Supergirl TV Series is being work on.
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I know he doesn't own the WB, but I just got a feeling that whoever Supergirl turns out to be, she is going to be another one of Rupert Murdoch's nieces.
The kind who actually knows that Elwes is an Englishman IRL.
Who did play a version of Kara in an early Smallville episode, years before Vandervoort did, but her character turned out to be a human somehow brainwashed and given superpowers by the ghost of Jor-El, or something.
Judging from Star-Crossed, Teegarden is a very mediocre actress. I remember Tal being devastatingly hot on Veronica Mars, and Robb looked really cute in the promos I saw for her CW show, but I don't know about their acting ability either. I don't know Robertson or Holt. And I never liked Vandervoort much on Smallville.
Well, I've always loved the way the Fleischer cartoons animated it, the way Superman would just shoot into the air with such speed. It really conveyed Superman's sheer power in a way I've rarely seen anything else do. And it fits the way he was often described in the radio series of the time as shooting into the air like an arrow shot from a bow.
^ I've always wondered how the simple fact that Krypton has different gravity, means that Superman can not only fly, but HOVER. How does he manage that? Sure, he can leap tall buildings and all that, but he shouldn't be able to just hang in the air like we sometimes see him do.
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1978? And if that's if you bought it immediately.
Aimee Teegarden. Annoying. Needed a slap. Probably the scripts fault. The script needed a slap. Meh? I saw all of Star Struck and "meh" is as much as I have to say about the girl.
Alona Tal. I find her to be one of the most beautiful women in the universe. I am drawn to her. 31 years young.
Britt Robertson. Should be jailed for her crimes against acting. She's heroin thin, and doesn't look after her hair, so I more often think of Brit as a junkie than a super model even though "apparently" most models are junkies that know how to wash their hair.
AnnaSophia Robb. She still looked almost exactly like Violet Beauregaude from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in season one of the Carrie Diaries while she was talking about love and sex continuously which was disturbing. Fortunately Anna Sophia had a Growth Spurt between Season one and seaosn 2 and could finally pass for jail bait. Jail bait is not good, but jail bait is understandable. My definition of jail bait is that you think that she is an adult, and that you have no reason to beleive that she is younger than 20 until the cops put you in hand cuffs.
Claire Holt. HowOld is she? 26. Not as old as I thought. I think we might have a winner here becuase she is Australian and producers just love casting foreigners pretneding to be American for some reason... Athough, why can't there be a part of Krypton that has an Australian accent and that that is where she is from?
Laura Vandervoort. She can barely act, and someone needs to feed Laura before her ribs escape.
Aimee Teegarden. Annoying. Needed a slap. Probably the scripts fault. The script needed a slap. Meh? I saw all of Star Struck and "meh" is as much as I have to say about the girl.
Alona Tal. I find her to be one of the most beautiful women in the universe. I am drawn to her. 31 years young.
Britt Robertson. Should be jailed for her crimes against acting. She's heroin thin, and doesn't look after her hair, so I more often think of Brit as a junkie than a super model even though "apparently" most models are junkies that know how to wash their hair.
AnnaSophia Robb. She still looked almost exactly like Violet Beauregaude from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in season one of the Carrie Diaries while she was talking about love and sex continuously which was disturbing. Fortunately Anna Sophia had a Growth Spurt between Season one and seaosn 2 and could finally pass for jail bait. Jail bait is not good, but jail bait is understandable. My definition of jail bait is that you think that she is an adult, and that you have no reason to beleive that she is younger than 20 until the cops put you in hand cuffs.
Claire Holt. HowOld is she? 26. Not as old as I thought. I think we might have a winner here becuase she is Australian and producers just love casting foreigners pretneding to be American for some reason... Athough, why can't there be a part of Krypton that has an Australian accent and that that is where she is from?
Laura Vandervoort. She can barely act, and someone needs to feed Laura before her ribs escape.
That's why they eventually came up with the idea that part of his powers came from the yellow sun...and that gradually edged out the gravity explanation entirely in many versions over the decades.
FWIW, in the late 30s/early 40s, even while his leaps became more and more like flying, he couldn't hover. The Fleischer cartoons have him being knocked out of the sky on at least one occasion, and in the comics of the time, he was more than once depicted eavesdropping outside of a skyscraper window by hanging onto the windowsill with one hand and extending his body horizontally...which could easily be done via sheer muscle power rather than levitation if you're superhumanly strong.
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Natalie Hall (also of Star-Crossed) would be my choice for the role.
http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/09/19/7-actresses-who-could-play-supergirl
IGN had an interesting list; Laura Vandervoort, Yvonne Strahovski, Ashley Hinshaw, Lyndsy Fonseca, Leven Rambin, Laura Haddock, Britt Robertson.
Britt keeps coming up!
ETA: I like Natalie Hall too.
IGN had an interesting list; Laura Vandervoort, Yvonne Strahovski, Ashley Hinshaw, Lyndsy Fonseca, Leven Rambin, Laura Haddock, Britt Robertson.
Britt keeps coming up!
ETA: I like Natalie Hall too.
They explained that for Post-Crisis Superman with semi-science, he has a way (maybe an extra-organ influenced by the yellow sun) of controlling the gravitons of his body and (to a lesser degree) things he touches in flight. This is why he was able to carry more weight in the air than on the ground.
Actually the idea was that Krypton had much higher gravity than Earth. Siegel & Shuster's thinking was that, just as John Carter was able to make superhuman leaps and feats of strength on Barsoom (Mars) because it had lower gravity than Earth, so someone from a planet with higher gravity could perform similar feats if he came to Earth. (Actually I think I read that it was a different pulp story that inspired them, a story whose hero was transported to a planet with even lower gravity, but Carter was probably an influence too.)
But yes, as stated, the hovering wasn't really part of it at first. Although it was inconsistent. Conventional wisdom says that in the early Fleischer cartoons, he could only jump really high, but in the very first cartoon he's clearly able to apply thrust in midair, because when he pushes the falling skyscraper back up, he then loops around and pushes in the opposite direction to cancel out its momentum, without landing first. And then he's able to propel himself through the air against the force of the mad scientist's death ray pushing him back. So from the start, he's not just jumping, but actually flying/hovering. Although there are subsequent cartoons that show him just jumping. The early radio episodes were inconsistent about it as well.
Yeah but can we really expect an Alien from Krpyton to age the same way as us humans do?
John Byrne's Man of Steel was 28 years ago.
You'd think that there would have been some further explanation since then?
What about the invulnerability "aura" that makes his earth made tight form hugging clothing/superman uniform almost as invulnerable as he is?
Even if it's subconscious or autonomic, the man of steel is definitely manipulating energy fields.
That doesn't account for all the other twentysomething actors playing high school students in TV shows and movies...
John Byrne's Generations showed that Clark was still alive in the 30th century. Much earlier in that story, Clark actually had to wear more and more make up to pretend he was as old as Lois as she kept ageing and he didn't.
Grant Morisson's DC One Million, showed that Clark was still alive in the 853rd century, which may or may not have had anything to do with him living in the sun for the last few thousand years
The human actors playing kryptonians can look like what they need to to get the part, it just becomes humorous when they start looking their age (35!) when they've barely stopped being a teenager.
I came to wrap my head around early-era Superman's transition from leaping to flying by thinking of what they were probably modeling it after--airplanes of the era. Helicopters would have been new-fangled and a lot less common at that point. Superman, like a prop plane of the time, came to be able to control his direction and speed in mid-air, but had similar implied limitations--(a) He needed some solid ground to take off from; (b) he couldn't hover; and (c) he could be "stalled" and fall from the sky, unable to recover himself until he was back on solid ground (bringing us back to "a").
The Earth-2 Superman had noticeably graying hair, despite being only 20 or so years older than the Earth-1 version.
Oh, and yeah, Krypton's *higher* gravity. My bad.
Yeah the idea that his body generates some kind of energy field that allows him to fly has always seemed like a suitable enough explanation to me. I don't really need anything more complicated than that.
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