My Life In Fandom: Doozy Bots, A Bullet Dodged (#AGundam4Us)

This came over my Twitter feed late last night. We almost had this SD Gundam-like thing as America's First Gundam. Uh, yeah.

Bullet. Dodged.

Note the year: 1991. That's the year Batman: The Animated Series debuted, launching the DC Animated Universe (my preferred DC continuity). This show would have been buried by the competition, as were damn near every other actual series that went against it at the time, and there was no way that the target audience would have gone for that half-assed show over a Batman series that didn't talk down and otherwise disrespect the audience.

You do not break into a new market by shoving bullshit like this into their faces. Gundam Wing hit big for a reason, and that reason was a series that knew and respected the audience. American animation--to this day--has routine issues with coming at the audience seeking to talk down to it and otherwise shit on it- something audiences notice and "reward" by staying away in droves.

Sounds familiar, doesn't it? This bullshit was commonplace well before #Gamergate, #Comicsgate, and the other consumer revolts we have now got going and earned their monikers. Same bullshit, same causes, different day. Some things don't easily change, do they?

Support people who actually treat you properly. You won't get this from #StarKnight, which you can support here (and has a week to do as of this post).