Retro and Today

I have this, what I feel, peculiar interest in retro things. I particularly like 80’s cartoons, Tin Tin, Peanuts and others forms of media. For one thing, they surprise with how much content they have that pertains more towards adults. For example, in some of the 80’s cartoons I watch, characters actually die.

Things back then just seem a bit more straightforward to me. These days, there’s a lot more style that at times takes precedent over substance. I recently watched Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, and I felt that it was all style with very little substance. My writing though is pretty straightforward, which gets more to the destination or goal quicker, and leads to more action, but I have a hard time having my characters just stop and smell the roses.

That’s not to say that all things today are bad. I quite enjoy a lot of the media that’s being put out there from The Marvel Cinematic Universe to some of the television shows out there as well.