IMDB only lists two more episodes as existing. I think it probably will be cancelled after those two air early next year. I never watched it and I'll tell you why. I'm assuming many others did not watch it for the same reason I didn't. There are two reasons.
1) After the abrupt cancellation of Young Justice, which was ridiculously awesome, I did not want to once again become invested in a show, only for it to be cancelled prematurely.
2) This show was trying to be the new Batman: The Animated Series story-telling wise. It really did not hit the mark. Its failed attempts at such were its stories' downfall. By eventually focusing on the League of Assassins as a grand lurking threat, it began to develop into something better. But that was too little, too late. And when I say it began to get better, I don't mean its quality quickly rose in leaps and bounds. No, not quite as slow but more akin to Nocenti's current Katana series. In the past few months it's slowly getting slightly better, but not nearly enough to stray from its horrible status quo. Well, now Ra's al Ghul and the League of Assassins have been mentioned in Arrow. I'm excited for that. Malcolm Merlyn is so going to be resurrected by a Lazarus Pit. And Coulson's an LMD. There haven't been many true surprises lately. Like in Red Hood and the Outlaws when the character manipulating the Untitled was revealed to be Ra's al Ghul. Anyway, I digress.
Many folks have commented on how the reason Young Justice was cancelled was due to lack of toy sales. While I haven't heard any official confirmation of this, I will roll with this. If you can't sell figures from a series featuring such a wide array of characters, how do you expect to sell more from a series about Batman, Batman, and Batman? Who wants seven Batman figure just with different armors or accessories? I didn't buy YJ figures because I spent so much money collecting as many JLU figures as I could and didn't want to get entrenched in spending equal amounts of money on another line when I already have all these figures. The only thing that would ever make me want to purchase more figures would be if they continued to do them in the same style as the JLU ones. Basically just continuing the line with a different name. They would've been able to feature characters who appeared in YJ but not the Timm-verse, such as Icon and Black Lightning, as well as YJ designs of some characters who looked markedly different in that than in JLU. Vandal Savage comes to mind. Unfortunately, the people who make decisions, whether as to how to make figures, what shows to cancel, whether or not to reboot the entire DCU in September of 2011, what writers are allowed to do in the series they are writing (although I do understand some things are obviously off the table), or why each colored Lantern Corps, each member of the Trinity of Sin, and each supporting Batman character need their own series, while Demon Knights, Threshold, JLA's Vibe, etc. get cancelled, are stubborn and pig-headed and obviously think what we, that fans want is very different from what we actually want. I mean sure, there's always going to be a large groups both supporting and opposing those decisions. For example many folks now claim that anyone still bitter about the New 52 reboot are too resistant to change. i myself am quite upset because we'll never know what might have been. There was still an opportunity-rich storytelling gold-mine on several of the titles. JSA, REBELS, and, Action Comic come to mind. Also Brightest Day had set up great plotlines for Hawkman, Firestorm, Aquaman, JLI, and Swamp Thing that we will never see. Wow, I have completely digressed again. Ha ha!
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