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Spoilers Supergirl - Season 1

JD said:
Does watching something on the network website count towards any of the rating? I know this doesn't apply to SG, but what about Hulu for the shows that are on there?
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Absolutely it counts. Networks frequently boast about online viewership.

Some CW shows accrue more viewers through their website than their broadcast channel. Like On Demand, advertisers often have a captive audience (no fast forward or skipping commercials) for a TV series shown via a network's website, which nearly guarantees an ad will be seen.

With Hulu, I think viewership determines the price that a content provider can charge Hulu for streaming privileges. More viewers means a higher price tag, which means a more profitable show and a greater chance for renewal.
 
Sponsors on TV, care about how many people are watching their ads on TV.

Network Websites where their advertising is not airing is irrelevant.

Adspace on websites is sold differently and separately, and traffic is measured far more accurately.

Hulu doesn't need the Nielsens. They have real numbers, because they are a website. Every network administrator has the IP addresses and subscription details (even for free accounts) of everyone viewing their website at every moment of every second.
 
Morpheus 02 said:
Binge watching...but also, do popular shows that have an arc skip around like that now days? The Walking Dead, for example, has continuous blocks with no repeats. Did Breaking Bad or Mad Men do that? Or Game of Thrones?

The example Christopher gave was 25 years ago... back when Blockbuster was just growing in popularity and AOL was just taking off.
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While those shows don't skip around as much, they also tend to have huge gaps between seasons. Walking Dead just wrapped and won't be back for 6 months. Game of Thrones (and other HBO series) usually has about 9-10 month gaps.
 
Mike Farley said:
While those shows don't skip around as much, they also tend to have huge gaps between seasons. Walking Dead just wrapped and won't be back for 6 months. Game of Thrones (and other HBO series) usually has about 9-10 month gaps.
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Weren't there times where there was a year or two between seasons of The Sopranos?
 
Mike Farley said:
While those shows don't skip around as much, they also tend to have huge gaps between seasons. Walking Dead just wrapped and won't be back for 6 months. Game of Thrones (and other HBO series) usually has about 9-10 month gaps.
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Yeah...but having those gaps are different, because you know them well in advance, and can plan accordingly.
 
Morpheus 02 said:
Yeah...but having those gaps are different, because you know them well in advance, and can plan accordingly.
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One of the best scheduling decisions Fox Made was putting 24 on and running it all the way through with no breaks, and having special double episode nights. I also like the air it all and then have a long gap in the middle, but it sucks when the season only has like 10 episodes (Like my favorite series). It makes the wait all the more longer.
 
Pretty little liars had a 5 year gap, and so did One Tree Hill.

How far into the future was the last season of Parks and recreation set?

3 or 4 years?

After McDreamy died, they skipped ahead over two years so that Meredeth was almost in a position to think about dating again in the middle of an episode of Greys Anatomy.

Classic call: There was a single episode of M*A*S*H* that lasted one year as they followed a season of baseball.
 
During episodes, and between episodes of Red Dwarf, the crew would go into stasis for thousands or even once, 3 millions of years.

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Guy Gardener said:
If Kara was lactating, and she breast fed a regular human baby, would she blow off the back of that babies skull?
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Nope.

But only because all of these characters (the Flash included) seem to have the magical ability to turn their powers on and off at will. At least when they'd screw up their life. I mean, technically, the Flash should be in a living nightmare as everything around him should be moving in slow motion 24/7. I don't even want to think about how horrific life would be with Kryptonian powers.
 
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"Myriad"--

"Kal El is attending to a matter off world."

Oh, the convenient excuses for the series not having access to Superman...other than to suggest he's susceptible to mind control, when Supergirl is not. Wait a second--according to Lord, Superman being raised on earth made his brain "more human?" What the hell ever....

Oh, how this series loves to build up its heroine only at the expense of everyone else.

Hey--expendable employee goes splat.

SG/Kara: Did Supergirl really need yet another "you are special" pep talk? She has too many doubts, almost every week.

Non: "more interested in reality stars and political circus". Enough with the Donald Trump references.
So, will this "hope" plan of Cat weaken him long enough to make him turn on Indigo and provide the easy way for a mutual destruction plot?

Lord: "if there was a God, i'm sure SHE..." Agenda, thy name is Berlanti.

Cat: The Harrison Ford reference was not cute.

Alex: Alex really had no business going back--she's only human, and Indigo's first strike proved that; her needing protection from MM nearly placed him in the same danger as the humans, and now she's a pawn. More convenient plotting.

Hank: shooting Indigo with a standard firearm? He should have know that would not work.
 
The Old Mixer said:
If Tiny CGI Superman can't save us, who can...?
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:lol:

Season finale predictions:

1. Kara will finish telling the rest of earth she's Supergirl..and by the rest of earth, I mean the forced surrogate mama in the form of Cat, only for Cat to pull a Han Solo....with "I know."

2. The series will completely wuss out on one of the major character arcs in the Kara/James romance, with:
  • James forgetting
  • James pretends to forget
  • Kara is suddenly no longer in love with him
  • Kara is not ready, etc.
  • James looks like a fool by still pining away for lucy, despite her dumping him, and his clear as day love-inspired jealousy over (ultimately) chit chat between Kara and Flash.
If the series goes in that direction, I see it as Berlanti probably catering to the vocal, coded language-using clan of anti-James viewers (a very ugly group, if you ever read their motives for the union being "wrong"). Backing out renders the arc pointless. At that point, the anti-James clan can play with themselves fantasizing that Kara will end up with the Flash and/or Winn.

3. The episode will end with the Cadmus plot suddenly picking up speed, with Dean Cain emerging as the next Big Bad...who will give Kara and Alex a new kind of daddy issue, and reunite with Kara's mother...only it will set off a season long arc of his manipulation of her as a way of going after SG.

4. A full-on Superman will remain a text, or distant, CG element.
 
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