Supergirl TV Series is being work on.

[Guy Gardener]

Jimmy on Smallville was (at the time) a b-grade movie star, slumming it on TV.

His love affair with Chloe was epic.

But anyone stupid enough to get inbetween me and Chloe must die.

In the early seasons of Smallville was (black) Pete Ross into Chloe while she was into Clark, while Clark was chasing Lana while Lana was perfectly happy with Flash Gordon?

The real problem is that unless we're going to get Lost-like/Dexter-like/Psych like flashbacks of Supergirl Growing up, (this would mean a second 9 year old Supergirl actress in almost every episode?) we're going to miss all that stranger in a strange land shit like when Tom Hanks ####s a Mermaid even though she's acting like an escaped mental patient.

(Standards dude!)

Supergirl is an American, familiar with the American way of life.

Emotionally there is no reason Kara Zor-El can't date anyone appropriate and be indistinguishably human during the entire right of courtship, be it an Inuit stock car driver, a black under wear model, or a white guy that works at McDonalds.

Physically however, a little dryness, chapped lips, followed by some traction during a first kiss and Kara can rip a beau's face off. Or if that doesn't happen, if she starts panting during their kiss from arousal, it's 50/50 whether she either flash freezes him entirely, or forces most of his eternal organs to scoot out his rectum like his torso is a game of ker-plunk.

 

[JD]

I'm not familiar with the guy they cast as Jimmy, but he's not really the type think of when it comes to the character. Now, I have no problem with them casting an African American actor, but I usually think of Jimmy as a nerdy little guy and this guy is definitely not that.
I just looked him up on wikipedia, and he is a former Calvin Kline underwear model, which is definitely not the first thing I would think of when it comes to Jimmy Olson.
Now, I'm not going to write the whole show off, but I think we can safely say this will be a very different Jimmy Olson than we got in earlier version.

 

[Caretaker]

I only really know him from his role in the second season of Desperate Housewives (as one of the sons of Alfre Woodard's character) and that was quite awhile ago. But I have no problem with reinterpretations of characters as long as we get hints or Easter eggs harkening back to earlier incarnations of characters.

 

[Guy Gardener]

In the comics (on a mirror Earth in an alternate universe) Barack Obama is Superman.

I wonder if (In the real world) when he's finished with this President gig, if Barry will consider doing a couple episodes of this show as Superman?

 

[Greg Cox]

In the comics (on a mirror Earth in an alternate universe) Barack Obama is Superman.

I wonder if when he's finished with this President gig, if he'll consider doing a couple episodes as Superman?

Hah! I novelized this scene!

 

[urbandefault]

I don't think they could drag Barry away from the golf course long enough.

Besides, he's too skinny for the suit and the bike helmet would clash.

 

[Christopher]

I'm not familiar with the guy they cast as Jimmy, but he's not really the type think of when it comes to the character. Now, I have no problem with them casting an African American actor, but I usually think of Jimmy as a nerdy little guy and this guy is definitely not that.

I don't think Jimmy was ever really intended to be nerdy, not to start with, anyway. He was invented by the Superman radio series as an audience identification figure for young listeners. He was meant to be a typical boy in his early teens, earnest and enthusiastic and into the stuff that kids were into. The perception of nerdiness probably comes mainly from Jack Larson's Jimmy in the '50s TV series, although Larson's Jimmy was quite the wisecracker too. Or maybe it's that his clean-cut earnestness and his bow tie came to be seen as corny when the character retained those traits in later decades.

Michael Landes's Jimmy in the first season of Lois and Clark was a charismatic, cool, streetwise version of the character. But the second-season producers found him too cool and replaced him with the achingly dull Justin Whalen.

Anyway, if this show's Jimmy is meant as a love interest for Kara, it makes sense that they'd cast an attractive actor.

And yeah, the ethnicity should really be a non-issue. I mean, the comics' Jimmy is a redhead, but virtually every actor who's ever played him in live action has been brown-haired -- except for Tommy Bond in the 1948 and 1950 serials, and those were in black and white! So screen versions of Jimmy have never matched his comics coloration anyway.

 

[Guy Gardener]

It's the CW.

There's a love triangle.

Even if it's only Kara wants Jimmy and Jimmy wants Supergirl.

But a girl spending an entire trilogy trying to make her mind up over two ridiculously hot guys made Twilight a hundred billion dollars at the box office over the last decade.

So there's either a more appropriate superhuman who Supergirl might go for, or a more appropriate human being who Jimmy might go for... Unless the story starts with Jimmy and Kara already an item and he may or may not know about Supergirl's secret identity?

"You really shouldn't try to give me a hickie."

"Why I think they're cool, and you'll really enjoy it and..."

"Look, no means no, but just trust me, it's an awful idea."

 

[DWF]

I'm not familiar with the guy they cast as Jimmy, but he's not really the type think of when it comes to the character. Now, I have no problem with them casting an African American actor, but I usually think of Jimmy as a nerdy little guy and this guy is definitely not that.

I don't think Jimmy was ever really intended to be nerdy, not to start with, anyway. He was invented by the Superman radio series as an audience identification figure for young listeners. He was meant to be a typical boy in his early teens, earnest and enthusiastic and into the stuff that kids were into. The perception of nerdiness probably comes mainly from Jack Larson's Jimmy in the '50s TV series, although Larson's Jimmy was quite the wisecracker too. Or maybe it's that his clean-cut earnestness and his bow tie came to be seen as corny when the character retained those traits in later decades.

Michael Landes's Jimmy in the first season of Lois and Clark was a charismatic, cool, streetwise version of the character. But the second-season producers found him too cool and replaced him with the achingly dull Justin Whalen.

Anyway, if this show's Jimmy is meant as a love interest for Kara, it makes sense that they'd cast an attractive actor.

And yeah, the ethnicity should really be a non-issue. I mean, the comics' Jimmy is a redhead, but virtually every actor who's ever played him in live action has been brown-haired -- except for Tommy Bond in the 1948 and 1950 serials, and those were in black and white! So screen versions of Jimmy have never matched his comics coloration anyway.

Michael Landes was bit old to be playing a teenager and he hardly looked like a teenager, but then the same could said for Marc McClure. Jimmy in the old days was little more thana teenage sidekick for Superman much like Buddy was in the Buck Rogers serial and of course Robin.

 

[DigificWriter]

The "love triangle"* is going to be Kara crushing on James while Wynn crushes on her. That was made pretty clear by the casting descriptions.

* I put the word 'love triangle' in quotes because a love triangle only happens when you have 3 different characters who all have a mutual romantic interest in one another simultaneously and there's a question of 'who will the person in the middle end up with?'.

Oliver/Tommy/Laurel was an example of a love triangle; Iris/Eddie/Barry and Oliver/Felicity/Ray are not (at least not yet).

 

[davejames]

I've always found Jimmy Olsen to be boring as hell, and so anything they can do to make him cooler or more interesting, I'm all for.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I've always found Jimmy Olsen to be boring as hell, and so anything they can do to make him cooler or more interesting, I'm all for.

Jimmmy wishes he was boring!

 

[Christopher]

Jimmy Olsen onscreen has rarely been as interesting as Jimmy in the comics. Here's an article extolling the virtues of the comics' Jimmy:

http://comicsalliance.com/ask-chris-118-whats-so-great-about-jimmy-olsen/

 

[Shaka Zulu]

In the comics (on a mirror Earth in an alternate universe) Barack Obama is Superman.

I wonder if when he's finished with this President gig, if he'll consider doing a couple episodes as Superman?

Hah! I novelized this scene!

His secret identity, BTW, is Calvin Ellis.

 

[Shaka Zulu]

It's inevitable Ra's will show up on Gotham at some point too. So why not just have it be the same guy?

Umm, because Arrow Ra's is terribly miscast? I'd welcome an alternative version. Hopefully one who isn't white this time.

He's always been a semi-white Middle Easterner to begin with, IIRC.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Is it possible that 500 years of climate change and living in a nonindigenous landscape has made him whiter, or that 500 years of living in the desert/intermarrying with darker skinned neighbours/invaders has made the rest of the Arabs in the world today a little darker?

 

[Nerys Myk]

Or maybe he's a white guy who lives in the Middle East

According to this, Ra's al Ghul isn't even his real name.

Robert Reilly would be perfect.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Ra's al Ghul is "Arab" for The Demon's Head.

(Google assured me years ago that it is not a made up translation.)

So, no it's probably not the name his mother gave him when he was born.

Not only is it a good translation, the writer who long ago came up with the name (I wasn't reading Batman at the time, so I don't know who -- but I'm sure it was in the comics long before the animated series) stole it from astronomy -- it's the name used for the constellation of Perseus and Medusa's Head used in arabic books, especially the translation of Ptolemy called The Almagest.

But this is why they also call him The Demon, and most of the comics focussing on this character is "something" of the Demon or the Demon's "Something".

 

[Nerys Myk]

Ra's al Ghul is "Arab" for The Demon's Head.

(Google assured me years ago that it is not a made up translation.)

So, no it's probably not the name his mother gave him when he was born.

Not only is it a good translation, the writer who long ago came up with the name (I wasn't reading Batman at the time, so I don't know who -- but I'm sure it was in the comics long before the animated series) stole it from astronomy -- it's the name used for the constellation of Perseus and Medusa's Head used in arabic books, especially the translation of Ptolemy called The Almagest.

But this is why they also call him The Demon, and most of the comics focussing on this character is "something" of the Demon or the Demon's "Something".

Arabic.

Yeah, that it means the Demon's Head is pretty well known. There is also a star called Algol from the same source. As is ghoul.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

In the comics (on a mirror Earth in an alternate universe) Barack Obama is Superman.

I wonder if when he's finished with this President gig, if he'll consider doing a couple episodes as Superman?

Hah! I novelized this scene!

When did this happen? This proves how out of touch I am with comics, I guess.