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Is anyone else watching this CW show? It looks like they made it for five dollars and some change, and I'm pretty sure it's setting up the trademark awful CW love triangle over which girls end up with the main guy, but on the other hand I feel like I'm being baited HARD with the elf girl and the sort-of princess. It's only four episodes in and we've already had them dramatically saving each other's lives, a forced bathing scene, playing dress-up, and falling asleep drunk and waking up tangled up in each other! That's like a whole season's worth of pandering in just a few hours!

For a second there I thought you meant The Shannara Chronicles and was confused.

What sort of forced bathing scene? because I now have a need

I love The Outpost! I haven't seen tonight's ep yet, because life, but I've really been enjoying this show, and all of the Talon/Gwynn moments we've gotten, so far.

Honestly, I'll love anything that gives me women with swords and something to ship, though. So of course it's right up my alley.

I actually watched a promo for that a couple days ago while watching another CW show and I was bizarrely fascinated by how cheap/bad it looked, even by CW standards lol. So I looked it up on Tumbr and saw gifs from the bathing scene haha. Then I downloaded the pilot, naturally! Will check it out soon...

I'm loving Talon/Gwynn, but it's like they made an effort to make the love interest the blandest dude in the world. :/

Yay, someone else who likes it/them!! Thank you! :D

He is very generic-attractive-knight, but he's alright.

Ooh, I'm totally going to check this out! I loved the Shannara Chronicles in all of its janky glory, so I have high hopes here

Wtf is wrong with you, that you can look at this beautiful gem of a show, and your complaint is that they haven't spent enough money making it? God, priveledged, much? They are trying and actually they've done a damn good job. It's actually quite a pretty show, for anyone who cares to check it out with thier own eyes, rather than listening to you.

What.

You heard me. OP can go to hell.

It's a commercial product, not your aunt's lovingly handknitted but lumpy Christmas present.

It's still made by PEOPLE. Real humans who worked hard and believed in it. It wasn't contrived by the CEO of Coca-Cola for the profit ffs. You're an idiot.

Are you the same nonny responsible for "Wishing Supernatural ended is the same as wishing the real-life actors never became friends AND THAT'S TERRIBLE?"

Did the CW hire you to be their viral marketer?

No? But there's a difference between "corporate product made for the moniez" and "some writer put thier heart and soul into getting thier story seen on screen, and so did the other creative folks who put thier imput into it." Or are all networl TV shows just soulless profit-drivers to you, and the only good & pure media are indie things?

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Hmm, so... how is moderation gonna work here? Should we modcall or...? Because this is obviously a troll.

Not trolling, just genuinely pissed at people like OP, who let good genre shows die, because they're not 100% flawless in every way. Meanwhile, the networks replace them with fucking generic cop dramas, because they don't think anyone is actually interested in shows about swordfighting women.

nayrt

...the OP is the person currently watching the show, how on earth are they letting it die?

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Stop.

Err, the CW is gonna replace their genre shows with generic cop dramas?

you can modcall in the subject header whenever you want, but nothing in this thread is against the rules so far.

that being said, the subthread op's responses are toeing the line of the amount of jerkassery I am willing to tolerate outside of the wank thread. if anyone else gets called an idiot or told to go to hell in this subthread before I go to bed I'm freezing it.

Better than CW production value privilege, the most important axis of oppression.

Is it fun for you, doing this?

You'll probably get wank for stating your feelings too bluntly, but I agree with the gist of what you're getting at anyway.

If it makes you feel any better, I'd never heard of this show, and OP's description made me go, "Oh what? Elf girls? Forced bathing you say??" Even if the production values are low, well, noted, I can live with that! Some of my friends tease me for liking Japanese movies with terrible-by-Hollywood-standards special effects, but that stuff is just very low on my list of priorities. The presence of a male love interest is a bit more disheartening, but I sure do like elf girls.

So now I'm going to check it out, whereas I wouldn't if no one brought it up! Seems like other nonnies might too. Even if OP is unduly harsh on it, nonnies can figure that out and make up our own minds if we want to check it out for ourselves.

LOL dude, ffs, I'm not the OP and I'm one of the, like, six people watching the show and there's nothing unduly harsh about their description. (And actually, some people LIKE stuff being trashy, cheesy, etc. I know I do.)

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Yeah, I appreciate a heads-up that things are cheesy because that’s not a turn-off for me, but I know it is for some people. Like, most of the beloved f/f canons are cheese city, with low production quality! And I’ve had people make fun of me for loving them, but I embrace the cheese-- it’s one of the things I love in a fandom.

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