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[frelling_tralk]

Nikita has been renewed!!! (And The Carrie Diaries). Apparently Nikita will have a shorted final season, people are currently throwing around numbers of 6-10 episodes? I'm cool with that tbh if it means for a really tight and awesome final run with no more filler, although my preference would be for 12/13 episodes. I guess that it will be ten episodes though as that's what Gossip Girl got?


And umm I'm not sure what to make of the descriptions of the CW's new pilots...I didn't even know that Julie Plec was doing another show, I thought she would just be moving to TvD spin-off :confused:

Is anyone planning on watching any of them? Tragically I may end up watching the pilot for Star-Crossed just for Malese and for nostalgic memories of Roswell lol

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[legendarytobes.livejournal.com]

Tomorrow people I would cause I liked the Nick version back in the early nineties. I might try Oxygen because it sounds like Alien Nation meets Roswell.

[frelling-tralk.livejournal.com]

Cool, you were a Roswell fan? I rewatched it a while ago and season 2 is terrible and much worse than I remembered,but season 1 still holds up pretty well. So Star-Crossed could be okay if they do a better job of sticking with their original premise. I'm way too old to be watching those type of shows now though lol, but oh well :P

I'm surprised they're going as heavily sci-if as they are actually. I guess that they've had more success with those shows lately, but it seems odd for a teen network like the CW not to have any kind of regular teen show on growing up like Dawson's Creek. I suppose they're out of fashion these days in comparison to shows like The Vampire Diaries

[legendarytobes.livejournal.com]

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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Yeah Roswell ended strongly with the first season but then season 2 was even more of a mess than I remembered. The sci fi was sooooo bad! And I hadn't watched season 3 at the time, I think the BBC never picked that one up or something, but I just had to watch the final season on netflix this time after my rewatch and WOW. It made season 2 look like a masterpiece

I thought that the CW were doing some kind of pilot based in The Hunger Games premise actually? Maybe that one didn't get picked up. And it was odd that they never did any of the expected spinoffs with Smallville at the time, so I suppose that they've learned from that with trying to lean more towards shows like Arrow and the TVD spinoff now.