Supergirl TV Series is being work on.

[Mudd]

Meh, it reads as little different and has the same essential problems as the final script. The reviewer is too impressed by script descriptions of big action set pieces.

BTW, Kara manages to perform about as many superheroic/superpowered feats in that second short trailer as Christopher Reeve's Superman did in the entire first movie - and the effects are better. That's fairly impressive right there.

 

[Christopher]

Well, the action scenes do work much better for me. My problem with the scenes as filmed is that Hal hardly did anything -- he was absent for several minutes while lots of people were endangered or killed, then belatedly showed up and saved one person. That's bad superheroing. Here, Hal is actually more effective at saving people.

Honestly, I don't think the GL movie was that bad. If it had come out half a decade earlier, I think it would've been regarded as a pretty decent superhero movie. But it had the bad fortune to come out in the same year as Thor, Captain America, and X-Men: First Class, and it was just overshadowed by how excellent they were. It did have some major problems, though, and I think most of those problems were not present in this draft. And as the reviewer says, it's not a perfect draft, but letting the original writers refine it might've worked better than giving it to a new writer.

 

[Awesome Possum]

I don't know if the show is really representative of the show itself. It could be that the trailer is a cynical attempt to court a more mainstream female audience that may not traditionally watch a superhero series. It feels like a parody because it's all the cliches of a romcom film trailer on a beat by beat level. The actual show may be better.

I sat through Gotham, it's either going to be decent or more insane.

 

[Enterprise is Great]

Okay, so "Starling City" has a nice, evocative ring to it, and "Central City" is pleasantly alliterative and has a charming kind of retro sound despite being a bit bland, but "National City" just sounds stupid.

My two cents.

At one point DC Comics was called National Comics. It's probably a nod to that. Plus it fits in with DC cities named Central, Midway and Coast. All pretty goofy names.

 

[davejames]

Pretty cool seeing these two together:

And this page reveals some other things hidden in the trailer as well, like just how involved Superman apparently was in Kara's early life on Earth (and also interesting to see that this Superman's costume colors could almost pass for those in MOS).

http://supergirl.tv/dean-helen-superman-in-trailer

And given her age when she arrived, I'm curious to see if the show addresses the adjustment period she must have had to go through, and how difficult it might have been to grow up in what must seem like a very strange and alien world (something I thought the New 52 comic tackled pretty well early on). At least I'm hoping we see that explored, and it's not something that is just quickly brushed aside.

 

[JoeZhang]

So the question is - who goes into a time-warp? (which has happened in various versions of Supergirls origins)

Krypton blows up 24 years ago.
Kal-El is rocketed away as an infant - maybe one maximum
Supergirl is maybe seven/eight?
Supergirl (from the trailer) is the same age when she lands but Superman is at least 18 (I guess) but is a maximum of 25 (unless he went back in time before landing on earth...)
And Supergirl is now ??? 23/24 I think from what I've read so how do you square all that together?


Or are we going to get the reveal that she's from Argo City or some colony that lasted longer to alter that?

 

[davejames]

Well from script abstracts on the site, it sounds like her parents originally instructed her to watch over the younger Kal-El on Earth... but she obviously got there a whole lot later. And the most likely explanation to me is that she got suspended in some kind of time warp along the way.

 

[DigificWriter]

So the question is - who goes into a time-warp? (which has happened in various versions of Supergirls origins)

Krypton blows up 24 years ago.
Kal-El is rocketed away as an infant - maybe one maximum
Supergirl is maybe seven/eight?
Supergirl (from the trailer) is the same age when she lands but Superman is at least 18 (I guess) but is a maximum of 25 (unless he went back in time before landing on earth...)
And Supergirl is now ??? 23/24 I think from what I've read so how do you square all that together?


Or are we going to get the reveal that she's from Argo City or some colony that lasted longer to alter that?

Kara is 12 when Krypton explodes.

 

[EmoBorg]

To be honest, the hot pants she rejected, in the trailer, for the supergirl uniform was more suitable for her. Even normal pants would have been better. Not sure that a skirt is suitable for a flying superhero. Unless of course she wears something decent underneath her skirt.

 

[JoeZhang]

Well from script abstracts on the site, it sounds like her parents originally instructed her to watch over the younger Kal-El on Earth... but she obviously got there a whole lot later. And the most likely explanation to me is that she got suspended in some kind of time warp along the way.

Sure but the problem is - she is 12 when she gets to earth and is now 22-24 (I think so, someone correct me) so she needs at least a decade on earth as a gap. Which means that Kal-el has to be a teenager or even younger when he finds her and is still only 24-25.

That also means that given the look of him, James Olsen and Clark are contemporaries and if Kara arrives a decade ago, then Superman actually was active as Superboy and because we knows James took the first official picture of him, he was active as a photographer at 14/15? (James might be older? late 20s).

You can solve some of this by having two time-warps - Kara arrives slightly late and Clark arrives early by going through a time-warp that pushes him into the past so he arrives on earth before he's left Krypton but that's awfully convoluted and fan-fiction like.

To be honest, the hot pants she rejected, in the trailer, for the supergirl uniform was more suitable for her. Even normal pants would have been better. Not sure that a skirt is suitable for a flying superhero. Unless of course she wears something decent underneath her skirt.

Seems no different to netball skirts which women wear shorts under...

 

[Mudd]

Olsen was played as more-or-less Lois and Clark's contemporary in the first year of that series.

Well, if anyone works out the timeline here I might glance at it, but it doesn't really matter does it?

 

[JoeZhang]

Well, if anyone works out the timeline here I might glance at it, but it doesn't really matter does it?

Not in the slightest in regards to watching and enjoying the show - even if it makes no sense as presented on the show itself that sort of thing doesn't bother me - but for causal conversation here itself it's the sort of thing that passes time.

 

[Christopher]

That also means that given the look of him, James Olsen and Clark are contemporaries and if Kara arrives a decade ago, then Superman actually was active as Superboy and because we knows James took the first official picture of him, he was active as a photographer at 14/15? (James might be older? late 20s).

The "24 years" thing is problematical. Maybe the dialogue editing is misleading. Those screencaps from the trailer pretty clearly show an adult Superman finding the preteen Kara's capsule and taking her to the Danvers family (Dean Cain and Helen Slater). So Superman must've been active for at least a dozen years now. That would also fit with the older Jimmy and Cat Grant.

One possibility: Maybe in this version, Krypton's final demise didn't happen until years after Kal-El was sent away, giving them time to develop a second craft for Kara to use. That would be pretty revisionist, but that's par for the course in an adaptation.

Seems no different to netball skirts which women wear shorts under...

Right. I'm sure that three-time Oscar winner Colleen Atwood would not have been so amateurish as to forget to include underwear beneath the skirt.

 

[JoeZhang]

One possibility: Maybe in this version, Krypton's final demise didn't happen until years after Kal-El was sent away, giving them time to develop a second craft for Kara to use. That would be pretty revisionist, but that's par for the course in an adaptation.

Or as in some versions of the comics, Argos city (to name a example) survives for a while in space - which also allows for the dramatic possibility of super-girl discovering it and her family are still out there...

 

[DigificWriter]

The "24 years" thing is problematical.

Simple explanation #1: Something caused Kara's ship to be lost for 12 years

Simple explanation #2: Kara was in suspended animation for 12 years

 

[JoeZhang]

The "24 years" thing is problematical.

Simple explanation #1: Something caused Kara's ship to be lost for 12 years

Simple explanation #2: Kara was in suspended animation for 12 years

That bit is easy - it's the fact that she has to then spend a decade or so growing up on earth but Superman (without time-travel or the like) is capped at 25 but is an adult when she lands.

 

[Captaindemotion]

To be honest, the hot pants she rejected, in the trailer, for the supergirl uniform was more suitable for her. Even normal pants would have been better. Not sure that a skirt is suitable for a flying superhero. Unless of course she wears something decent underneath her skirt.

As an observation, let us pray that nobody ever invents a male Scottish superhero, who decides to wear a kilt in the traditional Scottish manner (i.e. no underwear).

 

[Christopher]

The "24 years" thing is problematical.

Simple explanation #1: Something caused Kara's ship to be lost for 12 years

Simple explanation #2: Kara was in suspended animation for 12 years

Not the point. It's problematical because of Superman's age, not Supergirl's. As I said, the trailer shows an adult-sized, caped-and-costumed Superman finding the 12-year-old Kara's capsule and taking her to the Danvers family. So if Clark was already an adult when Kara was 12, then in the series present, he'd have to be in at least his early 30s. So Krypton couldn't have exploded only 24 years before -- not unless it managed to survive 8-10 years beyond Kal-El's departure.

 

[EmoBorg]

To be honest, the hot pants she rejected, in the trailer, for the supergirl uniform was more suitable for her. Even normal pants would have been better. Not sure that a skirt is suitable for a flying superhero. Unless of course she wears something decent underneath her skirt.

Seems no different to netball skirts which women wear shorts under...

To be honest, i prefer the hot pants. Why wear two layers ,skirt and shorts, when you can wear one layer, girl pants.

 

[Christopher]

To be honest, i prefer the hot pants. Why wear two layers ,skirt and shorts, when you can wear one layer, girl pants.

Why do men's suits include a shirt, vest, and jacket when they could just wear a shirt? It's fashion. There's little logic to it.