Sym-Bionic Titan Canceled

[Mr Light]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sym-Bionic_Titan

Cartoon Network initially ordered 20 episodes; Tartakovksy had hoped to expand on that[4] but the series was not renewed for another season. Tartakovksy is now reported to have moved on to Sony Pictures Animation.[5]

This is disappointing. While the series was very repetitive it had a lot of promise. I was really hoping we would get to learn the secrets of the evil general and return to Gallaluna to lead the resistance. Or find out what was up with the one government guy with the mysterious abilities.

The show's animation was so gorgeous. The character design, the action beats, it was great. And those two flashback episodes set on Gallaluna were absolute classics. It's too bad the show wasn't more like that.

I should've realized something was up when the show was moved to Wednesday at 7pm all by its lonesome, and then yet again to Saturday morning at 9:30am.

The series finale will air at 9:30am on Saturday.

 

[God Magnus]

CN's current trend is very reminscent of Syfy's IMO. I remember once upon a time having hours of TV to watch on CN. Now with their latest ad campaign, I saw mostly live action stuff. "Young Justice" is one of the few shows I care about now. Sad to see such a strong show go bye bye.

 

[Christopher]

This is disappointing. While the series was very repetitive it had a lot of promise. I was really hoping we would get to learn the secrets of the evil general and return to Gallaluna to lead the resistance. Or find out what was up with the one government guy with the mysterious abilities.

I suspect you may get some answers in the finale this weekend. I'm hoping it brings satisfactory closure to the series.

 

[Leroy]

Bummer this show went the way of another great series Megas XLR. I mean they had to cancel this and give us more junk like Titan Maximum?

 

[The Mirrorball Man]

Bummer this show went the way of another great series Megas XLR. I mean they had to cancel this and give us more junk like Titan Maximum?

Maybe getting three different takes on Super Robot nostalgia one after the other was a bit much? I mean, who can tell the difference between those shows? How many do we need?

 

[exodus]

Bummer this show went the way of another great series Megas XLR. I mean they had to cancel this and give us more junk like Titan Maximum?

Maybe getting three different takes on Super Robot nostalgia one after the other was a bit much? I mean, who can tell the difference between those shows? How many do we need?

I sure as hell couldn't.

For Sym-Bionic Titan, in my area Clone Wars was the shows lead in. I couldn't see the same audience that watches CW, staying to watch SBT. That and it airs on Friday night, which is very iffy scheduling for the age bracket it's gearded too.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

The writing was on the wall for me as soon as they shuffled it to Wednesdays.

It would be nice if they resolve their current crisis (don't want to spoil) in the final episode but I'm not sure if that will be the case. I don't think there's any way they could actually resolve the major plot lines.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

For Sym-Bionic Titan, in my area Clone Wars was the shows lead in. I couldn't see the same audience that watches CW, staying to watch SBT. That and it airs on Friday night, which is very iffy scheduling for the age bracket it's gearded too.

Interesting, here it ran:

07:00 - Batman: Brave and Bold
07:30 - Ben 10
08:00 - Sym-Bionic Titan
08:30 - Generator Rex
09:00 - Clone Wars

It didn't seem that odd of a fit when you take the block as a whole. Obviously it was distinctive but I don't think it was so stylistically dissonant from that perspective.


EDIT: Shit, I meant to edit my original post, not post a new, sorry.

 

[exodus]

For Sym-Bionic Titan, in my area Clone Wars was the shows lead in. I couldn't see the same audience that watches CW, staying to watch SBT. That and it airs on Friday night, which is very iffy scheduling for the age bracket it's gearded too.

Interesting, here it ran:

07:00 - Batman: Brave and Bold
07:30 - Ben 10
08:00 - Sym-Bionic Titan
08:30 - Generator Rex
09:00 - Clone Wars

It didn't seem that odd of a fit when you take the block as a whole. Obviously it was distinctive but I don't think it was so stylistically dissonant from that perspective.


EDIT: Shit, I meant to edit my original post, not post a new, sorry.

Here in NYC, they shifted it all around.
SBT would follow CW at 9:30, then they switched CW recently to 8:00, which was then followed by King Of the Hill/Adult Swim. So I'm not even sure what time they switched SBT too now.

 

[Christopher]

This is disappointing. While the series was very repetitive it had a lot of promise. I was really hoping we would get to learn the secrets of the evil general and return to Gallaluna to lead the resistance. Or find out what was up with the one government guy with the mysterious abilities.

I suspect you may get some answers in the finale this weekend. I'm hoping it brings satisfactory closure to the series.

Well, I'm puzzled. The reason I said this is because I'd read the following summary for this week's episode, which was posted on various sites:

When Lance and Ilana return to Galaluna, they are horrified to witness the destruction that has ravaged on their beloved home world during their absence. What's even more shocking is that they learn the truth about General Modula's betrayal against all of Galaluna.

But the finale that actually aired was nothing like this. It was entirely Earthbound and was the climax to the Octus "death" arc and the confrontation with General Steel. Now the sites that used to have the description above have replaced it with the description of this episode. I had to copy it from a Google cache of the old version of a page.

So I couldn't really enjoy this episode as much as I might have, because I was expecting a return to Galaluna and some real revelations, and we didn't get any of that. All we got was more mystery, as the mysterious guy at G3 fixes Octus. Of course, it hasn't been at all hard to figure out that the mysterious guy is actually

Spoiler: Might as well spoiler this to be on the safe side

Lance's long-lost father

, but they didn't actually tell us, and now they never will, not onscreen, anyway. Nor will we get to learn "the truth about General Modula's betrayal."

So I wonder what happened there, why the wrong description was posted. Was that an episode they were going to do if the show got renewed, that somehow got its description mixed up with this one?

But anyway, it's too bad that the series ends with basically a return to the status quo rather than any real resolution. The only significant change is that Solomon and G3 are now officially Titan's allies -- and that General Steel is probably going to be out of a job after he pretty much blew up San Francisco.

 

[Mr Light]

OK, finally saw the finale. So, it was left intentionally vague WHO resurrected Octus then? I was hoping they would actually stay living with Solomon, would have really changed things up. I'll miss this show. The stories often went nowhere but the cinematography of the action was so breath-taking.