First, let me start out with the the more minor of the two offenses. The American dub of 08MST, aka eighth mobile suit team, premiered on American TV about a month ago. Now this series was good, and the dub seemed all right. Then the trouble hit.
08MST is a thirteen episode series. The dub showed only 12. The entire last eppisoed was cut out, and dialough in ep 12 was changed to make it seem like the end. So the final ep wasn't all about war! So it only served to show how the characters recover from fighting a war! Is that any reason to cut out the entire ep? If anything, I'd prefer a final episode that is full character developement and closure, rather than a shoot-em-up adventure.
Now, onto the main event...MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM WAS CANCLED! This happened before the series had even gone through one complete run! Apairently American audiences, at least those who view Toonami, only want flashy things like DBZ and Gundam Wing...and wouldn't bother with a classic like MSG.
Truth be told, Cartoon Network is pretty well at fault here as well. They put this series on at 5:00 in the afternoon, when the majority of the audiencce group who would apreciate MSG is off at work. A smarter move would have been to play MSG exclusively on the Midnight Run.
...the very least they could have done is let the series finish one complete run before yanking it...but NO!
08MST is a thirteen episode series. The dub showed only 12. The entire last eppisoed was cut out, and dialough in ep 12 was changed to make it seem like the end. So the final ep wasn't all about war! So it only served to show how the characters recover from fighting a war! Is that any reason to cut out the entire ep? If anything, I'd prefer a final episode that is full character developement and closure, rather than a shoot-em-up adventure.
Now, onto the main event...MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM WAS CANCLED! This happened before the series had even gone through one complete run! Apairently American audiences, at least those who view Toonami, only want flashy things like DBZ and Gundam Wing...and wouldn't bother with a classic like MSG.
Truth be told, Cartoon Network is pretty well at fault here as well. They put this series on at 5:00 in the afternoon, when the majority of the audiencce group who would apreciate MSG is off at work. A smarter move would have been to play MSG exclusively on the Midnight Run.
...the very least they could have done is let the series finish one complete run before yanking it...but NO!
