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Topic: The CW TV shows

lighton wrote:

If you found this "mostly mediocre": please never watch The CW shows. lol

big_smile big_smile yes
I find most of CW's shows are... hmm, how to put it diplomatically? Hm, i can't - so no comment smile

Actually i nearly liked Arrow S01, but with S02 they got ... 'no comment'
iZombie was mostly nice...
The remake of Charmed was also nearly ok... ok enough to watch it if nothing els was available smile
Was there ever anything else?

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Bananijoe wrote:
lighton wrote:

If you found this "mostly mediocre": please never watch The CW shows. lol

big_smile big_smile yes
I find most of CW's shows are... hmm, how to put it diplomatically? Hm, i can't - so no comment smile

Actually i nearly liked Arrow S01, but with S02 they got ... 'no comment'
iZombie was mostly nice...
The remake of Charmed was also nearly ok... ok enough to watch it if nothing els was available smile
Was there ever anything else?


The Flash and Supergirl... If you hated Arrow beyond season 2 man you'd despise Supergirl. The Flash I thought was solid for 3-4 seasons. But was kinda hokey at times.

CW is just... not good at making shows imo.

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Perhaps that's because all the major streamers and production companies grabbed all the good talent, and The CW was left with scraps.

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xxFelixDCatxx wrote:

The Flash and Supergirl... If you hated Arrow beyond season 2 man you'd despise Supergirl. The Flash I thought was solid for 3-4 seasons. But was kinda hokey at times.

CW is just... not good at making shows imo.

Suasor wrote:

Perhaps that's because all the major streamers and production companies grabbed all the good talent, and The CW was left with scraps.


yes and no big_smile
Yes - i dont like trashy TV CW produces
No - i don't think they are "not" making "good" shows (teens love it) or that all the "talent" is grabbed. CW branded themself clearly as a Teen-Content-Provider, and as far as i know, does this VERY successful, so they will keep doing that yikes smile yikes

What makes my heart bleed, is that kids&teens are specifically targeted - which raises -for me- lots of ethically questions, if it should be allowed to target kids&teens in that way... steaming hot controversials here i guess?
I watched all kinds of thrashy shite when i was a teen ... 35 years ago big_smile - so understand the appeal...
But, well my opinion i clear anyhow, this should not be allowed (or better: advertisement should be extremely restricted in any show targeting non-aduilts), and that puts CW -for me- in a shady grey shame corner of the TV world, sharing it with some others (that also target kids & teens with aggressive advertisement) i guess.


xxFelixDCatxx wrote:

you'd despise Supergirl.

did a 10min peek, to see if it is as insufferable as the trailer suggested - and yes it was yikes big_smile yikes
The Flash wasn't much better, but thats by design *moan*
But most often you can spot that design in the first 10s of a trailer wink and if not in the first 1-2 minutes of ep1 - so one can avoid it easily...

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Thanks admins for a new thread! yes this was clearly off topic

lighton is guilty, he started it big_smile big_smile big_smile ...

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Bananijoe wrote:

Yes - i dont like trashy TV CW produces
No - i don't think they are "not" making "good" shows (teens love it) or that all the "talent" is grabbed. CW branded themself clearly as a Teen-Content-Provider, and as far as i know, does this VERY successful, so they will keep doing that yikes smile yikes

What makes my heart bleed, is that kids&teens are specifically targeted - which raises -for me- lots of ethically questions, if it should be allowed to target kids&teens in that way... steaming hot controversials here i guess?
I watched all kinds of thrashy shite when i was a teen ... 35 years ago big_smile - so understand the appeal...
But, well my opinion i clear anyhow, this should not be allowed (or better: advertisement should be extremely restricted in any show targeting non-aduilts), and that puts CW -for me- in a shady grey shame corner of the TV world, sharing it with some others (that also target kids & teens with aggressive advertisement) i guess.

I do my best to avoid ads like the plague (and thus probably see less than 1000 per day cool), so I'm not familiar with CW advertising. Is it that bad? It's probably the same as everywhere: people trying to find a niche and then doing their best to make it profitable. And then everyone is surprised when - for example - kids suffer from doing stupid TikTok challenges.

There still seems to be a relatively big market for (rather cheap) TV shows or direct-to-video movies. I never saw the appeal, but then everyone is different, and maybe those are great fun if you are really young or stoned or drunk. big_smile

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lighton wrote:

Is it that bad? It's probably the same as everywhere...

i expect so, but i actually don't know smile
my ad-minimizing-efforts are VERY successful wink
... and i would not bother to "test" it big_smile - i dont even own a TV for 30+ years, i am very digitally orientated ;-)

lighton wrote:

There still seems to be a relatively big market for (rather cheap) TV shows or direct-to-video movies. I never saw the appeal, but then everyone is different, and maybe those are great fun if you are really young or stoned or drunk. big_smile

Yes there is a big market, and yes this is a very personal taste-thing - that in my experience doesn't even reflect cultural intellectual or lifestyle contexts but maybe a quality and holistic orientated mindset *shrug*?

But since quality and holistic orientated mindsets are needed to tackle the global and future problems - i really like it when superficialness subsides ...  i guess you know what i mean, but well that highly offtopic as well big_smile

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Supergirl was ok until it started going Lesbian then Trans then right at the end EVERY ONE  was hero dolling up Kara's sister and her girl friend in hero garb if I remember it correct. The first series was best ( ah but that was on CBS...)

Reaper
Legacies
Batwoman series 1
Nancy Drew
Stargirl  - hated by most people here
iZombie

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_p … _by_The_CW

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Legends of Tomorrow was a good show so were Legacies, The Vampire Diaries. The Originals, The 100 and saving the best for last Supernatural

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big_smile @ Bananijoe

BusterTheDoggie wrote:

Legends of Tomorrow was a good show so were Legacies, The Vampire Diaries. The Originals, The 100 and saving the best for last Supernatural

Of those shows (that I watched), only The 100 was good enough for me to watch till the last episode. And I would have stopped watching earlier if I wouldn't love sci-fi so much. cool

The "watch till the last episode" to "have to give up watching early" ratio is pretty bad for The CW (for me). smile