Legion World Forums LEGION COMPANION The Anywhere Machine Supergirl TV show (was CBS, now CW)

Sounds promising.

That does sound promising. And since Peter David wrote a few episodes of the Young Justice cartoon, maybe he'll get to write an episode of Supergirl.

The "NCIS Krypton" comment had me both laughing and intrigued.

Sorry if wrong place to post but I didn't see anything just for Supergirl.

http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/33973/cbs-commits-to-a-supergirl-series

Potential for a Legion showing here! It would be interesting if it's like a what if only Supergirl came to Earth.

http://www.eonline.com/news/580888/supergirl-tv-series-flying-to-cbs-from-greg-berlanti

http://www.dccomics.com/blog/2014/0...upergirl-will-soon-be-flying-high-on-CBS

The Legion showed up in Smallville, how much more appropriate in a Supergirl show? (She really was out of place everywhere by the 30th century)

Blue Lantern Hope springs eternal.

Here’s to hope!

I’m just glad stuff like this is being done at all. Arrow is pretty good, Flash looks to be great. The only thing bad I’m seeing right now is that because of it being on CBS there’s little hope of any kind of cross over with the Flash or Arrow. But there’s plenty they can still do.

Hmm. Well, I did enjoy The New Normal but that's a long way away from a hour-long drama, so. I reserve judgment at this time.

The new normal?

Anything that has the potential for the Legion to show up in I'm all for.

Speaking of which, there's also rumors of a David Goyer-developed Krypton series. That doesn't sound too promising to me, but...

Possible Mon-El appearance?

Okay this is dead to me now. This just sounds awful.

http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/34521/more-supergirl-series-details-revealed

I'm worried SUPERGIRL and CBS won't be a good fit. CBS won't hesitate to axe the series if it shows the slightest ratings weakness. I wish the CW would just air all DC shows.

It's official.

Hmm... I wonder if it does falter, if it could simply shift to the CW as a backup plan?

The first look at the series is out:



I'm not sure how I feel about this more alpha-male version of Jimmy Olsen. I've always preferred Jimmy to be more of an in over his head dork.

I'm liking it overall!

Looks like more of the "three words and a heavy breath" attempt at dramatic acting, ala Arrow. Agree with the Jimmy Olsen comments. If they felt the need to create a love interest they couldn't just let the guy be a new character or a guy playing the real Jimmy?


Hopefully when Flash reboots history, they'll go back and get this one right.

The standard modules of a 2015 DC super-hero show are all in place.

(1) Each episode will open with “My name is Kara Zor-El…”
Just like
“My name is Oliver Queen…”
“My name is Barry Allen…”
“My name is Olivia Moore…”
Check.

(2) Kara has her own super-hero ‘support group’: in this case, Tobey, Alex, and James; virtually everybody around knows her ‘secret’ identity.
Check.

(3) Zor-El, Alura, and pre-teen Kara will be regulars, featured in the many flashbacks that will dot the episodes.
Check.

(4) Re-imagined established characters: Jimmy Olsen, Calista Grant, and Hank Henshaw. A couple of new characters: Tobey What’s-his-name, Alexandria Danvers, Supergirl’s sister.
Check

(5) Stunt casting, with Dean Cain and Helen Slater as Fred and Sylvia Danvers, with any luck, respectively.
Check.

(6) Some nasty-looking recurring villains: Toyman, probably a pedophile like in the comics, and Vartox, played by oddly named Sean-Connery-look-alike Owain Yeoman, probably a super-alien MRA/PUA misogynist.
Check.

The formula is working for Arrow, working for Flash. Seems to be working for iZombie. Dunno about Gotham or Constantine.

More, more, much more at Supergirl.tv
Looks like most of it was released by CBS, which may, in fact control the website. I dunno.

And drama. So much drama.

(1) I told my mother that CBS was going to be premiering a Supergirl series in November. Her answer? "What? Another one?"

(2) I do not usually like to project my expectations on a series, but Calista Grant gives Kara a lecture about how not calling her SuperWOMAN is perfectly OK. So I was thinking, it would please me if the Superwoman from Forever Evil to show up sometime as one of the villains on the show.

(3) Also: mirror sequence with new costume in the trailer. Is this a foreshadowing of Bizarro Supergirl?

This is where DC will, as always, fail. Not getting everything together in one shared universe as it should be. Why did CBS get this? Although, having seen the full pilot, I do say I enjoyed it and will watch but only by other means than from CBS.

What are the chances that Disney can buy Warner Bros. as well and do it right like Star Wars and Marvel?

I had the same question. Then I found out CBS owns 50% of the CW Network, with Time Warner owning the other 50%. So it is possible for there to be crossovers.

I don't know if a shared universe works in this case, though. Superman obviously exists in Supergirl's show, but really can't in the Flash/Arrow verse or we would have heard about it by now, especially Flash where they are treating metahumans as something brand new.

EDIT: I think this is part of why Wells/Thawne moved Barry's timeline up by so much, making him first to avoid entanglements with other Leaguers and have Barry all to himself.

Logic & continuity doesn't matter. Berlanti Adler specifically created Supergirl to exist in the Arrow / Flash universe. Sooner or later, a inter-network crossover will happen.

SuperMAN, however, will never be seen, ever, beyond the cutesy glimpses we saw in the trailer.


Reference from Supergirl.tv:

"In the Arrow Season 2.5 comics, executive producer Marc Guggenheim did mention an inside joke that Superman exists in the Arrow universe and Oliver knows of him. It was a simple panel and presented as a joke but none-the-less, it was a reference to the big blue boyscout."

And here they are, together again for the first time!

http://geektyrant.com/news/the-flash-meets-supergirl-on-the-cover-of-variety-but-will-they-crossover