Oh, Cartoon Network

[uneek]

Was Green Lantern and Young Justice even that great?

I ask because GL's CG really put me off, and Young Justice did this weird unneeded timeskip in the first episode of the second season, so I havn't seen either every much.

Green Lantern was pretty damn good. It was interesting to see a superhero show that skips the whole origin thing and go straight to the action.

And yeah, Young Justice has been going pretty crazy with the plot lately, but it hasn't jumped the shark yet.

 

[DudeistBelieve]

Was Green Lantern and Young Justice even that great?

I ask because GL's CG really put me off, and Young Justice did this weird unneeded timeskip in the first episode of the second season, so I havn't seen either every much.

Green Lantern was pretty damn good. It was interesting to see a superhero show that skips the whole origin thing and go straight to the action.

And yeah, Young Justice has been going pretty crazy with the plot lately, but it hasn't jumped the shark yet.

I thought Young Justice was the best thing they've down with the DC property since the DCAU ended.

I'm not to worry about the DC Nation block being postponed. DC is a big property for Warner Bros, I seriously don't they'll stop making shows about it.

 

[FalloutJack]

Thoughts?

Yes, I have thoughts. I don't know what you've been told, but the Titanic sank to the bottom of the ocean a long time ago.

To clarify, I really think that defending CN for a gooood long time before now has always been a wwasted effort. This may be an opinionated opinion, but I've felt that it was in decline back in the 90s, and was pretty much doomed as soon as they cancelled the most brilliantly funny and entertaining mech show of our age: Megas XLR.

Oh yes! Gold is just far too good for you, Cartoon Network! And please, yes! Run away from the good money by doing things like putting on shows that don't even belong to your line of work (things that are not cartoons). While you're at it, spell your channel's name like Kartune Gnetwerk or something like that. THAT'LL MAKE YOU REALLY POPULAR!!

*Waits for someone to see what he did thar*

So! Ummm...yes, welcome to the people who snub channels that do dumb things and and have some nachos.

 

[spartan231490]

The only worthwile thing that CN has done since toonami is adult swim. Seriously, nothing else on that channel is worth watching anymore.

Well there's still Regular Show and Adventure Time.

No. Really, no. Craptastic crap covered crap.

 

[bigfatcarp93]

We should just take all of the CN execs and throw them in a Volcano. Then have someone who knows what they are doing come in...

 

[Z of the Na'vi]

The only worthwile thing that CN has done since toonami is adult swim. Seriously, nothing else on that channel is worth watching anymore.

Well there's still Regular Show and Adventure Time.

No. Really, no. Craptastic crap covered crap.

Gee, that's a compelling and totally fair argument.

Care to try again, only this time actually explain why you don't enjoy Adventure Time or Regular Show?

[sub]Seriously. You sounded like Strong Bad there.[/sub]

OT: I don't really watch much TV anymore. All of the shows I loved on the old CN are now on Boomerang.

So...I watch that. Sometimes.

 

[spartan231490]

The only worthwile thing that CN has done since toonami is adult swim. Seriously, nothing else on that channel is worth watching anymore.

Well there's still Regular Show and Adventure Time.

No. Really, no. Craptastic crap covered crap.

Gee, that's a compelling and totally fair argument.

Care to try again, only this time actually explain why you don't enjoy Adventure Time or Regular Show?

[sub]Seriously. You sounded like Strong Bad there.[/sub]

OT: I don't really watch much TV anymore. All of the shows I loved on the old CN are now on Boomerang.

So...I watch that. Sometimes.

If i felt the need to clarify, I would have. Those shows have atrocious quality, they are half of the reason CN went downhill in my eyes, even more than live action in the line-up.

 

[snowfi6916]

You can still download Young Justice Season 2 from iTunes. I just downloaded the newest episode that was supposed to air last Saturday.

 

[triggrhappy94]

I think the last time I watched CN, Avatar LB and Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends were still going. So that kind of paints the CN I know and remember.

 

[nightwolf667]

The weird part about Young Justice is that it's their highest rated show, or the show that gets the highest ratings out of any of the others on the network. The problem, of course, is that most people tune in just to watch the DC Nation block and nothing else. Network executives hate, absolutely, hate shows like that. This smells more like Cartoon Network actively trying to cancel it by moving it around, sticking it on hiatus, than anything else.

Sad.

 

[DugMachine]

Stopped watching around the time of Fosters so can't really say much. But boy did I love me some samurai jack, dexters laboratory, ed edd n eddy and Johnny Bravo. Don't get any better than those shows

 

[Marik2]

So, apparently DC Nation(the Cartoon Network block that showed DC comics based series, shorts, and segments) along with it's 2 shows (Young Justice and Green Lantern: the Animated Series) are being postponed until January.

ARE YOU FUCKING SHITTING ME!?

I thought it was weird that last Saturday they pulled out a new episode of Young Justice out of the blue. But I viewed it as like they had to work more on the animation or something.

Now you're telling me that they're postponing it until January?

Fucking lame

 

[uneek]

The only worthwile thing that CN has done since toonami is adult swim. Seriously, nothing else on that channel is worth watching anymore.

Well there's still Regular Show and Adventure Time.

No. Really, no. Craptastic crap covered crap.

Whatever, man. I really enjoy those shows. Once those end, along with Green Lantern and Young Justice, then I can say it's not worth watching anymore.

 

[lord.jeff]

I think Cartoon Network has been doing a lot of good moves recently The DC Nation Block, the return of Toonami and several good shows, plus the whole nostalgia run they're doing this month, playing shows like Johnny Bravo and Dexter's Lab along with Adventure Time as a celebration of all the Cartoon Network orginals, sadly no Megas XLR.

You guys forgot Generator Rex and ThunderCats. Even though it seemed like Rex was ending anyways T-T. And you know Symbiotic and Thunder cats, even though on toonami, are not coming back. Thunder Cats has a chance but Symbiotic titan has been gone far too long

Reruns are starting again on Toonami and there was talk of the creator returning after he finished Hotel Transylvania.

 

[Khazoth]

Cartoon Network is the place where I go once a day to get my fix of Looney Tunes and Tom and Jerry shorts (And those new versions don't count!)


Cartoon Network's got many problems, but I chuck them all up to being that its aimed for twitchy, unintelligent, lower life forms. (Read: Children) But I found it funny that Cartoon Network adverts show off really old characters like the old version of Scooby Doo, and Hong Kong Fooey. Two shows they never show anymore.

 

[alik44]

im just starting to believe that cn hates action shows since unless they're ben 10 spin off series they dont have any other real action shows dc nation was good but i hated they shove it like sat mourning when im at work and they never repeats through out the day. so yeah to be honest i was expecting them to cancel it all together.

 

[uneek]

im just starting to believe that cn hates action shows since unless they're ben 10 spin off series they dont have any other real action shows dc nation was good but i hated they shove it like sat mourning when im at work and they never repeats through out the day. so yeah to be honest i was expecting them to cancel it all together.

Actually, they seem to have more action shows than before. A pattern I've been seeing is CN hating shows with robots in them(Whatever Happened to Robot Jones, Robot Boy, Megas XLR, Robotomy, Sym-Bionic Titan).

 

[Fiad]

A little off-topic, but is the Dragon show worth watching?

I tried watching it and I loved the movie with a passion. Watch it whenever I babysit my nephew along with other great animated movies. But the show just didn't have the same feel to it. I couldn't make it through the first episode. I will probably give it another shot some other time, but for now not worth it.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

Coming back to this thread, I find it hilarious that people are going "yeah, Cartoon Network is finally getting back on its feet!" It is back on its feet. It was "getting there" in late 2009, early 2010 when they had Flapjack, Chowder, Fosters, and Billy and Mandy on a Thursday night comedy block, with an action block on Friday nights including Star Wars: The Clone Wars, The Secret Saturdays, and at least one other show I'm not remembering at the moment.

You know when Cartoon Network sucked? When the biggest show it had was "Squirrel Boy." Man was /that/ a dark period for the network. That, and the live action stuff, which was pulled about two months after it started because nobody was watching it.

Edit: By the way, for people wanting to watch older Cartoon Network stuff, Friday nights currently have a block called "Cartoon Planet," based on the original Cartoon Planet -- yes, complete with Brak and Zorak, although it lacks Space Ghost -- that shows old Cartoon Network originals. You're pretty much guaranteed to get at least one episode of Power Puff Girls if you watch it. The other shows are a bit more random, ranging from Johnny Bravo to Flapjack.

Oh, and Courage the Cowardly Dog never really went off the air. It still gets a few re-runs a week.

Edit Edit: Oh, one of the incarnations of Ben 10 was the third main action show on that block I was talking about. Not exactly great, but not terrible either, and The Secret Saturdays more than made up for it anyway. I don't know why that show never turns up in "hey remember this cartoon?" threads.

 

[TheOneBearded]

As for older Cartoon shows, Dexter's Lab, Samurai Jack, Powerpuff Girls etc., hit up boomerang, It's a cornucopia of old titles such as these.

....or just hit up the Hub channel. To be honest, this channel has some serious potential. While it does show some new cartoons, it mostly shows the old gems - Superman, Batman (all four renditions of it), Transformers, GI Joe, etc.