Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-6433273-20180322113157/@comment-53539-20180324184957

I'm on the same boat I am with Game of Thrones in regards to S.Universe; I'll watch it when its over and the hype is dead. Did that with Invader Zim, glad I did. I was going to do that with Rick and Morty, but I decided to see episode 1 and it went from there.

I often do this because of past disappointment. I don't like to be on board with a show only for it to be canned after a few seasons. I'd rather watch it afterwards as I know its ended and have no hype to look forward to.

Saying that, Zim is due a TV movie next year, which is random. The fans have been asking for more Zim for years, but due to the expense of developing more episodes, can't. Meanwhile, SpongeBob Squarepants has been produced to death, and the only reason Fairly Odd Parents was canned was the team behind it were purposely trying to get it cancelled in the last season as Nick was forcing them to do things they didn't approve of. In short, the entire season 10 is crap for a reason, it was literally the only way to get the show cancelled was to turn the audience away from the show and make them stop caring about it. Its a gambit that worked, but its a shame this had to happen in order to force Nick to stop telling them to add more episodes. I'm not even sure who on the writing staff was left in season 10 from previous season, Nick tends to peeve people off and they leave. Nick are very controlling, the trouble is by loosing the talent behind shows they loose quality, which is part why Nick has a lot of crap shows at times. Which is a shame as even in the early 2000s, they were producing shows that could compete with the best (and the worst, we'll ignore the worst though).

Cartoon Network has had its share of downsides though, I feel sorry for kids in the mid-late 2000s. Most shows were generally crap. I grew up in the 80s and early 90s, and be it I had to put up with some cringe shows like Rainbow Brite, most of the "toys into animated advertisements" cartoons weren't that bad. They went to effort to set up lore that "worked" within a universe and could run semi-decent plots over the course of a series even when it didn't seem apparent. A lot of the stuff was copy and paste by the books stories from other shows, but they at least was copying a story that was decent. We also had Duck Tales and the era of high quality animation... This even continued into the early 200s and shows like Justice League competed the animated DC universe that had run for years and Included Batman, Batman Beyond, Superman and Static Shock. It was a great time to be a kid and I admit in my late teens I was still watching these shows as what teenagers had to watch was... Boring.

But unlike the DC universe, most shows didn't get a decent run, and ended without satisfaction, leaving you wanting more. In fact... The end of the Justice League Unlimited show was not spectacular, but it did leave you happy that it had all been a good run over the years. You knew where the story was heading in the stories they didn't need to tell, you knew where it was been... That was all there was to it. The Teen Titans, which are also considered part of its universe was the same and even though the last episode divided fans, it was basically saying "the Teen Titians are grown up now, this is the end of their arch". The only show within the DC universe that ended with a bad taste was the League of Superheroes, because it was cancelled as Marvel took over the slot DC had held this entire time on the original channel their shows aired. And they aired yet another Spider-Man cartoon (because we haven't had a dozen of those over the years), this one in bad CGi, which was not a good trade off.

Which makes Teen Titans Go even more cringe worthy as it basically spits on fans of the original series and even goes to mock its predecessor and will even break the 4th wall to insult its fans... There is a reason why fans of the old hate it. And this is what they choose to air more then anything else. ¬_¬