>>85269020>>85268749I actually also grew up back then. On second thought, I think it might have been for simple reasons.
I was specifically thinking of another show that had a bad end, though not as bad, Parker Lewis Can't Lose. Show started out pretty cartoony, really fun, then from the second season and into the third one it became more and more like a John Hughes movie, but the last episode is about some cafe the characters gathered in getting closed down. Could be a bitter reaction to being canned, or an influence of other media that was a hit back then; John Hughes movies and stuff, etc. For instance, not long before, Alf had a bad end of sorts, but it was an accident, because it was a two-parter that never got finished.
Same with the dark comedies, Oingo Boingo and The Cure were really popular in music, so maybe they were just trying to make movies appealing to the younger crowd back then.
>9/11 literally ruined the world, we probably would have had hundreds of billions poured into science and NASA and clean energy by now if it wasn't for it.Not so much, though it probably seemed like that from the u.s., supposedly beign attacked in their own territory in a long time. "War" was just a way of saying "ayyy let's nuke someone", ignoring the fact both sides suffer from a war.
NASA already wasted millions in some probe that crashed in Mars, when it could have gone to better use on Earth.
Clean energy? That's probably one of the things they were trying to avoid, the attack on Middle East was largely seen to be about oil prices.
9/11 happened within a couple weeks after the u.s. refused to sign an international treaty that declared slavery a Crime Against Humanity; it was assumed they were afraid black descendants could sue if that got through. So, it might as well have been a distraction.
It did influence media, I assume, Smallville seemed like it was written all around the Superman song, from Five For Fighting, whcih was about the local heroes on 9/11.
