I’m just the opposite - I can’t sit through a movie today if it has anything more than just a bare minimum of CGI effects. To me it looks unnatural. I’d rather watch some guy in a rubber Godzilla suit stomp thru a cardboard building Tokyo than endure an FXed up version.
I have a bit of a film background so I really enjoy the make-do FX of the past - I don’t mean Ed Wood type fx (although I love his so-bad-it’s-goodness).
I remember on one shoot I was working on we needed a strobe effect, but a strobe-light wasn’t in the (very low) budget, so I cut up cardboard into a circle, made a slit in the circle, then attached a toycar motor to make it go round. Put it in front of the lens or put a light behind it and -tada - a nifty pseudo-strobe that worked just fine.
We had a local space guy show or two, also - but in our neck of the woods in the late 50s-mid 60s the big kids show host was an old Scandinavian fellow who lived in a tree house.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISEIQLOSkos
Nichelle Nichols mentioned that a lot of black folks tuned in because of her. Black folks weren’t real common as main characters at the time.
William Marshall was in an episode too, in a very unpatronizing role.