What the hell, CN?
http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/01/28/young-justice-green-lantern-tas-cancelled
I’m done. This is the last straw. The worst part is they’ll probably be Lego ripoffs of the two shows in a few months. The only good thing is that Level Up apparently got axed, too.
yeahh.. i just found out too. I couldn’t believe that they would cancel Young Justice and I was really really getting into it!!! D:< If they know if a show is not doing well why not try to come up with an ending months before that cancel it so we won’t have cliff hangers. I only now watch 15 mins of CN because the rest of their shows suck. The mall and toy stores are damed to hell because all i see is Chima stadees and products bllaaah now Young justice. I swear CN head leader is a Troll.I have little faith That TC will ever come back.
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I wasn’t real big into either of the shows mainly because I am not a huge fan of the DC franchise and the only character I do like from DC is Batman and the Batman villains (yeah, I’ll give Beware the Batman a whirl.) Also Green Lantern was not my cup of tea in the first place. I’m more of a Marvel gal, myself. Did they deserve to get axed? Absolutely not. They have done that with way too many action shows and apparently are wanting to pee in the cereals of their Saturday morning action line-up viewers…or want certain age groups watching their network.
I’m here to look a bit on the bright side: Powerpuff Girls X and Teen Titans Go! I cannot say much for Teen Titans Go!, we know what it basically is. Now, according to what I’ve read for the Powerpuff Girls series, neither Lauren Faust nor Craig McCraken are involved. Butch Hartman is. Odd (no pun intended,) I wonder if Nick fired him. I was never a fan of his idea of his characters yelling their heads off, but I did like Danny Phantom and I’ll give the series a go when it airs in September. Just hope they bring some of the writers and animators of the series back.
Like I said on Facebook, “God f@%*ing dammit!!!”:mad:
I don’t see where it would have hurt them to have four DC-related shows on. GL and YJ were doing well and building an audience. I know programming space is limited, and in order to bring on new shows, some underperforming ones have to go, but come on. They could have split DC Nation into a weekend thing and have one block on Saturday and another Sunday or some other day.
I’m convinced CN’s programming executives either have a real bad case of ADD or are actually chimpanzees. That or they all came over from Fox, because they’re just as bad now as Fox was several years ago.
It’s telling that they let these quality shows go, yet “The Annoying Orange” gets another season!
At this point, I think Warners should simply start up another network for all their geek and DC properties. Or maybe shop them to the Hub, since they’re alreadt showing some of their earlier stuff like Batman and Superman TAS and Batman Beyond. That would seem to be the way to go at this point. CN seems to only care about what’s “of the moment” and making backroom deals with Lego.
Haven’t been on this site for a while and decided to return. Anyway, heard about this terrible news on tumblr. 
Real damn shame because while I watched one season of the Green Lantern series and was going to catch up on it in addition to planning to watch Young Justice based on the few clips I’ve seen, I thought they were good shows just like Thundercats and didn’t deserve to get axed. Seems like Cartoon Network is run by Patrick Star than actual competent and sensible programming executives.
CN has clearly lost its way.
If they’re not involved then I won’t tune into that. I’m going to have to pass on Teen Titans Go! as well, seeing that they plan on making it a toned-down, comedy-based version of the original show, which happens to be one of my favorite cartoons of all time.
Going off-topic, people also seem to be flipping out about Clone Wars not being on the list of returning shows, but isn’t the reason behind it obvious? Disney owns Star Wars, so it’s most likely going to Disney.
Not only are they axing good shows, they’re also making timeless and truly hilarious classics into laughing stocks. Especially the Looney Tunes show. Looney Tunes was always about a bunny and/or a duck being chased by a hunter or a redbearded idiot and outwitting them for laughs. Now?! Bugs is just a perfectionist millionaire, Daffy’s a retard…And Elmer Fudd NEVER gets any real screen-time!!! And Scooby Doo! Mystery Incorporated’s being airing its entire SECOND season all the way down to its troll of a finale, in New Zealand, when it’s supposed to be on a hiatus!
I was reading a rather funny thread on Toonzone called something like “The Best and Worst of Cartoon Network 2012.” People were making lists of the best and worst things that happened. Almost every worst list had the DC Nation random hiatus, ThunderCats cancelation, and the single fact that Annoying Orange exists on them. I think that truly shows what CN thinks of their fans, or doesn’t, rather. What shows do they try to shove down the throats of viewers? The ones in the category thought up by a friend of mine are what they do it with. Not comedy, not entertainment, just bright colors and noise. That’s all they care about, basically. Bright colors and noise can only sell so much before it gets ridiculously stale, which for me was when it started.
The ONLY thing CN has going for it (for me) is that they’re the channel showing the How To Train Your Dragon spin-off TV series. That is it. If they get rid of that, I will have absolutely no reason to tune into their programming.
This is purely my opinion, but I find that show retains NONE of what made me like the movie, just like most other movie-based television series (i.e. Kung Fu Panda on Nick). It seems to be just a bland cash grab to make more money off the movie rather than (or between) making a sequel.
I’ve noticed that too, but I think that’s why I enjoy watching it. Though it has the same characters, I never quite know what to expect from it. Besides, it serves well its purpose of keeping the viewing/target audience interested until the sequel hits theaters June 2014.
I do understand your opinion on it, though. That’s kinda how it was with the new Thundercats series. Some liked it because it took that new approach and others hated it because they felt it wasn’t an adequate remake/re-telling.
But I feel as if the Dragons cartoon completely dumbed it down. ThunderCats was just a different take and by no means did it reduce what the original show had just to please a target audience. In fact, it did quite the opposite. While CN seems ever so focused on target audiences making up their ratings, many teenagers/adults did see the How to Train Your Dragon movie. I think anyone could say the show is just a predictable rehash of the movie and a remarkable step down in quality overall.
I’m not saying no one should enjoy it, but it’s just a cash grab for Dreamworks and CN and nothing more. They’re not trying to make it a decent show because they can just feed off the hype from the movie. Apparently, however, that isn’t enough because its ratings have been somewhat in the gutter lately. My point is that you really only feed what CN is doing wrong in the business by watching it because they like easy cash more than actually being an entertaining and well-rounded network. I don’t think ANY business owner would specifically remove aspects of their company in order to appeal to LESS people in favor of targeting a certain age group. So shows like Young Justice really got axed just because they weren’t getting the ratings in the 6-11 age group, despite having the third highest ratings of any show on the network. With Dragons, Annoying Orange, and so many other shows they have, it’s easy to target the younger kids because they were not made to be quality shows and are solely there to keep kids’ attention enough until they buy something from the show.
This is why you never see any CN shows getting massive amounts of praise because nearly all of them are targeted towards an age gap of 5 years. Shows like MLP and The Legend of Korra work because they appeal to more than the target audience of the network or block’s original plan. The funny part is, both of those shows are feeding off previous works (mainly the latter) yet they manage to also bring new people in as fans. I don’t think anyone has become a fan of The Annoying Orange because of the TV show (but no one alive should even watch that), or Dragons. Not to mention that if one of your largest age groups for viewership is adults from 18-49, that would include parents, and they are the ones actually buying the merchandise, not the kids.