#because the show is on another timeslot for shitty reasons

[moinsbienquekaworu]

Tonight we listened to the last L'Heure Bleue, the show on France Inter, and hearing that theme for the last time at the end.... It always made me feel thoughtful, literally full of thoughts, a little like Goodbye To a World, but that last time... Man, that's part of my childhood too! I can't remember a time she wasn't on the radio, it's like if Les Petits Bateaux stopped

[ask-artsy-oncie]

Actually I’m going to make my own post about it.

TOH fans, I feel for you, I really do, because it always sucks when this happens, and it sucks even more when the motivation is based in bigotry

but you guys, especially the younger guys, really need to learn to stop constantly pitting this show against other shows. I think in general it’s just not a good mentality to have in towards the TVA industry, regardless of what show you’re a fan of, but I’ve been noticing it a lot with TOH - first it was its achievements, and now it’s its marketability.

The TVA industry in general is really fucking hellish. There’s a lot I could say about it, but it would just derail the post. Regardless, while it especially sucks when shows get canceled for being “too progressive”, it’s really important to note that, had the show been devoid of anything of that nature, it’s very, very likely that a network exec would have just found another excuse to end it. 

A LOT of shows have been screwed over for little to no obvious reason. Ratings don’t always play a role, sometimes a network will push premiers to shitty timeslots or side-channels or streaming services to kill ratings as an excuse to end the show. Sometimes executives change over the course of a show’s airing and this new exec doesn’t like the show for whatever reason. Sometimes the creator is hard to work with. Sometimes the network just decides they don’t care (a lot of the times they just don’t care).

Almost every - if not every single show I’ve seen fans compare TOH to has been screwed over, cut short, or otherwise got extremely mistreated by its network. I know it’s a cynical take, but most animated shows are in the same, sinking boat, and it really doesn’t matter if that boat is rainbow-colored or not. 

It is 100% super important to talk about how going to great lengths to properly represent a marginalized demographic can be a death wish in the entertainment industry as a whole - and how that impacts TVA (which is typically geared towards younger audiences) especially - please, don’t let any word of this post discourage you from doing so. The point here is to better recognize the realities of the TVA industry and to avoid pulling others down to hoist yourselves up. Disney made a horrible decision, and a lot of it was motivated by bigotry. All that is true. Can we talk about it without displaying that we know little to nothing about the very industry we’re supposed to be discussing?

I’m getting really tired of seeing so much discourse spreading around about the TVA industry by people who don’t seem to care to much for actually learning about the TVA industry. If you’re really passionate about something, I think it’s important to take the time to really learn about the context through which it exists.