A long time ago I did a list on both the best & worst modern cartoons, since then four new entries have appeared and one entry from the last list that's had a rethink, so to save me on extensive editing I shall list these five entries here.
Rethink
Avengers Earth's Mightiest Heroes
Season 2's Skrull Invasion took over the story and became difficult to follow when most of the heroes became disguised Skrulls. The plot was too over complicated when all that was needed was a villain bad enough to be a threat but not too over complex that trying to follow his/her plan gives me chronic headaches.
Worst
Monsuno
What the hell is this show about? Monsuno is a Japanese/American hybrid series like Transformers & like that show is also a promotion heavy toy series. I'm afraid like Redakai, it has the same problem. You don't give a ridiculous name and silly mystic back story to a TOY!!! In fact to quote a certain Cowboy doll.
"YOU ARE A TOY!!!!!" "YOU ARE A CHILD'S PLAYTHING!!!"
Huntik: Secrets & Seekers
At least this show doesn't make it obvious that it was made from a Children's Card Game, but doesn't stop it being utter crap, another mystic show which tries too hard. A sad problem with today's cartoons is that any attempt to copy the Yu-Gi-Oh formula, has resulted in a lot of shows like this one; being completely redundant in content. It doesn't help that I was born in the advertisement heavy cartoons of the 80s & grew up with the still toy heavy but "were trying to give you good messages" 90s so I'm not affected by this anymore.
Gormiti Nature Unleashed
I gave Gormiti a free ride because it wasn't bad enough to warrant a worst mark but only charming enough to just miss the best list, then they made this.
Quite possible the worst CGI show ever made, how the bloody hell does a modern show mess up CGI! Reboot is better than this, CGI Ripoffs of popular films are better than this, heck even amateurs on Youtube are better than this. Italy you are now the worst country for cartoons.
You can't make CGI and you can't make decent cartoons.
Best
Gravity Falls
Disney have done their homework, they realize it's a waste of time trying to compete on the big screen with 2D animation but can't always make CGI last on the small screen without a well known name promoting it, so that's why small screen Disney Cartoons are still 2D. They also know that Phineas & Ferb are nearing their end so lets see what's popular.
"Hey Cartoon Network are doing well with surreal shows, why not do that?"
"That's a great idea lets hire a former employee who worked with JG Quintel"
After a hiccup with Fish Hooks we have Gravity Falls, a show that combines surreal mysteries without looking like they're ripping off Regular Show and plenty of good writing to last a few seasons.
It also makes a change for the female lead not to be the nagging voice of "I told you so" and finally being a crazy free spirit.
So not much has changed but at least Disney is still doing what it does best.
