CountFrylock Posted December 11, 2020 Share Posted December 11, 2020 with the bebop marathon now confirmed all that's left is the question of will toonami air a new years marathon after it or not? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sketch Posted December 11, 2020 Share Posted December 11, 2020 I don’t expect there will be a marathon on January 2nd. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CountFrylock Posted December 11, 2020 Author Share Posted December 11, 2020 2 hours ago, Sketch said: I don’t expect there will be a marathon on January 2nd. i don't expect one either but some believe toonami will have one just to keep up that tradition of a christmas marathon followed by a new years marathon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The1gairon Posted December 11, 2020 Share Posted December 11, 2020 Well with the announcement of two Wonder Woman animated features running on the weekend before Christmas (because I guess most of the Toonami staff are Jewish people celebrating Hannukah), there will now be THREE different schedules instead of the usual rotation for three full weeks. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CountFrylock Posted December 11, 2020 Author Share Posted December 11, 2020 the wonder woman announcement means there can't be a new years marathon....unless toonami just feels like pissing fans off with a three week hiatus for no apparent reason Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OwlChemist81 Posted December 11, 2020 Share Posted December 11, 2020 16 hours ago, Sketch said: I don’t expect there will be a marathon on January 2nd. If there is, I want it to be Attack On Titan Season 3, Part 2! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The1gairon Posted December 12, 2020 Share Posted December 12, 2020 7 hours ago, CountFrylock said: the wonder woman announcement means there can't be a new years marathon....unless toonami just feels like pissing fans off with a three week hiatus for no apparent reason I mean you have a point. Running a marathon on January 2nd, when the holiday is over, wouldn't be logical. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CountFrylock Posted December 12, 2020 Author Share Posted December 12, 2020 25 minutes ago, elfie said: I mean you have a point. Running a marathon on January 2nd, when the holiday is over, wouldn't be logical. it also wouldn't be logical to have a marathon after having a dc animated movie double feature on december 19th followed by a bebop marathon on the 26th that's just too many interruptions to the regular line-up....imagine a fan of SAO Or Fire Force having to wait three weeks to see the continuation of a cliff hanger from December 12th it would suck....and I'm starting to wonder if this is what prompted toonami to do away with weekly promo's in favor of generic sustaining promo's maybe team demarco had a feeling another hbo max event was gonna be forced upon them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The1gairon Posted December 12, 2020 Share Posted December 12, 2020 (edited) And this is another thing that grinds my gears. Sucking HBO MAX is turning out to be a permanent thing Toonami has done, is doing, and will do for the foreseeable future, despite the irony of it all. When they ran Batman movies, I thought it was a one-time thing, but this announcment shows me it's gonna stick around. Yes. PLEASE tell me how great it is to abandon the one cable block that has basically kept me from ditching my sling.tv service. DOOooo tell! Edited December 12, 2020 by elfie 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CountFrylock Posted December 12, 2020 Author Share Posted December 12, 2020 14 minutes ago, elfie said: And this is another thing that grinds my gears. Sucking HBO MAX is turning out to be a permanent thing Toonami has done, is doing, and will do for the foreseeable future, despite the irony of it all. When they ran Batman movies, I thought it was a one-time thing, but this announcment shows me it's gonna stick around. Yes. PLEASE tell me how great it is to abandon the one cable block that has basically kept me from ditching my sling.tv service. DOOooo tell! and what really grinds my gear are the people who try to spin this as a positive thing for the block because "Oh Well More DC Animated Movies for the block is something i can fully support" despite the fact this is only happening because AT&T Demanded it we had a planned schedule with gemusetto death beats concluding on the 19th only for AT&T to tell toonami that the block must be focused on promoting wonder woman 1984's release on HBO Max and in theaters! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The1gairon Posted December 12, 2020 Share Posted December 12, 2020 20 minutes ago, CountFrylock said: and what really grinds my gear are the people who try to spin this as a positive thing for the block because "Oh Well More DC Animated Movies for the block is something i can fully support" despite the fact this is only happening because AT&T Demanded it we had a planned schedule with gemusetto death beats concluding on the 19th only for AT&T to tell toonami that the block must be focused on promoting wonder woman 1984's release on HBO Max and in theaters! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sketch Posted December 12, 2020 Share Posted December 12, 2020 CN and Toonami are both playing Wonder Woman films to hype WW84 in theaters and on HBO Max on Christmas Day. It's the first of Warner's big budget films to premiere on HBO Max the same day as theaters. While it's possible there could be other HBO Max pushes for other stuff down the line, I expect them to be pretty rare. Hyping up WW84's same day release is a wise decision because if they cannot get people to sign up for Max for that highly anticipated film then they're not gonna have much luck convincing people for most of 2021. They gotta try everything they can to make that roll out a success. So frankly having Toonami air a few movies and having CN air the live-action Wonder Woman movie that same night is kind of the bare minimum of what they ought to be doing to hype WW84 for HBO Max. Like I don't think we'll see Toonami run an usual schedule to shill for the HBO Max same day release of Godzilla vs. Kong in May. But if HBO Max wants to sponsor the inevitable Memorial Day or 4th of July marathons, I'm all for it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CountFrylock Posted December 12, 2020 Author Share Posted December 12, 2020 (edited) this is just my opinion but all the non stop hbo max schilling on tv has not made me want to subscribe nor has it made me think "HOLY CRAP! that is a great service!" instead i just feel annoyed i don't really see anything on there that makes the service truly king of them all it's not the netflix killer or the disney plus slayer Edited December 12, 2020 by CountFrylock 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sketch Posted December 12, 2020 Share Posted December 12, 2020 It’s got some good exclusive stuff like Close Enough, the new Looney Tunes and Ghibli movies but the service is nowhere near Netflix or Disney+ level. They should have waited until they had more content ready. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blatch Posted December 13, 2020 Share Posted December 13, 2020 On 12/11/2020 at 4:50 PM, OwlChemist81 said: If there is, I want it to be Attack On Titan Season 3, Part 2! I'd prefer an AssClass marathon myself, although AoT would have a neat practical purpose. As for the other major topic of this thread, I don't think they'll randomly preempt the normal schedule to do an HBO Max-related thing at least outside of special times. The Batman movie nights only happened because Toonami felt it would be a cool diversion from the monotony of the normal schedule, as there wasn't going to be a usual Labor Day marathon. It worked for me, although I still have DVR copies of the two parts of The Dark Knight Returns that I need to watch. And as for this special schedule, it's merely turning a one-week break into two weeks, in a spot Toonami normally does marathons to start with. If they end up piling on a second marathon after New Year's, you totally have the right to complain (but I wouldn't mind it), but you should focus your anger on that rather than random attempts at corporate synergy. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sketch Posted December 13, 2020 Share Posted December 13, 2020 Oh yeah, by all means, if they do run a marathon on January 2nd... give 'em hell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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