Gephyrophillia #224

Originally Posted on 07/27/2010 by Jeff Harris

Nicktoons has disappointed me for the last time. Why? Because they've disappointed me for the first time the moment they started airing repeats of The Troop started airing on the all-animation channel on a daily basis. Consider the fact that The Troop has only one season under its belt and originally aired on weekends before extending the repeats to weekdays. Those that supported the show's placement on the channel said that the animated creatures the team faced justified The Troop's placement on Nicktoons. A lot of naysayers reluctantly accepted that reasoning. Nicktoons disappointed me the moment they announced the acquisition of Power Rangers. Not just because it's yet another live-action production on Nicktoons. It's because we've done this dance before. Yes, Power Ranger fans are more than thrilled that their favorite show will be coming on multiple times a day, but at what cost? The franchise is, once again, killing another animation channel. It's bad enough that Nicktoons rarely showed actual Nicktoons in daylight hours (especially when they have plenty of shows that could easily take up the lineup without airing multiple episodes of one show a day to do it), but when live-action shows like The Troop, Big Time Rush, and soon Power Rangers filling up the lineup, the name no longer means anything anymore. And the fact that shows like the much-repeated iCarly, True Jackson, Drake and Josh, and Victorious actually had a stunt on Nicktoons in addition to the debut of the game-show BrainSurge in prime-time, the name Nicktoons keeps on becoming irrelevant and a sad reminder that while they've made many in-roads to truly become "the animation capital of the world," they're slowly becoming Nickelodeon's version of Disney XD, which, like Nicktoons, also abandoned it's all-animation pedigree.

I swear, it's like Nickelodeon, Disney, and Cartoon Network act like "cartoon" is a four-letter word.

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Jeff Harris,
Creator/Webmaster, The X Bridge.