GREEN LANTERN: THE ANIMATED SERIES Episode 22 "Love Is A Battlefield" Promo Clips And Images

Likewise.

Yea because we don't have bills to pay in this crappy economy, let's all go out and buy GL toys to try and keep the show on the air.

GL, especially Hal Jordan, just sucks.

Everything he's in gets cancelled, his books are about to be cut in half once Johns leaves.

Instead of bitching about these shows ending, why don't you try doing something?
http://dailydcu.com/post/42947598531/greenlantern-tas-save-gltas-and-yj-week-3

I know what's pretty good on my part--Carol's voice actress, Jennifer Hale, is coming to the comic-con near me in a couple of weeks.

LEVITIKUZ

Believe it or not, because of some people's financial states, we can't all buy the toys or DVD's. Each action figure is about $8 and each DVD is about $15. I understand that this supports the shows and that's fine, but ultimately they look at the ratings over everything else to see if people are watching. That is what determins the cancellation or renewal factor, not toy sales. The "low ratings" probably have something to do with the fact that they pulled both shows for 4 months on end (twice I might add)! That is half of their issue right there. The other problem is that they aren't reaching their target audience. Sure, some kids watch the show, but it's mostly older fans. That's the other half of the problem.

@ 113 I agree w/ you.

I believe Green Lantern & Young Justice was cancelled because the story lines were getting too serious for the "kiddie" demographic. The episode where Aya has her breakdown was better than most live action dramas on network TV. It's disappointing that Cartoon Network can't take into consideration their young adult / adult demographic who want more out of their shows than noisy, mindless entertainment, which seems to be the direction that CN is moving towards. My guess is they'll drop Clone Wars from the line-up or make the stories more "kid" friendly.

I bought the S1 P1 dvds of Green Lantern. What baffles me is why WB is dragging their feet in offering blurays of their modern shows. I understand BtAS is old enough it doesn't make sense, but the DVD's of GL and YJ pale in comparison to my 1080 DVR recordings.
I hesitated in buying YJ on DVD in hopes of a blu ray collection coming. I had every intent on supporting the show.

@GLFanboy, actually there was a toy line that was offered by Mcdonalds to be given out with their Happy Meals:



I don't think that the series was canceled. It was just not renewed for another season. Let's all hope that there are plans to sell the show to some other network or cartoon block. This is a great series.

@dnno1 I mentioned that in my post and that's not even close the same as a toy line. It's just a month-long promotion to help sell cheeseburgers.
I do agree with your analysis though. The point I was making actually goes right along with what you're saying. The ratings it was/is receiving are directly related in large part to a total and utter lack of promotional and cross promotional support. Prior to the live action movie you just know WB execs had visions of every kid in America begging mom and dad for a GL Halloween costume and toys for Christmas. When that delusion was shattered by the movie's poor performance, they already had GL:TAS in production. Without a doubt, like you said, they see Batman as a much more profitable entity and scrapped GL. The sad part though is that they're throwing out the baby with the bathwater. The stink of the live action film is pretty much gone now. In kid's eyes, it's a distant memory. With more support, a real toy line, solid promotion or hell, just some faith in their product, this series could do much better in terms of the numbers. For the most part, kids (and even to a large extent, adults) don't determine what they like. Advertising does. In-your-face, over saturated advertising. Without it, it's an uphill battle. If I were Bruce Timm and his team, I would be giving serious thought to seeking out greener pastures outside of WB and DC. They put so much hard work into their efforts and do it with such skill only to have the rug pulled out from under them time after time. I would hate to see that happen but, man, could you blame him?

@LEVITIKUZ your right man, all people had to do was buy one simple piece of merchandise, regardless of there financial state the people creating these shows are the same way.

DC finally had a chance to market a great character, and i'm am very hurt to see the show be taken away. i do hope we will get to see hal and the rest of the gang in more animated features.

@GhostKILLER I couldn't agree more!

CN's main issue was advertisment. No one advertises comics or comic based toys on television and blames people for not getting into it. Especially for the "little kids" coming up. What they should've done was advertise toys or whatever in the morning and put GL and YJ at a later time slot for the actual fans of the show. I mean, duh.

@GLFanboy, my point was that selling toys was not what killed the show(s) -- for that matter they were selling the episodes for $1.99 and there weren't enough people buying that. In the case of GLTAS it was more than likely ratings compared to an equivalent (CGI) Batman series. Ratings = advertising $ (not necessarily series related toy lines and paraphernalia) and they probably saw more of an opportunity with Batman than anything else. That's pretty sad, since they could have paired the two into a 1-2 hour block (not counting YJ since it is part of the Teen Titan's franchise, which would have basically a new series in Teen Titans Go). Even though we are whining about how they are passing on a great series, this is still a numbers game. If anyone failed Green Lantern it was us (and The Pirate Bay) since we were not able to show the studios that we were just as interested in it as we would have been for a Batman series.