RE: The golden age of western animation

I both remember Popeye and remember never understanding Popeye (beyond something about chugging a can of spinach superpowered him for a bit).

I think most movies and tv series in general (both animation and live action) are stubbornly treading the same path as most blogs and microblogs (even though as far as I can tell the microformats are desperately pretending otherwise) slavishly following a "recipe for success" which results in the same mind numbingly boring tedium. I don't know if it was the start of it around two decades ago but I know that's when I started getting bored of pretty much everything. Way back then I just had the "brilliant" idea to make stuff I wanted to exist but now I realise it's not any better.