Poll of the Day > Why are all the DC shows so corny and cheesy?

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its kinda cringe to watch them.

Flash, Arrow, Legends of Tomorrow, etc

Cuz it's CW

I liked the first few seasons of the flash, cheese and all

Because the mcu made a lot of money being corny and cheesy and they failed flat on their face trying to imitate it

Muscles posted...

Because the mcu made a lot of money being corny and cheesy and they failed flat on their face trying to imitate it

Felt more like they were trying to imitate Smallville, TBH. So much screentime devoted to relationship drama

Metalsonic66 posted...

Felt more like they were trying to imitate Smallville, TBH. So much screentime devoted to relationship drama

Although Smallville was the modern CW trendsetter, the shows were corny even before that. Honestly, most live-action superhero shows have been corny or deliberately played for laughs.

Metalsonic66 posted...

Cuz it's CW

This.

They basically make shows for teenagers whose intelligence they don't respect, written by the cheapest writers they can find, acted out by the cheapest actors they can find.

"Cheesy" is about the best you're going to get. It only goes down from there.

so which ones do you watch po

Some of us enjoy the corn and cheese.

When the fastest man alive constantly forgets that fact and defeats his rogues gallery through the power of love and friendship, you dip that corndog in the nacho cheese and eat it up.

Peacemaker was pretty awesome and it was 100% pure cheese.

The_Viscount posted...

Although Smallville was the modern CW trendsetter, the shows were corny even before that

But the shows TC is talking about came after Smallville ended? Unless you're talking about Lois and Clark or the 90s Flash show (which were definitely also corny and cheesy but in a different way)

Rambo 2008 is the greatest superhero movie of all time.

I wanted to make a thread mocking this thread but I like TC too much.
Superheroes are for children.

DC wants to be all edgy and cool but at the end of the day Flash is just a guy in red underwear that can run real fast.

Judgmenl posted...

I wanted to make a thread mocking this thread but I like TC too much.
Superheroes are for children.

Wat.

Revelation34 posted...

Wat.

it's funny because he says he watches "shitty teen drama" anime

Adam_Savage posted...

so which ones do you watch po

None.

I wanted to like Legends of Tomorrow because I like Arthur Darvill as an actor, and I like Rip Hunter as a character (or at least I did before the New 52 reboot ruined literally everything), and time travel in general is usually fun... but the acting and writing in the show was so bad it felt like watching local amateur community theater. I couldn't make it past the first season.

I've seen bits of all of shows at different times, though. And I watched clips from when they did their Crisis crossover. And they're all pretty equally bad.

...unless you meant CW shows in general, in which case about the only one I've ever liked is Supernatural. But even that has been kind of bad in later seasons (like half of them).

ParanoidObsessive posted...

I wanted to like Legends of Tomorrow because I like Arthur Darvill as an actor, and I like Rip Hunter as a character

He's barely in it anyway, and he gets killed off after they introduce our Lord and Saviour, the God of War, Beebo (I'm still trying to find the holiday episode Beebo Saves Christmas)

The first season they tried to do the dark and broody thing that Arrow was doing and it fell flat, plus the Hawkes... (did you know that just six months ago she was a barista?)

(IMO) It got better after that.

Once they embraced the camp and the cheese it really grew into it's own, some of the best Damien Dharkh (I can never figure out where to put the H in there) moments came from Legends; Neal really hammed it up and it was glorious. We are getting Booster Gold next season.

Gary Green is all the man we need.

Krazy_Kirby posted...

it's funny because he says he watches "shitty teen drama" anime

Buddy, do you have any idea what the seinen demographic is?

KodyKeir posted...

The first season they tried to do the dark and broody thing that Arrow was doing and it fell flat, plus the Hawkes... (did you know that just six months ago she was a barista?)

I'm not even supposed to be here!

Judgmenl posted...

Buddy, do you have any idea what the seinen demographic is?

Do you mean the one they actually aim for in Japan, or the one sad Western otaku weebs fall into?

KodyKeir posted...

Some of us enjoy the corn and cheese.

When the fastest man alive constantly forgets that fact and defeats his rogues gallery through the power of love and friendship, you dip that corndog in the nacho cheese and eat it up.

Peacemaker was pretty awesome and it was 100% pure cheese.

Star Girl is amazing too but yeah peacemaker and flash are stellar.

Best super hero live action show is daredevil imo. I loved peacemaker too though

Cashier posted...

Star Girl is amazing too

It helped that it started as an HBO show that was also going to air on the CW (if you only watched the first season on CW you missed out) so it set the tone for the series early. Naomi's debut season is pretty good too.

I watch (almost) all the live action superhero shows, and the camp, corn and cheese are part of what make them good IMO; where they often go wrong is when they go full grimdark (there were a couple of season of arrow I did not watch) because the studio execs think we want a darker, grittier, "realistic" version of whatever the property is (Powerpuff Girls Live Action anyone?) while ignoring the source material and what the fans actually want.

Yeah, sometimes I'lll spend the day watching Nolan's Batman triliogy, but more often then not I want Adam West dancing with Eartha Kit to sixties psychedelica