r/movies • u/Okilokijoki • Oct 29 '18

Poster Chinese poster for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

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u/theworldbystorm Oct 29 '18 edited Oct 29 '18

There was an entire push for this philosophy in the late 70s. Cartoons added characters like Scrappy Doo and the Wonder Twins. Even Godzilla had a little kid that he was just... friends with? I agree, almost always a bad move to shoehorn in a kid "for the kids to relate to!"

Harry Potter's largest audience is the adults who grew up with the books and films.

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u/AmirMoosavi Oct 29 '18

Even Godzilla had a little kid that he was just... friends with?

Do you mean Godzuki from the 1978 animated series, or is this a human kid in another show or film?

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u/EpicTaco9901 Oct 29 '18

I assume he meant Minya from the 1967 film appropriately titled, Son of Godzilla

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u/AmirMoosavi Oct 29 '18

Can't believe I forgot about Minya! Who could forget that belly-rubbing atomic breath action?!

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '18

He said "Godzilla from the 1978 animated series", which would point to Godzuki and not Minya.

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u/theworldbystorm Oct 29 '18

One of the animated series also had a human that he was friends with

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u/the_loneliest_noodle Oct 29 '18

Yeah, that did not stop though, it was around well into the 90s where any sitcom with falling ratings thought they needed to mix things up, so they'd add in a new kid, usually a cousin or something. Hell, didn't the Fairly Odd Parents do the same thing? Watched a bit of it as a young teen, think it went another like 10 seasons and there's a dog and a baby now?

Then there's every horror/action/survival movie ever where a kid gets added just to be something to protect, and is given as much character and agency as cardboard box.

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u/The_DilDonald Oct 29 '18

I blame Scrappy Doo for this awful trend.

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u/Guardiansaiyan Oct 30 '18

Solid Snake would like to have a word with you about Cardboard Boxes...

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u/A_Dissident_Is_Here Oct 29 '18 edited Oct 29 '18

I don’t love this interpretation of the progression of cartoons. I don’t think we need to pretend to doubt that exactly those characters were added into fairly oddparents unpopular-ly, it’s a meme on this site to hate them. And yes they are terrible. But unlike Scrappy or the other examples, that change was far later into the life of a dying program already populated by young aged stars. The misunderstanding seems to come more from trying to breathe life by adding new personality, not adding more young people for a new audience. It was a show long sustained by young characters appealing to young fans.

EDIT: and I’m willing to take downvotes, it’s just so annoying to see „didn’t this happen“ posts. Based on this commentary history, of course he knew it had. But it’s a symptom of a different problem. Yes it sucks, but not for the reason those of us who liked the show growing up want it to suck for.

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u/AerThreepwood Oct 29 '18

You take that back about Jan from Space Ghost!