Supergirl TV Series is being work on.

[davejames]

I personally think that this is a terrible idea. Supergirl at her best is not a stand alone character. She only works when Superman is around to serve as a mentor. After all, unlike Clark, Kara did not grow up on Earth and arrives as a teen/young adult. She usually requires the presence of Clark and or the Kents to ground prepare her for an earthly existence.

There are characters that are better suited to a solo existence. Supergirl was likely only chosen for the name recognition.

That's the way it's been done before, but I don't see it being a necessity for the character (just like it's not a necessity for most male superheroes who don't have a mentor to teach them how to use their powers, or have other superheroes to interact with).

And plus it could even be more interesting watching her have to figure things out and adjust to life on Earth all on her own-- something which I thought the New 52 comic depicted really well (yeah Superman was in the picture, but she wanted nothing to do with him early on).

 

[Guy Gardener]

Kara is from a planet thousands of years a head of earth.

She was raised on Krypton.

In the JLU cartoon she had to go live in the 30th century with the Legion before she stopped rolling her eyes about Earth.

Landing on Earth for her is not just another planet, it's like a another planet 10 centuries in the past.

There should be more of a danger of she going the full Zod and claiming a small empire than forgetting how to be a teenager who listens to katey perry and uses multicoloured nailpolish.

 

[Taylirious]

Katy Perry

 

[Guy Gardener]

If she really mattered, I would already know that.

 

[Taylirious]

She matters to me! LOL.

 

[JD]

Honestly, after seeing the stuff they're doing on shows like Once Upon A Time and Defiance, I'm really not that concerned with what they can and can't do on. Sure not every episode will be a big SFX extravaganza, but when they put the money to it even TV shows can do some pretty impressive stuff these days.

 

[davejames]

Hmm, CBS definitely seems like a strange fit for a Supergirl show, but I'm glad to hear they're actually making it. Although from what I'm reading, "series commitment" doesn't necessarily mean it's going to air.

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/tvnews.php?id=123108

 

[DigificWriter]

Dang it, JD. You ninja'd me, forcing me to edit my post.

As far as 'series commitment' goes, the term means its far more likely to air than not air because, if it didn't, CBS would have to pay a hefty penalty to the people involved.

 

[Saga]

as long as this series is nothing like Smallville i'm in.

 

[Christopher]

CBS doesn't do a lot of genre, true (although it has just about the best science fiction series on TV today, Person of Interest). But until now, it was the only broadcast network without a superhero show on its current or upcoming lineup, so I guess it wanted to get on the bandwagon.

This probably rules out the series as an addition to the CW-verse of Arrow and The Flash -- although CBS is half-owner of The CW along with Warner Bros., so who knows?

 

[davejames]

It's highly doubtful they'll give it any connection to Arrow and Flash, since it would probably be too weird to audiences to have a Supergirl in the same universe as those characters, but no Superman.

I just hope that CBS lets the creators actually do something bold and interesting with this, and it doesn't end up as just another safe and generic network show. Or they make it too cute and family friendly or something. And also that they give it a chance and don't pull it after 10 episodes if the ratings aren't outstanding.

 

[davejames]

Huh, according to the article on EW, there is a Superman in this world. And apparently Kara has been on Earth for awhile and hiding her powers. But at age 24 she finally decides to embrace her abilities and become a hero.

 

[Christopher]

Huh, according to the article on EW, there is a Superman in this world. And apparently Kara has been on Earth for awhile and hiding her powers. But at age 24 she finally decides to embrace her abilities and become a hero.

Well, that's what the article says, but as ComicsAlliance points out, we don't know yet whether that's actually part of the show premise or just something Variety cribbed off of Wikipedia to fill column space.

 

[DigificWriter]

The mention of Clark has been in every article on the pick-up, so I'm pretty sure it's officially part of the plan for the show's mythology.

 

[Galileo7]

Good, I hope it is done right. I will watch it. This and GOTHAM.

 

[Christopher]

The mention of Clark has been in every article on the pick-up, so I'm pretty sure it's officially part of the plan for the show's mythology.

Well, generally when you see a bunch of different online articles, it turns out that there's just one original article and a bunch of other sites quoting it without bothering to fact-check. So multiple mentions don't necessarily prove anything.

However, I've looked at the various articles about this news, and the Deadline, Hollywood Reporter, IGN, and Entertainment Weekly articles all seem to be original, rather than one being referred to by the others. And they all have the same description about "her famous cousin" and so forth. Which suggests that's from the original press release from the network or studio. So you're probably right in this case.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Technically Bizarro is her cousin too.

(Clark almost had a brother Precrisis who also made it all the way to Earth.)

 

[davejames]

And the "24 years old" thing sounds pretty specific as well, as if it was from an official show description they got. Which makes me think the Superman reference is probably real as well.

Assuming it's true though, I'm really liking the idea that the show starts when she's a bit older and already ready to start being Supergirl. Instead of being a show about a teenage girl just discovering her powers while adjusting to high school and life on Earth or something (which probably would have been CW's take on it).

 

[JoeZhang]

Technically Bizarro is her cousin too.

(Clark almost had a brother Precrisis who also made it all the way to Earth.)

By 1985 and the Crisis - it started to feel like the only people who didn't make it off Krypton were Jor-El and Lara... and even they made it off!*




* But sadly had to drift through space in suspended animation forever.

 

[Gaith]

I'll be darned; I didn't think this'd get even this far, certainly not so quickly. DC's output is certainly looking... expansive. If they'd shown any ability to think strategically before now, I might almost think they were trying to drown Marvel by sheer volume of content.

Huh.