I found this article in my old room that I wrote in my school's very hippie, yay for protests, sex, and drugs type paper in 2006.
Haha, as it turns out the CW is the voice of no one, but hindsight.
Article:
A tribute to the WB from a WB Teen
On September 17,2006 the WB television network closed forever and for the first time I felt twenty. I didn't feel sixteen anymore, not eighteen, not even twenteen, just twenty. Childhood is over and there's no going back.
The WB was where I grew up. Other networks were too adult or too childish. The WB was the awkward adolescent- not mainstream enough to be mainstream and not enough of an outsider to be an outsider. The WB was a true teenager and so became the voice of a generation- we were WB teens.
Everything about being a teenager was on the WB. Always overlooked and underrated, the WB shrugged off major network adulthood and forever established its place as The Teenage Network. Its signature hits Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dawson's Creek, Felicity, Charmed, Angel, 7th Heaven, and later hits Gilmore Girls, Everwood and Smallville were the shows we grew up to. They were our teenage culture. No other network understood what it was like to be a teenager- they didn't remember. If we ever had problems we turned to the WB. We knew all we had to do was turn on the TV and someone somewhere would be growing through the same thing. If that fictional character could make it through it, we knew we could too. They weren't just characters they were our friends and role models. We knew their names and secrets. We were never alone on the WB because we were all growing up together.
It's not the same now. The WB along with UPN has merged into a new network called the CW. They have carried over the same shows and we still watch them. But it's not our community anymore. It's just a television show, it's just two or three television shows on a network that have no connections to each other or to our generation. The CW doesn't have a history, it doesn't remember. This isn't what growing up was like. It has big and flashy gimmicks and lots of hip catch phrases. It's the voice of a new generation- not ours. Our childhood is over, it's gone and it's never coming back. It's time for someone else to grow up. Thanks WB for letting us.
Haha, as it turns out the CW is the voice of no one, but hindsight.
Article:
A tribute to the WB from a WB Teen
On September 17,2006 the WB television network closed forever and for the first time I felt twenty. I didn't feel sixteen anymore, not eighteen, not even twenteen, just twenty. Childhood is over and there's no going back.
The WB was where I grew up. Other networks were too adult or too childish. The WB was the awkward adolescent- not mainstream enough to be mainstream and not enough of an outsider to be an outsider. The WB was a true teenager and so became the voice of a generation- we were WB teens.
Everything about being a teenager was on the WB. Always overlooked and underrated, the WB shrugged off major network adulthood and forever established its place as The Teenage Network. Its signature hits Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dawson's Creek, Felicity, Charmed, Angel, 7th Heaven, and later hits Gilmore Girls, Everwood and Smallville were the shows we grew up to. They were our teenage culture. No other network understood what it was like to be a teenager- they didn't remember. If we ever had problems we turned to the WB. We knew all we had to do was turn on the TV and someone somewhere would be growing through the same thing. If that fictional character could make it through it, we knew we could too. They weren't just characters they were our friends and role models. We knew their names and secrets. We were never alone on the WB because we were all growing up together.
It's not the same now. The WB along with UPN has merged into a new network called the CW. They have carried over the same shows and we still watch them. But it's not our community anymore. It's just a television show, it's just two or three television shows on a network that have no connections to each other or to our generation. The CW doesn't have a history, it doesn't remember. This isn't what growing up was like. It has big and flashy gimmicks and lots of hip catch phrases. It's the voice of a new generation- not ours. Our childhood is over, it's gone and it's never coming back. It's time for someone else to grow up. Thanks WB for letting us.
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