Flash, I have no fears about. That show might actually outlast Arrow in terms of Season numbers. It's the Arrowverse show with the most consistently good ratings.
Legends, yeah, I think that might be a candidate for cancellation, unfortunately. Budget cuts in every season and also declining viewership. Hope they at least make it to Episode 100.
Edited by Forenperser on Jan 15th 2021 at 7:32:24 PM
Certified: 48.0% West Asian, 6.5% South Asian, 15.8% North/West European, 15.7% English, 7.4% Balkan, 6.6% ScandinavianI'm wondering if David Ramsey's guest appearances this season will be their way of still doing a quasi-crossover.
Like, it's possible that John Diggle will show up on four different shows for completely unrelated reasons, but it would make more sense if there's some plotline he's involved in that takes him from one show to the next, letting them do a story that weaves together the series without having to have the casts all together on one set.
This years batch of the Arrowverse is starting up on a lot of lowpoints so far
On the other hand, Yara Flor and Naomi are coming to the CW.
I think Black Lightning ending at four seasons is for the best as it avoids potential Seasonal Rot.
Oh Yara and Naomi are gonna be interesting shows.
Essentially brand new characters, so unlike with previous shows there's no wealth of history that they can build off of.
Like Naomi has that one volume they can prolly make an entire season out of but once thats done its gonna be off the rails.
Naomi has a second volume coming, and given it was a Bendis work, you'll really need to do a lot to fill even 6 episodes. Yara, on the other hand is on a bunch of issues of Future State, which will only last like another month and whatever comes next is a bunch of question signs.
Edited by Blueace on Jan 16th 2021 at 3:53:01 PM
Wake me up at your own risk.I still can't believe Ruby just up and left after one season. For pity's sake, the COIE event had Kevin "Batman" Conroy himself just to prop her up as the best and now that whole thing just reeks of irony. Did we ever find out why she left or is that still up in the air?
The term "counting chickens before they hatch" is blaring in my mind.
Naomi's show or the 2nd volume of her comic?
Still not appreciating the radio silence over that second volume...
Edited by TargetmasterJoe on Jan 17th 2021 at 5:32:13 AM
That was mostly it. The issue became that they were including so many characters each show was a checklist of random names from the DC universe, with many of them barely resembling their character. Black Canary never got the respect she deserved (being turned into a Decomposite Character with at least five different characters having some combination of Canary, Lance and Dinah in their name), with only Sara Lance being agreed as consistently awesome. Each show became an ensemble cast, which ended up making the shows more homogenous in tone and subject matter at the expense of the main character. It didn't help either that they tended to select actors that looked alike, with even Supergirl having the line "You look like the cast of a CW show."
The thing was that Arrow started off with Oliver running around by himself doing a Private Eye Monologue, but the show didn't really start clicking with audiences and critics until he brought in Diggle and Felicity into his inner circle. That worked well because it more resembled a Robin/Jim Gordon/Alfred/Lucious Fox type of allies, not really a team but partners and allies with their own areas of focus, making it okay if they weren't around every episode. So the Flash saw how a "team" worked for Arrow and set up a team from the start, but by its second season you started seeing diminishing returns from doing both the Myth Arc and the melodrama for each character.
Comics are just words and pictures. You can do anything with words and pictures.Don't mean to be doomsaying, but now with Wonder Girl not being picked up on top of all the other bad news for the Arrowverse this year, my hopes for Painkiller and Naomi have also decreased.
I really wonder if we are witnessing the first stage of the end of this verse.
Certified: 48.0% West Asian, 6.5% South Asian, 15.8% North/West European, 15.7% English, 7.4% Balkan, 6.6% Scandinavian3 actors added to Painkiller spin-off
Certified: 48.0% West Asian, 6.5% South Asian, 15.8% North/West European, 15.7% English, 7.4% Balkan, 6.6% Scandinavian

Think Flash will last much longer? Or Legends?
Edited by Blueace on Jan 15th 2021 at 3:28:54 PM
Wake me up at your own risk.