From what I have seen. Long time Arthur fans are extremely angry with 9 Story for ruining the show. If you look on Facebook, YouTube, and everywhere else. People are bashing and hating Season 16 with a passion. Some people have even started petitions to get the old animation back. If you look up the Season 16 videos they have all dislikes. People in the comments are heavily criticizing the animation and the overall look of the show now. People on Facebook are just raging with hate towards it. People in general are really upset with 9 Story's Arthur. Maybe it's for the best if the show gets canceled? That is what everyone is hoping for.

Grow up.

If the show HAS to be Flash animated now, then I mean, they could do a LOT better job on it, as opposed to relying heavily on motion tweens, shortcuts, and transformations... believe me, I've dabbled in Flash animation before (look up BUN: Defender of the Bunny People on YouTube), so I've seen a lot of examples used in my Flash classes in high school, so I've seen some really good examples, and some rather poorer examples... and if they were to use Season 16 of Arthur as an example, I'd say it's a poorer one.

But MC CJ is right, the unfortunate truth is, "That's progress"... it's like all movies just HAVE to be shot digitally as opposed to 35mm film (which even Martin Scorsese says needs to happen again), or in "Eye-Popping 3D" (because apparently somebody died and made James Cameron god of filmmaking and he says he wants all new movies to be 3D). High definition doesn't even exist... all it is is a picture cropped in widescreen.

Okay, all these inter-office politics aside, I don't think Season 16's hatred is really justifiable.

I mean, no, the animation is not fluid or anything like Cinar/Cookie Jar, but at least 9 Story is making an attempt to replicate the entire style of Arthur, both in the character designs, and the overall production design (backgrounds) and such... this isn't bad, considering that other cartoon series that have switched production companies have been changed COMPLETELY... case in point: Dexter's Lab. After Dexter finishe its initial run, Cartoon Network renewed it, but creator Genndy Tartakovski was working on other projects at the time and couldn't do anymore Dexter, so it was given to someone else to do, who changed everything: the way the characters look, the style of the show, and even the character's backstory (they completely changed how Dexter and Mandark met, and even made him "evil" because of an oppressed childhood at the hands of his hippie parents). Similar with The Chipmunks, they went through three different animation companies, the last seasons of the show, the animation was very off-model and simplistic as well as the style of the show.

So, all things considered, I really don't think 9 Story deserves a whole lot of hate, because hey, it could be worse.

OMG! My eyes! My eyes! So anyway, CJ all the Arthur Season 16 videos on YouTube are all disliked. Barely anyone liked it.  I see people on Facebook complaining about it.

You know, this whole "Season 16 hatred" could very well be because, let's face it, Arthur has worn out it's welcome: it is now the second-longest running animated series behind The Simpsons, and people are definitely tired of the new Simpsons episodes, they're ready for that show to end. Same with Family Guy, people are tired of it, and want it to end (even Seth MacFarlane wants it to end). People are probably tired of Arthur and want it to end as well.

I mean, in my personal opinion, they've taken this show even farther than it could go, most of the stories anymore are either pretty weak, or in some cases repetitive (case in point, we've had two plots involving D.W. having a hard time getting rid of her hiccups, and now we've had two occasions where the kids put together a mock trial... maybe even three times if an Imagine Spot counts). It's kind of a common acceptance that when a series starts to repeat storylines, then that's a clear sign it's gone on too long.

I myself actually liked "Blockheads," probably in a way because I can somehow relate to it as a child, being so set on one certain toy that you created that you want to keep adding to that eventually becomes boring yet you still feel like you are obligated to it.