Before i thought each season was gonna be 26 episodes, but look like one season is 13 episodes. Then that means we are gonna get four? As the total number of episodes are gonna be 52?
Essentially yes, though there could be more. Cartoon Network divided the season in half. From what I’ve heard they will do this to ANY 26 episode season show, not just Thundercats. so on the WB/production side of things it’s 2 seasons, but CN will air and promote it as 4.
Then it is as i thought from the start. Thanks Balgus!
Does this mean we have to wait an entire year for next season (the next batch of 13 eps)?
Nope. Season two AKA Next half of Season one is coming back in January.
Cartoon Network did the same in 2002 with the MOTU show: there were supposed to be three seasons of 26 eps each, but they aired 13 at a time before a break, so each season was divided in two.
CN also did that with the Scooby Doo: Mystery Inc. cartoon as well.
And let’s not forget we’ve already HAD a seven-week break this season.
Standard rule in kids’ shows is that they get cut off after 5 years. (Assuming 26 episodes per season, that actually comes out to the same 130-episode number that was common in 1980’s syndication.) The theory is that 5 years is too long for a kid to keep watching a show and continuing to buy the all-important toys.
Which is, of course, absurd; Teen Titans went from being the most popular show on CN and being rerun half-a-dozen times a day to immediately being canceled, for no reason other than this absurd view that its popularity was bound to decline.
Similarly, the last seasons of Justice League Unlimited were staggered and the show was finally canceled under a similar notion that people were going to stop buying the toys – and I still saw JLU-branded toys on the shelves as recently as last year.
Never mind that I was watching JLU and Teen Titans in my early twenties because when I was ten years old Batman: The Animated Series made me a fan for life.
Anyhow, that’s all a bit of a tangent; wiser men than I have lost their marbles trying to make sense of why TV execs think the way they do. Cable TV and children’s TV are both more eccentric than prime time network TV, which is eccentric enough by itself – and cable children’s TV may be the most arbitrary and eccentric of all.
But the important thing is, at least we won’t be left hanging for TOO long after what happened in Friday’s episode. Yeesh.
Two words…Star Trek.
I think this applies to a good portion of the peeps up here :D. Batman…good memories. Anyway, do we have an actual verified date for the second season to start?
I think they said that we’ll know when they do.
I hope the break isn’t to long , it took so long for some shows in cn to come back i was,starting to wonder if they canceled them.
We haven’t gotten exact date yet. The best answer we have is this from Dan Norton on Facebook:
“I know peeps are confused on when the shows coming back on, so while I’m not even sure about the next release date of the next new episode, I’m pretty sure it’s not till early next year. I think we’ll be rebroadcasting previous episodes till then. It’s the holidays guys, just the way it goes. But thanks for all the support.”