Steve

Well that’s a personal judgment. It doesn’t matter really, does it?

Almost everything about TV makup has changed since then.

Those looks in the 80s & 90s were designed for SD broadcast on CRT televisions. Today’s 4K HDR TVs are substantially better in every way. You don’t need to push the makup as far for it to look good.

Also tastes have changed. In the 80s and 90s bold colorful looks were much more common and popular. Today, not so much. The trend is for natural looking makup. Shows and movies reflect the tastes of their time.

So yah, TV character makup has changed a lot over the last 35 years.

One card can absolutely run 4 monitors.
Will it get you the framerates you want? Hard to say. Depends on which game and what settings you’ll use.

However using 2 cards to run a single game doesn’t realy work anymore, since SLI has been dropped.

Also GPUs don’t saturate PCIE 16x bandwidth anymore. Even a 5090 might only lose low single digit performance at 8x. If you could run 2 cards, that would easily be better with each at 8x, than one at 16x.