Cartoon Network Greenlights Two Series

[Drtooth]

Looks like Young Justice and Green Lantern: TAS might get the shaft in favor of the new CGI Batman series.

Greg Weiseman can't catch a break, can he? GL just freaking started. The Batman series has merit, but the Teen Titans show sounds completely awful. A poor attempt to be the old series while throwing out everything that made the original series good. This is exactly why I hate when people want a show back years after it ended. it never makes good results. I fail to see why expanding DC Nation to 2 hours will destroy the universe. 4 shows all together? That's a programming block. It's been completely confirmed GL is canceled, and that was a moronic move. That series singlehandedly undid the damage of the completely misguided infodump of a movie. Heck, Batman and GL would look great together. Young Justice is a lost cause because it's too good.

Seriously... every time CN finally pulls their heads out of their butts and does something respectful, they Troll their loyal audience with stupidity. Speaking of which...

On the plus side, there's plenty more new animated stuff premiering on CN (they sure are trying to shove that dang All That wannabe down our throats).

Most of the stuff sounds promising, I guess. But really.. WHY do we need a terrible live action sketch show that no one is going to watch, everyone's going to complain about, and is going to be on the air indefinitely, no matter how low the ratings and critical reception are? OH! Because the CN heads are doing it on purpose. They're Trolling everyone. They know it's a berserk button, and they just love to be complete jerkwads about it. That's why they're forcing that terrible show down everyone's throat. They know it's not going to take, they know the commercials for "a bunch of 20 year olds act like spastic 3 year olds" are going to get everyone angry. They just have the luxury of screwing with the audience, and they won't let us forget that.

That said. Oh nice... Thundercats is still on cancelaitus, huh? ^%$# Bandai. I know it's their fault. Their toyline was overpriced and sucky (except for the 20 dollar classic line which was only overpriced), and the same thing happened to the Mega Man cartoon... Hey... WHAT?!?! They renew Annoying Orange? I swear these internet based shows get these programs through nepotism. However, I applaud their renewal of Looney Tunes show and Scooby-Doo Mystery Inc. The latter they've been trying to screw multiple times first season.

 

[Sgt Floyd]

That said. Oh nice... Thundercats is still on cancelaitus, huh? ^%$# Bandai. I know it's their fault. Their toyline was overpriced and sucky (except for the 20 dollar classic line which was only overpriced), and the same thing happened to the Mega Man cartoon... Hey... WHAT?!?!

Wait, the new Thundercats was already cancelled? I actually haven't seen it, though I vaguely remember liking Thundercats as a little kid...though now i think I'd rather watch Swat Kats

 

[Drtooth]

It's on "Hiatus" which means it's unofficially cancelled despite the huge call to get it back. And I wouldn't say that Bandai's terrible toy line was a huge factor. Bandai has canceled shows that don't sell toys before, even though they have that little say in it. Love it or hate it, the 90's Mega Man series had great ratings, but was cut down in the second season because of their botched toy line. The company is a giant in Japan... here, it's a confused fat oaf that doesn't know what the heck it's supposed to be doing unless it's Power Ranger related.

That said, Scooby-Doo: Mystery Inc was on hiatus and it came back.

 

[Sgt Floyd]

I wonder if the real issue is that knowing how fans of things are, any attempt to reboot something makes everyone scream and cry and whine and then there's the issue of finding a new audience, when a lot of people cry about "old sucks."

Then again, i don't know how popular Thundercats actually was. I only know of a few people who watched the old show, and I never have heard anyone mention the new one, not even on my ventures around the internet.

 

[Drtooth]

I wonder if the real issue is that knowing how fans of things are, any attempt to reboot something makes everyone scream and cry and whine and then there's the issue of finding a new audience, when a lot of people cry about "old sucks."

The ones that scream and cry are the older fuddy duddies that refuse to give something new a chance and the ones that say old sucks are too young to have actually seen it and don't have a nostalgic imprint. I never watched Transformers much as a kid, so I am very open to non-Michael Bay interpretations of the franchise. I LOVE Animated and Prime, but I also love the classic one.

But the new Thundercats found a loyal audience. Some of them actually watched the old series and find it great supplemental material. Unfortunately, that audience wasn't the toy buying public, so I can see why WB wanted to get rid of it. meanwhile, the new TMNT figures flew off the shelves Christmas time because, for all the problems Playmates has, they have reasonably priced action figures that are the size of action figures and not G.I.Joes. But that's another rant for another time.

Come to think of it, Young Justice has a toy line, GLTAS doesn't. It had a kid's meal the second the show started up, meaning there weren't too many characters besides Hal Jordan (which had 3 variants in a selection of 8 toys), Killawogg, and Razer.

But what really cheeses me off about them getting rid of Green Lantern? They finally got Sinestro into the series. WB and DC comics have this annoying little habit, even though they own all their own media (except for that one thing in the 60's), they ban certain characters from appearing in shows if they have plans for movies or other shows. Sinestro was Batbanned because of wembling about if they were going to make another Green Lantern movie. While it did get them to do more obscure story lines about Red Lanterns, they couldn't use the comic's signature villain because of a movie they didn't know if they were going to make or not, which very likely wasn't going to happen. So Sinestro's either just going to turn into a villain as the show ends giving him a rush job, or leave it as an annoying dangling plot point, that only serves as a big fat middle finger for the fans.