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http://sfdebris.com/videos/animation/gargoyless2e7.php

I was going through Chuck's animation reviews when I got to this one. For some reason, it plays his review of the Star Gate: Atlantis episode, Risen instead of this review when I hit play.

What I really like about these reviews is that he points out that just because it is animated does not mean he should treat it any differently then he would any other medium he reviewed. There are so many people who look down on a production just because it is animated that it is nice to see it treated that way. I also like that he points out moments where they do things better then they would have in most of the live action stuff he reviews.

Last time I checked only the intro sequence seems to be wrong, the rest of the video is the review of this episode. My best guess is that Chuck mistakenly put the Atlantis intro on the video and never noticed.

You are right, I just did not listen far enough to see/hear the switch over. My mistake and will watch it now, thank you for letting me know.

I always took his remark to not be about animation but rather on a production meant for children

It could be he was was talking childrens entertainment in general. I just assumed he was talking specifically about animation because the comments he was responding to reminded me of comments I have read/heard people use to dismiss animation, and any deep discussion about it, in the past.

As Chuck has pointed out many times, in both the Gargoyles AND Voyager reviews, the former show was demonstrating far more sophistication than the latter in many instances. I think in general he makes the point to say "You can dismiss this one thing, but it is intellectually dishonest to hold your other thing to a different standard". Either way you want to go with that is up to the individual. Either you can take it that some children's cartoons deserve literary merit as much as any adult live action show....or you can take the preferred detour and say that Voyager is on the same level as the one about a farting warthog.