Powerless - New DC Universe based Sitcom

[Christopher]

My DVR still shows it airing on May 4th.

Mine doesn't, and neither does NBC's online schedule. The Zap2It TV listings (or Screener, as it seems to be called now) still have it listed for both this week and next, but the Futon Critic's listings for both upcoming episodes now have notations saying "This listing has been deleted by the network and is no longer valid." I guess some schedules are slower to update than others.

 

[Starscream2112]

Funny. I had not watch this show but was planning on watching next weeks episode because Adam West was in it...Oh well...

 

[Gaith]

Actually I read about the plot of this episode a while back...

Spoiler

IIRC, it's a riff on the ending of Superman: The Movie. They know that every time Lois Lane dies, Superman turns back time to save her, so that gives them license to do whatever they want for a few hours, since it'll all be erased.

Heh, that's actually an amusing premise.

Guess this show joins the first live-action Tick in the half-hour superhero spoof junkyard...

 

[Kai "the spy"]

Not surprising. It's amazing how a show that has a good premise, the richness of the DC Universe, Alan Tudyk and Ron Funches could turn out to be so, so mediocre (at best).

 

[Guy Gardener]

Three new episodes just appeared.

Ha!

Although it seems I've had access for a month already without quite realizing so... I wonder if they have Time after Time?

The series was officially cancelled on May 11, 2017.[3] The unaired episodes were made available on TVNZ OnDemand in New Zealand starting May 12, 2017.[4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powerless_(TV_series)#cite_note-4

 

[Christopher]

So the remaining episodes are only available in New Zealand?

I've been hoping NBC would at least release the Adam West episode online or On Demand, in honor of his passing. Assuming it's not so bad that we're better off not seeing it.

 

[Guy Gardener]

It's fantastic, the episode with Adam West, but someone is lying, or the episodes were taken down from tvnz on demand between now and when they were posted a month ago.

https://www.tvnz.co.nz/shows/powerless

Here's the pinch.

Adam is in episode 12, which is clearly supposed to be the final and what's listed as episode 13 is a missed episode from much earlier in the season (the production code lists it as episode 4), where Emily says that she barely knows these people.

Why the hell do I think that there are 13 episodes?

There's only actually 12 episodes.

But the production code says that there is 13 episodes.

There's a second pilot.

Original pilot?

Different cast, different script?

Woo?

https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2017/02/the-10-biggest-changes-powerless-made-from-its-original-pilot/

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It's possible that the original pilot was on TVNZ on Demand, and whoever uploded the final episodes to the internet earlier today, for criminals to view, might not be aware that the original pilot is also unseen by the public at large.

 

[John Clark]

I know when I looked online at the TVNZ site the other day, the last episode was available - but only for a few more hours. When it was first mentioned on wiki, I couldn't get at them though

 

[kirk55555]

DC put the entire Adam West episode of Powerless up on their youtube channel (for free, obviously) for a limited time.

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[Christopher]

Not a bad episode -- kind of fun with all the big DC-ish stuff going on. Adam West's cameo role wasn't brilliant, but as swan songs go, it wasn't awful. (And it wasn't quite his swan song, since he already completed his voice work for the animated Batman vs. Two-Face movie that's now in production.)

 

[Dream]

I still don't know why this show exists?

Who thought this was a good idea?

 

[Christopher]

I still don't know why this show exists?

Who thought this was a good idea?

I think it was potentially a pretty good idea -- explore how ordinary people cope with living in a superhero universe. It's a premise that's been explored in a number of different stories, like Marvel's Damage Control comic (about a company that cleans up after superhero battles), or the movie My Super Ex-Girlfriend, or more seriously in Mark Waid and Alex Ross's Marvels, showing the Marvel Universe's history through the eyes of a civilian journalist.

At its best, I think Powerless did a decent job of showing how ordinary people's lives were affected by the lunacy of a superhero universe -- though at its worst, it was just a generic, unfunny office sitcom with a few DCU trappings.

 

[Guy Gardener]

These kids are not ordinary people.

They are horrifically traumatized victims deeply in denial about the unacceptably dangerous universe they're in who can't tell the difference between nurture and murder.

 

[Christopher]

By the way, when Wendy re-emerged from the wormhole after her adventures in Skartaris, her outfit looked familiar to me. I thought it was from Princess Mononoke, but apparently not. Did anyone recognize it?