@IceKitsune
 
“when it comes to enjoyment it’s all personal taste nothing more really”
 
When it comes to enjoyment, yes. When it comes to the actual, objective quality of the product, not so much.  
Even though art, as a creative form of personal expression, will always be subjective to a certain extent, there are still objective quality guidelines to execute an idea in a good way.  
For that to be possible, though, it requires care and passion, something which most TV show creators these days don’t have anymore.  
The argument you delivered me here is exactly what I meant in my other comment, when I talked about people defending the modern shows they’re a fan of.  
People who even become fans of a modern show if there’s just one tiny aspect (which might or might not be the only aspect of the show in question that got done right) that they love, like, the BGM.  
I saw that happening too and, quite frankly, I see this in your comment as well:
 
“I think they all can be worth watching if you find something enjoyable in them”
 
Today, a lot of people seem to have unlearnt to judge a TV show as a whole, not just single aspects of it.  
Which I think is one of the reasons why it happens that crappy TV shows get a huge following anyway these days, they like, for example, the animation style or the BGM, and because of that, ignore how terrible and full of holes the plot is.  
Which is probably the reason why most TV show creators don’t care anymore today; they just know that, even if they put out subpar or even completely terrible work, there will be enough people who like it anyway to sell enough and fill their pockets with shiny coins.  
I wish people would be less insistent on their personal taste and develop a better quality consciousness.  
We could have much better TV shows than the below average stuff that gets produced today for the most part.

@neo4812 
YOU’RE JUST MAKING ME FEEL OLDER!
 
Cries
 
(I’m only thirty three)

@Mr grump 
as am i,

@Philweasel 
B-But, I’m not old. I’m like, only 26…TT

@Background Pony #C6DC 
If watching a bunch of wizened old men talk about the ‘good old days’ is popcorn entertainment for you, I suggest you find any of those shows listed and watch them now. A far more productive use of your time.

@Background Pony #C6DC 
No war here. Only a friendly exchange of opinions.

LMAO I LOVE THESE COMMENT WARS GRABS POPCORN

@CMC Scootaloo 
you do know that most 80’s cartoons were cash grabs, right?

@CMC Scootaloo  
I have the feeling that I’m being trolled here. You know what as such I’m done here, but on the off chance you are not a troll all I have to say is to each his own man because honestly when it comes to enjoyment it’s all personal taste nothing more really. I enjoy both modern and 80s/90s cartoons equally but for different reasons, I think they all can be worth watching if you find something enjoyable in them.

@CMC Scootaloo 
Aww man, no! I mean I love the 80’s and early 90’s, but… Samurai Jack, Teen Titans, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Batman: The Brave and the Bold, Gravity Falls, Transformers Animated and Prime, Fillmore!, Kim Possible… and that’s just the stuff that I’ve personally enjoyed.
 
Hell, I fell out of love with animation myself during the 2000’s, but it’s really had a nice resurgence in the new tens.

@IceKitsune
 
Or maybe you just got used to the crappy, love- and heartless quality of today’s TV shows….. That’s a thing I see happen constantly with people, when they defend the modern shows of today, despite that they are of really low quality compared to the 80s and early 90s, because they’re fans and feel obligated to defend them (which often results in badmouthing of the old shows, because they don’t have any real arguments to why the modern shows are supposedly better other than “I like them”).
 
Cartoons, Anime, Live Action shows….. Heck, even video games! Everything was better in the 80s and early 90s (+ late 90s for video games, somehow, the decline in quality started later there), because back then, the creators still cared for what they were making and actually put their heart into it. It wasn’t just work for them, it was a passion as well, which really shows in the quality of what they were making.  
Today, most TV show creators only think about the money they’re getting anymore. It’s a job and a chore for them and a way to keep the roof over their heads, but nothing more.  
And this attitude obviously (but unfortunately) shows in the quality as well.  
That’s the reason why I had given up on modern shows entirely….. Until I found MLP: FiM, where I saw that this was finally a show again that is as good as the stuff from the 80s and early 90s, before everything started to go downhill.  
If MLP: FiM wouldn’t have come around, I would be perfectly content with digging up the old shows from my foalhood, getting my hooves on copies of those and only watch those anymore, ignoring all the stuff from nowadays, because everything else of today just isn’t good anymore.

@Darth Sonic
 
As I said, I barely remembers cartoons from that era. And for the little memories I still have left, there might be a few where it’s merely my nostalgia that makes me think they’re great, yes. 
Still, the 80s have seen hundreds of cartoons. They can’t be all bad, like IceKitsune claims. I doubt that even the majority is as bad as they say. 
Sounds to me like a quickly crafted argument to make G1 look better than it is…..

@Rundas-Cat 
Oh hell yeah. I’d consider this era just as good, which is high praise.

I´m a child of the 90 and while i enyoed the Music, Games, Animes and Cartoons of that Time, i still find many things nowadays good.

Goof Troop, Tiny Toon Adventures, Gargoyles, ReBoot, Dexter’s Laboratory, The Powerpuff Girls, Recess… I also got into anime pretty hard during the 90’s too.
 
It was a damn good decade.

@Darth Sonic 
I’ve recently started buying some Dvd and bluray boxsets of some 90’s gems I missed the first time, Like Batman the animated series, cowboy bebop and Berserk. Great shows.
 
But my heart will always belong to the neon majesty of the 80’s.

@Mr grump 
You poor fucking child. While the 80s were a great decade for experimentation, nothing beats the nineties and early 2000s for cartoons and anime.

@Philweasel 
I’m a 90’s kid but most of the cartoons I watched were from the 80’s. God, VHS was a great format. The only 90’s shows that I liked enough to get nostalgic about today were the original power rangers and beast wars.

@IceKitsune 
I thought it was 90’s at first to be honest, though I knew it was a early example of Disney’s 90’s tv work.
 
As noted, I was born in 83, so it might be nostalgia talking. Still like every little boy on the planet it was all turtles, all the time, I watched the The Care Bears Movie about a thousand times (that freaky book still gives me shivers), I secretly thought MLP was better than transformers and desperately tried to hide that fact from my friends, and ThunderCats and He-man toys were often locked in mortal combat throughout my house.

@Philweasel  
I actually had to look up Rescue Rangers I had forgotten about that Preview episode they showed in ’88.

@Darth Sonic 
Rescue Rangers was 1988 - 1990, Duck Tails was 1987 - 1990, and you’re right, Tail Spin first aired in 1990. (That year man…)
 
Looking at the timeline, the early 80’s was fairly rubbish it’s true. The second half though… Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was 87, ThunderCats was 85, The Real Ghostbusters was 86, M.A.S.K was 85, Care Bears was 85, Jem was 85, MLP was 86, Transformers was 1984…
 
I was born in 83. This is why I’m a giant freaking geek.

@Philweasel  
Disney Afternoon Cartoons are the sole exception to 80s cartoons not actually being able to match up to cartoons today. Only 3 of which are actually from the 80s (Gummi Bears, DuckTales, and C&D RR; and Rescue Rangers barely counts IMO being very late ‘89).
 
 
@CMC Scootaloo  
I seriously question how many 80s cartoons you have actually watched at this point. With the exception of the Disney cartoons, I can’t think of any that match up to stuff today. I’m not saying they are unwatchable or anything (some of them are perfectly fun to watch honestly) just not up to today’s standard in any way.

@Philweasel 
Those Disney shows… I thought those were early 90s?

@Darth Sonic  
I wouldn’t judge them too harshly. In fact I think it’s rather ignorant of their impact to dismiss western animation in the 80’s. After the limited animation, non-existent budget, gag based cartoons of the 70’s, the 80’s was the era of experimentation, real storytelling, risk taking and a honest attempt at real art.
 
Was it perfect? No, even the best of it stands out as rough today, but without it to drive forward the evolution of the form, modern western cartoons would never be as good as they are. Disney in particular were on fire during this era, Rescue Rangers, Duck Tails, Talespin… I’d confidently claim that Disney’s tv work in the 80’s helped create the conditions for Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and the rest of their seminal movie work of the 90’s.
 
It says a lot that a whole ton of shows from back then have popular modern remakes running now. There were some fantastic concepts there, even if the level of technology and skill didn’t quite match their ambition.

@CMC Scootaloo 
Holy shit, are you wrong. Yes, there were good cartoons in the 80s… In theaters and Japan. On American TV? Don’t make me laugh.