What the fuck happened to cw?
They have a show where Old Man Sherlock Holmes plays Batman Beyond with a chick to fight Dracula.
They have Little Women, but in the post apolcypse.
They have an english language telenovela and a fucking Musical Comedy by the lady that gave us "fuck me Ray bradburry" and they are a critical darling.
They have a legit hypercrisis silver age tier wankfest as there BEST SELLING show.
They turned a historical treatise on midevil england and had it open with mass teenage vouyer masturbation.
It turned a YA novel series into fucking Alan Moore lesbian superman with a body count hire than a Garth ennnis book.
It has an entire shared universe based on fucking VAMPIRE DIARIES,where every main character has commited irredeemable mass murder for fun.
Literally 80% of there content was toku at one point.
They have a flagship show centering around a multiversal cross media shared universe.
They air more comic based shows at the same time than CARTOON FUCKING NETWORK did .
They gave fucking VIXEN a cartoon.
AND THEY NEVER CANCEL ANYTHING.
Archie Comics: Milftoon Edition is the tip of the fucking iceberg.
CW is what would happen if all the sexual frustration and fanism of co and tumblr gained sentience and operated a tv channel two hours a week.
>>80956792
they are VERY good at knowing their audience and can somehow keep things low budget
>>80956792
>/tv/
idk m9. I like Gotham and I like Supernatural. Those two shows are doing it for me over any other station (other than Fox Sports)
I know this board looks like /tv/ with BvS and Daredevil but it's actually not.
>>80956836
Gotham is Fox
They don't pander to old people like the other networks do.They found a niche with a younger demograph and went running with it.
>>80956792
It's one of the best networks these days. Never though I'd say that.
I've been saying for YEARS they're a based network.
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is great btw
>>80957021
*thought
I don't recognize most of the shows you're describing. Medieval treatise? Fuck me Ray Bradbury girl? English Language telenovela? Old Man Sherlock Holmes?
Am I being trolled?
Nobody expects shit from CW, so they can do whatever the fuck they please. It's really been working out for them lately, especially in an age where TV is trying desperately to stay relevant with the younger crowd.
>>80957063
She's the crazy ex-girlfriend.
>>80957140
That's a sexist term.
>>80957104
Reign, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Jane The Virgin and the upcoming Transylvania.
>>80957140
The situation is a lot more nuanced!
>>80956792
>Vmpire Batman Beyond
What show is this?
>>80957104
Cw, the network even co cant believe.
I wonder if its arthur greentext tier
I'll say this: CW probably has some of the best "brand awareness" out of all major US networks. It's one of the few broadcast networks that has branding comparable to the best cable networks (HBO, AMC, FX, and some others).
>>80957595
Explain this in detail plz
I wonder how many people even remember the network was once called the WB
>>80958309
I still call it that.
I think my favorite part about CW is how red pill/racist/sexest they are and still get away with it without anyone batting an eye.
>Tons of blacks die more often then any other characters in their stories, only second to gay characters
>All Asians must be of ninja decent and so forth.
>It turned a YA novel series into fucking Alan Moore lesbian superman with a body count hire than a Garth ennnis book
What show is this?
Didn't think CW had any lesbian shows.
>>80956792
>They have a show where Old Man Sherlock Holmes plays Batman Beyond with a chick to fight Dracula.
The hell? Just do a Buffy reboot already.
>>80958382
The 100.
It had a god tier season 2
>>80958345
They get away with it because they have so many fair and balanced shows that equal everything out
i.e. The romantic male lead in Crazy Ex is a hunky Asian guy who is hunky, lots of Latinos/Asians in cast. Jane the Virgin is almost all Latin.
If you actually have a range of poc and female characters, what you do with them becomes less triggering for the Internet because everyone isn't pinning their hopes on the one character.
>>80958345
Because it's still more gay characters than you'd ever see otherwise.
>>80956792
CW would be hands down my favorite channel if they just cut even 50% of the needless drama from all their shows.
The greatness started a decade ago with Veronica Mars and Nikita
>>80958382
The 100
iZombie, Crazy Ex and Jane are the best shows on the network.
Their bread&butter is Supernatural and capeshit
allowing them to really make some great television
>>80958643
Secret Circle & Hellcats were good too ;_;
>>80958535
Exactly.
When you dont have just one Black Guy he suddenly isnt All black guys
>>80958726
Daily reminder they made an emmy award winning KAMEN RIDER show.
>>80956792
>Archie Comics: Milftoon Edition
wat
Just how crazy is this Crazy Ex-Girlfriend? Will she make my dick as hard as the crazies in my Mongolian motion pictures?
>>80959078
What is this?
>>80959212
She pretty crazy, it's hilarious though. Best comedy out right now, and it's a musical. Rachel Bloom is an amazing comedian, and she's the creator too.
http://youtu.be/iH3FPrI_Cuw
>>80959354
oh dear that isn't good
>>80959393
>>80959354
This one was epic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TQmo5TvZQY
>>80959565
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sQEb9TSACY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky-BYK-f154
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucmsunDs3jE
>>80956792
At which point do you think the Supernatural actors realized they'll never have a career outside that shitty show?
>>80959565
>>80959591
I don't think a dude can really enjoy this
then again CW is mostly a network for women to enjoy
>>80959393
I thought it was the sexiest one for you, but with two original songs per episode not everyone's a gold star.
My actual favourite is a toss up between 'I give good parent', 'sexy getting ready song' and my personal anthem 'I have friends'.
>>80959764
Do you have a penis?
>>80959692
They're already set for life and the whole show is pretty much just them broing it out behind the scenes. I'd see even if that is true they don't have a problem with it. Jensen at least is a good enough actor that he can easily get another role anyway.
>>80959803
>>80959803
I'm too distracted by all the surrounding awfulness
though it definitely has sex appeal
>/co/ - Comics and Cartoons
i remember when this used to be true....
>>80959764
Disagreed.
It's surprisingly "red-pilled" (or, bare minimum, realistic) about the women on the show. It has a lot of fun with gender expectations, and it doesn't bend over backwards trying to defend it's main character.
Greg is also a fantastic inclusion to the show, and he makes it easy for guys to like it (his musical numbers are the best, too).
>>80959920
you know I think this explanation opened a lot of the things I didn't see originally in the videos
I suppose I need more plot and exposition to really get it, but thank you
>>80959977
To be fair, bout half of the videos you were linked aren't even from the show but her YT channel before she launched the series.
http://youtu.be/3Ix3qJPS1b4
This song probably best gets cross the tone and message of the actual show. It's probably the most sincere and realistic portrayal of modern young adults, The main character Rebecca is fully fleshed and sympathetic but is simultaneously a spoiled, selfish neurotic anti heroine.
It also enjoys a really strong ensemble cast, and the guys are just as fully fleshed out. I feel like just watching the songs doesn't really do it justice, because it really is clever and makes you kind of reevaluate your own behaviour sat the same time. You should try an episode.
CW is life, CW is love!
>>80958345
They literally have a show called "Calling Dr. Pol".
>>80959903
CW literally has the highest percentage of comic shows of any tv station in history.
>>80960133
>Snake Person meming
New York times pls
>>80959903
>Arrow
>Flash
>iZombie
>Vixen
>Legends of Tomorrow
>Riverdale
>>80960155
Shit, isn't Flash back tomorrow?
If everything back this week? Is the break finally over?
>>80956836
Supernatural S1-S5 is pretty solid.
>>80959764
>im fucking plying
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4zhrlxnXnE
>>80957509
>that episode where Mrs. MacGrady helps the kids bully Francine
>>80958345
Supernatural, at least in S1-S5, was such a "man's show" where the macho protags would do action stuff and then pump and dump random babes lmao
>>80960259
SsssssssssssI don't actually understand
>>80960312
9-10 weren't bad either.
>>80960337
very humorous
CW is good at making shows for your girlfriend quite watchable
>>80959163
Go read Moose's description in the CW archie thread.
>>80960415
Someone made a google app that filtered the word "milineal" with 'Snake person" because of all those shitty think pieces.
>>80960432
...
Jesus fuck
>>80959692
I've seen some con vids, and I guess they're partly not serious, but whenever the question of "will Supernatural continue?" and one of the people behind the show would answer "yes, even forever if it's possible" you can see the two leads kinda jokingly groan or look like they're in trouble.
It's great that they earned mad dosh from it and get to travel around the world because of it, but damn Jensen deserves good roles.
>>80960432
So what do they touch on? Well, Kevin Keller is a BIG part of this show. The best friend of Betty, and fast-friends with Veronica in a brilliantly shallow and retro moment – I say ‘brilliantly’ because it serves to build Veronica’s character fast – the shallow socialite ideal of having a Gay Best Friend, which is done in the show in an almost mocking, self-referential fashion.
But this is not your comic book Kevin Keller. Certainly, when Kevin was first introduced he was fairly passive, and blessed with an almost perfect gay experience, from openly accepting parents, little to no backlash from his peers, and boundless happiness and enthusiasm.
This Kevin is different. I would argue this Kevin is maybe more real. He is sarcastic, bored, and, it would seem, VERY sexually active. He trawls Grindr for a hook-up in the very first scene we see him in, and when he is getting little joy beyond offers of trysts in truck stop toilets suggests he maybe stay at Betty’s house to watch gay porn.
This is a Kevin whose father belittles and abuses him for being a ‘sissy’, whose mother would rather get angry at her son than the father who berates his son for simply being who he is. This is a Kevin Keller whose character feels like a younger relation to HTGAWM‘s Connor Walsh.
But the screenplay for the pilot episode of Riverdale, the upcoming CW series by Archie comic book regular writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa takes all that and does something even cleverer. Titled “The River’s Edge”, it dives in all the way. I’ve just read the third revised Network draft dated 30th October last year. The idea that the network had made two runs of notes and all this was still in, is frankly remarkable.
It is the irony of ironies that in 2003, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa’s stage play Archie’s Weird Fantasy, which depicted Archie coming out of the closet and moving to New York, was hit by cease and desist notices from Archie Comics the day before it opened in Atlanta. A hasty rewrite saw it renamed Weird Comic Book Fantasy with newly named but strangely familiar characters.
I get a similar feeling reading Riverdale.
The script begins with a narrator talking about the town of Riverdale, and how it isn’t what people think. We are shown what may be familiar locations, the city hall, the cinema, Pop’s Chok’lit Shoppe Diner, but also derelict buildings with boarded up walls, graffiti and meth addicts. Because this is the real Riverdale, all of it, folks. This isn’t just Archie the TV series. It’s Betty & Veronica Mars.
It starts with the death of Jason Blossom, Cheryl Blossom’s twin brother and doesn’t stop. This is a Riverdale with kids who talk about Rainbow parties, a Reggie who gets badly drunk, a Riverdale of strip joints, and, yes, a just-16 year old Archie sleeping with his music teacher and then using it to blackmail her. And suggestions of twincest too.
So who do we have, and how does the script describe them? Jughead is an “emo-heartthrob”. Jason and Cheryl Blossom could have stepped from an Abercrombie & Fitch catalogue. Pop Tate is Greek. Veronica and her divorced mother are “two dark haired beauties”, Betty is “Blonde, pretty, 16″, Kevin Keller, her gay confident is “16 cute”, sexually active on Grindr and dealing with a homophobic military dad. Keller is the Archie Comics main gay character, but rather the passive character of the comics, here he is a little more in your face- though slightly reserved when he gets down to it . And Archie Andrews is 16, red haired – indeed his hair colour is constantly mentioned, Josie refers to him as “Justin Gingerlake” – recently buffed up after working for his dad’s construction company over the summer and lives next door to Betty, who is madly in love with him. And Veronica? She just wants a boy toy to pass the summer and she’s never gone ginge before.
We get a number of S-bombs, mentions of spank-banks, Archie is asked by Reggie Mantle if he “tapped any MILF ass this summer?”
But for all the shock value, and there is plenty of that, this is a clever, well balanced, teen thriller of a TV show. Funny, dark, expressing the confusion of characters who, rather than the sure stereotypes of the classic Archie comics, are teenagers who frankly don’t yet know who they are, so why the hell should we? It’s the beginning of a journey, as people, circumstances, bodies, lives begin to change. It’s not just a coming of age story but a coming of the ages.
>>80960416
That's debatable. They introduced interesting characters (Leviathan leader and his mexican right hand, Crowley'smom, angel girl with Cas, etc) but the plot can be flaky/inconsistent in quality.
The dialogue is the kind of stylised reality we know from the likes of Buffy and Veronica Mars, but errs towards the latter in its darkness. So it’s all clearly fake, as if teenagers had writers rooms helping them with their every line, but it is consistent, engaging, rewarding and creating its own reality that just sucks you in.
>>80960602
>as if teenagers had writers rooms helping them with their every line
New pitch for a CW show.
>>80960551
>Guy writes gay fanfiction
>Threaten to sue him
>Then hire him BRAVO
>>80960596
Leviathans was season 7. 9 was fallen angels and Mark of Cain. It may have been different because I marathoned it after the season was finished instead of watching each week, but it ended up being a pretty tight buildup towards the end with Abaddon andMetatronmaking great villains. Ten dropped the ball with how the handled thedemon Deanstuff in the beginning, but it was overall pretty good. I liked how it was largely a more personal and low level threat instead of them escalating to another big world ender.
>>80960817
Daily reminder this dude writes Afterlife with Archie, and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
The dude is like Archies one man gay Alan Moore.
>>80960847
I marathoned most of it as well. S1-S5 just feels tighter/much more cohesive though. Show creator always wanted to end it at S5 anyway.
>>80960817
>>80960984
God I suck at this
>>80961249
Oh yeah, I'm definitely not saying it's as good as 1-5. Just that it did get good again, especially when compared to how it was after the apocalypse. It does feel almost like a different show though, you can still noticeably tell that the creator is gone and it has different writers.
>>80961383
>creepy smile jesus fuck what is with him
>>80956792
>THE /CO/ W
>>80958745
Two ways to look at Hellcats:
a) It's the greatest panty show there has ever been - the tits and ass are great too.
b) It's a neat drama exploration of southern college life interrupted by the cheerleading bits (much like the way Oglaf's fantasy setting gets interrupted by all the porn).
iZombie's is the CW's current best show though. Slightly older cast = less of the teen drama crap that has benighted their other offerings. Helps having a cast who look old enough to drink.
>>80960984
Oh shit, its the same writer. Im more interested in watching this now
>>80961451
Personally, my only real gripes with the series at this point are the reaper into angels retcon, which I feel demystifies part of the universe, and Metatron not being dead yet. Srsly, at this point, he's overstayed his welcome and should bite it asap.
>>80962606
Rob rob is the cheif crative officer of archie.
Which is ironic as fuck given they c and d'd him in 03
>>80962686
I agree that the biggest problem is with the great lore from the early seasons being forgotten, ignored, or changed. That and overdoing demons, ghosts, and vampires as the go-to monsters instead of having some of the ones that only popped up in one episode show up. I still want another encounter with the Amazons.
>>80960984
He wrote milf teacher Sue Storm too
>>80963185
jesus
>>80956792
it got gud
>>80956792
I only watch it for the flash but CW has been on point for a while. I don't know how it happened but other channels could learn a thing or two
>cartoon network
>>80964372
How did CW become the better co channels than Cartoon Network?
Why is Pedowitz so based
>>80956792
Pedowitz did
http://variety.com/2015/tv/features/mark-pedowitz-the-cw-the-flash-arrow-1201617084/
>>80964471
They found a niche and stuck to it
>>80959212
Source?
>>80956792
CW is my favorite of the big local networks.
>>80964871
Medaka Box.
>>80964870
Which was?
>>80959764
fuck you
I'm a straight guy 25
who's been in multiple relationships and have a pretty active sex life
and I love the show
it's witty as fuck and subversive
plus, her boobs
>>80960596
Not the other anon, but I stopped giving a shit about the quality a long time ago. At this point I watch it to enjoy Dean, and sometimes Cas and Crowley.Also Rowena, who was the best thing to happen to the show in a long while, she better returns.
>>80962686
>and Metatron not being dead yet. Srsly, at this point, he's overstayed his welcome and should bite it asap.
Completely agree. He was fine for a while, but they are overusing him.
As for the retcons, they did worse than that.
A big recent offender is Crowley and Cas suddenly not being able to touch Lucifer's cage despite them having fred Sam earlier.
>>80960230
CW is the most based channel in all history
how does /co/ not like iZombie
wtf
>>80959294
Dragon Knight. They sort of gave the Power Rangers treatment to Kamen Rider Ryuki and it actually turned out to be not shit (although unintentionally hilarious at multiple points).
>>80956792
Could you kindly fuck off to /tv/?
>>80960230
Holy shit your right
>>80966922
How so?>>80967044
See
>>80960285
>>80957021
Theyve always been a good network. IIRC shit like Zena and Hercules were on WB back in the day, and they used to pride themselves in their movie catalog, which included pretty much any major action movie of the 80's and early 90's.
they also had the best children's TV block in the 90's and early 00's.
just somewhere in between the early 00's and now they became shit. They had Supernatural and Smallville, but both became shit eventually. And after that I dont think there's anything else they had that was really noteworthy.
>>80959212
WHERE'S THE JOKE, BUCKLEY
>>80967121
Because you are talking about the channel they are on not the comics or television shows
>>80967159
It seems to me that the joke was loss on you
>>80967121
>How so?
They took the original footage from Ryuki and borrowed some suits, and pretty much rewrote the plot with different face actors and some of their own shot footage for action scenes. The original Ryuki is better but it's worth watching if you want some live action Rider shit as filmed by Canadians.
>>80959692
considering both had ok careers before Supernatural came along they are probably perfectly happy with having the steady job they have and aren't interested in doing the jump to movies never work again move so many other TV people have done
