If you'd like, I'll try to get an answer from the horse's mouth. :)
My take? Fear of censorship, worries over "too adult" storylines, and the aforementioned attempts to capitalize on "robots are cool!" stuff. Kids programming in those days was dire. They were still trying to break into a market that clung to the "cartoons are only for kids" mentality, and the people in power were the same idiots who thought the comics code was the best thing ever.
I have the first four seasons of that show and I find that due to poor subtitles, it's actually tougher to watch than it should be. The stories, while amusingly dated, are actually pretty good stuff and the show is better than I remembered in many ways.
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Date: 2009-09-09 04:11 pm (UTC)My take? Fear of censorship, worries over "too adult" storylines, and the aforementioned attempts to capitalize on "robots are cool!" stuff. Kids programming in those days was dire. They were still trying to break into a market that clung to the "cartoons are only for kids" mentality, and the people in power were the same idiots who thought the comics code was the best thing ever.
I have the first four seasons of that show and I find that due to poor subtitles, it's actually tougher to watch than it should be. The stories, while amusingly dated, are actually pretty good stuff and the show is better than I remembered in many ways.