Time to Play Another Round of: "Guess Why Joe's Depressed!"

Topic: Animation

Here's the deal. As browsing through a Wikipedia Page about TV animated series (of recent years) will attest, there are 2 main qualities lacking in modern American TV Toons: Not quality, as some of these shows still manage to be entertaining.

But 2 qualities consistently lacking in American TV cartoon shows would be: Productivity and Originality. 

Much like Hollywood, TV in L.A. has become so popular with people everyone's becoming scared to do anything original and new and instead they just  greenlight what's already been established and and proven to be popular. Shit that already "works" in producers' eyes.

Nowadays, everything is a "Franchise series, or spinoff, or sequel, or prequel, or a namesake"

TV is an "imprecise science" and that definitely factor's in. Comics are a precise science. Novels are a precise science. Hollywood movies and TV shows? Where there's hundreds of people contributing. That's an imprecise science at best. No one person makes the whole thing. For better and worse. Mostly worse.

So if you're reading this, and you plan on making your own show one day, regardless of whether you have the resources of a rich guy/gal or not. Trust me on this one, make shit up. Play in your own world. Make UP your own world. Do a Motorcity, or a Regular Show, Aeon Flux, or an Oban Star Racers, or an IGPX, or an Invader Zim, or a Batman. Don't just linger in someone else's world your whole career.

What this industry needs currently, is people who want to try something new. Go in directions that no one's gone. Not  being afraid to make mistakes and lose money is the SOUL of L.A., even if it is a highly lucrative business.