1/28/2013
Many of us saw the news this morning that both Green Lantern: The Animated Series and Young Justice were omitted from a Cartoon Network press release about their coming 2013-14 season. While the omission wasn't a statement of cancelation, Newsarama is now reporting that a Warner Brother spokesman has confirmed that both shows will not be returning after the completion of their current season despite strong ratings performances and good sales on digital marketplaces.
I'm not really sure what else to say at this point other than it is a complete disappointment to see something so well crafted and executed not given a chance to endure by a network which so clearly doesn't know what it's doing. As often said the network only cares how their shows move product and in Green Lantern's case the show was never given the chance to show it could since no mainstream marketplace merchandising was ever generated. My many thanks to the producers, writers, actors, animators and everyone else associated with the series who have made it very, very special for this Green Lantern fan.
Source: Newsarama
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17 comments:
After the unannounced hiatus, the Season Passes on DVRs not recording the new episodes and lack of merchandising or marketing puts all the blame in Cartoon Network's hands. I really hope that the CW picks up this DC Nation block for their saturday mornings.
Yea, I had a feeling this was coming. They never gave a explanation of that hiatus. It seemed like it was poorly thrown together and like they were scrambling to set something else up. The lack of respect for these two shows was evident.
Of course something so good has to come to an end. Make way for another crappy Batman and Teen Titans cartoon show.
Making room for a new Powerpuff girls series aparently.
The Cartoon Network is dead to me - I have a million thoughts in my head right now, none of them repeatable and all of them could be used as evidence in a court of law......
How about this:
The F Word - Fear
The A Word - Avarice
The B Word - Betrasus
The P Word - Poozer
Example; I am so Poozered off, that those Sons of a Betrasus's at The Cartoon Network can stick a power ring up their Fearing Avarices.
Sad that there was an interview on Newsarama last week about where the show was going next. :-( Maybe we can get some DTVs?
WITH BLOOD AND RAGE OF RED, RIPPED FROM A CORPSE SO FRESHLY DEAD, TOGETHER WITH OUR HELLISH HATE, WE'LL BURN YOU ALL, THAT IS YOUR FATE!!!!!
This is how I feel about this news. Cartoon Network can let STUPID shows like Adventure Time, Regular Show, and Annoying Orange go on, but let GOOD shows like GREEN LANTERN AND YOUNG JUSTICE get CANCELED?!?!?! I feel so pissed off that I got nothing else to add.
One a more optimistic note, CN *COULD* change their minds and let the shows go on (I may actually start watching the WB/CW again!)and here's hoping that GREEN LANTERN 2 and JUSTICE LEAGUE makes it to movie screens someday.
I am wearing both my red and blue rings as I am writing this.
Idiots don't no what they are doing.
Whoever decides this stuff is an idiot. It's a well-crafted show that needs to continue on as long as the writers have ideas for story arcs. Not much more needs to be said. Hopefully they'll get their act together
Damn! Damn shame! This really is a sad day for a Green Lantern fan :(
This really sucks!
Guess I'll just turn to ol' faithful, the comic book.
This show just did so many things right, it's really unfair to see it go down in such a meaningless way.
I don't know if the makers of the show ever come around to read this site, but if they do: Thank you so much for such a great ride! Thank you for respecting the source material so admirably! Thank you for making this Green Lantern fan proud to be one!
So.... I worked on this show and just want to say thanks to all of the support you guys have given it. We knew pretty early on that it wasn't going to get picked up and were all very disappointed. The crew on this show was great and everyone involved had great enthusiasm and fun while working on it. I got to work with one of my heros Bruce Timm. It was dream come true and a great learning experience. I also have a couple of new heros too, Giancarlo Volpe and Jim Kreig. Both of whom were so much fun to work for. Giancarlo created an environment that made you want to be at work everyday because you didn't want to miss what was going to happen. All of these guys respected and trusted the artists and let us contribute a great deal to the show. Thanks for that guys! The only other thing I can say is that it is a show we were all very proud of and sad that it wasn't supported the way we hoped. Here lies Green Lantern The Animated series and so it goes.........
This is really terrible news. I watch the Green Lantern show with my 2 kids (ages 7 and 4) and we really love it! No more Green Lantern popcorn parties? No Aia figure to collect? This just doesn't make sense....so sad :(
I wonder if the comics will still be around. Or if the writers of the Green Lanter Corps or Red Lantern books or others will incorporate Rayzor and/or Aya in their stories.
I am so very, very sorry to hear this series coming to an end...I have watched every episode of the GLAS, especially followed Razer and Aya, their tragic love story, only to see the whole series end this way. What a real, real shame and a waste of incredible talent that made Green Lantern Animated series the best ever.
A crying shame. Cartoon Network, you are wrong, wrong, wrong to eliminate quality programming.
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