Current mood:	crushed
Current music:	Rent soundtrack - Seasons of Love

End of an era
I cried yesterday. At 9:30 PM CST, Cartoon Network aired the final episode of Justice League Unlimted. This wonderful series was a masterpiece of animation in today's world of crap. Bobobo, One Piece, Ben 10 - this is what Cartoon Network believes is good programs.

What makes this especially sad is that I grew up with the Universe that was played out in JLU. It started in 1992 with Batman the Animated Series. Groundbreaking and awesome. I was 15. I didn't read comics and my exposure to Batman was the 60's series, Scooby-Doo, and Batman (the movie). The cartoon struck me and I watched all I could because it wasn't made for 8 year olds. It was made for an older audience. It was a darker animation. Something I had never seen or thought could happen before. What made it really interesting was that the universe progressed, though sometimes not always for the best. They went to the show "Batman & Robin". The show became more kid friendly. They tried to keep it a bit older by making Robin into Nightwing and adding a "love triangle" with Batman - Batgirl - Nightwing. I sort of stopped watching the series when I went off to school. After a couple years I started watching TV again and found Batman to be gone, but the Universe lived! Superman and Batman Beyond were in mid-run. BTW: I truely love BB as is one of the greatest shows ever and I'm not just talking cartoons.

The world also lived in the extended shows of The Zeta Project (ok) and Static Shock (great after season 1). It seemed that all these shows ended at the same time. All hope was not lost though because the world went onto Justice League and the 2 seasons later - JLU. Fourteen years from Batman to JLU. 14 years people!!! That's half my life.

God bless all those that worked on and created these shows. I am sad now because the universe is over. Given the axe like Teen Titans because CN can get Jap. crap and dub it over for cheap. Ok, so Batman to JLU probably outsourced the animation to China. Big deal! They are still American animation. (Well I have a huge rant on the cancellation of Titans and JLU, but I'll save that for another time.) Right now I want everyone to bow their heads and say a pray of thanks for these years of quality animation/writing and ask that somehow, someway shows of the quality of Batman and JLU will return someday.