Social Media and Behind the Scenes: AKA Everything Else Not "News and Media"

[lemotomato]

Because they suck. The sky is blue, water is wet, and minuscule promotion the CW does for Arrow is moronic.

[calliope1975]

I don't even understand it unless we're going to get daily food puns for the character names. I truly thought I couldn't be more baffled by CW PR, but here we are.

[lemotomato]

I mean, this is what we guessed would happen after KC/BC got written off the show, right? I'm not into conspiracy theories, but Suzanne's biases have been crystal clear from the beginning, and the awful promo/lack of promo reflects her incompetence and favoritism.

Edited December 15, 2016 by lemotomato

[SmallScreenDiva]

Maybe CW/WB outsourced promotions to a really, really incompetent firm with people who think they are clever. I mean, this is the same account that came up with "Make Arrow Great Again" for its fall promotions. 

[Morrigan2575]

It's a bad pun but, beyond that I don't see the problem. It for the Fan Feast promotion. Someone probably thought it was clever to make food names/puns to tie to that stupid show which, features people eating and, watching the shows.  

[Sunshine]

The Arrowwriters just shared the THR article.

[Velocity23]

They made Flashpoint pizza for the Flash. Wondering what they gonna make for LOT and Supergirl. 

[lemotomato]

The Arrow IG account removed the ribs picture.

I can see what theme they were going for, but it was executed badly and easily misconstrued. My first thought seeing the promo was "Wait, isn't  Felicity Jewish? That's messed up."

Edited December 15, 2016 by lemotomato

[SmallScreenDiva]

I'm rolling my eyes that the official account can't be bothered to RT or share anything about the THR list and Felicity but can come up with terrible puns. 

[calliope1975]

I think it was just jarring in that there's so many things they haven't promo'd for Felicity Smoak and then that was what they posted. I figured there would be more bad food puns, but I don't know. Past experience has made me very leery with Chico's motivations even when there actually isn't one. 

[HighHopes]

Just now, calliope1975 said:

I think it was just jarring in that there's so many things they haven't promo'd for Felicity Smoak and then that was what they posted. I figured there would be more bad food puns, but I don't know. Past experience has made me very leery with Chico's motivations even when there actually isn't one. 

You want a bad food pun Arrow? How about something with olives/Oliver. There's literally a name of a food in his name. 

Also I hate olives (they're awful) and I currently feel the same way about Oliver so it works for me. 

[insomniadreams88]

I feel like the CW in general needs to do something about promoting their shows. It's like they have their shiny favorites that are the focus and everything else might as well not exist/gets the bare minimum. 

[Chaser]

I get that CW promo sucks but they ran with this theme and for Arrows they focused on Felicity (it looks like the others just did the show overall). I'm sorry they took it down. 

I totally didn't catch the wrongness of the food choice. That was terrible.

Edited December 15, 2016 by Chaser

[LeighAn]

I'm behind. What happened?

[bijoux]

4 minutes ago, LeighAn said:

I'm behind. What happened?

Ditto.

[Chaser]

Arrow's IG account posted a photo of ribs with a 'Smoakin' pun for Fan Feast.

[LeighAn]

Yeah I just saw. It's in pretty poor taste. I mean I can see they were trying to be funny but it's a pretty lame attempt.

https://mobile.twitter.com/amellxwood/status/809462005790871553

[HighHopes]

Here's a screencap of the photo from Twitter. I think there were better puns they could have used IMO. (And the use of ribs is icky because people actually have ribs. So relating them to a character was an odd choice)

[bethy]

Huh. I actually find that kind of amusing. But then I love me some ribs. Beef, preferably, but....

[lemotomato]

The CW Arrow twitter account RTed the Arrowwriter's tweet about the THR article. It's a Festivus miracle! 

[LeighAn]

It's just sad that they- CW and Arrow show people - only do this after their called out for other crappy behaviour as proof they care and aren't crappy. 

[Lily-n11]

"So Sorry. We run these accounts with our eyes closed."

[LeighAn]

41 minutes ago, Lily-n11 said:

"So Sorry. We run these accounts with our eyes closed."

Yeah the "We didn't see what we liked/retweeted/tweeted because twitters super complex and we are super busy, far too busy to read 140 characters of a problematic tweet"

[Chaser]

Cut them some slack. They don't even know about tailored trends.

[LeighAn]

Haha whenever they would tweet their joy about trending I would have an "awwee honey" moment like that HIMYM episode.

[Chaser]

I can't figure out if they know they are tailored but what to show their appreciation for the attempt or if they are actually clueless.

[BkWurm1]

I'm pretty sure someone once tried to explain tailored trends but I still don't understand them, lol.  

[SmallScreenDiva]

OK, guys, don't all jump in at once with you suggestions on how Arrow can improve its ratings :P (And yes, I facepalmed at the tweet)

[calliope1975]

I'm not even gonna touch that one. 

[BkWurm1]

1 hour ago, SmallScreenDiva said:

OK, guys, don't all jump in at once with you suggestions on how Arrow can improve its ratings :P (And yes, I facepalmed at the tweet)

I must confess, I think this is kind of hilarious in a awful kind of way, lol.  

[statsgirl]

If you look at the tweets he's retweeting, he's not a fan of Trump so I get the feeling there is mortification behind that tweet, not just flippancy.

[Morrigan2575]

That's fucking hysterical. Going to go like his tweet immediately.

[RussianRoulette]

A bit late to the party (oh noes! I'm missing all the PR fun! ;) Wow! I knew the CW's SM was bad but this is embarrassingly bad. I'm actually dying here from second hand embarassment. Ahahahaha. What?

I would seriously consider volunteering to do it for them (pro bono & all) but yeah, no.  I would actually be jumping ship immediately. I see what they were *trying* to do with the whole fan feast stuff. But that was one epic fail. What the hell was this crap?

But yeah as someone smarter up thread said it better: the sky is blue and all that... 

[tv echo]

18 hours ago, Proteus said:

New Yorks dates are Sept 16th and 17th.

Thanks for the correction!  I've revised my original post.

[tv echo]

[wonderwall]

Lolll yeah OK I admit I laughed at that one!

[bijoux]

So, Arrow hasn't lost the loft set to The Flash. How often will they be redressing it? 

[Morrigan2575]

That little girl is adorable

[tv echo]

[Velocity23]

[BkWurm1]

I love that mug with the glasses.  Subtle but obvious to those in the know.  :D

[Willowtree]

https://www.facebook.com/stephenamell/posts/1238593682892563

Edited December 22, 2016 by kariyaki
Facebook bug readjusting page - took out embed

[Morrigan2575]

47 minutes ago, BkWurm1 said:

I love that mug with the glasses.  Subtle but obvious to those in the know.  :D

Wish the mug wasn't white, other than that it's pretty cool.  Love that to "I" in Girl is an Arrow

[Tazmania]

On 2016-12-15 at 1:08 AM, bijoux said:

It's how CD told the story at a con at least once. If Tommy hadn't died, I wouldn't have gone to New York to do theatre and I wouldn't have met my wife.

Also because his wife was married to her first husband before that. She wrote a whole blog about how she had a divorce party to celebrate her being single again and Colin came to that party and they ended up making out and the dating ...  

[bijoux]

1 hour ago, Morrigan2575 said:

Wish the mug wasn't white, other than that it's pretty cool.  Love that to "I" in Girl is an Arrow

I didn't even notice that. Neat.

[bijoux]

4 minutes ago, Tazmania said:

Also because his wife was married to her first husband before that. She wrote a whole blog about how she had a divorce party to celebrate her being single again and Colin came to that party and they ended up making out and the dating ...  

That's certainly festive. :)

[wonderwall]

4 hours ago, Velocity23 said:

Makes me smile to see that the mug is amongst the most popular items :)

[Velocity23]

[Thundercatmary]

6 hours ago, Tazmania said:

Also because his wife was married to her first husband before that. She wrote a whole blog about how she had a divorce party to celebrate her being single again and Colin came to that party and they ended up making out and the dating ...  

I kinda really love that story, it sounds almost fic level cute lol

[bijoux]

Cute.