YMMV / Speed Racer: The Next Generation

• Better on DVD: The three parters from the first season are done better on DVD, as the episodes are edited together as a movie. Best example is "The Fast Track".
• Ho Yay: Conor's "date" to the school dance.
• I Knew It!: Quite a few fans speculated that Trixie may've been Speed Jr and X's mother, as the original Speed and Trixie were lovers in the original series. This turned out to be correct in the second season.
• Special Effect Failure: The CGI and Adobe Flash animation would be impressive...in the late 1980s. Now, in the 2000s/2010s? Not so much, especially considering the leaps and bounds Flash animation alone has gone through (sometimes the best being barely able to distinguish between traditional 2D animation).
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot:
  • Speed Sr. only makes himself known to his son at the last second of Season One, leaving viewers without an answer to why he went into hiding, what adventures he went through for 40 years, where the other original characters are, and what he's going to do now. Instead, we get episodes that recycle the same exact plot with the same villain in a school setting. Speed doesn't even get to race outside of the campus! Season Two doesn't seem to make things any easier to understand, as Speed Sr. leaves again at the end of the first episode, and only make sporadic appearances after that. Later episodes of Season Two do flesh out the plot, among other things, and in fact goes into Cerebus Syndrome territory over time.
  • Midway, through Season 2, X's Shooting Star is destroyed in a fight. Spritle's solution? To offer X the original Shooting Star, once driven by Spritle's other brother, Rex Racer (Racer X himself). The episode ends with Connor offering to fix it up to be X's new car. What does the following episode do instead? Completely DROP this idea altogether, with X being shown driving driving his car at the start of the episode that was miraculously restored with no explanation as to how or why. And it's ultimately rendered a moot case when X turns traitor and joins the Shadow Organization at the end of the episode and stays the gang's enemy until the final arc of the series.

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