[Unknown Target]

Does anyone else think that the last Toonami intro (the one before they shut it off) really blew?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6pb_4VFeE8&feature=related

It sounded like some money-hungry fat cat listened to "what dem kids be talkin bout these days on their urban dictionaries and blogs" and threw in retarded exchanges like the one starting at :25. Wtf Tom? You sound and look like an idiot.

"In the pipe, five by five!"

...

*Blink*

"Word."

They ended up making Tom sound like a soundbite-spouting stoner who was just so "totally rad".

I mean I could deal with the fact that they took it off the spaceship, but then there was the whole deal with the visual aesthetic - they totally changed it and Tom looked retarded.

Compare the three previous intros (Toms 1-3, I believe) and judge for yourself:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5qgbxYY-7U&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQYlAtalNVo&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBLxgv1lWNE&feature=related





/End pointless juvenile fanboy rant. :3

[PsychoLandlord]

Toonami blew post Moltar. 

In all seriousness, Tom 1 was alright, but after that stupid week long "Death of Tom" event I stopped caring.

[Unknown Target]

I liked the Space Ghost Coast to Coast intro, but I also like Space Ghost Coast to Coast, so as a separate unit I prefer Toonami (Tom 1-3).

[Scotty]

Toonami with Moltar was legit.  Toonami with Tom 1 was alright.  Toonami with Tom 2 I actually liked.  Post Tom 2 I didn't like Tom, but I liked the computer chick.  The last one was really dumb.

[Enzo03]

In the last link you posted, Tom has a beer belly so he's cool.

[Hades]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmBdRjtpZAg&feature=player_detailpage#t=151s
Is it just me or does that sound like one of FreeSpace 2's beams?

[Unknown Target]

Toonami with Moltar was legit.  Toonami with Tom 1 was alright.  Toonami with Tom 2 I actually liked.  Post Tom 2 I didn't like Tom, but I liked the computer chick.  The last one was really dumb.

Tom 2 was probably the coolest, yea. Tom 1 was short and chubby so he was awesome. Tom 3 looked like they kind of lost the plot, Tom 4 was retarded.

[BloodEagle]

I'm curious as to what brought this on.  You know, four years after the fact.

[Mongoose]

Hey, at least Steve Blum ended Toonami with a "Bang."  That made everything worthwhile in my book.

[Unknown Target]

I'm curious as to what brought this on.  You know, four years after the fact.

Dunno, happened upon it and remembered how annoyed I was at the last format.

[StarSlayer]

Heh I remember the old days...

[PsychoLandlord]

That show was one of the few reasons I continued to watch Cartoon Network.  Toonami needed more UC gundam.

[Bobboau]

cartoon network has been on a dark downward spiral since January of 2007.

[Mongoose]

Actually, they've had several new shows over the past year or so that seem to be creating a sort of mini-Renaissance.  I've heard great stuff about things like Regular Show and Adventure Time, and Sym-Bionic Titan was basically Genndy Tartakovsky doing mecha, which equals win.

[Bobboau]

Regular Show and Adventure Time have given me some small amount of hope.

[Unknown Target]

I actually kind of like Generator Rex. It's ZOMGTOTALLYRADICAL but it's a fun show.

I guess the biggest problem me and most other people have with CN is the whole Cartoon Network: Real bit, thought they're probably trying to re brand themselves as CN and ditch the "Cartoon Network" moniker.

[Bobboau]

well, there is that and ditching all of the good shows they had (Megas, Samurai Jack, etc) and replacing them with **** (totally needed reality programing in cartoon format), and re-branding themselves as a kids channel, i.e. Nickelodeon, rather than a cartoon channel. I suppose I should be thankful they still have adult swim, but they haven't had any decent anime for the last three/four years so I haven't really watched it much.

They used to have style, now they have ****. I mean hell, just look at those old bumps that were linked earlier in the thread. they peaked somewhere between 2001 and 2003, and died in 2007, it's a damn tragedy cause Cartoon Network was my favorite channel back then, now I can hardly bring myself to look at it.

[Unknown Target]

Hey, Samura Jack was NOT that good. The story was decent, the art style was cool, the action was awesome, but the pacing was terrible. As a friend of mine who's an animation buff put it, it was a show made by animators - so it had lots of great animation and shots, but not a director amongst them to tie it all together.

tl;dr: nostalgia = everything you liked when you were a kid is better than everything everyone likes now.

[PsychoLandlord]

tl;dr: nostalgia = everything you liked when you were a kid is better than everything everyone likes now.

This is a fair point, and holds true for most all the shows I watched on old CN.

Except for Megas. Nothing beats Megas.

[Scotty]

I loved Samurai Jack.  It's probably one of my favorites out of all the shows on Cartoon Network before it went to ****.