It just seems a bit odd to me that subsequently, in a very short period of time, the WB simply changed its mind after they screened the pilot independent of the quality of the pilot.
Actually, before they'd even screened the DS pilot, the WB had already been giving strong indications in the trades that they were moving toward relationship dramas and reality programming. (We merely chose to overlook that for the most part.) And while it's true that the change of direction happened after all the favorable things had been said about DS, it wasn't really an abrupt change of direction because the signs of it have been reported for well over a month now.
As I'd said in one of my posts that tried to explain how badly the odds are stacked against any pilot's chance of being picked up, at some point during its development every pilot has favorable buzz surrounding it. Otherwise, what would be the sense of it having been greenlit in the first place? But the unfortunate fact is that the openings on a network's schedule versus the number of pilots it commisions is always widely disproportionate. And another fact is that often times a simple change in direction IS the ONLY reason one pilot gets picked over another. In a perfect world, an expectation that every pilot that turns out great will get picked up would be a wonderful one - but in the real world, as unfair as it may seem, that simply isn't the case.
All of our posts here are speculative
Exactly.