A friend got me into it post series in college. I watched most of season 1 with her and did buy all three cheaply. I like the shit out of s1 and The White Room sticks out to me/that season finale as the best osncreen alien torture stuff I've ever seen. However, after that it kerplotzed.
I'm not that surprised about no normal stuff. They still have Carrie Diaries and Hart of Dixie for normal dramas. The trend has been so strong in the YA genre to have books on paranormal or dystopian as we can see from Twilight, TVD, and the Hunger Games. So to have them do a lot of sci fi, horror, or dystopian stuff really like with the 100 thing, that seems pretty much what's par for the course in movies and in books.
Also, Ostroff left I think after SV s10 or SV s9? Maybe it took a couple years and Arrow's success for CW to finally shed the "we need shows only for rich white shallow teen girls" and go "maybe we should balance out some general realistic dramedy geared to women WITH some genre shows like WB used to."
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Date: 2013-05-09 11:57 pm (UTC)I'm not that surprised about no normal stuff. They still have Carrie Diaries and Hart of Dixie for normal dramas. The trend has been so strong in the YA genre to have books on paranormal or dystopian as we can see from Twilight, TVD, and the Hunger Games. So to have them do a lot of sci fi, horror, or dystopian stuff really like with the 100 thing, that seems pretty much what's par for the course in movies and in books.
Also, Ostroff left I think after SV s10 or SV s9? Maybe it took a couple years and Arrow's success for CW to finally shed the "we need shows only for rich white shallow teen girls" and go "maybe we should balance out some general realistic dramedy geared to women WITH some genre shows like WB used to."