Warning, this podcast contains spoilers for the first episode of She-Hulk Eternia law and a little bit of Thor 11 Thunder

So definitely if you have not watched the first episode of She-Hulk Eternia law, go watch that right now. You have been warned

Hello! Welcome! My name is Jason Kitsabzi and welcome to X-ray Vision, the crooked podcast where we dive deep into your favorite shows, movies, comics, and pop culture in today's episode in the previously on the latest from the WB Discovery saga, the latest news on Ezra Miller, we're going to talk some acts, comics, crossover, event news, some X-Men, and the triumphant return of the Ask the Mace

or segment, actually it's first appearance here on X-ray Vision. In the airlock we'll be talking about She-Hulk episode one, a fantastic and fun 30 minutes of Disney plus television, and of course to talk about all of that with me today is the number one, She-Hulk herself, the number one, comics expert, she's hulking out, but only when she wants to hulk out, she is rosy-date.

Hello, yes, the power of control, self-control, how you doing? I'm doing well, rosy, how are you? Yeah, I'm good, I'm glad, I'm glad that we've seen She-Hulk, I feel like we've been talking about it for so long and it was just so great, so I'm just stoked to talk about it.

How is the reception on Godzilla bin? It's actually been just really amazing, I feel very lucky, we've got so much great support from people who listen to the show,

I'm from the X-ray Vision community, loads of really lovely reviews, I have been told about, I've got some really cool feedback, I think from people that I really care about and respect and from my friends like you, and just loads of good stuff, so I feel very lucky, and I'm very excited to hopefully try and do more stuff with Oliver soon, so I'm feeling good about it.

What a talented human being. Action packed episodes, let's jump in.

War, Warner Brothers, Discovery News, folks, first of all the CW has been sold.

Next star media group, the largest television station owner in the US is set to acquire a 75% stake in that television network of impossibly beautiful actors taking part in various stories.

For as many of them DC adaptations, the CW has been co-owned by Warner Brothers Discovery in Paramount since 2006, when the WBN UPN merged into one channel, each original partner will retain a 12.5 ownership stake and will continue to produce content for the network.

The CW famously not profitable despite the many, many fans that it has your thoughts on this rosy.

I find this to be a very interesting choice. We've talked quite extensively about this deal, and one of the big things that we've taken away, especially from the investor call and just general reporting, Zazlav, the new head of, and kind of predominant owner of WB with WBN Discovery, he loves linear TV, aka broadcast TV channel TV channel TV that you don't stream or select.

So this to me just seems absolutely mind blowing. I love the CW. I feel like even the stuff that I don't necessarily love, like I'm not the world's biggest Arrowverse fan, but I will proudly say, and you can quote me on this, like, there is no DCU in the way it is today without that.

Nobody knows who the flashes. If you don't have that show, nobody knows what the multi versus if you don't have legions of families and mums and dads and grandparents watching these crossovers where they introduce these ideas like crisis on infinite earth.

I think this is in my opinion a missed opportunity. If it was up to me, you know, we talk about this a lot like let us do it. But if it was up to me, I would have taken ownership of the CW.

The reason the CW has never been profitable as a channel, though the shows on it were incredibly profitable with a second window deal they had with Netflix, for example, CW doesn't exist in other countries, Riverdale, all the Arrowverse shows those on Netflix shows in other countries and they made a lot of money doing that.

The CW has an app called CW seed and every single show on both on the channel goes to either CW seed or the CW main app 24 hours afterwards. If you take that away, people will just watch it on the channel, right?

Like to me, in my opinion, I would have made a DC TV show or basically just re running Batman the animated series also, you know, Wonder Woman potentially trying to get the Batman 66 for that space, the old Shazam show, there's so much syndicate stuff that they could syndicate before you even get to the Arrowverse and all that other stuff.

I think this will in the future be seen as a mistake, but I also I watch a lot of the next star channels now they do a lot of syndicated sitcom channels and movie channels. So like I like broadcast TV, I'm sure it'll be interesting, but it's a missed opportunity. There is no comic book TV network right now in an age where that is so profitable.

I spent a lot of time on the island of Leon U with Oliver, although I did check out in later seasons, but you have to say, I mean, you're absolutely right about one no DCU without arrow. Also, I mean, the only successful adaptation of crisis on Infrared Earth's screen happened in the flash in 2019 and it might be the only one we see for a while.

Literally and not just that like the it's it's hard to explain if you haven't watched these shows because it feels very overwhelming right but like legends of tomorrow is one of the queerest most inclusive experimental weird TV shows on TV for stop it without that we don't get a lot of other things like doing patrol like there's these there's these different spaces that they've been able to navigate and explore through the lens of oh it's a superhero show.

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