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In hindsight, you want to know what's the saddest part of Young Justice ending on Saturday? 

Unless he'll make appearances on Teen Titans Go!, this will be the last time we'll see Wally West in any medium for a long while, including comics. Going to miss that redheaded hero.

A couple of weeks ago, I pleaded with the Young Justice and ThunderCats fan communities on Tumblr to spread the word and vote on the Nick and More's Best New Show of 2011 poll. I wanted the fans of both shows to send a message to Cartoon Network that  we didn’t like the way they’re treating those shows.

The first round is over, and the final round has been pared down to a top ten.

While ThunderCats didn't make it to the top 10, Young Justice did, and it stands alone as the only Cartoon Network series in the top 10.

No Looney Tunes Show. No Amazing World of Gumball. No Problem Solverz. No Secret Mountain Fort Awesome. And, thank the User, no Almost Naked Animals and Scaredy Squirrel.

Only Young Justice made the top 10 from Cartoon Network. You think the message was received?

The Young Justice fandom, it seems, is quite a strong one indeed.Now, are you guys and gals ready to shock the world?

Alright,  the final round of the Nick & More poll has begun. One show. One vote.

Let your vote be for Young Justice. Why?

Well, aside from it becoming a stronger series in the course of a year with a great cast of characters, the first production from DC Comics featuring almost their entire roster of characters including all sidekicks and secondary characters (not to mention characters rarely used in any medium), Philip Bourassa's Emmy-winning character designs (yes, of all the shows on the list, there's only one Emmy winning series present), and a fine group of writers, animators, and voice artists, think of it as a vote against the status quo.

Power Rangers fans may not have much in common with Young Justice fans, but fans of Power Rangers Samurai know all too well about Nickelodeon's treatment of the series to empathize with Young Justice fans who had to deal with the same treatment from Cartoon Network., especially in comparison to Supah Ninjas, which is also in the top 10.

The kidcom crowd has, more or less hijacked the top 10 list much like the ratings. But mediocrity should never be celebrated. The same squeaky-clean kidcoms all over the television landscape seems to be all cookie-cutter and generally the same. If you're sick of the same kind of shows dominating the networks, make your vote for Young Justice.

I have nothing bad to say about Dan Vs. and House of Anubis. The former is a wry, silly animated series and the latter is a deep, well-made tween-flavored telenovella mystery format for the English-speaking crowd. Both are unique and all, but they do tend to get love from the networks they're on. Young Justice is just languishing on the air on a poor night, long hiatuses that would have killed lesser shows, and the barest minimum of advertisement a network could allow.

So, Young Justice fans, again, a clarion call for the YJ fan community to vote for Young Justice as Nick and More's  Best New Show of 2011. Your vote could make a difference. Contact your friends. Ask them to contact their friends.Last year's winner, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic was seen as a surprise and shocking winner.

Let's shock the world again. Vote!

Nick and More is having its annual Best New Show of the Year readers vote right now, and I'm asking the Young Justice and ThunderCats fan community on Tumblr and beyond to make sure those two shows make it to the top 10 second round.

Why?

Because I want the fans to send this message to Cartoon Network:

We don't like the way you're treating those shows.

Both Young Justice and ThunderCats have been treated rather shabbily by the network over the year. Both are barely advertised when they're showing new episodes, and to be honest, Cartoon Network takes the fans of that show for granted, especially the older viewers of the show (it IS TV-PG, which means that, typically, more adults than kids would be watching it . . . unless TV-PG really IS a cool-looking TV-Y7).

I think the Tumblr fan communities of Young Justice and ThunderCats are strong, and I think both should unite to send a message to Cartoon Network by declaring those two shows the best of 2011.

Right now, N&M is asking for three show votes. For two of 'em, put ThunderCats and Young Justice in. Young Justice fans should also put a vote in for ThunderCats and ThunderCats fans should also put in a vote for Young Justice.

The third show is your choice. I like Looney Tunes and Gumball myself, but I won't influence that choice. 

Just want to put Young Justice and ThunderCats in the top 10 by a big number.

Shout it from the rooftops or your Tumblr feed, but put them both in and help them win. Vote!