My thoughts on CN Real.

I might be in the minority, but I actually liked some of the shows that aired on CN Real, except for The Othersiders, Survive This is pretty good, It's Survivorman with kids, hell, it has Survivorman Les Stroud giving these kids advice on how to survive in the wild. BrainRush, I like the concept of people answering questions on a roller coaster especially in Episode 2, where one guy didn't even answer like 2 question and shouting "Oh My God!" throughout his questioning process, that and I am somewhat of a roller coaster junkie. As for Destroy Build Destroy, you basically have kids in two teams trying to destroy parts of a vehicle for their opponent to use or not use, build a machine out of it, see if you can sabotage it when you win a challenge, and then build it before the challenge, do the challenge and winner destroys loser machine, and it's hosted by Andrew WK, AWESOME!. Othersiders, PASS!

Sure, I agree with the notion that shows like this don't belong on Cartoon Network to begin with, but I do like these shows. Though I am glad that CN isn't shoving them down your throat as much as they did when it first premiered. I think it might have to do with the fact that the shows didn't do so well in the ratings. After all, CN didn't release any info on how well the Wednesday shows, aka Othersiders and Survive This, did in the ratings. However, they did give out some info on their Saturday Night Line-up, which consists of BrainRush and Destroy Build Destroy, saying that the ratings were up compared to what was on TV last year for CN, better than nothing really, they could have just kept it quiet and make more people suspicious about how well this is doing.

But then again why should they care what I think. I'm way out of their target demographic by 6 years since this aims to the 9-14 crowd and I am a 20 year old. Oh wait, they made a video on YouTube about it.


Notice how it was publish it on their YouTube Channel over their video service known as CN Video. Methinks it has to do with all the complaining from the older crowd, but why would they care? I know there is a big backlash at Toon Zone, Cartoon Brew, and possibly some other sites I don't go to that is heavy on animation.

Is there anything you can do to fight this? Well there is, you can support one of my friends effort called, "Stop The Madness"

Basically I find this to be the most level headed campaign against the network since it does tell you to support the network, but not the Live Action. Like buy the merchandise of any of the animated shows, since it does make a statement that, "HEY! We love cartoons and we're able to show you by buying your merch." After all as far a TV station goes, I know they care about 2 things “ratings” and “money”. However, since my view doesn’t count for crap for two reasons, reason one is that I am not a Nielsen Family, reason two is the fact that I am out of their age range as previously stated in this post. My only way of supporting CN now is to buy their merchandise, since they don’t care where the money comes from, money is money to them. So next time you see a shirt at Hot-Topic or a DVD with the CN logo on it, and you have the extra cash...BUY IT!!! But if you don't plan to buy it because of the way the network is let me just say this... RETHINK THAT IDEA!!! Just because you disagree with the network right now because of this, that doesn't means you should give up on the network, especially if you care for it. Do you want CN to succeed and further support the Live Action movement? I say no. Buying merch like that can help. I plan to buy the Chowder DVD at my local Toys R Us later this Month, along with the Flapjack, Total Drama Island, and some of Secret Saturday merch when they come out to show my support of animation on Cartoon Network. That's the only thing I can do and hope that you can do it as well. Peace!