What's on your mind?
05-30-2016, 05:42 PM
What's on my mind right now?
Well... let's get right to it!
I'm not really fond of the new short-form comedy format that Cartoon Network has made their whole channel into.
Almost every single one of the new shows end up being 10 minutes of comedy, and there are 70+ episodes in a season... and a new episode every night!
It's like they don't trust people to follow a weekly 30-60 minute show or something!
I know I'm not their "target demographic", but the truth is, they're perverting-- no, EXPLOITING-- shows people grew up with, putting them in this new short-form comedy style that doesn't work for what the shows used to be.
It was nice of them to realize bringing the Powerpuff Girls in a weird new art style wasn't going to work, so they brought the original art... but in the new short-form, it's 10 minutes of random scenarios played out very fast, with the character we all knew doing... weird things. Or not mattering at all, even!
Mojo Jojo walks a dog instead of plotting dangerous things, etc...
Let's not even go into the Teen Titans going from a serious show to... Well, watch for yourself.
I feel like they're going to try and bring back another show to try and save their dwindling ratings, but they're killing their channel again.
They thought the "Live-action" shows were killing ratings and didn't make sense, now these short-forms are killing ratings, and they rarely ever have continuity or consequences from a previous episode.
Every new show does a "Checklist" as well, where they HAVE to have this or that, or an episode devoted to ____, so they rarely ever have a difference between them.
Also, many of the new shows have the EXACT SAME ART STYLES.
They do the small circle on the top big oval on the bottom for the face structure, and the shows don't differentiate themselves from each other at all for that reason as well.
Cartoon Network makes them do the short-form, it's in the shows' TV contracts, and it really stifles creativity because they have to stuff an idea into a 10-minute script. Steven Universe may be the only show that's actively TRYING to get out of the 10-minute crud with their frequent TV Specials, but the show also has a pretty blatant political agenda created by the "Checklist", so it's not a show I watch anyway.
All in all, Cartoon Network is something I avoid now, even Toonami. Cartoon Network keeps making every new cartoon short-form comedies where everyone acts dumb for the sake of the format, and not because they would really act that way. They need to stop contracting people to go short-form, and let them be CREATIVE. Let them make the show what they want it to be, and not resort to looking at a checklist to figure out what the next episode will be. Let them be the great shows they can be, without having to resort to a super-easy art style that doesn't appeal to a wide base.
What's next, 10-minute Yu-Gi-Oh shorts with the original cast doing dumb things and super-quick card games that become an afterthought?
(Don't put it past CN if they ever get the rights to Yu-Gi-Oh...)
Toonami is a totally different story that I could rant about too, but... meh, Cartoon Network is on right now with their short-form shows, so I felt like goin' off on them right now
Well... let's get right to it!
I'm not really fond of the new short-form comedy format that Cartoon Network has made their whole channel into.
Almost every single one of the new shows end up being 10 minutes of comedy, and there are 70+ episodes in a season... and a new episode every night!
It's like they don't trust people to follow a weekly 30-60 minute show or something!
I know I'm not their "target demographic", but the truth is, they're perverting-- no, EXPLOITING-- shows people grew up with, putting them in this new short-form comedy style that doesn't work for what the shows used to be.
It was nice of them to realize bringing the Powerpuff Girls in a weird new art style wasn't going to work, so they brought the original art... but in the new short-form, it's 10 minutes of random scenarios played out very fast, with the character we all knew doing... weird things. Or not mattering at all, even!
Mojo Jojo walks a dog instead of plotting dangerous things, etc...
Let's not even go into the Teen Titans going from a serious show to... Well, watch for yourself.
I feel like they're going to try and bring back another show to try and save their dwindling ratings, but they're killing their channel again.
They thought the "Live-action" shows were killing ratings and didn't make sense, now these short-forms are killing ratings, and they rarely ever have continuity or consequences from a previous episode.
Every new show does a "Checklist" as well, where they HAVE to have this or that, or an episode devoted to ____, so they rarely ever have a difference between them.
Also, many of the new shows have the EXACT SAME ART STYLES.
They do the small circle on the top big oval on the bottom for the face structure, and the shows don't differentiate themselves from each other at all for that reason as well.
Cartoon Network makes them do the short-form, it's in the shows' TV contracts, and it really stifles creativity because they have to stuff an idea into a 10-minute script. Steven Universe may be the only show that's actively TRYING to get out of the 10-minute crud with their frequent TV Specials, but the show also has a pretty blatant political agenda created by the "Checklist", so it's not a show I watch anyway.
All in all, Cartoon Network is something I avoid now, even Toonami. Cartoon Network keeps making every new cartoon short-form comedies where everyone acts dumb for the sake of the format, and not because they would really act that way. They need to stop contracting people to go short-form, and let them be CREATIVE. Let them make the show what they want it to be, and not resort to looking at a checklist to figure out what the next episode will be. Let them be the great shows they can be, without having to resort to a super-easy art style that doesn't appeal to a wide base.
What's next, 10-minute Yu-Gi-Oh shorts with the original cast doing dumb things and super-quick card games that become an afterthought?
(Don't put it past CN if they ever get the rights to Yu-Gi-Oh...)
Toonami is a totally different story that I could rant about too, but... meh, Cartoon Network is on right now with their short-form shows, so I felt like goin' off on them right now