Should the series end at season 5?

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Originally Posted by CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy

I'm not going to bother rereading every post in this thread, but from what I've seen, we're not arguing that the show WILL end soon, but that it might be best (from an artistic integrity POV) if the show DID end soon, rather than drag on and limp along to a slow, ignoble, forgotten death. Kinda like previous takes on the franchise.

Exactly. Simpsons, SpongeBob, Family Guy and Futurama all or were franchises that kept on going or getting resurrected long after they should have ended, characters becoming gross parodies of themselves and at times literally becoming gross (Spongebob.) While Cubed says that Nick won't give up the franchise after paying X amount of money for it, he forgets that they also have the power to milk it to death and run it into the ground if they so pleased, another thing business sometimes do because of 'profits.'

Originally Posted by CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy

But no, Nick is definitely going for the massive ROI. Toys (cheap though they may be), cartoons (with definite highs and lows), and movies (ruined by Michael Bay) will continue for as long as Nick can make it.

And as long as I keep getting kickass amazing comics from IDW, I'm fine with it.

Yeah, they won't give up the franchise itself. More then likely they will just do new iterations after this show ends, and make successive profits from their ongoing 'fresh' versions.