Bluff's Castle Corner

  Recently, an animated adaptation of the comic strip Phoebe and Her Unicorn   was cancelled by Nickelodeon, who claimed that boys won't watch cartoons with female protagonists. This incident shows how out of touch TV executives are with the audiences of their shows. Contrary to popular belief, gender doesn't matter. A good show is a good show, and if it's good, then anyone, including boys, can watch it, and history has proven that time and time again. Here are just a few examples: Winsome Witch is a series of Hanna-Barbera shorts that aired during The Secret Squirrel Show . Even in the 1960s, Hanna-Barbera knew that boys can watch shows with female leads. Winsome Witch  is about a witch named Winnie, and the magical mishaps she gets into. She's just as clumsy and hilarious as any other male H-B character, and she doesn't have a sidekick. While she is obscure nowadays, that's just because the various backup segments in Hanna-Barbera shows aren't very well-k...

  Animation IS cinema My post about cringe culture, fandoms, and kids media, which you can read here , briefly mentioned how outsiders mock animation fans for using animated kids shows to say that animation is for everyone. I want to follow up on that point.  I had the displeasure of seeing an awful post on my Twitter timeline that went “the ‘animation IS cinema’ people always pick the dweebiest movies to make their argument. Just post Beavis and Butt-Head Do America guys, nobody would disagree” Wow okay mr edgelord. You sound like a stereotypical Disney Channel bully.  The ‘animation is cinema’ image comes from The Mitchells vs the Machines, which is a family-friendly movie that many hold up as a good example of an animated movie, and how animation is for everyone. This gets mocked by outsiders who think that this movie uses the “Grubhub art style” or some BS like that. As you can see, people who act like that think animation is only for children, and plug their ears and...

"i'M nOt rEaDiNg aLl tHaT" Ok, scroll down for the TL:DR. Recently, the CEO of Disney, Bob Chapek, has stated the animation is only for children . Never mind that this is the same company that owns The Simpsons, and was founded by a guy who said, and I quote "You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway." Naturally, this has caused universal backlash within the animation community, with many people defending animation as a medium for everyone, not just kids. However, the animation community was also mocked by outsiders for using kids' shows, such as Gravity Falls, to prove that animation is for everyone. In fact, the animation community (more specifically the western animation community) has always been cruelly harassed by outsiders for watching cartoons, especially ones aimed at children.   There is nothing wrong with watching children's shows AT ALL. Watching kids' shows doesn't make you immature, a pedophile,...

  Welcome one and all, to CallanCove's corner. I'm your host, Elijah. You may know me from Twitter, where I'm your average cartoon funnyman and opinion haver. No, I don't have anything to do with skin wellness, that's just sheer coincidence. My username actually comes from two locations from Thomas and Friends: CALLAN Castle and Bluff's COVE. Because the IMDb user base is a toxic waste dump, I decided to move my written reviews to this blog instead. I'm not sure if anyone will read this, but I just like writing and analysis. REMINDERS  1) Watch Ready Jet Go, Steven Universe, Thomas and Friends, Infinity Train, Kid Cosmic, Amphibia, The Owl House, Invincible, Molly McGee, Trese, Animaniacs, Looney Tunes Cartoons, Middlemost Post, Jellystone, Arcane, Batman TAS, TUGS, Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum, Moral Orel, Regular Show, King of the Hill, Maya and the Three, Centaurworld, and OK KO Let's Be Heroes. Peak fiction for western animation. 2) Watch Neon...