Glad to see they're learning from Netflix and making series shorter.
Freeform orders Marvel's Cloak and Dagger series
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Glad to see they're learning from Netflix and making series shorter.
Well, shorter seasons has been a trend in cable for quite a few years now, so I doubt Netflix had anything to do with it. After all, it's the networks that determine how many episodes they want to order. There are two other current genre series on Freeform that have 10-episode seasons, Stitchers (which is awful, by the way) and Beyond. Although they have other series with 20-episode seasons, like Shadowhunters.
I was referring to how the Netflix MCU shows have the problem of never having enough plot to justify their episode counts. Jessica Jones and Luke Cage suffer from this immensely, Iron Fist has it too but in reverse.
Daredevil S1 is the only one to avoid this, really.
Yes, that much is self-evident. My point was that Freeform's order of a 10-episode season was unlikely to be a reaction to that, because it's something they've already been doing with their genre shows for the past few years anyway.
I have to admit, that trailer didn't look interesting to me at all. Though that could be just the fault of the trailer editors.
Huh, I didn't expect a trailer so soon.
I agree it's not a good trailer. The biggest problem is that throughout most of it, all the viewer sees is yet another teen drama. The superhero elements don't come into play until towards the end and those elements are not clear to the casual viewer.
I agree it's not a good trailer. The biggest problem is that throughout most of it, all the viewer sees is yet another teen drama. The superhero elements don't come into play until towards the end and those elements are not clear to the casual viewer.
Well, it is a Freeform series, after all...
Well, that's kind of the point, I think, because it's being marketed to Freeform (the former ABC Family) viewers, who like teen dramas. Just like Smallville originally made a point of minimizing its connections to the Superman mythos so that it'd appeal to the Dawson's Creek viewership, or Agents of SHIELD started off trying to look like yet another network procedural about a team of government agents.
The problem for me is that it doesn't even do an effective job of making the teen drama look interesting. It's just a lot of moody shots and isolated lines that do little to give a sense of story or character. It's just light on substance.
Yeah, I guess so, but as you said (and what I tried to express with "yet another") is that teen drama doesn't appear interesting on its own.
On the positive side, at least they got a Roxxon nod in there. 
Seriously though, if I'm mentally reassembling the various context-less shots correctly it seems they've rewritten the origin entirely. Looks like they were both caught up in some disaster as children (note the collapsing oil rig & car crash underwater scenes) and exposed to something that gave them both powers and said powers were somehow linked in the giving.
That's quite a departure from the comics which IIRC had them as teen runaways, taken in and used by some shady Weapon-X style facility to test some experimental cocktail of enhancement drugs. Maybe they thought there was too much crossover there with Runaways & Jessica Jones, but you'd think that'd be a good thing, no?
I'll give this a go but I don't think it's made for me. Which is fine. Plenty of Marvel to go around these days!
Seriously though, if I'm mentally reassembling the various context-less shots correctly it seems they've rewritten the origin entirely. Looks like they were both caught up in some disaster as children (note the collapsing oil rig & car crash underwater scenes) and exposed to something that gave them both powers and said powers were somehow linked in the giving.
That's quite a departure from the comics which IIRC had them as teen runaways, taken in and used by some shady Weapon-X style facility to test some experimental cocktail of enhancement drugs. Maybe they thought there was too much crossover there with Runaways & Jessica Jones, but you'd think that'd be a good thing, no?
I'll give this a go but I don't think it's made for me. Which is fine. Plenty of Marvel to go around these days!
I think the trailer is only showing stuff from the first episode, the now almost dreaded "origin story" these days, and doesn't really show Cloak & Dagger as actual superheroes yet. Still, I'm fairly optimistic with what I've seen.
Well, color me intrigued. Looks grounded, low-key and closer to It Follows than the weird-ass NYC of the Netflix shows which, despite being mostly filmed on location, often feels underpopulated and unreflective of how alive and hectic that city is. (No doubt budget concerns play a large role there, what with extras being so tricky to manage, not to mention the difficulties of moving decades-old characters into the present day without being so contemporary that they break the MCU mold.) I may well give it a shot...
Yeah, a lot of that looked like it would be from the first half of the first episode.
I don't know if that's the case here, two of their recent genre shows, Shadowhunters and Beyond both played up their genre elements pretty heavily in their trailers.
Shadowhunters
Beyond
I have to admit, the C&D trailer was not at what I was expecting. I was expecting something more along the lines of the MCU movies, but this looks like it would fit right in with the Netflix shows. I am intrigued, I wasn't bothered by the teen drama stuff, and the bits of their superhero origins we got looked interesting.
Yeah, I was wondering why too. At first I thought they might be delaying the show until 2018 due to some crazy little "it's all connected" stuff that we're still clueless about right now, but then I found out Freeform showed some other new trailers too, so it turns out this was just part of their annual promotion cycle to try to get advertisers and stuff like that.
They pretty much threw together a teaser from what they had for the first episode.
Regarding how "genre element heavy" the other 2 trailers posted above are, I'm sure there will be an additonal C&D trailer closer to the release date that will be able to pull from all the episodes of the series, and thus will likely look a bit more fantastical.