The best advice I can think of: artificially lower your expectations beforehand by assuming every worst-case scenario is true. I was a bit disappointed by my first viewing of the old Transformers series in my adult life, but I think this would have helped.
The animation is going to be much worse than you remember. The voice acting is going to be cheesy. The plots not as sophisticated as you hoped. The humor a bit stale. And you'll find out you were remembering the best of the best episodes, not the ones that boil down to 'Slimer does something kooky and everyone chases him.'
It may not all be true, but if you go in ready for the worst, you can probably still recapture what was great about it. There are definitely episodes of the show I still look back on fondly even now, and while my memory's probably glossed over the less-than-stellar aspects of them, I'd still love to see them again. Even if I have to remind myself that the animation's not going to be up to the level of good anime or Gargoyles or anything, and that I didn't realize when I was a kid that the tormented musician with a flute that could destroy the world had a vaguely Elvis-esque voice.
Let me know how it turns out, because I'm quite intrigued.
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Date: 2005-03-08 02:53 am (UTC)The animation is going to be much worse than you remember. The voice acting is going to be cheesy. The plots not as sophisticated as you hoped. The humor a bit stale. And you'll find out you were remembering the best of the best episodes, not the ones that boil down to 'Slimer does something kooky and everyone chases him.'
It may not all be true, but if you go in ready for the worst, you can probably still recapture what was great about it. There are definitely episodes of the show I still look back on fondly even now, and while my memory's probably glossed over the less-than-stellar aspects of them, I'd still love to see them again. Even if I have to remind myself that the animation's not going to be up to the level of good anime or Gargoyles or anything, and that I didn't realize when I was a kid that the tormented musician with a flute that could destroy the world had a vaguely Elvis-esque voice.
Let me know how it turns out, because I'm quite intrigued.