{"id":169,"date":"2008-03-11T18:52:20","date_gmt":"2008-03-11T18:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skullcull.wordpress.com\/?p=169"},"modified":"2008-03-11T18:52:20","modified_gmt":"2008-03-11T18:52:20","slug":"television-whitenoise-wacky-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/?p=169","title":{"rendered":"television whitenoise: wacky races"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I suppose as a child I was pretty lucky in that my dad\\’s taste in programmes pretty much matched mine and my brothers — he was into all the sci-fi stuff and the cartoons (he still plays with lego for chrissakes). Anyway — to the point, as if it is important and in any way vaguely interesting — Wacky Races was a classic. Dick Dastardly and Mutley, the Anthill Mob and Penelope Pitstop and the various others were a staple part of my viewing diet. Now I just watched it reframed for the kids of today with Dexter as the lead. I like Dexter\\’s Laboratory, but I like it because it is its own thing — here they go trying to shoehorn one idea into another one, and why? A lack of their own ideas? A way to capitalise on an established franchise, or nostalgia? Same old same old. OR to be having thoughts like this have I crossed that threshold where I have truly become old? I don\\’t think the latter is true — it\\’s not as if I am desperately hanging onto some notion of youth. The original cartoon worked because they were each individuals and they were only trying to be themselves; they weren\\’t trying to fill someone else\\’s shoes. Oh well, let them have their crap cartoon — I can get mine on DVD if I so desperately need to watch it.<\/p>\n

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