GL First Flight on Cartoon Network tonight

[jds1911a1]

As a GL fan, I thought it was pretty good. The changes to Kanjar Ro & Abin Sur were odd and unnecessary, but on a whole I liked it.

*RANT STARTING*
The only part that sucked was Cartoon Network's intrusive commercial breaks for their other series (all of which look bad to me). Does nobody even try to run a commercial on a natural break in the show? They cutout in the middle of the action, run a Ben-10 ad, come back. Really annoying! BBC America does the same thing during their shows, cut to run an ad for Graham Norton then back. And for their house-ads yet. If you were at least trying to actually sell a Snuggie, Jazzy, or Slap-Chop I could understand the revenue factor. But a break for the same promo over & over is dumb. Thank God for DVR and the flash forward button! I almost never watch anything "live" anymore!
*RANT OVER*

I can almost excuse BBC since their shows are not formated for US broadcast so their plot breaks don't mate with the "accepted" commercial break times (the shows air unbroken in UK). The same choppy feel happens with classic star trek it's plot breaks don't match current commercial timing

[johnnystorm]

My complaint isn't so much breaking for a commercial. I understand that's how TV stations make money to operate, otherwise we'd be treated to endless Cartoon Network "pledge drives". My gripe is when they break for promo spots to advertise their own series. For example, during Doctor Who's last episode marathon day, they kept breaking to advertise that tonight they would run the End of Time Part Two...which I'm relatively sure EVERYONE that watches the show was aware was coming on.

And during Green Lantern, they ran ads for some weird AdventureTime cartoon- couldn't they at least try to advertise a series similar to GL..oh, yeah- they did run those AMERICAN Hero Weekend promos, the ones with the thick German opera music. See, they can't even do a promo correctly...is there no USA march music to air during an American Hero spot? I guess John Philip Sousa was unavailable. Of course this is the same CARTOON network that shows live-action series & movies.

At least if you must break into the show, then try and sell me a Pedi-Paws or a bottle of Pepsi. Otherwise, run it with limited interruptions and stack the ads at the front & back ends.