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There are no more weekday cartoons on network TV. I know this means nothing to most peoples but this is my life, man! Why wake up at all if you can't click on the boob-tube at 3PM and catching up with characters as diverse as Denis the Menace to Viewtiful Joe?
Kids, big one like me and little ones like my niece, having nothing to choose from but daytime drama, court house drama and the news. Surely, this is one of the signs of the coming apocalypse. Life is too hard sometimes. ;_;
I've been so dislocated since this went into effect two weeks ago; I don't know what day it is or time anymore. It's like waking up in a cave. There is still Saturday Morning stuff but really, REALLY, this season's line-up is teh suk. [Except Johnny Test which is disturbingly witty.]
I miss watching Xaolin-Showdown five times a week. If it hadn't been for the repetition of it I know I wouldn't have given the show a second chance and oh my life would have suffered for it. If Jackie Chan hadn't repeated during the more convenient 4PM weekday slot, I would have entirely missed Michael Rosenbaum as Drago which was pretty goddamn funny. And it's not like anyone can keep tabs on this LAST ever season of Yu-Gi-Oh, with them changing the schedule every other week.
Don't talk to me about cable channels and buying series on DVD. I get it, I'm the grown-up I can do all that. But in my brain I'm still seven and mourning the loss of Mighty Max, Freakazoid and GEEKER, hell even Fish Police. And the seven year old in my brain weeps for all seven year olds stuck watching General Hospital with my baby-sitter and pretending to care about Luke & Laura, and Sonny who will never fully be redeemable no matter how many wives he martyrs. I feel like I'm being punished for bad network decisions.
I should also point out animated syndication is not at all like it's not like your average show. With the exception of a few gems like Family Guy and Invader Zim, once they're axed they're off the fucking map. DVD's be damned.
And why do Cable Cartoons only ever get one season runs when they're licensed to network channels? I know it's the exact reverse when network shows get licensed to cable... why must life be so cruel?
Yes, I have anime to escape to but it shouldn't be that way. We have plenty of decent American cartoons that are just dying, man. Just dying.
There is a whole other rant bottled up in me about this shittiness that is American dubbing of Japanese anime, but I've got so much bottled up on that it would need a whole 'nother post.
*whew* okay, I swear, I'm done. I feel better having gotten it off my chest. I hope the Season premier this Fall changes all this but if it doesn't I'm putting some serious thought into selling all my television sets. I play all my DVD's on the computer anyway, so I really don't see the point of wasting space with big-screen clutter. I only kept my TV to watch cartoons anyway. I really hate TV. Now more than ever. Yeah, yeah, "childish". I'm seven. ;-P
edit/add [1]: I want points! Someone acknowledge that I didn't even get into my great hate of fillers! I am trying to separate the comic/manga geek from the cartoon/anime one. It is hard work ^^;
edit/add [2]: The thing about fan-art; it cures all. really it does.
Teen Titans: It kills me that it's canceled. THIS kills me in a whole different way.
Naruto Dubb; "Believe it"? It's "Dattebayo, bitch"
FF7: A prequel to end all prequels.
Naru-Toads!!: Animerica at it's finest.
edit/add [6 or 7-ish]: I know someone posted recently, but not too recently, the link to a fan-art comic recapping Brokeback Mountain and the silly that is Ennis's excessive mumbling. I can not find it now, and I am sad. I have impending dentistry in about an hour; surely someone will take pity on me and send me the link again. Pretty please?? I ask for so little...
Kids, big one like me and little ones like my niece, having nothing to choose from but daytime drama, court house drama and the news. Surely, this is one of the signs of the coming apocalypse. Life is too hard sometimes. ;_;
I've been so dislocated since this went into effect two weeks ago; I don't know what day it is or time anymore. It's like waking up in a cave. There is still Saturday Morning stuff but really, REALLY, this season's line-up is teh suk. [Except Johnny Test which is disturbingly witty.]
I miss watching Xaolin-Showdown five times a week. If it hadn't been for the repetition of it I know I wouldn't have given the show a second chance and oh my life would have suffered for it. If Jackie Chan hadn't repeated during the more convenient 4PM weekday slot, I would have entirely missed Michael Rosenbaum as Drago which was pretty goddamn funny. And it's not like anyone can keep tabs on this LAST ever season of Yu-Gi-Oh, with them changing the schedule every other week.
Don't talk to me about cable channels and buying series on DVD. I get it, I'm the grown-up I can do all that. But in my brain I'm still seven and mourning the loss of Mighty Max, Freakazoid and GEEKER, hell even Fish Police. And the seven year old in my brain weeps for all seven year olds stuck watching General Hospital with my baby-sitter and pretending to care about Luke & Laura, and Sonny who will never fully be redeemable no matter how many wives he martyrs. I feel like I'm being punished for bad network decisions.
I should also point out animated syndication is not at all like it's not like your average show. With the exception of a few gems like Family Guy and Invader Zim, once they're axed they're off the fucking map. DVD's be damned.
And why do Cable Cartoons only ever get one season runs when they're licensed to network channels? I know it's the exact reverse when network shows get licensed to cable... why must life be so cruel?
Yes, I have anime to escape to but it shouldn't be that way. We have plenty of decent American cartoons that are just dying, man. Just dying.
There is a whole other rant bottled up in me about this shittiness that is American dubbing of Japanese anime, but I've got so much bottled up on that it would need a whole 'nother post.
*whew* okay, I swear, I'm done. I feel better having gotten it off my chest. I hope the Season premier this Fall changes all this but if it doesn't I'm putting some serious thought into selling all my television sets. I play all my DVD's on the computer anyway, so I really don't see the point of wasting space with big-screen clutter. I only kept my TV to watch cartoons anyway. I really hate TV. Now more than ever. Yeah, yeah, "childish". I'm seven. ;-P
edit/add [1]: I want points! Someone acknowledge that I didn't even get into my great hate of fillers! I am trying to separate the comic/manga geek from the cartoon/anime one. It is hard work ^^;
edit/add [2]: The thing about fan-art; it cures all. really it does.
Teen Titans: It kills me that it's canceled. THIS kills me in a whole different way.
Naruto Dubb; "Believe it"? It's "Dattebayo, bitch"
FF7: A prequel to end all prequels.
Naru-Toads!!: Animerica at it's finest.
edit/add [6 or 7-ish]: I know someone posted recently, but not too recently, the link to a fan-art comic recapping Brokeback Mountain and the silly that is Ennis's excessive mumbling. I can not find it now, and I am sad. I have impending dentistry in about an hour; surely someone will take pity on me and send me the link again. Pretty please?? I ask for so little...
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...Somehow, mentally comparing the two, reminded me of the Sunday line-up of Pepper-Ann, Recess, the Week-Enders. What a better world it would be if every brilliant & subtly plotted animated show was given what it rightly deserved.