Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-60.240.26.67-20130311030933/@comment-1895174-20130312164839

Thailog wrote: CN doesn't like ending shows "close" to 52. They customarily end them on 52 or beyond. Superman: TAS had 54, Batman Beyond, Static Shock had 52, Batman: The Brave and the Bold had 65 (an extra 13 episodes season). When they pull the plug before, it's because it "failed". If YJ failed in anything, it was because of CN's poor marketing. It had everything to be a cash cow if they played their cards right.

I fail to see where you're going with your JLU analogy, or how CN's unfair treatment of that show even compares to their treatment of YJ. And again... JL and JLU are pretty much indivisible. And they a pretty good run, and beyond.

Comparing a possible third season of YJ with DBGT is overreaching quite a bit to suit your point...

Chowder had 48, Flapjack had 46, two of the Ben 10 spinoffs had 52 and one had 46. The closer any kids' show gets to 52 episodes, the less likely it is that it will be renewed for those syndication reasons. Which is why it's an oddity that the second season wasn't renewed for a full 26 episodes, which would have brought the series to 52 episodes. If anything, the second season order being cut to 20 episodes is only further evidence that the show would be ending after it.

If YJ failed at anything, it's attracting a younger fanbase that would buy the toys that keeps the show afloat. But even then it's hard to say it failed since it still got the second season order, which is a heck of a lot better than GL:TAS and Thundercats can say.

If you can't see the similarity to JLU, I don't really know what to do to help you. Like YJ, the show was plagued with scheduling issues that kept it from being the huge hit could have been. But its prospects were still better then than YJs was now, so for that crew to prepare a series finale ("Epilogue") while the production crew for YJ does not would be a huge misstep.

And the name "Endgame" does sound like something really conclusive, right?