Cancelled TV Shows that I Would Have Wished to See Continued (But Will Never Happen)
Continuing
this post here.
Cartoon Network
The Looney Tunes Show
I'm not too sure if the series is popular with farmers in this thread because rather than go for a full-slapstick route,
The Looney Tunes Show opted to become a sitcom with elements of slapstick (which is good because slapstick is becoming stale as a source of humor). To be frank, this is probably my favorite series in all of Cartoon Network. The first part of season 1 was not that memorable but the second part of season 1 is when the series started to realize what it's going for and season 2 is pretty much burned to my brain. I love all the twists with all the characters and how it worked within a suburban environment, especially with Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck and their contrasts to each other and with other characters. The character development of each character is subtle, with the looniness of Lola Bunny (in contrast to the version of her in Space Jams), the gullible Porky Pig, and the no-nonsense Tina Russo affecting Bugs and Daffy to improve their flaws. I was honestly hoping that there will be a season 3 of the series, but after years of waiting, finally accepted that Cartoon Network will not bring it back. Also, the reason why Cartoon Network cancelled
The Looney Tunes Show was because despite earning about 2 million viewers per episode, it was not
Adventure Time numbers, and hence, it got canned.
Sym-Bionic Titan
Although I was not that big of a fan of the formula used by Genndy Tartakovsky in which each episode is a monster sent by the antagonist and our protagonists work together to form a titan to fight it, I think for its first and only season, it did well in setting up the characters and the universe. Man, the scene where Galaluna gets invaded though is top-notch awesome. It sucks that we will never know about Modula and what powers his hat (maybe it's mind-controlling him?) and we will never see Galaluna be liberated. There was also never a scene where one of the protagonists' fathers (who went missing) is actually the guy behind the secret glow-ops operation G3. It sucks because so much is set up for season 2 and Cartoon Network canned the series because of poor toy sales. Tartakovsky hopes with the success of
Primal and the final season of
Samurai Jack, that Cartoon Network will let him back in the reins of resurrecting Sym-Bionic Titan. Is he too optimistic?
ThunderCats (2011 TV series remake)
Does this count, when it was a Western-Japanese co-production? Despite never having watch the original Thundercats, I know the people behind it are very devoted to the source material, that they brought in the guy who voiced Lion-O in the original to be Lion-O's dad in the remake. This is also pretty much if Dungeons and Dragons was an animated series, and it was cool to see a group of fantasy warriors trying to rescue the Earth from an evil sorcerer that had destroyed their kingdom with technology. I think despite being more mature and sophisticated, the series will be able to captivate the child with the action scenes and the setting of Third Earth. Unfortunately, toy sales were pretty bad and it seemed that Cartoon Network and Warner Bros wanted the series to fail because of they gave it an inconsistent schedule and aired these episodes in fucking 2 AM, like what the fuck.
Green Lantern: The Animated Series
Although the series deviated from Bruce Timm's formula of a superhero series in which the series is an anthology with each episode dedicated to a villain, each season is dedicated to the protagonists defeating a villain in each season. It was cool seeing new Lantern Corp being built from the ground up like the hopeful Blue Lantern Corp and to see Razor's character development from a spiteful Red Lantern to a Blue Lantern. It was cool seeing Guy Gardner again and there was going to be an appearance with John Stewart, which would be awesome. The most I was hoping for was to see the Yellow Lantern Corp to rise and to see Sinestro as a villain, but thanks to poor toy sales because of the failed live-action film, the series was canned at season 2, where the two seasons deal with the rageful Atrocitus and the genocidal Manhunters. I feel Atrocitus and the Red Lantern Corp could be less one dimensional in the series but all the other characters are pretty on-point.
It's funny how the pinnacle of Cartoon Network was in 2011-2013 when all these series could have made Cartoon Network the face of Western cartoon animation for the next 5 years and an alternate route from the West Coast-esque atmosphere and art-style, like
Adventure Time and
Steven Universe, which doomed the network in the long run (I know The Looney Tunes Show took place in California but everything about it seemed applicable to all of America, not just the state). Now all they get is every series failing within years with barely any toy sales at all.