showy. Cartoons were churned out by the numbers to sell toys to kids. The idea of soulless Holywood Blockbuster (as continued today by movies like ROTF) appears in the 80's. And let's not forget that Wall Street film and Gordon Gecko's enduring utterance "Greed is good"

I think there was a bit of a backlash in the 90's where everyone said the 80's were to bright, flashy and shallow, so they said lets make things dark and more mature.

I admit there's something really appealing about that vibrancy of the 80's though, everything is full of life if perhaps empty of mind. I mean it all looks a bit tacky these days and it's as if I long for the days that I could enjoy corny 80's shows, movies and music without feeling somehow guilty.

And so far no one has mentioned 80's cop shows. Pretty much every show involved car chases, shoot outs more car chases and guys with indestructible hair. Hardly any of that investigation stuff that modern shows all seem to be about.

I can't help but think a lot of the 80's can be described as so bad it was good!

And what's with that hair?