Supergirl TV Series is being work on.

[JoeZhang]

Spoiler: love interest

I really did not get the feel that Jimmy was on the boyfriend track. Very attractive, and so tall, but he's too busy being inegmanic and tall... Did I mention how tall he is? The Winn character is way too far into the friends zone to get a date with Kara, but that just makes him Ducky. Desperately in love and ignored. It also might make Winn become a super villain to get her attention? Winn Schott, the name they are using for this kid, is taken form the Superman Villain "The Toyman", so we have that to deal with at some point down the line.

I don't see "James" being a love interest...more of a mentor figure, odd as that may seem. (You've come a long way, Jimmy.)

Except and they might cut this in the final thing - Kara has a scene with Winn where

Spoiler: now some important set-up

He says something like "you know when love hits because it's like KAPOW!" and she meets James, leaves the room and said "KAPOW!" - so that scene is a a bit pointless if he's not intended to be the love interest. However the guy playing James is a bit bland so who knows...

 

[Guy Gardener]

Spoiler: love interest

I really did not get the feel that Jimmy was on the boyfriend track. Very attractive, and so tall, but he's too busy being inegmanic and tall... Did I mention how tall he is? The Winn character is way too far into the friends zone to get a date with Kara, but that just makes him Ducky. Desperately in love and ignored. It also might make Winn become a super villain to get her attention? Winn Schott, the name they are using for this kid, is taken form the Superman Villain "The Toyman", so we have that to deal with at some point down the line.

I don't see "James" being a love interest...more of a mentor figure, odd as that may seem. (You've come a long way, Jimmy.)

We have to use spoiler code to appease the luddites.

Spoiler

They're calling him the Love interest on Supergirl's wikipage, and I think he was called the love interest back when they unveiled the actor as a participant in the production, and I was all for it.

Besides, Mechad has 8 years on Melissa.... WTF!?

THAT IS NOT WHAT 35 IS SUPPOSED TO LOOK LIKE!!

27 and 35 is fine.

19 and 27 is not.

Kara is 25?

 

[The Old Mixer]

^Well, I'm assuming that people have at least seen the teaser. That Jimmy's in the show and looking hunky enough to be a potential love interest isn't code-worthy, IMO.

Except and they might cut this in the final thing - Kara has a scene with Winn where

Spoiler: now some important set-up

He says something like "you know when love hit because it's like KAPOW!" and she meets James, leaves the room and said "KAPOW!" - so that scene is a a bit pointless if he's not intended to be the love interest. However the guy playing James is a bit bland so who knows...

Ah, I missed that bit.

 

[JoeZhang]

It's no spoiler to say it will end badly when Kara meets the horse.

 

[CorporalClegg]

Of course.

 

[JoeZhang]

It might be they keep it back for some sweeps episode and are undecided who to cast if he ever appears full frontal. If they decide to merge the show with the movie(s) it is just a question if they can persuade/pay Henry Cavill though i doubt they'd want to mix the TV and movie universes as they are leading up to Justice League and want certainly bigger names for Flash and others to draw in movie audiences who may not watch the show (though it would be so awesome to see Grant Gustin in a big movie alongside Superman and Batman ).

The movie Flash has been cast and the writers have already said they will try and make their version different. Also even a cursory glance at the pilot indicates it cannot be the same - for various reasons:

Spoiler: spoilers

* People don't believe in Aliens - so no invasion and I guess it's not well known or publically know that Superman is an alien

* Origin is wrong - the way the origin is presented simply does not fit in any way the film including how Jor-El dies

 

[davejames]

Opening themes are a waste of time.

2 or three minutes to tell us what we know we are watching, and who is always in it every week? Maybe the actors need to be credited for their work, "hey look it's me!" But if you're binge watching, you fast forward through that crap, and really 3 minutes x 22 episodes? That's over an hour of story they're stealing from us for no fricking reason!

A valid economical reason for long opening credits is to make a shorter show without making a shorter show. When I used to tape Enterprise on VHS, without opening or closing credits, it would work out to be 37 minutes of storymatter, which is appalling!

If Enterprise had got rid of the long credits, they would have had three minutes in which they would have sold more advertising, and therefore possibly not been cancelled even though no one was watching. Or three minutes more story which might improve quality, and there for generate more audience and not been cancelled.

Once Upon a Time's Opening Sequence is perfect. It's 5 seconds long and is different every time as a specific portent to the episode that you haven't watched yet... Which can't be cheap?

Oh, but Blame Lost, they started this brief credits thing.

Well yeah the opening credits were always WAY too long on all the Trek spinoffs (or at least felt that way), and I wouldn't want anything as long for Supergirl. But surely they could make room for a 30 second sequence, and 30 seconds out of the story wouldn't really hurt anything.

As we see on shows like Daredevil, Game of Thrones, or Penny Dreadful, a great credit sequence can still do a really good job setting the mood of the show, and plus they can just be really cool and fun to watch as well.

Hell, the best part of most of the cartoons I used to watch as a kid (He-Man, Robotech, Thundercats, Transformers) were usually the opening credits!

 

[The Old Mixer]

Hell on Wheels has a pretty attention-grabbing title sequence, IMO.

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nkvf9NW4-cQ[/yt]

(The names in that one are a bit out of date, but whatcha gonna do?)

 

[Guy Gardener]

Highlander (The Series).

Picard's monologue at the beginning of TNG.

Married with Children theme song.

Everything else over 20 seconds is a ####ing liberty.



I watched Terminator the Sarah Connor Chronicles last week.

Season 1 had Sarah doing a monologue about the shit she was in, first half of season 2 had a movie phone guy reading out the score card, and the second half of season 2 the "bubu boom! bubu boom!" from the movie score across 3 seconds of logo.

That's called evolution, baby.

(Edit.)

Hell on Wheels is on my list of things to get around to.

Okay, I'll admit that the Game of Thrones credits gets my game face on more furiously than a squad of cartwheeling 6/8ths undressed cheerleaders.

It's hard for music to get though all this blubber and find my soul, but the Game of thrones credits does it every time.

Exception makes the rule?

 

[Gov Kodos]

Everything else over 20 seconds is a ####ing liberty.

Your verve for TV being what it is, I can picture you not unlike some bloke digging a hole.

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yShvgXZQBTs[/yt]

 

[DigificWriter]

FOX paid Warner Bros./DC an extra licensing fee for unrestricted access to anything and everything having to do with Batman, thus giving Gotham's showrunners the ability to use practically any character(s) they want, and I think the chances are very good that CBS has done the same thing with regards to the Superman/Supergirl property.

I wonder how that works the other way with the Arrowverse using various Batman characters - wonder if it is a case by case basis or just "everyone Batman, Robin and..."

FOX and Gotham have the ability to use any Batman-related character or concept they want, even if said characters or concepts have been used elsewhere.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Your verve for TV being what it is, I can picture you not unlike some bloke digging a hole.

Close.

"What a ###ing Liberty" is a catch phrase by his TV granddaughter Catherine Tate.

 

[Christopher]

I'm hopeful we get at least some kind of opening title sequence to go with it, instead of just a quick flash of the title, but I know that's pretty rare to see nowadays.

If it follows the lead of the other Berlanti-DC shows, it'll probably have the opening "My name is..." narration bit as sort of the equivalent of a main title sequence, complete with theme underneath. (I know there's an industry term for that kind of opening sequence that recaps the premise, the "mythology hook" or something like that, but I don't think that's quite it.)

 

[Guy Gardener]

Unless CBS doesn't want Supergirl to seem super associated with the CW product?

Otherwise, that makes perfect sense.

 

[DigificWriter]

The "My name is" intro is a Berlanti Productions aesthetic thing and has nothing to do with The CW. It will be very surprising if every episode of the show doesn't open with it.

 

[The Old Mixer]

I don't think they'd avoid it, considering the pilot has such an opening.

 

[Guy Gardener]

I wonder if Cat Grant is going to be more like Perry White or Lex Luthor?

She's a billionaire entrepreneur, not a newspaper woman.

More sketchy than evil, but I can see Cat and Supergirl running head to head.

Season 4.

Cat "OH MY GOD YOU'RE SUPERGIRL!?"

Kara "What, no? Huh... I'm not! UM, how did you figure it out?"

Cat "I've never actually looked at your face before Kara. It's nothing personal, but you're a minion and I don't look minions in the eye. It's how the little people know their place."

 

[Christopher]

The "My name is" intro is a Berlanti Productions aesthetic thing and has nothing to do with The CW. It will be very surprising if every episode of the show doesn't open with it.

Well, there are other CW shows that have used similar mythology whaddayoucallems, like The 100, Star-Crossed, Beauty and the Beast, and at least the first few episodes of iZombie. But there are shows on other networks that have them too. Agent Carter had one, for instance. It's not unique to any network or production company, it's just a modern TV convention that's taken the place of expository main title sequences.

 

[cylkoth]

Opening themes are a waste of time.

. When I used to tape Enterprise on VHS, without opening or closing credits, it would work out to be 37 minutes of storymatter, which is appalling!

.

Some might argue that ENT didn't have enough story to fill out even 37 minutes!

Sorry. Cheap shot. Could-not-resist! It was futile.

FOX paid Warner Bros./DC an extra licensing fee for unrestricted access to anything and everything having to do with Batman, thus giving Gotham's showrunners the ability to use practically any character(s) they want, and I think the chances are very good that CBS has done the same thing with regards to the Superman/Supergirl property.

I wonder how that works the other way with the Arrowverse using various Batman characters - wonder if it is a case by case basis or just "everyone Batman, Robin and..."

FOX and Gotham have the ability to use any Batman-related character or concept they want, even if said characters or concepts have been used elsewhere.

Is there a link you could provide where this comes from? I'd like to know more about that.

Warners owns DC. Warners owns Gotham. The infamous Bat-embargo from years past, blocking Bats from Warner produced Smallville, was a edict handed down from Warners/DC, not Warners owned network, The WB which aired the show. .. Encouraging Fox to pay an extra licensing fee, sounds like they pulled a fast one on Fox.

 

[Christopher]

^Warner Bros. owns all DC shows, of course, but in the past they have imposed limitations on the concurrent use of characters between the movies and TV. Alfred Gough and Miles Millar originally developed a Bruce Wayne series about a young-adult Bruce coming of age, but then the Nolan films came along and the project was scuttled, so they turned it into Smallville instead -- and they were never able to include Bruce in the show, which is why it used Green Arrow as its Batman surrogate.