The Eternal Lost Lurker wrote:
> "Don Del Grande" <del_grande_news@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> news:v8tpq31hq2q3fsa5naptr48neljgcj8va3@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> I think it would be neat if Cartoon Network could both run "Powerpuff
>>> Girls" and "Powerpuff Girls Z". It would be interesting to do >
>> side-by-side comparisons.
>>
>> Didn't CN say on one of their Adult Swim bumpers not too long ago that
>> they weren't getting any more new anime for a while because what was
>> out there was either too expensive, too sexy, or too violent?
>
> 1. CN is not AS. AS is not CN. They are independently operated.
>
> 2. Cartoon Network IS getting new anime--though what they've chosen to
pick
> up is another incredibly retarded Yugioh knockoff.
Yuck! Thanks for the warning.
> 3. Adult Swim is notorious for doing their best to piss off their
viewers,
> especially the anime crowd. Hence why they're cutting the anime block
with a
> mess of "comedy" starting this weekend despite it having been pure anime
for
> the first time in YEARS for the last few weeks.
Granted, a lot of recent Adult Swim fare such as "Saved By The Bell" and
"Assy McGee"have pissed off viewers. But it would be hard to make the
case that a commercial entity would purposely seek to alienate its
customer base. A much more plausible explanation for this is pure
incompetence: they actually thought that we'd /like/ these shows.
Hopefully, they've gotten the message that we expect more sophisticated
programming
> 4. If you actually swallowed that line of shit you read on an Adult Swim
> bump, then you are an idiot.
Frankly, I would be in favor of cutting the bumps entirely. At first,
they were fresh and funny. But this act has gotten tiresome after a few
years. Now the bumps feel like an overlong instant message whose point
was lost a long time ago. I hate to think that *any* program content is
cut to make room for this blather. At this point, I'd even prefer the
octogenarian swimsuit models!
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