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I am fascinated by champion design and am excited to learn about what champions didn't become as much as what they did, not because I believe that their initial designs were better, but there's just so much damn creativity and awesome ideas that I believe should've been allowed to exist to some degree in a better world.
I don't have trivia on every single champion because Riot doesn't publicly disclose every idea they tried out (they "icebox"/"put on hold" rather than outright cancel, as some ideas may be revisited in the future, so they like to keep their better ideas under wraps), but here's a list of some of my favorite ideas from the champions Riot has spoken up about.
(note: these might be common knowledge to some, but I felt like making this post on the offchance you don't because chances are that nobody's aware of all of these. If you do, congrats!)
AATROX: For his 2018 VGU, a few abilities were tested:

• One version of his ultimate would have created a "war zone" that would reduce the death timers of both allies and enemies who died in it. It was a crazy "fiesta zone", but it caused too many balance problems.
• He had another ability to offer the chance for allies to become Darkin -- Aatrox would drop his sword for someone to pick up, and they'd pay a "Blood Price" for it for bonus stats and a revive with Aatrox's R.

AHRI: From Riot's ORIGINS post:

• An early version of Ahri had no fox ears and her nine tails were really just suggestions from the shape of her dress. They thought it was too lame, and so they focused on making her a proper foxgirl instead of an "artificially unique one".
• An early version of her ultimate had her dash infinitely over time, basically turning herself into an Ezreal ult. Senior game designer Colt "Ezreal" Hallam claimed "We had to change this ultimate due to its interactions with the Dominion map, which is easily one of my biggest regrets on the character."

AKALI: For her 2018 VGU, they considered letting her "ride" projectiles from other champions (say, a Jinx rocket), but it was too impractical and annoying to work with. They also made it so her smoke bomb created a dragon-shaped billow in the center (which was shown in her rework's teaser image), but it was cut for clarity.
APHELIOS: From Riot's Champ Insights post:

• They originally wanted to make him a mage, specifically "a classic wizard archetype" with many potential combo-attacks (Invoker, anyone?), but in practice he was functionally identical to other mages in playstyle.
• They came up with the "gunswap marksman" idea first, champion identity second, and explored a bunch. My personal favorite is "Braum’s mean older brother, who carried a totem pole that channeled Freljordian animal spirits to swap abilities," who was specifically cut because his design implied he was tanky.
  
• CertainlyT originally suggested Aphelios carry as much as 25 guns, and also suggested that his power be based off the stage of the real life moon. Ngl, I hope he wasn't joking, godspeed
  

AURELION SOL: As some of you might know, ASol was originally planned to be a different champ: a long, serpentine storm dragon named Ao Shin. He was reworked because Riot had a lot of trouble with the technical aspects of the idea -- He was apparently "10-12 Teemos in length" and they wanted him to be able to wrap his body around enemies, but this made it hard for him to hide in bushes, and it consumed a ton of his power budget (he needed to be fast enough to move around enemies and tanky enough to survive them fighting back).
AZIR: Lotttttt of stuff from his ORIGINS post, too much to include here. the tl;dr version was that he was envisioned as a sand mage named Seth since 2013-14, and was reworked countless times due to technical and creative issues.
BARD: Originally for his passive, Riot gave him the ability to go through several different color versions of Meeps that would boost his abilities, and they would all continuously follow behind him like Pikmin. Testing made them prefer simpler upgrades to basic attacks over his abilities, resulting in his passive's current state.
DIANA: Yknow how that recent rework where they made her Moonfall (circle-surrounding ability) her ultimate? It turns out this was (kind of) the original plan when she was first made: it was a channeled AoE that dealt true damage based off a resource called "Scorn", but was replaced for being "toxic and nearly impossible to counter."
EKKO: They wanted to make his ultimate be able to properly rewind enemies along with him, but no matter what they tried, it was considered too busted and confusing. Also, they were developing Bard alongside him, and during a phase in playtesting, Bard had an ultimate where he would globally silence enemies, making games with both of them being globally annoyed no matter what.
EVELYNN: From her Champ Insights revolving her 2017 VGU, Riot originally wanted to make her scarier and demonic, with "spider legs, cracked porcelain skin with shadows pushing their way out, the cavity of a missing eye you could peer into and see three eyes within." They thought it was too much.
GALIO: One idea for a passive in his 2017 VGU was the ability to roost on top of turrets (or the remains of one), allowing him to cast spells at an increased range. When he jumped off, he could also chain it into his ultimate.
GANGPLANK: One tested idea for his 2015 VGU was an ultimate nicknamed "Pirate Gundam", summoning a giant, tanky unit that would either fire cannonballs or do a nerfed version of Malphite's ult. It didn't work out since it felt too powerful and required a ton of additional focus in visuals to implement it in game.
GNAR: Originally, Mega Gnar's ult had him swallow a unit whole, and was directly said to have inspired Tahm Kench's entire "devour" mechanic. This is a case of a good idea being reused for later -- the ability tested well, but they preferred it be the core mechanic to a new champion than tacked onto someone as uncontrollable as Gnar.
JHIN: From his Champ Insights, Jhin was originally envisioned as a "mysterious robot cowboy bounty hunting sniper" codenamed Deadeye. His design was fragmented, but while Jhin became a new psycho artist gunman, the design inspired his High Noon skin.
JINX: From her ORIGINS post:

• Originally they wanted her to be "a weapon-swapping ADC, like a ranged Udyr" (or a primordial Aphelios, lol) where her abilities just switched to a different gun for her basic attacks. Riot found this pattern pretty boring after a while, so all she has left of the gunswap is her Q.
• They tested out a bunch of different ultimates. My favorite is "Circle of Cats", fired a bomb across the map that surrounded the first enemy hit with magic smoke, causing enemies who crossed it to turn into harmless kittens, but it's just not as direct as making them explode outright.

KAI'SA: She was always meant to be a marksman, but went through different ideas in ideation. Concepts included an ex-Purifier (Lucian's faction), a Vampire hunter that became a vampire, a Zaunite life-essence-drainer, and even an idea that she was part of a new breed of void monster trying to imitate humans.
KAYN: Originally they wanted Kayn to be Xayah and Rakan's nemesis (and was codenamed during development as "Nemesis"), but they decided to cut this because his relationship with Zed and conflict with Rhaast was more interesting.
MISS FORTUNE: Riot toyed with giving her a new voiceover around 2018 (around the same time they recorded the voiceover for her Gun Goddess skin), but it was scrapped after they tested some lines out and internal feedback was mixed; nobody could really agree on what they were looking for from her characterization, and they concluded that changing it was a worse decision than leaving it be.
MORDEKAISER: Lots of really cool ideas were thrown around for his 2019 VGU:

• They toyed with giving Mordekaiser more interactions in dialogue, but most were cut because they didn't want to make him "chatty or conversational". One cut line was a first encounter line for Kled where he asks "What is... a taco?"
• One early idea was that his armor was meant to be based off the Immortal Bastion (formerly his giant fortress in Noxus), and so he looked architectural.
• Sooooo many scrapped abilities, including ones that interacted with the Death Realm. Favorites include a passive that automatically enslaved the souls of enemies he killed, and a circular missile that sent enemies it passed over into the Death Realm.

MORGANA: For her dual VGU with Kayle, they tested some new abilities on her just to see if there was anything worth changing. One significant ability was making her ult have tiers like with Kayle, with each rank giving her new stats, but the only one that stuck was giving her bonus movement speed.
NUNU and WILLUMP:

• One early story pitch for their 2018 VGU was that they were part of a traveling circus who secretly stole artifacts from Lissandra. The Frostguard found out and slaughtered their tribe, but Nunu managed to steal a true ice artifact that gave them snowball-making powers.
  
• One of their tested abilities was having Nunu toss out a climbing rope to lasso an enemy, which prevented them from moving beyond the two's radius. It sounds like it had potential, but only that.
  

ORNN:

• From his development post, Ornn was in the works since around 2013, so he went through a lot of different design ideas (too many to list here), some of which influenced other champions like the 2014 VGU of Sion.
  
• One version of his ultimate was "Murderhenge", where he summoned a giant volcano that erupted boulders across the area, and if Ornn charged into one of the boulders, they'd explode and damage enemies. It was "Fun as hell but way too random and noisy."
  
• An idea for his passive that he could forge his own weapons to affect his basic attacks for a while, like an extra hammer for AoE, a blade for piercing damage, and an axe for CC.
  

PYKE:

• Pyke was planned to be an "assassin support" from day one, and went through a bunch of ability experimentation. My favorite was a "kidnap spell" where he'd mark his current position, then could dash forward, and if he collided with a champion, he'd yank them both back to the starting point.
  
• While coming up with identities for a "dark assassin support", one of the ideas was making him a Shuriman sand wraith (influencing his Sand Wraith skin), and an undead yordle from the Shadow Isles (HEY RIOT, WHAT THE FUCK, I HOPE YOU REUSE THIS)
  

QIYANA:

• Originally, Riot wanted Ixtal to be a faction from a completely new continent away from Runeterra, and Qiyana was supposed to be from a race of metal people (or an "alloy girl"), but they simply didn't have the time or bandwidth to accomplish this.
• She was supposed to be able to use fire in her kit, but there isn't enough fire in any map to gain it from. Also, her ult was supposed to explode the ENTIRE river.

QUINN:

• She was originally envisioned as a "two-handed sword assassin", but then someone asked "Why not ranged?" and her design changed.
  
• An early version of her passive had Valor find any enemy below 30% max HP and suppress them for "some obscene amount of time".
  
• Her full title is supposed to be "Quinn and Valor", but due to client tech issues, she could only be referred to as simply "Quinn" once she left PBE. (given Nunu and Willump years later, this is probably no longer an issue. Any time, Riot!)
  

RAKAN and XAYAH: The two were conceived as a "botlane duo", so different ways they could do duo mechanics were tested:

• One idea was for them to be "a Storm Shaman and a Storm Elemental", where one could summon a lightning cloud to shock enemies and another with a gust of wind to blow it into place. They also tested giving them each a Vel'Koz beam that could combine into a single crazy "megabeam".
• Another idea was that the two would be vampires and would operate by a day/night cycle (hi, Dota 2) that made them more powerful at night, but it was considered "one too many layers" since they already had the duo mechanics.
• The two originally had a mechanic where if one of them died, they could still attach themselves to the other and continue fighting, which became the basis for Yuumi's kit.
• Xayah had a vast amount of work done on her for her kit -- one of her ults eventually became Kai'Sa's, one ability was basically Ahri's W but with only one projectile, one passive granted her up to 10 stacks of bonus damage from using basic attacks (which was "1v9"-levels of busted), and a mechanic kinda like Fiora's passive where she could target a side of a target for bonus damage, which got narrower but more powerful the more it was hit.

RAMMUS: The reason Rammus is so quiet is because when Riot (very early on in the game's life, to remind you) did try to give him a proper voiceover, but it sucked and they recorded a new one in 15 minutes. The rest is history!
RIVEN: From her ORIGINS post, Riven went through a lot of kit experimentation, especially with her ultimate. The descriptions of what they tried with her are much funnier than anything I can relay.
RYZE: Not exactly to do with the champion himself, but for his "Call to Power" short, there exists an unused model of a Zaunite assassin and concept art of him with a little girl (who I believe is Daisy from Annie's short?)
SHACO: Sometime around 2017, they tested giving him a rework. One of the tested abilities was an ultimate where he turned himself into a missle that fired in a direction. When he collided with Yasuo's Wind Wall, he never came back. "The entire design team stood up and gave the Yasuo player a standing ovation."
SYLAS: He was envisioned as a "copycat" champion since the beginning, but went through different ideas:

• One idea was that he was this Houdini-esque magic escape artist who let Demacia capture him just to prove he could escape... but then ended up trapped for 20 years because of their petricite. Smooth.
  
• They originally tried making him more of a mage -- his original Q eventually became Neeko's Q, and he had a "prison break" move that let him cleanse CC, but it didn't work out. They changed him into a brawler because they found it was more versatile to use enemy ultimates around.
  

TALIYAH: From her Champ Insights:

• Originally they wanted Taliyah's abilities to be much more destructive, with an ultimate that could outright remove any natural terrain. This was cut because nobody really knew how to make this look right, and the ability felt more a support champ than a self-reliant mage.
  
• One idea to go along with her "weaver" concept was to give her a "spool" that could gather up rocks that she could fire back onto her enemies. This implied that she had abilities that she could charge up, but she eventually ended up with none.
  

URGOT: A few, kind of wacky ideas were tested for his 2017 VGU:

• Riot initially toyed with Urgot being a waaaaaay more theatrical, Batman-style villain (think Joker or Penguin) where he'd toy with his enemies with deranged playfulness before killing them. His taunt was a full minute long, and his ultimate had him pull out a pipe organ to play a song and give an evil monologue as he dragged his enemies to death -- the only reason this seems to have been cut is because gameplay is too fast for it. (ngl, I want this REALLY BAD)
  
• One scrapped ability had him fire a cluster bomb that created a minefield which feared enemies. "Unfair" doesn't begin to describe it.
  

VI: One early stab at her "Piltover Enforcer" idea was that she was a steampunk capoeira fighter with dreads and robot legs. It apparently sounds cooler than it actually looked.
WARWICK: One idea for his 2017 VGU was to be able to turn other allies into werewolves, allowing them to roam around the map as a wolf pack. Not exactly "Warwick", but very cool.
YORICK: One ability was tried out for his 2016 VGU where could resurrect allies, with one version of them exploding like Kog'Maw. It was cut because 1) there wasn't a way to make it fun, and 2) this meant Yorick's power relied on his team dying.
YUUMI:

• Her passive was "very close" to being named "Protecc/Attacc"/
• Few different cool abilities were tested,, including one ultimate that involved diving onto an enemy and pushing them an unlimited distance away from the fight (which sounds like Stukov's shoving ult from HOTS).

CANCELLED CHAMPIONS:

• OMEN was a very early champ that looked like a spiky quadruped demon thing. He had a kit, but it was super confused and unfocused, and nobody was sure if he was meant to be melee or not.
  
• KOMACHI was once supposed to be a female, Grim Reaper-style, scythe-wielding tank who was being designed, but they canned her when they realized they couldn't make her not cliche. (which makes Kayn's existence as a deliberate edgelord even funnier, lol)
  
• WELL was envisioned as a water elemental early in the game's life. He was called off when someone asked Riot if they actually had the graphics technology to make him look good, and they didn't. When they soon did, they gave the concept another shot in the form of Seth, a sand mage which became Azir (listed above)
  
• PRISCILLA was a "Spider Queen" champion who was canned despite her model and voice lines being found in the game. Fan petition for her inclusion led to the creation of Elise.
  
• KADARIN was a "space marine-styled gladiator" who had a pretty neat history: TotalBiscuit (RIP) won a prize in the now-defunct Refer-A-Friend system where he could help cocreate a champion, but when his idea got rejected, he gave the prize to the Make a Wish Foundation. Kadarin is a concept proposed by a kid named Samuel, but while an experimental prototype was tested, "it's unlikely you'll ever see Kadarin as a full package."
  
• HUSK was a champion idea designed by IronStylus before he left Riot, whose design elements inspired Kai'Sa and Camille. Her story was that she was Caitlyn's former partner, but she was betrayed and paralyzed, so she defected to Zaun and formed a mercenary group called H.I.V.E.
  

Everything is in AUD but here’s the current exchange rate for a few currencies:
1AUD = 0.68USD
1AUD = 0.52GBP
1AUD = 1.04NZD
1AUD = 0.62EUR
Location: Melbourne (we moved to Australia almost 3 years ago and have been here the whole time)
My job: Development Manager
My income: $100,118
My partner (A)’s job: Programmer
A’s income: $90,000
Section One: Assets and Debt
My Retirement Balance: $29,500 (employer contribution to my superannuation fund)
A’s Retirement Balance: $15,000 (employer contribution to his superannuation fund)
Joint Emergency account balance: $7,000
Joint Fixed Bills account balance: $3,400
Joint Variable Expenses Account: $1,050
Credit card debt: $0 (always pay off my credit card within a few days of charging anything to it)
Student loan debt: $0 for me - luckily, I went to university in Scotland as an EU citizen and got free tuition. I also worked part-time and summers throughout my degree to pay my way, with some generous help from my parents too. Very grateful to be in such a privileged position.
A has £13,200 left on his student loan and we pay it off monthly from our joint account.
Joint P2P investment account: $13,500
Car loan: $10,000 approx left - due to be paid off by August 2021
Section Two: Income
Main Job Monthly Take Home: $6,021 (after deducting $30 pre-tax for workplace giving)
A’s Take Home Pay: $5,552
Section Three: Expenses
A and I keep $120 per week each to spend on ourselves - things like make-up, clothes, wine nights with the girls, video games, beers with the guys etc - basically, things that are only for us and not for the other person. The rest goes into a few different joint accounts to cover the below fixed costs and our variable costs for food/entertainment/etc. Throughout various salary fluctuations we’ve used this system since combining our money when we moved to Melbourne. Everything will be paid from our joint accounts unless otherwise specified.
Rent: $2,350 (2 bed, 1 bath)
Emergency Savings contribution: $775
P2P Investment contribution: $3,640 (We contribute here for both mid-term investments and travel savings as the return horizon is 60 days)
A’s student loan: $300
Donations: Other than my workplace giving, our donations are all ad hoc, but we do make quite a few
Electric: $75
Gas: $30
Water: $25
Wifi/Cable/Landline: $75
Cellphone: Work covers mine; L’s is $30
Netflix: $15
Spotify: $20 for a family account
Gym membership: $230 (we go to the same gym)
Car payment: $500
Health insurance: $260
Who Gives A Crap subscription: $56 every 3 months
Car insurance and registration: $2,080 annually (all paid up front)
Work parking permit: $460 annually
On-street parking permit at home: $83 annually
Day 1 - Friday
6:50am - I begrudgingly drag myself from bed - always made harder by the fact that A gets to stay in bed until 8 if he’s not going to the gym. I shower, do my simple skincare routine (Fresh Soy Face Cleanser, Kiehls Ultra Face Cream and SuperGoop SPF), throw on some clothes and kiss my sleeping zombie goodbye.
7:20am - Grab some food for breakfast and lunch from the fridge and hop in the car to work, listening to true crime podcasts en route. I’m so glad to see that the rain has cleared some of the bushfire smog - though when I get to work my colleague tells me that the rain didn’t reach her sisters house out in a fire affected area which makes me really sad.
8am - Get through some emails and work on a proposal for a really interesting project
10:00am - Stop for a quick breakfast (banana and yakult that I brought from home) and get back to the proposal.
12:30pm - Lunch - the highlight of my work day! I heat up my curry and join the big table in our common area. Our team does the quiz in the three daily newspapers at lunchtime and it’s such a fun, energising activity for the middle of the day (we’re pretty raucous quizzers). I get an obscure one right and the crowd goes wiiilllldddd (at least that’s how I remember it).
1pm - Some more writing, mapping and strategic planning for the upcoming year. Out the door at 4 on the dot. This was my first week back to work after 4 weeks off travelling SE Asia - the return to reality has been TOUGH y’all.
5:00pm - Get home and head to the gym to squeeze in a quick HIIT before tonight’s festivities. Our friends G & C are leaving Oz to go travelling and move to Canada so we have a lot of drinking to do. They stayed at our apartment while we were overseas and for the last week, so it’s been great getting in extra quality time (and it’s been nice to let them end their time in Oz rent-free so they can save more for their travels!)
6:00pm - Back home, have a shower and throw on some makeup (elf concealer, Nars orgasm blush, Rimmel eyebrow wand, Rimmel kohl and MCo mascara). Have a couple drinks at home with A and C while we wait for G to get home from her work send-off and officially commence funemployment!
7:15pm - G gets home and we head down to the bar where she’s booked a couple tables. We order some food (I get a vegan bowl and feel like an absolute health kween) and quite a few cocktails ($87). A leaves around 9:30 as he has a video conference at 8am tomorrow (the joys of working for a startup that has an office in a vastly different time zone!). I get a few more drinks ($30 on my individual acc) and stroll home around 12:30 (I retire my health kween crown and get chips on the way home - $5 again on my own card). I’m snuggled up in bed with A by 1am.
TOTAL: $122
Day two - Saturday
8:30am - I’m woken up by A getting home from the office. His video call was cancelled at 7:59 when he was ready and waiting at the office! I commiserate with him and then he heads to the gym to make the most of the situation. I have no such ambitions for productivity and go back to sleep.
11:00am - A new bar is opening in our neighbourhood and we’ve been invited in for a first look and some drinks. The perfect hair of the dog! We manage 4 rounds of drinks while the free booze is flowing and leave feeling very merry.
1:30pm - We head on to our favourite brunch place and keep the party going with mimosas. C suggests we start with nachos for the table and we all hail him as a genius. A gets fried chicken & kimchi waffles and I get a panko cauliflower burger. It’s an insane amount of food but it’s incredibly delicious, so no complaints here. We get another round of mimosas in for good measure and pay our half of the bill ($93). We decide to stop in to a pub for a drink and a game of pool ($12) but the quantity of drinks so early in the day hits us and we don’t stay for long.
4:15pm - On our way home we pick up some whiskey, beers, chips & dip ($97) and head back for a quick disco nap.
6:00pm - A few of our friends have arrived so A wakes me from my slumber and makes everyone a whiskey & ginger beer. Some of the guys haven’t been to our place since we moved and I find it really amusing that they’re complimenting our decor - it was the last thing I expected to hear from them! We order a few pizzas to prepare for the night ahead and send G our share ($20).
9:00pm - We rally the troops and walk down to a nearby pub where a bunch of our friends are. We have a few drinks and a bit of a dance while catching up with some friends we haven’t seen since before the holidays ($30)
11:00 - We head home FULL of drink and not able to handle another drop. Asleep by midnight.
TOTAL: $252
Day 3 - Sunday
9:30am - We get up and say goodbye to G & C. We feel pretty emotional afterwards because it feels like the end of an era. They stayed with us for their first month in Melbourne two years ago so it felt really “full circle” for them to stay with us for their last month too. We start to contemplate if it might be time for our next adventure soon too...
11:00am - I’m starting a 90-day fitness program tomorrow so need to go shopping and do some meal prep. I always find the first shop so expensive because you’re buying random things like chickpea flour and flaxseed meal. A and I head to the market to get veggies and eggs ($44.80), then on to Aldi to get the things we couldn’t find at the market ($57.78). While walking around we split a mini quiche, cauliflower pie and baklava because honestly there’s just too much delicious food to resist ($12.40)! We swing by A’s office to pick up our Who Gives A Crap delivery on the way home.
2:00pm - Watch some tv and try to find the will to start some of the meal prep I need to do. I eventually start, but all I really make is the breakfast granola as I know I’m having a catered lunch at work tomorrow.
8:00pm - Run down to Coles and grab some fancy bread, marinated goats cheese, pizza, ravioli and tomato sauce to make ourselves an Italian feast ($30). We had intended to go out for dinner tonight (hence why I didn’t buy dinner stuff earlier at the market) but decided a night in watching Sex Ed and drinking red wine sounded better.
9:00pm - Talk to my mum on the phone and get excited for her upcoming visit. It’s her first time visiting Australia so we have ambitious plans for all the things we’ll see and do. I’ve taken on a contract at a festival the week before she gets here which should net me around $1,000 which I’ll use to treat her while she’s here - hopefully that will cover a good few day trips and nice dinners!
10:00pm - In bed early after an alcohol-fuelled weekend
TOTAL: $144.58
Day 4 - Monday
6:30am - Up and at ‘em. I jump in the shower, do my skincare routine and put a quick slick of mascara and brow gel on. I get my breakfast ready to take to work and hop in the car.
8:00am - Arrive in work and have the normal Monday morning banter about the weekend not being long enough etc. etc. I text with my friend who’s just finished her final night shift - she’s about to move into an exciting new role with dreamy hours and is on a high.
11:00am - I get a text from A to say he’s looked at our health insurance policy and realised that it advises we get separate cover for emergency ambulance transport - which we’ve had for the past 2 years before we got full health insurance. We’re still trying to figure out what the insurance DOES cover as it seems to have a lot of exemptions...A organises it because he’s a life admin legend ($96.70)
1:00pm - A new colleague has started in our team so we have a welcome lunch for her and it’s catered. She seems lovely and I think she’ll be a great addition to the workplace!
3:00pm - A few people at work are talking about BlazeAid - an organisation I’ve never heard of that helps communities rebuild fences after bushfires, floods and drought. I get really excited because it’s the exact thing I’ve been looking for! I text A and a few friends to organise for everyone to go to a camp and help next weekend.
4:00pm - Hop in the car and head home. Just as I leave, the skies open and it absolutely tips it down. I get in the door and get ready for the gym. As I’m walking to the kitchen to fill my water bottle, I notice the small lake that has formed in the hallway. It appears we have a leak! I call my landlord and enjoy one of the few moments I’m glad to not own my place.
5:30pm - I brave the storm to get a workout in and feel very #newyearnewme
6:30pm - Home from the gym and looking like a drowned rat. I have a shower and A and I make homemade falafel for dinner. I swear these fitness & meal programs just make you spend so much time cooking food so you don’t have time to drink or eat things that are off-plan! We watch more Sex Ed while eating dinner.
10:00pm - Absolutely wiped out, so it’s an early night with a bit of reading (Cork Dork) and lights out by 10:30pm
TOTAL: $96.70
Day 5 - Tuesday
6:30am - A was planning on going to the gym at 6 so he’s snoozed 6 alarms by the time mine goes off, meaning I feel well and truly ready to wake up, which makes a nice change. Get in the shower, do skincare and get dressed, then toddle off to the kitchen to quickly put my breakfast and lunch together. It takes much longer than I anticipated and I make a mental note to stop leaving this task for the morning! Even though I leave 5 minutes later than usual, I’m still in work by 8:02.
9:20am - Our landlord calls and says there’s a plummer 5 minutes from our apartment who can come and look at the leak. I think he’s been retired for too long because he’s pretty surprised that we can’t get there so quickly with no notice. Ah to be retired! I call A to see if he can make the 15 minute cycle down but he’s got back-to-back meetings so I bite the bullet and drive home. At least the traffic has subsided so it’s only 35 minutes each way.
11:00am - I get back to the office and am starving, so inhale my breakfast and get into my meetings.
2:00pm - My last meeting ran over so I’m eating lunch during this casual meeting with a colleague because otherwise the hanger will become too distracting. Rocket, lentils, red pepper, cherry tomatoes and halloumi salad - so good!
4:30pm - I stay a little later because of my plummer call-out, but not too late because I didn’t take a lunch break. On the way home I notice I’m running on fumes and stop for petrol ($30).
5:45pm - Get home, put my gym gear on and head right back out the door before I can come up with any excuses.
6:15pm - A calls me while I’m at the gym and asks if I need anything from the shops. I ask him to pick me up nail polish remover and cotton wool because my nails are so chipped it’s an actual disgrace ($7.48)
6:30pm - Feeling very grateful that I made double falafel last night so I can just heat and eat. It’s the first nice evening in a while so A and I decide to go for a walk along the beach and watch the sunset. On our walk we talk about our plans to go the Australian Open with H & T on Saturday and decide to go camping on Sunday & Monday for Australia Day. I haven’t been camping since before Christmas and can’t wait to get back out in nature!
9:00pm - Home and try watching a new tv show a colleague recommended (Game Face). Not too sure about it...asleep by 10:30pm
TOTAL: $37.48
Day 6 - Wednesday
6:30am - Normal morning routine. Pat myself on the back for packing my breakfast and lunch last night so I’m out the door on time and in work before 8am.
8:30am - My youngest brother, who’s living in Barcelona, is moving to a new apartment and needs help with the security bond. I transfer him 600EUR but I know I’ll get it back - he’s usually pretty good with money but our 4 week trip to SE Asia wiped his funds a bit!
10:00am - Breakfast of yakult, homemade granola and yoghurt that I brought from home. At 12:30 I have the same lunch as yesterday and leave at 4:00 again. This week has been groundhog day-esque.
6:30pm - On my way back from the gym I realise we need more rocket and I also get vege crisps because I can never say no to them ($6.80)
6:45pm - Get home and start making butternut squash risotto which takes me way longer than I thought it would. Eat it while watching Season 9 of Shameless (didn’t realise it had come out!) with A. I know my Mon-Wed has been boring and repetitive but my god I needed this after 3 months straight of either travelling or having friends stay with us. Little bit of reading Cork Dorks before bed and asleep by 11:00pm.
TOTAL: $6.80
Day 7 - Thursday
7:30pm - I’m working from a different office today so I can take the tram and start at 9 instead of 8. I love love love working from this office! I get up, shower and get ready and head down to the tram stop.
8:15am - I missed the tram I wanted by about 30 seconds and the next one is 10 minutes away. I decide to experiment by taking a combination of two other trams. The experiment was unsuccessful and I arrive at work at 9:04. (Used my Myki which had money on it)
10:00am - Usual breakfast of yakult, granola and yoghurt.
12:30pm - Have lunch of an avocado, charred corn and rocket salad. I often give in to the temptation of getting lunch out when I’m at this office (it has way better options than my usual office!) so I have to make sure the lunch I bring from home is filling and delicious so I’m actually excited to eat it. I head out to an external meeting which goes really well and could lead to some really exciting things if it all eventuates!
5:10pm - I leave the office and head down to the arts precinct. Chicago is on at the Arts Centre and I’m hoping to score some $30 tickets through the tixatsix program and then grab some cheap early bird deal.
6:25pm - I’m 5 people from the front when they shout they’ve sold out of discounted Chicago tickets. Dammmmmm I really regret my lackadaisical stroll over here because I definitely could have gotten here in time to be further up the queue. Oh well, I’ve only wasted an hour of my life and I’ve learned for next time to be here earlier! A arrived just in time to hear the disappointing news so we go back-and-forth on where to go next and decide to just head back towards ours.
7:00pm - On our way home I check the EatClub app and see that our favourite pizza place is 20% off so we dip in for a pizza each, a wine for me and a beer for A ($42.45)
8:30pm - Get home and watch some Impractical Jokers because it's always good for a laugh. I decide to start booking some things for my mums visit as it’s pretty soon. I book us an Airbnb on the Great Ocean Road ($312.89) and three tickets on a wine tour in the Yarra Valley ($390). That’s a good chunk of my $1,000 gone already! But now I’m getting really excited about doing all this fun stuff with her! I finish the day with a bit of reading in bed and am asleep by 10:00.
TOTAL: $745.34
At the end of each day please tally up your daily expenses. Then at the end of your diary please tally up all expenses in the following categories:
Food + Drink = $548.23
Fun / Entertainment = $702.89
Home + Health = $96.70
Clothes + Beauty = $7.48
Transport = $30
Other
Total = $1,404.90
(Excluding the prepayments for things during my mums visit, this was $35 on my individual account and $333.50 for my half of our joint spending = $368.50 for my part of spending on things for this actual week)
Our weekends tend to be pretty Jekyll and Hyde where one weekend (like this one) we go out tonnes, drinks heaps and spend a lot of money and then the next we’ll head out camping, hiking and eating picnics and spend almost no money. This just happened to be a very exy weekend! And we’ll usually try pull it back during the week - both in terms of spending and healthiness. It’s only in the last year that we’ve really got a handle on our finances and I’m happy enough with where we are and excited about what we’ll achieve this year! I’m also happy I was able to take on a side contract to be able to treat my mum a bit and not dip into our other savings and send everything out of whack. We used all our savings to move to Australia and our salaries in the first year were half what they are now, so it’s been a real journey money-wise over the last 3 years. I’m babbling now sorry!

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As someone who has had the WWE network since its inception, I’ve noticed, as I’m sure most others have, that the turnover rate for WWE original programming is very high. Of the 26 new content, original programs created in the past 3 years for the Network, only 9 are considered current or not cancelled. I went through each of the higher profile shows to see if there was any common theme in why some of our favorite shows are cancelled.
Talking Smack- Let’s begin with the fresh one, Talking Smack. WWE issued an official statement regarding its cancellation, which is rare for when an original show isn’t renewed or cancelled. The statement alluded to multiple factors, including ratings. However, per WON, as of April 1st, 2017, Talking Smack was the 2nd most watched show on the Network, behind NXT Weekly. The ratings argument doesn’t hold much water. Having listened and read WON, TS has been in the top 5 rated WWE network shows since its inception, up until at least Mania. Verdict: Too early to tell
Legends House- The first original program on the network. Legends House was the most viewed show on the Network during its run during 2014. It garnered mainstream attention for the new WWE Network via positive feedback from social media and other platforms. Legends House was filmed before the Network’s inception. After it became a huge hit, season 2 was planned to be filmed in October 2014 in Florida. However, WWE’s stock plummeted in Mid 2014 and the company started making budget cuts. The choice was made to spend the money on a new season of Tough Enough instead of producing another Legends House
Verdict: Budget cutting measure, despite it being very popular. An odd move, considering the Network was in its inception, and they were desperately trying to keep fans from cancelling their free subscription. Instead, WWE went on to waste money in a new TE season that was a commercial and critical failure.
Legends with JBL: Critically popular show where JBL sits down to interview various retired wrestlers. Randomly cancelled after first season with no reason given. Verdict: This was a surprising cancellation, as it was a critically acclaimed, cheaply produced show. Verdict is out on this
Holy Foley: Critically panned fake reality show with Mick, Noelle and her fucking idiot clown boyfriend. However, it was also somehow the top rated original programming when it first aired after Summerslam 2016. Its first week of airing, it was streamed MORE than Summerslam, which some attribute to SS16’s run time. Per an interview with Mick with Lillian Garcia, the show cost too much to make. Verdict: Cost
Countdown/The List: 2 things wrestling fans love: 1) waiting in lines and 2) lists. Countdown was a ranking show in the vein of “best finisher ever!” It was then cancelled and replaced with, basically, the exact same show with a different name an Q from Impractical Jokers. Verdict: Quietly died without an explanation. Popular, and cheaply produced.
Stone Cold Podcast: Per WON, this show was scrapped after the Dean Ambrose interview. There hasn’t been a new episode in a year. Probably the best thing put out on the network other than NXT, it was the most buzzworthy show since its inception in 2014, and was also its most popular. Verdict: Most likely cancelled due to Vince not being able to control Austin’s content
There isn’t a real trend with the programming cancellation that can be easily pinpointed. Many of the shows that were cancelled were highly rated, including Talking Smack. This is especially odd, since WWE still gives away a significant amount of free memberships to the network, and network retention has been its priority since April 2014.

While TESD has definitely gone downhill, it's not bad. I think the last really funny episode was 400 with Makin Hay 3.
Has TESD sold out with the Patreon and ads? Maybe, but they kind of have to since Comic Book Men ended.
I do wish the Patreon stuff was more entertaining and less forced at times, which is why I canceled it recently (like the scripted Father Flanagan or their attempt at doing MST3K). The patreon felt kind of haphazard at times, and I would have rathered 3 consistent pod episodes every two weeks than 10 spread across the whole month. I felt they were doing too many test pilots that didn't really go anywhere. Although the first episode of Q and Walt's comic show was promising.
I will say Q has kept it real thoughout the whole thing, and is still as entertaining as the old episodes. He remains a bright spot on the pod, and while there is a lack of TESD games, he keeps the episodes engaging by bringing up topics or current events. He's also the most relateable I think, and where TESD might have gone gone downhill, Impractical Jokers is still as hilarious as ever.

So I'm a pretty big Best Show fan. I actually discovered it because of Steven Universe! I wanted to see what else the guy had voiced Greg had done, and while there weren't a lot of voice acting roles, there was this huge body of work on the radio! It was my first podcast, and the one that got me into other ones. The Best Show will always hold a special place in my heart! (By the way, Rebecca Sugar has said that The Best Show is why she offered the part of Greg to Tom!)
A lot of times when I recommend it, people say that they'd like to get into the show, but aren't sure where to start. And I get it! It's a 3 hour weekly show, with over 16 years of archives! So if you're looking for some clips or episodes to get you started, I'd like to help.
One of the reasons I love the show is because The Best Show has a much different tone compared to a lot of other comedy podcasts. It's not 2 standups talking about how they got started or what their process is, and it's not 4 dudes sitting around shooting the shit. (Not that those are necessarily bad! I just think they've been overdone.) For most of its lifespan, it was a call-in radio show on the legendary free-form station WFMU, and the only real difference now is that it's not actually on the airwaves, and only plays live online. But just about every week, Tom's comedy partner Jon Wurster calls in to perform a 20-40 minute pre-written sketch framed as an actual call, typically as a citizen of the fictional, Springfield-esque town of Newbridge, NJ.
In a way, the show is almost 2 shows in 1: the call in segment with Wurster, and the rest of the show. These calls usually start slow and conversationally, but tie together hilariously at the end, where Wurster tends to become unhinged, sometimes signing off with an over the top death threat. There's quite a few running gags and references, but for the most part, Tom & Jon do a good job of letting the calls stand on their own even if it's the first time you've heard one.
First, some clips. These range from relatively recent to closer to when the show began.
-Rot, Rock, and Rule The very first Wurster call! Jon calls in as Ronald Thomas Clontle, the author of a coffee table book known as 'The Ultimate Argument Settler', with definitive (and completely arbitrary) answers as to whether or not a band Rots, Rocks, or Rules. Tom basically plays pure straight man in this one, while actual callers are the ones getting upset and questioning his reasoning. I love this call because up until this point, the show had been purely music with some call-in aspects, and zero comedy. No one but Tom and Jon had any idea what was happening.
-Tom breaks down Billy Crystal's Comic Relief set A solo Tom goes line by line through Billy Crystal's borderline racist stand-up set for a charity in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. If you've ever wondered why Tom calls a toilet a 'turlet', prepare to be informed!
-H Jon Benjamin calls in as a Smirnoff Ice Rep One of a few non-Wurster calls. H Jon Benjamin is a Smirnoff Ice rep trying to get Tom to enjoy Smirnoff Ice. A little longer but I quite enjoy this one.
-Tom talks with Kevin Corrrigan This is less of a comedy clip and more of a conversation. I thought it was great though, and it really encapsulates why I love The Best Show so much, it just has so much variety! Tom and Kevin gelled really well it seemed.
-Tom's brother Ron calls in Jon calls in as Tom's brother Ron. They've done quite a few calls from Jon pretending to be people in Tom's family, and they're always great. I love it because Ron just gets weirder with every call. Patton Oswalt and Lisa Jane Persky are also in this one too!
-Philly Boy Roy!!! Philly Boy Roy is one of the longest running Wurster characters, and definitely a fan-favorite. He's loud, abrasive, unabashedly Philadelphian, and hilarious. Honestly, I just picked a clip with him in it that I happened to like, but he's got so many calls that it is really hard to choose.
-Tom and Paul F. Tompkins discuss the Gathering of the Juggalos One of the most popular clips. Tom is pretty good about not breaking or laughing when he does his bits, but hearing both him and Paul break down laughing while doing a Teaser Freezer on a Gathering of the Juggalos commercial is downright cathartic.
-Dueling Woody Allens This is the most recent clip. At the end of a really great episode with Julie Klausner, Tom is about to end the show, but ends up in a 15 tangent with Julie where they riff on what Woody Allen's next movie might be. This video was compiled by the fantastic R. Reynolds, who is an amazing source of Best Show clips!
So that's just a few clips, and if you're looking for some more, you should check out the Best Show Bests, which are released weekly. They help get the show into something that's probably a little easier to listen to that a 3 hour show. But they're no substitute for the real thing, so let's get into it! Here's some episodes I enjoy very much.
-JULIE KLAUSNER! HAYES DAVENPORT! DICK NORTON! Julie Klausner of Difficult People and Hayes Davenport of Hollywood Handbook are in studio, and it's great. They are probably the two guests with the best chemistry with Tom. Top-notch Wurster call, and the Brad Garrett impression and Impractical Jokers discussion is golden!
-PAUL SCHEER AND ROB HUEBEL! MIKEY FROM SOUTH WEST NEWBRIDGE! NEW DOCTOR WHO! Paul Scheer is a big fan of the show, and has called in/been in studio many times! Rob Huebel is great too; hearing their story about Al Roker hanging them out to dry was amazing.
-MARTIN COURTNEY! GAIL BENNINGTON! THE NEWBRIDGE WALL! This is what I love about the new format. Tom used to do some live music at WFMU, but it's been happening much more since the revival, and it's great. Gail is a fun guest, and Jon calls in as Darren from Work, Tom's coworker who has found a copy of their old CD they recorded as kids. Truly fantastic call.
-TOM CANNOT COMPLAIN! THE VANCE AND GARY SHOW! ANDY BRECKMAN! For the first portion of the show, Tom has pledged to give money to charity if he complains. If you've listened to really ANY other episode of the show, you know why that's such a big deal. Hearing the callers get under his skin was a treat. This episode is probably better if you've already listened to a few, as the things that bother Tom make much more sense with context.
-SWEET SPIRIT SONG DEBUT! REPLACEMENTS STEVE! PAUL SCHEER! ANDY KINDLER! CLARE O’KANE! JAKE FOGELNEST! MUCH MORE! This is one of my favorite new episodes. Tom announced during the day that Replacements member Tommy Stinson would be on the show, but then gets an email about 30 minutes into the show that he canceled. The rest of the show could easily have been a downer, as Tom had been dealing with some personal troubles that this only made worse. Instead, he turns it into radio magic. I particularly like the call where he finds out that Tommy's not going to show, and the fact that the Wurster call ended up being fairly improvised, which is rare.
Although it's not a particular episode, I will suggest checking out episodes from November 2015/2016! Tom does something called Nodudevember, where only people who don't identify as dudes can call in. (excepting Jon, of course.) It's a really cool thing and there's been some great feedback from people who have said how it gave them the courage to call in!
Those are some shows from the new format, but I also wanted to throw up some favorites from the old one. It's off WFMU's archives, and the episodes don't have titles, so I'm just going to put the date and the guests as the title.
-TODD BARRY calls in. Jon calls in as Bruce Springsteen Biographer
-Holiday Party Episode, with JOHN HODGMAN, DAVID REES, and TED LEO. Jon calls in as Darren from Work
-CHRIS ELLIOT and JASON WOLINER in studio. MARC MARON and JIM GAFFIGAN call in. Yet another Darren from work call. Plus, Gary the Squirrel! Gary is Tom's squirrel puppet with an almost unintelligible voice. He's part insult comic part Hollywood wannabe. It sounds so dumb, but I think Gary is one of my favorite segments.
So there you have it! This doesn't come close to everything the show has to offer, and there are PLENTY of 10/10 episodes I haven't covered, but if you're just wanting to check it out, these are some great places to start! If you have any questions, feel free to ask! And if you're looking for more clips or discussions, check out /Newbridge, the Best Show fan subreddit!

I'm not sure about you, but I like this show. I'm not sure why people aren't that comfortable with it, there are a few issues, but nothing that should really make people want to not watch it.
Long History of Previous Batman Cartoons
I am a huge fan of Batman. I love the character, although I've recently been reading and discussing the impracticality of the psychology of his origin and his creation of his own villains, but I still love the notion of a masked vigilante, fighting crime, and arguably more important, solving crime.
Since I do enjoy Batman's story and idea, I have watched almost all the animated Batman shows that have aired. (I haven't read a whole lot of the comics unfortunately, but I'd like to consider myself a fairly intelligent fan regardless) BTAS was also one of the greatest Batman shows ever. I don't know if I've meet a single person who can argue that BTAS or TNBA were not some of the most badass cartoons of their time.
Of course after BTAS ended(rather unsatisfactorily, I might add) there was Batman Beyond, still with the amazingly talented Kevin Conroy to voice Bruce Wayne, but with a new Batman entirely. And this too, was another great Batman show that so greatly encapsulated everything we love about the hero. Then there was Justice League, which continued to carry on the escapades of the Caped Crusader.
Then came a Batman show which some of the more hardcore Batman fans/fans of the previous programs I mentoned did not quite agree with: The Batman. First of all, someone else was the voice of Batman, which to some may not seem like a very big deal, but to us, the people who grew up with Kevin Conroy as Batman(literally Batman, Kevin Conroy was not the voice of Batman, he was Batman!) this was a weird shift.
Secondly, the style of the show was different, it didn't seem quite as dark as other shows had. The villains were different from those of the previous cartoons, but a lot of that can be attributed to the different drawing style for The Batman. Despite there being a few flaws in the show, it wasn't really that bad. Batman still kicked ass, there were still dangerous criminals and there was still Gotham City. (And the movie Batman vs. Dracula, although being a bit silly, helped to make up for the lack of darkness in the show)
And now we come to the only animated Batman show I haven't watched: Batman: The Brave and the Bold. When this show aired I had kind of lost touch with animated cartoons at the time, I wasn't super interested in this show or any show for that matter. Of course when I finally got around to looking it up, it looked super cheesy. Absolutely incredible the amount of cheese this show looked like it had, an Adam West Batman except animated.
So, simply because the show didn't look or feel like the dark Batman I had grown accustomed to, I never watched it. Although I have heard that a lot of people like the show because of the obscure villains that have been used, Bat-Mite's breaking of the fourth wall, the portrayal of certain comic book story lines not portrayed in other shows (i.e. Emperor Joker) and so on.
Beware the Batman Discussion
When I first heard of Beware the Batman, I was a little wary of a few things that I'd heard about it

1. Alfred running around with guns, playing sidekick
   
2. Katana actually being the new sidekick(I've always liked Robin, and I especially like Dick Grayson because I love Nightwing and I was hoping that the new Batman show would see some more play from him, but unfortunately that's not the case)
   
3. How this new CGI animation would look
   

Well, I have not been watching the show as it airs, or used to air, on Saturdays, but I have been keeping up online, through various streaming sites. And I have to say, I love this show. It has successfully achieved the darkness that I wanted, definitely more so than BTAS. Katana doesn't seem like that bad of a choice for a sidekick and Alfred(thus far) hasn't being shooting anyone with guns.
In addition to those pros, the voice actor for Bruce Wayne is surprisingly good. He's no Kevin Conroy, but he pulls off a very nice Bruce Wayne and Batman. This show also delivers on its original promise of using villains that no one has ever heard of. To me, that's a truly great mark of show, still being able to implement original ideas despite the overall concept being somewhat recycled. I haven't seen a single villain in this show that I have in any other show and I think that's fucking awesome.
Another absolutely stunning facet of BTB is that Batman is actually a detective. Bruce Wayne in this show can actually make observations, deduce things, and form reasonable conclusions based on the evidence presented to him. To be completely honest, no other Batman did this, well perhaps the Batman from Brave and the Bold did, but I have no way of knowing.
Batman is always described as being the world's greatest detective, but no show/movie has made a real effort to show that he deserves such a reputation, besides BTB. Bruce Wayne has a sense of almost hyper-observance in this show, and it's demonstrated in quite a few episodes, and personally I think it's stupendous. At several points, while watching this show, when Batman/Bruce makes an observation or proves a claim, I've thought My god, he's fucking Sherlock Holmes! and that's what you want Batman to be.
YJ
If you haven't watched the show Young Justice, do it now. Seriously, do it now, this post will be back for you when you're done(also if you've actually read this post for this long then I commend your patience) Young Justice is, in my humble opinion, the greatest culmination of visual, auditory, spiritual, and thought-provoking content ever produced in the twenty first century, or possibly in all of mankind's history.
To use a different description other than that does not do the show justice(pun, ehh, kind of) I'm not going to rant anymore about it, because I could, for days, but I do want to tell you that it was cancelled. I can assure you I'm not crazy, and many people feel the same way about this show that I just expressed to you, and yet, this critically acclaimed, Emmy-award winning show was cancelled.
YJ was cancelled along with Green Lantern: The Animated Series on DC nation, both shows technically finished, as in, their conflicts were resolved, but it was evident that there could've and would've been more episodes if the writers had had a chance to make more. I cannot vouch for the popularity or content of GTAS because I have never watched it, but I can tell you that YJ should not have ever been considered for cancellation, it was too good a show.
There's been numerous attempts to get the show back, but to no avail. One might ask "Well, since YJ got cancelled it obviously didn't have very good ratings and must not be as popular as you claim, right?" Wrong. Young Justice received excellent ratings, the writing for the show warranted these excellent ratings. However, these DC shows are not about ratings, they're about toy sales.
When the community asked writers Greg Weisman and Brandon Vietti why YJ was cancelled if the ratings weren't that bad, and more importantly how could we as the community get the show back, they replied by saying that these shows are rarely about the ratings. They said that to get the show back we should buy the Young Justice toys, because that's where the real money is made.
The Actual Point
Beware the Batman appears to be close to cancellation. The voice actor for the show Anthony Ruivivar has tweeted that the show will return in January after the break that it's on now. This is the exact same thing that happened to YJ and GTAS before they were cancelled.
I cannot watch Cartoon Network throw away another perfectly good series. But I don't know how it prevent it.
I would say "Quick, buy some BTB toys!" except for the fact that you probably don't want to, I know I won't. And this isn't my attempt to use some sort of reverse psychology bullshit to make you feel pity on this show or me and get you to buy toys, in case you were thinking about that, I know I was, as I was typing that sentence I thought Wow, I sound kinda like a whiny bitch here
Anyway, ratings for these shows DO matter, but not as much as toy sales. Unfortunately this show has worse ratings than Batman: The Brave and the Bold did, that coupled with the fact that toy sales are probably not doing great and the show will repeat the pattern of two other cancelled shows means that it itself will probably be cancelled.
At this point, I don't know how to stop this, I just wanted to voice my(incredibly long) opinion and let those of you who didn't already know that toy sales really matter to these shows.
Your Opinions/Spread the word
So, in finality, I want your opinion on this. I know that there's only 17 people subscribed to this subreddit, and probably less than that number actually check it regularly, but I want your opinion on both my rant, and, if you don't like Beware the Batman, let me know why.
It's quite possible there are some big flaws in this show that I just can't see because I'm being blocked by my Batman fandom. So feel free to leave a comment of disagreement with what I've said.
And also, spread the word. Let people know about these great shows, and about the toy sales thing. Tell your friends about these shows, form/join groups online to discuss the shows, do something, anything. E-mail the writers, e-mail DC, e-mail Cartoon Network, start a Kickstarter, pitch in somehow.
This may seem like a lot for just wanting to watch some cartoons, but what else can I say, I'm passionate.
TL;DR Help find ways to stop our shows from being cancelled. Besides toy sales that is.
Edit: I just re-read this post and realized that I didn't really articulate my thoughts with as much clarity as I originally thought I did, so my apologies for that. I've been making a few grammatical/practical edits in an attempt to increase readability.