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Dude, I really do wish you the most success! You have real writing skills, but those skills should always be honed, and it’s not just about the mechanics of writing, but the point of view taken is the most important thing: having something truly compelling and insightful to say is the #1 thing, which then has to be matched with a compelling style of communicating those thoughts. But it’s all fluff without compelling and original content. Look deeper….

Hey everyone, I appreciate your comments, criticism and all, and understand your points of view. In my last post I just wanted to clarify specifically what the piece was about.

: I really don’t want to make this discussion tumble forward in a negative way, nor be misunderstood, so let’s be clear I certainly wasn’t hating anything or projecting any hate towards the writer, nor does it appear to me that anyone else really was, even if some of it was harsh.

It’s called criticism, and when one enters a public contest in which talent, skill, and fulfilling certain criteria that have to meet certain standards are the prerequisite to winning, there’s going to be public debate and criticism as to whether or not those criteria and that level of skill have been met.

Tina, I would bet that you’re favorite person on American Idol, even above all the contestants, is Paula Abdul. She’s the nicest to the contestants and for her everyone is a winner because they tried. I can appreciate that point of view to some extent in terms of not wanting to hold on to the criticism and failure part of it so that you give up, or add to another’s extreme discouragement, but you know, trying is not succeeding (ask the Challnger 7), and in the end even Paula votes up or down; good enough or not good enough (esp in comparison to the others).

Criticism can be a good thing, a constructive thing. Pink fuzzy mediocrity would rule the world without it. Chris will never be a really good writer without having his work reviewed by others. Indeed, what would even be the purpose his wanting to write if he was not determined that the next peice will be better than the last? And what drives that more than being made aware of how other people respond to your work? Who is he writing for but other people? I am a 20+ year veteran of life in the music indutry and journalism and am thankful even for the most horrible criticism. I didn’t say I enjoyed it.

NOW, after all of that, I wasn’t doing much of a critique of the piece—the real criticism here is levelled at the judges and Rolling Stone. The requirements of this contest were for an new & largely unidentified trend in pop-culture, and as was pointed out in my posts and others, this “trend” is already so old, it isn’t even really a trend anymore. It’s a kind of movie genre that’s been around for a long time. The only time it might have been identified as a trend might have been the wave of it that started in the late 80’s/ early 90’s which, by the way, included the original TMNT.

I don’t see this as a new wave or anything all that different about it. If the piece was about a new school of film, a new approach, a new style, some new angle of writing or theme or content, or any new trend within this genre, it would then be new. And the idea that no one has identified this yet is absurd— unless you have no sense of the history of this trend having already taken root in our culture. Chris, you were just shedding your diapers when it started, and apparently so were the Judges.

At least one comic or cartoon has been made into a movie every year for the past ten, and in some years there were as many as are coming out this year or were cited in this piece. This piece could have been written in just about any of those years, and in fact such pieces have already been written.

Sorry.

Oh Chris, don’t respond to the haters. Clearly this was selected b/c it was about a pop-culture trend, and while it isn’t all that newsworthy of a trend, you brought the ideas together to point out something that many have failed to acknowledge outright. It is relevant in particular to the RS demographic… but I didn’t watch the Smurfs on Sat. mornings, so I thought the piece was about remakes of kids shows. Which I think still has merit.

And congratulations!

were Saturday morning cartoons as well, as was The Hulk, The Flintstones, King Kong, Superman, The Addmas Family, Fat Albert, Flash Gordon, Josie & The PUssycats, Star Trek,Justice Leaguem The Fantastic Four–I’m sure could cite more if I took the time. Ghost Rider? A Fanastic Four character, but not from my generation really.
Most of these are comics that became cartoons, which is a natural progression since comics are where the superhero thing started prior to TV–yes, there was such a world within recent history. Others became TV series with real people, some might have started as TV cartoons or TC shows–but they all were cartoons of the boomer and post-boomer generations from the late 50’s through the 70’s that became motion pictures, through the 80’s and 90’s, some with multiple installments that include recent & upcoming releases that are winning younger fans largely unaware of the history who can’t hep but feel like it’s something new, or, they’re aware that it’s “old”, but with no real idea, due to their youth, what that really means, probably much in the way it seemed to me like Elvis Presley was from a previous stage of evolution when I was a young rocker loving the Beatles, only to realize later in life that the distance (and connection) between the two was much shorter than the entire life cycle of the original Punk movement.

The reference to GI Joe…OK. It’s just not a kicking close because it would only resonate with a small audience…

I’m not out to trash you… it’s just not a new trend, but you’re a decent writer…learn to get whalloped worse than this time and again if you want to survive as one, and contratulations on winning.

–The Guy Who Wrote “The Judges” post

First of all, in my article I was referring specifically to Saturday Morning cartoons. Not comic book movies like Batman or live action tv shows like The Addams Family or Star Trek. Second, I was not referring to the remade and recycled blockbusters like King Kong, Titanic or Poseidon. Last of all, “now you know, and knowing is half the battle,” has nothing to do with the ninja turtles. It was the closing line in the GI Joe public service announcements at the end of the cartoon episodes. The comic book movie and remade blockbuster trends are seperate in their own right and already very well established. Just wanted to clarify.

…of this contest continue to disappoint me. First of all, as Seth noted, this is not a new tend at all. As a forty-someting, I’ve already seen the cartoons and TV shows of my youth– Batman, Spiderman, Star Trek, The Addams Family, and so on—made into feature films and CGI’d to death. Ad to that the constant remakes of King Kong, the Titanic, Poseidon, et al–this is a trend that really started with the boomer generation comics and after (an early 60’s baby, I guess I’d qualify as a tail-end boomer). Of course, when you’re twenty-four, the world is new and revolves around your childhood culture, and you don’t have a broader picture of things.

Next, there are far more important and culturally significant trends going on, like the article on happy-slapping. This is something that actually matters, while TMNT and the like is pop-culture fluff.

Last, I have no idea what the last line of that piece is supposed to invoke or how it relates. Hmmm….. Oh I get it! Half the battle, a reference to the TMNT’s and other superheroes doing battle. The thing is, it seems to be warning me that they’re coming so I can avoid them.

No worries here. I’m not afraid of them, but how Rolling Stone appears to have lost it’s last testicle. This is not the magazine I grew up with at all, and I know few people my age who will even bother to look at it much any more. Let the twenty-somethings have it if this is the kind of writing they are going to reward. Yikes…

My immediate reaction: coma-inducing.

Exciting as watching bread become toast.

Intriguing as a senate hearing on the habitat of flamingos.

Inspiring as a crotch itch.

Well, not a new trend, an old one. Sounds more like a report to me than an article.

I completely agree with you. My sons who are 4 and 5 years old, have recently became huge Transformers fans. Toys, dvds, etc. they love them. But there first real taste of the the cartoon will only come in a theater once it is released. The cartoon isn’t even on Adult Swim.

Filmmakers can hardly put out anything original these days! That being said, though, I doubt the CGI TMNT will top the original live action versions