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MrMallard posted...

I've seen the promos, it looks bad. Granted, the original show was schlock - I've seen reruns, it's a mediocre action show for people's dads and grandpas. But this reboot looks bad in its own way.

CW shows are all so superficial. They have a bunch of generically pretty actors reading through hackneyed dogshit for 22 minutes a pop, and for all the visual gloss they try to smear over their shows like Riverdale and Vampire Diaries, it all comes off looking incredibly cheap and fake. The dialogue and acting is a cheap pantomime, the sets and actors look cheap and fake, and nothing about any CW show I've ever watched has been substantive to any degree.

Walker looks just as soulless and fake as Riverdale. It can, and should, bomb. The original show wasn't much better, it's a generic timeslot filler - I'd rather watch Diagnosis: Murder over that crap. But Walker looks particularly cheap and fake, especially compared to the original.

tbf, these are all intentional since the over-the-topness and kind of fake-ness are really well received by the teenagers who make up 95% of the CW's viewership. Teens want pretty people in over-the-top situations that they would never actually be in.