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Tuesday Top Five: Cartoon Night
Jul. 2nd, 2024 10:42 pmI'm starting a new feature as a way of motivating myself to post more here! My first "Tuesday Top Five" is a shoutout to the social activity that has brought me joy on multiple levels almost every week for the past thirteen years. Here are my favorite shows that I discovered at my local Cartoon Night, in chronological order of when we watched them.
1. Gargoyles: Mythological creatures fight evil on the streets of New York. This was a classic that I somehow missed when it first aired, despite my age and interests aligning perfectly with what it had to offer.
2. Young Justice: The Justice League's sidekicks form their own team in of my favorite teen superhero shows, and one of my favorite superhero ensemble shows, of all time.
3. Avatar: The Last Airbender: A quest fantasy in which kids with elemental powers try to stop a war. Here's another classic that I somehow didn't see until well after it ended. (I haven't seen the live action version; I'm sure it's fine, but I'm not convinced that it was necessary.)
4. Gravity Falls: Siblings spend a summer in a small town where Spooky Stuff happens. I've become more critical of some of the humor on this show since my first viewing (of many), but it still means a whole lot to me, has generated my second highest number of fanworks on AO3, kept me and my friend company through the night of the 2016 election, and led to some incredible fandom friendships. I call it "Gravity Feels" for a reason.
5. The Owl House: Portal fantasy in which a misfit teenage girl attends a magical school that both mocks and pays homage to magical school tropes. I've only watched this one through once, but I feel like I could revisit it again and again, and get something new out of it each time.
(I feel slightly self-conscious about the realization that three out of the five are Disney projects, but most of our shows were produced by soulless corporations. That's a problem with capitalism, not with quality of the works themselves.)
1. Gargoyles: Mythological creatures fight evil on the streets of New York. This was a classic that I somehow missed when it first aired, despite my age and interests aligning perfectly with what it had to offer.
2. Young Justice: The Justice League's sidekicks form their own team in of my favorite teen superhero shows, and one of my favorite superhero ensemble shows, of all time.
3. Avatar: The Last Airbender: A quest fantasy in which kids with elemental powers try to stop a war. Here's another classic that I somehow didn't see until well after it ended. (I haven't seen the live action version; I'm sure it's fine, but I'm not convinced that it was necessary.)
4. Gravity Falls: Siblings spend a summer in a small town where Spooky Stuff happens. I've become more critical of some of the humor on this show since my first viewing (of many), but it still means a whole lot to me, has generated my second highest number of fanworks on AO3, kept me and my friend company through the night of the 2016 election, and led to some incredible fandom friendships. I call it "Gravity Feels" for a reason.
5. The Owl House: Portal fantasy in which a misfit teenage girl attends a magical school that both mocks and pays homage to magical school tropes. I've only watched this one through once, but I feel like I could revisit it again and again, and get something new out of it each time.
(I feel slightly self-conscious about the realization that three out of the five are Disney projects, but most of our shows were produced by soulless corporations. That's a problem with capitalism, not with quality of the works themselves.)
