Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Cartoon Network sans cartoons

What would Cartoon Network be without cartoons? It would be Network. It's understandable they'd want to join the live action teen shows head to head with Disney and Nick. Unlike Toon Disney, they don't have another network to shove the cartoons over to (Toon Cartoon?) that they can position in the upper tiers of the cable bill.
But guess what? I wish the toons were back on Disney and Nick as well. I wish they'd make their own teen live action channel (Toon Teen?) and leave the cartoons where they are (were). That goes for Disney and Nick as well. And I don't like Har Har Thursday, despite the well-done period look of Flapjack, which conjures up Horatio Hornblower.
Whoever is running CN these days is, in my opinion, running it into the ground. It used to be an alternative, now it's as bad as everything you flipped to it to get away from. First, Adult Swim got way too extreme, unlike the relative innocence in which it was born, and then the rest followed.
It seems all CN cares about is bucks. Gone are the brave days when Ted Turner said he would run Cartoon Network at a loss until people wanted it. Which they did. Loyal fans got CN to where it is now. How sad if the shirts decide to change the channel.