Take Bordertown for example, that was greenlit in 2013, meaning it was in pre-production years before, only for it to premiere in 2016 and get cancelled after 5 months.
That sucks, even if the show wasn’t that good. All those years gone to waste.
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No? Maybe if it's some passion project that gets fricked over by execs without getting a fair shake, but generic crap like whatever this is probably gets cancelled for good reason.
While a longer running show would be better, so long as everyone involved was paid for those three years, it was not wasted to them.
No. Honestly I love when Cinemaphile has a bad/forgotten cartoon thread. You can easily tell right off the bat how bad the shows are.
Only if I liked it, I actually liked Bordertown it was meh but was doing its own thing.
>Do you feel sad when bad cartoons get cancelled early?
No, not really.
Yes, sometimes there is something unfortunate. A cartoon (or just a show in general) with a lot of promise gets shut down early due to mismanagement.
But most of the things that get cancelled get cancelled because they're terrible. And we don't have to weep for every mediocre piece of media getting the response it deserves.
To point in a different direction. People toil away at novels for years sometimes. And then they shit it out onto Amazon self-publish and it's terrible, and dies in obscurity. Are you going to be sad every time that happens? Then you'll be sad every moment of every day.
No? Why would I? All of the visual artists in these kind of animation projects might as well be hired day laborers, they don’t want to be there, they are just doing it to live by and fill their portfolio. All the people who actually “care” about these kind of projects are just a bunch of writers comedians who are trying to find a vehicle for their work to use as a cashcow and the only thought they put into the visual aspect, if they had any, just podcast-tier spitballing at best.
A lot of people believe in the Cinemaphile calarts myth that a bunch of people are coming out of college with the sole idea of drawing ugly cartoons, so they assume they must be invested in these ugly shows, but 99% of the people coming out animation careers just anime and disney fans who just want to do the cool stuff everyone likes. No one dreamed of working in this kind of stuff, this is just a living for them. At least with stuff like bob’s burgers for example, you can go “oh that’s the adult swim guy” and that way you get some passionate artists along the way or something, but the shows you are talking about are like the “working at mcdonalds” of the industry.
Only if they were good, so no Bordertown.
tfw even the writers knew how shit it was
I didn't use to, in fact I celebrated it, feeling validated that my opinion was correct.
But ever since I started working as an animator, I now see a potential project that could have provided for many workers go down the drain. Cancellation isn't something I wish on the worst show ever, with the only caveat that the people making it aren't being abused and the like.
No
is that by the dude that created 3 south?
Yes
Frick no, frick that shitty show
Shut up, cat.
>Do you feel sad when bad cartoons get cancelled early?
yeah, lil bit
No
… maybe?