Semi-related, The Tick has been cancelled. I haven’t seen any of season two, but I liked the first season, even though it was darker in tone than the animated series of original comics
https://twitter.com/ben_edlund/status/1129086411833921536?s=21 On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 6:43 PM Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 6:38 PM Darren Glass <[email protected]> wrote: > >> This seems like a weird complaint to make on a thread about the CW. To >> me, Legends of Tomorrow absolutely embraces the fun silly side of superhero >> stories, and both The Flash and Supergirl are fun and upbeat much more >> often than they’re not. I agree that too much superhero stuff these days >> is dark and brooding, but I think the CW has done a good job of keeping >> things light on a lot of these shows. >> > > Admittedly in most cases I don’t make it past the misery and angst of the > pilot episodes. Supergirl I’ve seen more of, and though there is humor, the > lead is almost always sulking over a love she lost or living a dual life or > blah blah blah. Same with Flash, who was always the happiest of the old > JLA. You have super powers... cheer the f*ck up and quit making it seem > like a curse. > > >> >> On May 16, 2019, at 7:44 PM, Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Remember when superheroes were upbeat and optimistic instead of dark and >> brooding? A bad guy would enter into the story, and you didn’t need to know >> why he chose a life of crime; he was just bad and needed to be stopped, and >> the superhero stopped him. Nobody cried. And it was all done with roughly >> 90% less explosions and special effects. There was dialogue. >> >> I’m not saying there shouldn’t be any dark and brooding superheroes, but >> can’t we be allowed one or two heroic bits of hope and optimism? One of my >> favorite episodes of “Babylon 5” was in the midst of the Shadow War, which >> was also in the midst of the civil war on Earth, G’Kar helped one of the >> guest stars stop a band of thieves. No palace intrigue... no shades of >> grey. “We were the good guys,” G’Kar said. “They were the bad guys,” >> adding, “And they made a very satisfying thump when they hit the ground.” >> It isn’t that I dislike complex or even dark tales, but that doesn’t mean I >> can’t also appreciate something simple and upbeat, too. >> >> Nope, even Archie comic characters have be dark and edgy. And Nancy Drew >> can’t just solve mysteries because it is fun and she is smart. No, we need >> to see her cry first. I swear, if they remake Scooby Doo again, Shaggy will >> be a meth addict, Velma will be sexually assaulted by Freddie in the back >> of the Mystery Machine, and Daphne will be a hooker with a heart of gold. >> Jinkies. >> >> On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 4:10 PM Mark Jeffries <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> The network that doesn't need no stinkin' Nielsens when it has social >>> media love and Netflix deals (and Netflix isn't renewing, the new shows >>> will be individually shopped, probably either on CBS All Access or the new >>> WarnerMedia streamer) still has six nights of prime time (along with >>> Saturday mornings farmed out to 4Kids and Springer reruns in daytime and >>> it's pretty much what you expect from the C-Dub, except that the >>> critically-acclaimed shows are both gone of their own accord (that would be >>> "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" and "Jane the Virgin"). The lineup from the Wrap, >>> with new shows in caps: >>> >>> SUNDAY >>> 8-9 p.m. — “BATWOMAN”--Ruby Rose is Bruce Wayne's niece Kate Kane >>> (Easter egg, DC geeks), who is picking up the cudgel for her cousin while >>> he has mysteriously disappeared from Gotham City. And oh yes--she likes >>> the girls. Greg Berlanti's Arrowverse continues apace. All CW scripted >>> shows are in-house CBS and Warners. >>> 9-10 p.m. — “Supergirl” >>> >>> MONDAY >>> 8-9 p.m. — “All American” (new night) >>> 9-10 p.m. — “Black Lightning” >>> >>> TUESDAY >>> 8-9 p.m. — “The Flash” >>> 9-10 p.m. — “Arrow” (new night) >>> >>> WEDNESDAY >>> 8-9 p.m. — “Riverdale” >>> 9-10 p.m. — “NANCY DREW”--The plucky girl detective hasn't been on TV >>> since Pamela Sue Martin played her on ABC in the late 70s (and got fired >>> from "The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries" because the network wanted to >>> pander to Shaun Cassidy fans). This incarnation from "Gossip Girl" >>> creators Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage is going to be a lot like >>> "Riverdale," as in dark, dark, dark (as Edward Stratemeyer, the original >>> "Carolyn Keene," spins in his grave). Our Nancy is going to take time off >>> from sleuthing to go to college, but after her mother dies and she >>> witnesses the death of a fellow student, she's back on the case. Kennedy >>> McMann is Nancy and Scott Wolf is her father Carson. Martin is playing in >>> the pilot a character named Harriet Grosset (there's an Easter egg for >>> you). In-house on the CBS side. >>> >>> THURSDAY >>> 8-9 p.m. — “Supernatural”--The one constant in the C-Dub's history (the >>> show started on The WB) is finally coming to an end this season. >>> 9-10 p.m. — “Legacies” >>> >>> FRIDAY >>> 8-9 p.m. — “Charmed” (new night) >>> 9-10 p.m. — “Dynasty” >>> >>> One mid-season show (it may even show up next summer, as the net wants >>> to expand their summer schedule beyond the magic shows, "Whose Line" and >>> overseas pickups of recent years): >>> >>> 'KATY KEENE"--An obscure Archie Comics character is the focus of what's >>> described as a spinoff of "Riverdale" (with Josie of the Pussycats as >>> played by Ashleigh Murray carrying over from the parent, in the same >>> universe as "Riverdale" and "Sabrina's Chilling Adventures"). C-Dub fave >>> Lucy Hale plays apprentice fashionista Katy, hanging in New York with Josie >>> and her buds and trying to get a foothold in the fashion industry. Josie's >>> trying to make it in music and hooks up with the sinister Alexander Cabot >>> and his twin sister Alexandra (the heavies from the Josie comic books and >>> the "Josie and the Pussycats" animated series). There's also a subplot >>> involving something sounding like Andy Warhol's Factory, which makes this >>> not your mother's Archie Comics. Like the other shows, Berlanti and Archie >>> Comics chief Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa are the main forces. 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