Hey everyone, this is Hailey from cartoon universe, bringing you some quite sad cartoon news.
I'm here to discuss this with Mykal, as always.
Mykall: 'Sup Guys?
Hailey: So basically we saw on the twitter of Gumball, The Amazing World of Gumball,
The creator of the show, Ben Bocquelet, That it seems like Gumball might be coming to an end soon.
He said on the twitter that, um, They're bringing Gumball to it's final episode at the end of season 6,
But then, also kind of what is weird is, uh, that he is the one leaving, so it might not be the end necessarily,
But, if the creator's leaving then it might not be a good thing general.
Mykall: Yeah he literally, like an hour apart contradicted what he said before.
So he said, y'know exactly he said, "Yes to clarify we're bringing gumball to its final episode at the end of season six,
and then, an hour later he said, um, and also, no, I'm the one leaving, after season 6
But yeah it's not necessarily the end of the amazing world of gumball.
So, I don't know if he means that um, they changed the plans, in an hour *chuckle*
Uhh yeah Cartoon Network's like, "Uh yeah, maybe, maybe not."
Or if, like, he means that there'll be more gumball outside of the show,
They'll start doing comics, or a web series, or something like that.
That's a possibility
Um, but, definitely confusing.
Hailey: At the very least he's gonna be done with it after season 6
But on the bright side, they're currently airing season 5 so we do have a while to go.
At the very least to keep your hopes up a little bit.
Mykal: so um yah, so him leaving like I said, if gumball continues to air after season 6 and he leaves that could
be a problem for the quality of the show as we've seen with shows like spongebob
boondocks like the show its kind of isn't doesn't quite have the same charm
that it did once the creator leave that might not be the case you know there's
really good writers and producers on board so we might still be fine but this
definitely could be a problem in the future
Hailey: Yeah i agree totally and if gumball is ending, you know in the next year or
two then this is kind of like the end of an era almost early 2010 shows which
were pretty much adventure time regular showing gumballs all those are the big
three at least
and as we recently heard it looks like regular show's final season to season 8
which is gonna actually start airing soon.
Mykal: Yeah I never really got a chance to watch regular show too much but from
what i've heard it's a really good show and it's like you said, it's really an end of an era,
the 2010's kind of brought on this new animation Golden Age we're
seeing as we were in a big rut right from like 2004-2010 and then
adventure time kind of came in and then with gumball, regular show, they kind of
brought some more life into American cartoons so it's definitely sad to see
them go.
Hailey: Yeah so if regular show and gumball go then all we got is adventure time which
we neither of us have watched either we, we haven't seemed to watch any of the
shows fully but it's you know right when we hear that they're so good
they're both, like two of them are ending like, "oh this sucks"
Mykall: like we've seen gumball I really love gumball the animation, the writing, it's really clever
really really awesome
Hailey: Yeah I haven't seen all of it like I don't neither of us has seen all of but
I seen a good portion of the episodes too and I love the series because of all the
references it makes, and also the animation, and pretty much everything
about it there's a couple of you know, not so good episodes but, that, you know
that's every show, that's impossible to avoid almost, but there's more than
enough to cover it, like so many amazing episodes to cover, you know the ones that
don't delete, aren't really that good.
Mykal: definitely, and it's episodic so I was like the fact that we didn't see it all
isn't a huge problem
yeah but also but actually like my favorite episode was, or that i know of
so far that I've seen is the shell have you seen that one
Mykal: no I haven't Hailey: it's where penny comes out of her shell and teachers it's like the
yellow you-know-what, you-know-who penny is right yeah yeah yeah, gumball's girlfriend and
she comes out of her shell and you get to see what she looks like
and it's really cool because, yeah, and so from then on that's what she looks like
she looks like a different character although it's you know it still her,
she still acts the same but she has like cool powers and can fly and all that stuff so it it was
kind of like leaning towards that just like very occasionally I think, of
course it's still mostly episodic, (Mykal: yeah definitely,) I thought it i don't like that
show can do that can all be episodic at the same time still have some stuff for
people that you know watch this since beginning or you know like to look at
all the little details of it
Mykal: yeah, yes it adds like a nice little touch to the show, for sure
Hailey: Although one thing I will say is that the fandom of gumball was like never
really that big despite the show being pretty amazing or at least to my
knowledge on or at the very least it was overshadowed by other fandoms like
adventure time or recently steven universe, which is you know, not that I mean it's kind of
sad but it was such a great show though
Mykal: yeah i think that leads again to it being not serialized, because
steven universe, adventure time, are serialized so there's more of a story is more of a connection to the
greater world of those shows where as gumball is just a good show just to
watch you know what I mean? and it's been very critically acclaimed has been animators
and writers are just really praised the show and for good reason
Hailey: that's a very good point. Is there anything else you would like to point
out about gumball before we move on to upcoming cartoon network shows? Mykal: No, I think that pretty
much covers it i hope it sticks around hope it is just as good as it's been
from what I've seen if the Creator leaves or if they end up canceling it
make comics I'll definitely give them, give 'em read, but yeah, definitely sad to
see it go.
Hailey: Yeah it is going then like I said it's signaling the end of what made Cartoon
Network great right now
so basically upcoming shows our confirmed right now are mighty magiswords
and a Ben 10 reboot. yeah I never, Ben 10 is another one I haven't watched
Hailey: *gasps* Mykal: I might check the reboot out it's like a complete reset like a different
continuity, completely Hailey: I think so.
I don't know what this, I mean you continue, and I'll get into my story Mykal: okay
yeah if it's completely different continuity i'll definitely check it out
if it's not as if it's like some sort of continuation that will probably wait a
little bit and mighty magiswords, I've seen some of the shorts on cartoon
network it's pretty solid doesn't look very story-driven it looks more like
it's just straight up comedy
I'll probably give it a shot because uh, Egoraptor from game grumps is in it so i'll be like, "alright
let me check this out" Hailey: Oh, that's cool Yeah so i'll probably check it out looks pretty
funny but we'll see what they end up doing with it
Hailey: Yeah so for mighty magiswords it was first a game on the cartoon network
anything happen and I didn't think it was that good i made actually made a
video on it a long long time ago, when it first came around on the app but I did
see a new clip for like the actual show recently and I did laugh so there could
be hope for it, like maybe it'll get better maybe, they just they're deciding
to actually you know, put a little more effort into although it does
it always seem like the sword idea was really cool here so many swords that
they get choose with all different powers and it looks like there are actually personalities to the swords are
not sure but you know there is hope for it being a good cartoon and ben 10 on
the other hand I don't really know though, because you can get a fine maybe i can
give us some slack because it's a reboot so compared to like the other ones which
are you know either sequels or omniverse was that even a reboot? I don't because
they showed younger ben, so... Mykal: I feel like that was a continuation but i have no
idea not Ben-10-Savy
Hailey: yeah i see i stopped watching Ben 10 in the second series alien force
mhm but because i was a huge huge ben10 fan of the original series and then
Ben 10 alien force came around and
and it just wasn't the same for me and I was really youngso i was like, like, so I
liked anything back then, but for some reason I just couldn't finish watching
ben 10 alien force so there was always hope for me that the like the original
creators will totally come back and make, you know make us the sequel or reboot
and I think the original people are kind of working on it or at least helping out
more on this one more than the last three series
yeah but looking at the animation that I saw, and also some other things just how
it looks I don't know if i should put too much help although you know, there's
always always should be hope for that Ben 10 was amazing in my opinion now
Mykal: I feel like it's, feel like it's soon for reboot or as I don't know if it's just
me like time just went that fast, but I feel like Ben 10 wasn't that long ago
for them to be rebooting it, Hailey: the omniverse? Mykal: no, for for the new reboot
coming up
Hailey: Yeah but omniverse when. you know when that ended I think ended
Mykal: no I don't Hailey: 14... or 15 yeah but it wasn't, it hasn't been that long it i mean
original ben 10 came out over 10 years ago Mykal: right Hailey: but it had like three other
series now after and now this is the fourth Mykal: yeah, exactly
i'm just really mad what they did with stinkfly in the new one like, really?
Mykal: yeah so it's really wierd so Ben 10 omniverse ended in 2014
so they're already rebooting it I just find that very strange. Hailey: Looks like it's a
cash cow Mykal: is it?
Hailey: Yes billions as always. Mykal: Interesting i did not know it was like that big of a cash cow
Hailey: everywhere Mykal: huh i would, i would figure they would like I don't really know the
story while but i figured they would like pass it on to a new protagonist or
something
rather than rebooting the whole series but that's interesting i'm not a huge fan of
Ben's character design. Hailey: The new one?
Mykal: yeah... so, we'll see it's, I'm up in the air about it i'll let you watch it since
the ben 10, you're the classic Ben 10 fan and then youtell me if i should watch it
ok so besides Ben 10 and mighty magiswords, it looks like the only thing that could
be coming out over as in original programming for cartoon network is
lakewood plaza turbo which was a a pilot that was from I think 2013 and people
thought it was dead because you know nothing had been heard about it until
this year when they made that, an app called OK K.O. which had an original
story and a bunch of other things, about the show
Mykal: yeah the reason i think the show is probably going to get picked up as a
regular series on cartoon network is because Ian Jones-Quartey who created the
show is also an executive produclr, bleh, executive producer on Steven universe
and he's no longer working as an executive producer on Steven universe so
that leads me to believe that he's probably, he's probably focusing his time
on making this show and I could probably see like you said with the App coming
out i could probably see this show coming out like probably mid-next-year
is my prediction
Hailey: yeah so I do have some hope for this show
firstly who's making it also it supposed to have like a bunch of references to
anime and especially dragonball I believe Mykal: yeah, and Stephanie Naldony who
voiced young goku and young Gohan is going to be voicing the main characters that's
really cool
yes if you're an anime fan you'll probably enjoy this show but if you're not you
there's probably going to be something for you to like too. The app was pretty good
I enjoyed it i didn't finish it but I did like how it was so hopefully the
same amount love is put into the show as the app so yeah here's hoping for that
Mykal: lots of, lots of hope in this discussion Hailey: I know it's coming from me because
I'm sad to see these two shows go
yeah so you know I want to
kind of you know give my best vibes for the upcoming shows so we have more amazing
shows as in you know the ones that are going away to replace, you know, replacing them
Mykal:yeah I think it will be mostly good like because we're getting a lot of an
influx, like I think a big reason why we're getting this new golden age of
cartoons is because we're getting influx of younger creators who grew up in like
the 90, on the 90s cartoon and stuff like that and anime and videogames stuff
they have a lot of really great influences to draw from and it really shows and shows
like adventure time and Steven universe and gumball and stuff like that so i
think we'll be, there will be a lot of great new stuff down the pipeline will
be some bad stuff for sure
Hailey: yeah Mykal: especially when something, is, makes a lot of money and then it kind of
becomes super corporate at that point and not really about the the art but mmm
yeah i think i think will be mostly pretty good
Hailey: Ok so that pretty much wraps up we have to talk about today
you know there is this news could be saddening to some but also new ray of
hope for others about the end of one era but the beginning of a new one so let's
hear you have to say in the comments about the potential ending of a couple
of Cartoon Network shows and the start of some other ones. Thanks for watching!
Mykal: later