Seriously, Not the DC Comic's Hourman; Arrow, Constantine, Sleepy Hollow, Ravenswood, and More

I'm a great fan of the CW and their DC Comics based series. However, I don’t believe we need a series based on a comic hero uses a PCP like or steroid like enhancement drug (however fictitious) to give the character of Hourman superpowers. I believe the main reason for the failure of the comic hero live-action series of Blade (Kirk Jones) to fail was that the character has to use a drug to suppress his urge to drink human blood from the vein. The creators of the series showed Blade being injected with the drug and it immediately brought to mind the illicit drug problem and in some ways looked like a how-to- inject yourself demonstration. DC Comic has many better anti-superheroes and superhero to fit the bill for a new CW - DC Comic based series without characters like Hourman.

As it is in Arrow, the character of Roy Harper (Colton Haynes) originally was a character who from

bouts of drug addiction. Some far on the series Harper most trying problems stems from his wanting to improve his criminal past, which so far has no mention of illicit drugs. Should such a storyline appear, no doubt it would a short one in that Harper triumph over his addition. Arrow after all is what I call a ‘teen appeal’ series. So to air a series based on a character like the Hourman would mean The CW risking more low ratings. 

Hourman would probably do well a 2-hour movie, but as a 45-minute weekly series it could spell another short-run disaster for The CW. While television censorship has grown or is sorely lacking (a seriously debatable issue

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today) with this new trend of ‘shock TV programs’ on the use of previous thought bad language and increase sexuality, the use of any possible series depicting its main character using enhancement  and/or illicit drugs will surely cause  a major network block out. As it is, more television programs are being blocked than ever before in broadcast and cable history. 

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Nevertheless, whatever Dc Comic character The CW decides on offering the viewer is their choice. However, the final decision to watch remains with the viewers.

My top three DC Comic characters choices for television syndication are Nightwing (he’s earned his place among the superheroes), Constantine (think, a good Supernatural replacement as an occult detective), and Raven (a little dark and mysterious girl power)

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On the return of Sleepy Hollow on Fox, I must admit that the series has surprised me in its increase in dramatic tension. After watching several episodes before the series ‘s break,  I was ready to write off the series as a one

season dis-wonder as the likely failure and was a surprise when Fox came the series an early renewal status,  but not now. Now the storylines are so engaging with characters like the headless Horsemen, Pestilent, and the horned demon that stalks and apparently controls everyone, the dead and the living. Sleepy Hollow is rich in themes stemming from the Bible and the Book of Revelation. 

Will Sleepy Hollow make it as a third season marvel? Only time will tell. For now, good job to the writers of the series.

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The final season of Nikita debuts tonight. Word around the web is that if not for the clause in The CW and Netflix contract stating that Netflix will stream series only if the series has definite ending, The CW would probably not have given Nikita these last six rap-up episodes. Although this sounds bad, for viewers of Netflix this is a plus. After all, who wants to begin watching an older series only to get to the end and discover it has no ending because the series was dropped from a network. 

Look for the new series The 100 and Star-Crossed on The CW after the conclusion of Nikita this winter.

 

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The Carrie Diaries on The CW is up for possible cancellation after this season. No surprise.

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The Supernatural episode “Dog Dean Afternoon” was one of the best episodes in the history of the series so far. Dean’s (Jensen Ackles) portrayal of a dog was wonderfully humorous and the episode as a whole was a good break from the usual supernatural tension of “hunting down things” to save humanity from ending theme. Good job, I like to see this episode rewarded for its creative storyline. 

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The ABC Family series Ravenswood is on it season break and will returns January 7, 2014   and after Pretty Little Liars. In the mid-season finale of Ravenswood was very a luminous and gave views a glimpse of who Caleb Rivers (Tyler Blackburn) and Miranda Collins (Nicole Gale Anderson) were to each other in 1816. Apparently, after a wedding aboard ship, the first Caleb and Miranda died along with three of their best friends. However, the question of why they all died remains hidden in the past, and my guess that and this is a guess, is that this pattern of five friends dying might not start with what viewers believe are the first couple but goes back much farther in Ravenswood’s history.

Now that the sweet-face, head twisting backward demon of a child, Max (Isabel Myers) is not the one a pact was created that demand the lives of five Ravenswood youth century after century. Perhaps this is the mystery of the series (yeah, since Children of the Corn, The Exorcist, and Atonement demonic children get to me).

So, who created the mysterious pact with the Devil? For what reason was the pact created in the first place? In addition, how will Olivia Matheson (Merritt Patterson) feel once she discovers that her boyfriend Dillon (Luke Benward) is in lead with a demon and no doubt the Devil?

On Ravenswood, the tension is rising as the lives of the remaining four Ravenswood youth are at stake. 

Television is exciting!