Two great tastes that taste great together!

And Shaun’s right. Avatar rocks. I wish Nickelodeon would get on with season 3 as well.

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I think the fans and critics have spoken. Batman: TAS was indeed something of a watershed program. Yes, it was aimed at kids. But the show was very well written for kiddie programming (compare it to the dialogue and plots of Super Friends, for instance) and it ended up gaining a large adult following. The show even ran in prime time for a while during FOX’s early days. Now compare it, or JL/JLU to what we got on “The Batman.” Personal tastes vary, but can you honestly say there’s no difference between them?

Same is true with Avatar. Yep, it’s a “kids” show. But it’s a DAMNED GOOD kids show, and one that doesn’t talk down to kids. It also doesn’t insult the intelligence of adults. In fact, I’d guess many of the ideas and themes on the show go well beyond the comprehension of younger kids who might be watching the show. It’s honestly been as compelling as anything I’ve seen on TV the past few years (aside from Lost, my personal fave).

If you don’t like it, fine. Who the hell asked you anyway? Have you followed the show pretty regularly and stayed with the storyline? It’s the kind of show that rewards regular viewing, and it’s the kind of show that would appeal to the kind of people who frequent Newsarama. Do you also think The Simpsons is just some stupid cartoon and not well written? No, not all cartoons are created equally. Avatar is certainly a cut above most of what’s out there.

Besides, if these shows do well. They’ll be on Nick-proper in no time.

But, I think they’ll need some kind of block of action shows setup during after school hours. So, these young kids will have a time to expect these types of shows. I mean, that’s how I kept up with the shows I used to watch as a kid.

You’re probably not the only one. Which is why I think airing the two shows on Nicktoons TV is a bad idea. They would get much more exposure if they aired on Nickelodeon itself.

Also, someone mentioned He-Man being a grown adult. Actually, Prince Adam was a teenager. That wasn’t obvious because Mattel decided to give Adam the same body as He-Man so they could use the same molds for the toy. The voice, the way the other characters treated him, and everything else about the character was meant to show him as being a teenager.

Count me amongst the others who feel that you don’t need teenage characters to appeal to teen audiences. What happened to kids fantasizing about growing up to be big and strong? Personally, I find that it’s the adults who tend to enjoy the teenage characters as a sort of reminiscence of their youth, while teens like stories about people who are at least college age, because that is the time they are looking forward to the most. With all of that said, I think a teenage Iron Man could in fact play well on a channel like Nicktoons and their demographic. I think it will appeal to little kids as well as adults, at the very least.

I have to say that season 3 has been a disappointment to me, however, seeing how the show seemed to be leaning much heavier on goofy comedy (odd, since the show always had its share of truly funny moments), and too much time with Aang & Co. lying low in the Fire Nation. Hopefully things will pick up again in the second half, whenever it finally airs in the U.S.

Either way, I hope rumors of the show’s demise aren’t true. I am NOT looking forward to M. Night Shamalama-ding-dong’s live action version. I’d much rather have at least one more season of the show and never let that hack make it into a movie.

Young kids can relate to the older characters, but sometimes they relate better to someone closer to their age. It was the same argument Marvel used on why they where getting better numbers with characters like Spiderman that DC was with guys like Superman. Marvel had REAL characters (hah) that lived in the world we lived in (2xhah), and had problems like us (damn you cure redhead for not noticing me).

Pokemon gets better numbers than Justice League Unlimited did. I don’t think anyone would argue that Pokemon was a better show, but it played to the audience better, and sold more ads and toys.

Hopefully the Teen Iron Man will go in more of an Ultimate Iron Man (first series) direction. I think a super genius with some serious issues like that could be interesting. Chances are it will be like everyone said, and just be a really simple “teen with a suit” thing, but that could still work.

I have to agree with the people talking about Avatar. That is such a great show, that got pigeonholed as a kids show, so a lot of people just never gave it a shot. I’m surprised it lasted this long. I figured it would get the Invader Zim treatment and just disappear into the Nick vaults.

I think Marvel is putting out some quality animation after a long break. Iron Man, I’ll wait and see since i’m not a big fan of the character.

I just swiped a USA Today off a table in my work’s lunch room and read another article about this. Sounds like the Wolvie/X-Men show won’t be as teens. At least, it didn’t seem to suggest that. I’m hoping the new X-Men show won’t be too derivative of Evolution and be more “adult” than Iron Man will be.

As for X-Men: Evolution, it was so cool, it made the Fox version (bad animation, BTW) look like deer turd.

I was really interested in these series, but I don’t have Nicktoons nor can I afford it at this point.

Another difference is that, in certain timeslots, Nicktoons actually shows commericals. Boomerang has never done that, so far as I know. While I don’t enjoy commericals, it’s another sign that Nicktoons has a higher profile than Boomerang.

It wasn’t the DC Timm-verse, but it was loads better than just about any other comics-based show I’ve seen. The dialogue was realistic, the characters well-rounded and the storyline compelling. I just had to get used to the characters as (mostly) teens. Once you got past that, it was pretty good.

I think it was better than any of Spider-Man shows that have ever been made.

Second that.