Monday, January 28, 2013

Special Green Lantern/Young Justice edition

Now considering the fact that Young Jusitce doesn't have one (yet), I figured that for all of the Green Lantern fans out there, I would start this blog off with the oath (which I recite EVERY morning when I wake up and put my ring on, yes I own a Green Lantern ring :D)
 
"In Brightest Day,
In Blackest Night,
No Evil Shall Escape My Sight,
Let All Those Who Worship Evil's Might,
Beware My Power-
GREEN LANTERN'S LIGHT!!!!!!"
 
Now, on to the matter at hand. (hehe) I was minding my own thing as I went online to check everything out this morning when I noticed in my Green Lantern group that I'm apart of (which is a Facebook group from the following site: http://www.blogofoa.com/), that Green Lantern is leaving us. Now that is something that I didn't think would actually happen, considering the fact that the show seriously hasn't been on that long, and the following is amazing. However when I read an article dealing with the entire thing (article), Cartoon Network is saying that they will continue to air the show, however if you look further down on the page, you'll notice that the production companies have stopped making both shows. The reason for this, it's because the shows weren't picked up for the next season and the rest of this season has already been rendered, recorded by voice, and waiting to air. However once that's done, it's over as in Game Over end of lives, do not pass go and collect your cash bonus.
 
Now hold the bloody phone here (and yeah I was holding my cell when I read that article, in the middle of texting my wife when I read that article), this had instantly reminded me of yet another show that went through the same damned problem that Green Lantern and Young Justice are currently facing right now (however GL has only been on the air for one season, while Young Justice has been on the air for a couple of them), and that show was a live action show that aired decades ago back when things were WAY different than they are now, that show was called Star Trek, and the ones that produced that show (the studio and CBS, not the ones working the show, why would the ones working the show want to end their own jobs?) were wanting to kill the show because the rating weren't there, at least not during the first season. However the show did get picked up for the second season when the fans just about stormed CBS back then and wanted to kill the CEO's running the joint (now that would've been a sight had they all gotten Red Lantern rings right as they're about to hit the place, that would've made news right there). So Star Trek got picked up for a second season and things were going great, however (and you knew that this was coming too), the ones running things at CBS still wanted to get rid of the show (of course it didn't help things that certain episodes back then were for their time a major taboo back then, like the first interracial kiss that didn't actually happened, even though they filmed it two different ways, and one of those ways was the actual kiss too). However the fans once again were able to save the show, though just barley. The only kicker was that they were not able to save the show after season 3. Now there is a plus side to that entire thing, it turned out after that when they looked at a different set of demographics for the show, it turned out that the show was getting the ratings needed to stay on the air for a couple of more years (and I bet they just kicked themselves in the ass for that there too, hehe).
 
Now with Young Justice and Green Lantern, I know that CN has only allotted one hour for the DC comics line up and so they have to make room for other shows that are going to be getting put on there,...wait a minute, why the hell only an hour when Adult Swim gets more than that each night. Wouldn't it be far better if they expanded that hour to longer, to not only include Green Lantern The Animated Series and Young Justice, but to also include the new shows that would be getting aired, I mean now that Star Wars has moved over to Disney XD (where it's going to be slaughtered too by the way), that would leave room open for more DC programs to get on there. Personally I would love seeing live action DC titles, but I know that it takes more money to produce live action than it does hand drawn or CG. But this could seriously work out, I'm just wondering if anyone over at CN has bothered to think of this instead of those crappy shows that they happen to air outside of the DC Nation line up (and yeah they are crappy, what were they thinking with those shows right there).
 
I know for a bloody fact that their viewer ship will end up dropping once they start to change things up, as it did for the hiatus...wait there was a hiatus? Yeah didn't you know that, that's what lead to the precursor for this all happening in the first place, they pull a show off the air, don't even run it in reruns and the ratings go down to the point where when the show does come back they can move it with no problems at all. After all, no one wanted to watch the show that was aired in Green Lanterns place (so last I heard), and just about everyone tried catching the show from iTunes when they could, but in the end, it wasn't enough for CN to do what they had planned the entire time. It's like the Anti-Monitor is running the whole show over there and can't wait to get rid of Green Lantern and Young Justice, just to make room for other DC shows instead of airing them all together in a longer expanded time slot for all of them, plus it would also help deal with this Invasion situation that Young Justice is also going through right now as well. After all, our main heroes are off world, and the world leaders have made a deal with an alien devil through future president Lex Luthor.
 
All in all, what Cartoon Network is doing is all well and fucked up beyond anything that anyone could ever begin to think about, and they're not thinking about their fans that actually watch the channel (they never were), they're only thinking of their shareholders and what they want to have aired instead. This really bloody well sucks

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Felix Sanchez
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Alhambra High School
Class of '97
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