(From TeamFourStar’s Dragon Ball Z Abridged)
Vegeta: What are you doing, Nappa?
Nappa: I’m cuddling it, Vegeta!
Vegeta: It’s Dead, Nappa!
Nappa: NOOOOOO!!!!!!
Well, it has come to this. When I started this little themed
phase, I came up with the title of “The Yay, the Okay, and the Nay” of Green
Lantern. If the live-action movie’s the “nay,” those two animated movies are
the “okay”, then guess what gets the “yay?” It’s Green Lantern: The Animated
Series, a show I completely missed out on when it was airing.
Green Lantern: The Animated Series (or GLTAS for short)
aired on Cartoon Network as part of the network’s “DC Nation” hour. It aired
along with stuff like Young Justice and Beware the Batman. 26 episodes ran
between 2012 and 2013. While it was created because of the live-action movie,
it didn’t tie into the movie and had its own continuity. It was heavily based
off of Geoff Johns’ run on Green Lantern which was still going at the time. It
was also completely done in CG which was a first for Bruce Timm, the producer.
Unfortunately, due to the reception of the live-action movie and poor toy
sales, the series was cancelled. Outside of Teen Titans Go!, all those shows
that were a part of that DC Nation block got the ax… hrmmm.
I was never able to watch the show since I was working and
we had no cable. Also, the animation made it seem that it was going to be aimed
for the little ones. I think it was 2014 when I first ran over this show on
Netflix. I decided to watch the first episode… and then was pretty much hooked
until the end. I was also regretting not liking the animation now that I had
seen it in action. The show was probably the thing that got me to check out Johns’
run on Green Lantern. Back in 2016, I threw it on a list of TV shows that got
axed too soon and it was right at the top. I don’t know if you can tell, but I
really liked this show.