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For me, I've never had that. And I think I'm grateful for it. Maybe I'm just too simple, but I seem to be fine with how my childhood favourite things.
Anything that doesn't hold up I wasn't too sure about in back in the day. I recently re-watched the '85 Thundercats, still enjoy it. Yes, it's cheese, but I know it is. The more I think on it, the more I think I am just that simple an idiot.
lol, I make no claims to rarified taste. I still enjoy watching the '67 Spidey cartoons, and the media from the last decade that I most enjoyed was the very lowbrow Power Fantasy Isekai anime Overlord. But my tastes have changed over the years, greatly. And while some stuff I enjoyed as a kid I still enjoy (Galaxy High, Jem & The holograms, and The Dungeons & Dragons cartoon all hold up for me), other stuff just no longer pushes my buttons.
Sometimes it REALLY depresses me. I think the one I find the most heartbreaking is Mystery Science Theatre 3000. I LOVED that show the moment I discovered it, way back in the mists of time when it was an unknown public access show. I found it gut-wrenchingly funny. But my sense of humour has changed. It no longer makes me laugh. I try to watch it - so many times - and it just bores me, but I fight against that, try to convince myself I still find it enjoyable, because it was such a huge source of enjoyment when I was younger. I wish so much that I could recapture that, gain back whatever visceral reaction to it that I used to have.
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