Pepper Ann is a Saturday Morning Cartoon series by Sue Rose who is considered the first female to create a disney cartoon series before Daron Nefcy did with Star vs the forces of Evil ,It tells the story about a pre-teen girl named Pepper Ann Pearson who must deal with everyday life in Middle School while trying to be cool and avoid trouble.It ran from 1997-2000.

However this topic is not about the show itself it’s about one of the episodes in Season 3 called Girl power and why it foreshadows the recent reboot series in Cartoon Network.

In this episode ,Moose’s (Pepper Ann’s little sister who sound like a male teen) favorite superheroine Thundra Woman is getting an animated series which is replacing pepper ann’s favorite show which is a parody of 101 dalmatians the series,

However when the show airs ,It isn’t the show Moose wished for, It instead is a stereotypical girly girl teen cartoon show that you watched from the 80s like Jem and Beverly Hills Teens along with a sidekick .

This led to a short lived protest by Pepper Ann’s mom and her sister against the tv station who aired the show because they think this version is considered a bad role model for young female viewers and demand that they should retool the show but they never listened and let the show remain that way .

But listening to a motivational speech from Thundra Woman from her imagination Moose gathers most of the people from Hazelnut who are fans of thundra Woman and demand to retool the show immediately to make Thundra Woman a strong character instead of being a girly girl which the TV station finally agreed ,

However when the retooled show airs, It shows another version of Thundra Woman who is barbaric,ferocious and violent and attack defenseless creatures which is once again not the show Moose wished for ,

But when she and her family once again went to the TV station they thanked her for their gratitude because this version of Thundra Woman is a ratings hit for their channel but Moose still thinks this is not faithful to her heroine even her mom’s pitch for a different version of Thundra woman would make things worse as Moose’s says that this version is not like Thundra woman as well.She begins to explain that Thundra woman is to her a courageous and selfless person especially that it doesn’t matter whether if she is man or woman.

So in the end the Tv station decided to cancel the Thundra woman cartoon series and instead replace it with a 90’s radical robot cartoon instead.

So why am I explaining this episode well because it reflects the recent Cartoon Network Reboots like The powerpuff girls (2016) and Ben 10 (2016) including Teen Titans go which is just a comedic spinoff not a reboot.Because like the fictional thundra woman cartoon from the pepper ann episode they are not faithful to their source material.

Such as the powerpuff girls (2016) reboot series which is unfaithful to the original series according to many of the fans of the original series .Because the original show has the girls fighting crime while dealing with their normal lives especially that it is a parody of silver age comic books and the 1960s batman series.But the reboot instead is too colorful especially that the series focus more on slice of life situation like modern CN shows ,Poor animation as most people claimed ,It focus less on fighting crime and more on the girls ordinary lives which is not like in the original series,the expressions on the characters are off-model including the infamous meme moments like the ‘No me Gusta’ Bubbles face,Copying the style of modern CN shows ,Removing Miss Bellum from the show and even other controversial moments like the twerk part from the episode painbow and it was controversial to the LGBT community for the episode Horn Sweet Horn.

Ben 10 (2016) is a reboot to Cartoon Network’s franchise Ben 10 however it received mixed reception from critics and negative reception from the fans of the original series because it was too cartoonish ,Made it into a 11 minute segment series since this is what cartoon network does nowadays ,they made the reboot because cartoon network as they claimed wants to aim for the young demographic ,And like other series of the ben 10 franchise it was not supreme like the original one but is not like the other shows which are mediocre like Alien Force,Ultimate Alien and Omniverse.

And Lastly Teen Titans Go! Which is a comedy spinoff of Teen Titans (2003-2006) and is considered Cartoon Networks cash cow franchise even though its made by the collaboration of DC entertainment and Warner bros animations and is only aired by cartoon network ,It gain mixed reviews by critics but gain negative reception by fans of the original series and older viewers because this show is considered a bad role model for children despite that the show has bad humour,The fans of the older series thinks it was too comedic unlike the original which balance humor and Drama ,It airs all day everyday especially with too many all day marathons even though cartoon Network wants to focus more on streaming,and it consists of toilet humour.This show may attract young viewers but it gains a massive anti-fandom from older viewers that it was similar to the anti-fandom of Barney the Dinosaur during the 90’s

So What I am saying is that Pepper Ann’s episode Girl power not only reflects the situation with the current cartoon network reboots but it foreshadows the reaction.