CW Looking to Add New Arrowverse Series in 2020

I don't recall Jack forming any giant hands or cages. Flying and zapping.

 

Its a prototype gravity rod, made in the 1930s, powered by Starlight, but not the sun.

Jack liked it because the staff looked cooler.

(I'm making this up on a spot, because a kid in Young Justice, "Teen Lantern" hacked and is hacking the central power batter on Oa, from Earth (and other dimensions) with a Waynetech tablet. Is it possible that this is a back up feature on all Waynetech tablets, becuase Bruce is building a reserve citizen army that can be called up, during a large invasion?)

Maybe Ted could hack the highways between the central power battery, and the 3600 Lanterns universe wide, but he's still in the 1930s, and there wasn't a lot that he could do with all that will power other than make gravity platforms. All Ted had was an "on-off button", not a super computer to manipulate these complex energy fields.

There was a "Tales of the Yellow Lantern Corps" backup in GL 10, 15 years back. Maybe there was a Yellow Corps "BEFORE" the Weapon masters of Qward invented the tech for Sinestro but he was just too ignorant to realize that they were passing off tech that was already on the market as their own?

More recently 3 years ago or less, Hal Jordan lost his ring, or got kicked out of the Corps for being an asshole, but he was using what looked like a nintendo powerglove(from the 90s!) wired up to a bulky belt to simulate a Green Lantern ring, while having outer space adventures.

The Guardians do not have an exclusive right to all the will power in the galaxy. In fact they have been called on it. When the will power reserve runs out, the universe ends. Others can harness will power, or fear without hacking into Corps reserves, after all the central batteries have to be filled up from somewhere.

 

Power comes from a star, hence the name "Starman".

 

How I remember it is that the rod is powered by starlight, not sunlight, which is why Ted, David and Jack were night time heroes and not day time heroes.

https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Gravity_Rod

As a child still, even when her stepdad was onboard, Courtney has an earlyish cerfew, and is using her rod wrong, in the daytime, as the rods charge is depleting.

Which is why 35 years after reading a crap ton of all star squadron I'm calling bullshit. Soilient Green level bullshit.

If it's the the 30s and Ted is collecting starlight that's been tainted with fear, he wouldn't be able to use that fear, unless he was a man possessing a great deal of fear, which means that Ted has a secret.

3 Likely possibilities.

1. Ted killed someone.
2. Ted is a communist.
3. Ted is a closeted gay.

 

Ok. My other thought: Booster Gold and the Blue Beetle (Ted Kord version) teamed-up (I'm a big fan of the JLA books from the 80's). You do superheroes as buddy cops (with mayhaps a slight humorous edge to it).

 

A Ted-Booster series could be fun, but it seems that Legends has already covered a lot of that ground -- not only because it mixes time travel and humor, but because the Arrowverse version of Ray Palmer was originally going to be Ted Kord, which is why he's a billionaire with a high-tech suit.

 

Isn't the sun just a star our planet orbits around?

 

The sun is close.

Light from a sun doesn't work to power up a gravity rod.

The (other) stars are far away.

Light from the (other) stars work to power up a gravity rod.

Something happens to light that has been moving through space for thousands or millions of years that doesn't happen to light that's only 9 minutes old, which makes it useful to a gravity rod.

My unimportant theory is that the longer light is in transit, the more energy from the emotional spectrum it collides with, and absorbs, which is the real x-factor that actually makes gravity rods possible.

 

I was looking through the DC stuff on Comixology and here are a few that caught my eye.
Deadman- The only problem with this one is since he inhabits other people's bodies, you might potentially not have the lead onscreen a lot. Unless they decide to go the Quantum Leap route and show us the Boston , while everyone else sees the person he's posessing.
Doctor Fate - If the NCB Constantine show is part of the definitely Arrowverse, then Fate has already been established to exist since we saw the helmet.
Jonah Hex - We've seen him several times on Legends of Tomorrow, and people seemed pretty happy with that version. A western, or if they really want to dig deep a post apocalytpic story, would be a big change of pace from the other shows.
Kamandi- Might be hard with all of the animal people, but could be pretty cool.
Legion of Super Heroes - Already established on Supergirl.
New Gods - This is a pretty big part of the DCU they haven't touched on, but it's probably off limits thanks to the upcoming movie.
The Question - I don't know a ton about this character, but he and later she, does seem to have his and her fans.

 

I've long thought that DEADMAN cries out to be a TV series: It's basically QUANTUM LEAP meets GHOST meets THE FUGITIVE.

Every week he jumps into a new body while trying to solve his own murder, only to invariably get sucked into the personal lives and mysteries of whoever he's possessing that episode.

You don't even need to keep the bright red circus costume if you don't want to.

 

Except that lends itself better to old-style episodic TV storytelling, which was designed to work as basically an anthology with continuing lead characters, than modern, CW-style serialized storytelling. What kind of ongoing relationship arcs could Boston get involved with if nobody knows he's alive and he changes his face every episode?

Although I guess there could be supporting characters who are aware of him and give him someone to play off of -- presumably mystically sensitive characters who could perceive and talk to him. Maybe Doctor Fate and Inza, Zatanna, occasional guest appearances by Constantine, that sort of thing.

 

Katie Cassidy Rodgers has pitched a Birds of Prey series to CW

https://www.newsarama.com/46569-birds-of-prey-show-pitched-to-cw.html

Would the movie lessen chances of it being made?

And remember when the WB tried to a series in the early 2000’s? In the same vein of all teen WB shows that ended with a pop song and balcony scene?

 

If a BoP series were what is in the pipeline, it would already have to be in active development, which doesn't appear to be the case despite Katie's desire to do one.

 

Constantine getting his own show would be smart.

Isn't Supernatural ending soon? Just place Constantine in its old spot. Constantine ended on a huge cliffhanger if i recall.

 

Mark Pedowitz has already said that Constantine is remaining a fixture on Legends of Tomorrow and there are zero plans to give him his own show.

 

I'm not entirely sure they could pick up the story threads from the NBC series. So far, while Arrowverse Constantine has been consistent with the NBC version, it's avoided direct mentions or depictions of anything from the show that isn't also part of the comics continuity, mainly just the Astra Logue backstory. Granted, the NBC show used a lot of characters from the comics, but did their own versions of them (for instance, Chaz is completely different). So I wonder if maybe there are some rights issues that limit what they can use, or at least would require them to pay extra residuals to the writers/producers of the NBC show in order to reference certain characters and storylines from it. That might be why they've tiptoed around NBC elements, and maybe why the animated webseries/movie ended up being in the DVD-movie continuity rather than continuing the live-action show as originally implied.

 

Well you could do a deadman series and do the quantam leap thing of showing the main character in place of the possessed person, except in mirrors etc.
Maybe a time limit on possession time.. Or maybe a team up show with a secondary main with Boston being a ghost presence
Can be done!
Would love to see a justice league dark series replace supernatural with constatin, zatanna, deadman May be eintrigan

Edit:
Ooh a Justice League Dark: Apokolips War. Is coming in 2020.. Sweet

 

It doesn't seem like any show is in active development yet, so I don't see why BoP would have to be.

 

I would love to see a Deadman movie, so some of the darkest (and sometimes wildest) elements across his history could be explored.

 

"Looking to add" is pretty much code for "in development".