Totally Spies!: Is it was just a trend?

The brand-new season of Totally Spies! had arrived back two months already, and then, some YouTuber started to review several episodes of the season, well, those that were already available.

TBH, reviving the characters of Alex, Clover and Sam onto the 2024s reality is quite odd. And really, this is look much low-budget than it was in the older seasons of the show. Much typical of that most Europpean cartoons are made thesedays. It don't help that my current backlash post from the new season and all these iterations made the whole thing more jarring. That make me ask, who ever approved the project to reboot THIS?

It's like Miraculous: Lady Bug and Cat Noir, but on a lesser extent though. Problem with this other fantasy cartoon is it suffers of some Euro-Itis cases, that means a production (Or co-production in this case) have to be exploited heavily for many national locales as fast unlike in the old days by waiting a year or two before others countries would seen the thing. It don't help that most of time, the characters are so one-dimensional, by smells lots of cynicism on its writing and even the villains are not better by be more obvious than some nerds who may sells their soul to seen the Dr. Claw's face. For an animated series that last for almost a decade and by have the Sailor Moon manga at inspiration, it's pity that this is like nothing ever happening by claims it like a direct rip-off. And you end up with generic heroic characters than people with their own self-interests, issues and traumas. (And the less says about LoliRock, the better)

The newer Spies! designs were probably there for be close to actual traditional hand-drawn animation as possible for the 21th century. The older seasons were too Digitalized at a point episodes started to look of someone's on a computer that had made creepy work by Adobe Flash! Even Brandy & Mr. Whiskers' earliest episodes have suffers of a very "fan-made" look, and that are getting more grating to watch in the newer restored prints. (Yeah, with those dreaded Photoshopped titles)

Really, this new season is another example that reboots are tricky to be made, while the tiring Spy and High-school Teenage girls genres were quite dated for years now. It's like a stand-up comedian who tried to rehearse Jack Benny's old cracks and bits without ever known his name... But in this, it's like trying too hard to be relevant with two genres that modern-day audiences would seen it at alien concepts.

Watching the new season is not for says if it's good or bad, but to reminds us the old days when Teletoon showed this lots of time in hours people actually watched TV and when linear Television in Canada were more healthier than it is today. For the same reason, we start too to miss the days when Johnny Test (Like with the Spiez!, not one, but two new seasons of Johnny Test were released in the earlier of this decade. But only on Netflix and WildBrain TV unfortunately) was the titular flagship of the beloved Canadian animation network.