Ulrich Stern wrote:In fact when they have the chance there is always a "fade to black."
Now that I'm on the topic...it seem weird that in some spots Cartoon Network seems to have post-edited their own breaks in the show to stick in the three commercial breaks. Some of them are very bad spots...taking a timeout from the story in wierd places. Like in Ultimatum when Sissi asks about her father and Odd start's to reply about playing outside with Ulrich, but it fades to black and then a commercial before he finishes. I believe the original commercial breaks where supposed to be when we see the Individual Profile shot with their name. (ex. Ulrich slashing his digital katana and then his name pops into place..with a sound byte of the theme song)
Most of those weird black outs are where CN's removed those "Team Lyoko" scene changes (Ulrich slashing his katana at his name icon, etc.). This ends up being both a good thing and a bad thing. I like those little scene snippets but I know a few who don't. Also, cutting those out gives CN more time to squeeze in commercials. So it's win/win for them. I'm figuring that they left them alone in "New Order" so we could see them all.