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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2018 12:45:31 GMT
Supergirl is Reportedly Casting For Lois Lane
screenrant.com/supergirl-tv-show-casting-lois-lane/I have to say I am looking forward to seeing this and finding out what actress they are going to cast as Lois Lane. One of the showrunners said last year they had plans to have Lois Lane appear on 'Supergirl' at some point and it only makes sense with the show already having Superman and her younger sister, Lucy Lane appear. It will be interesting to see if she mentions her sister and they play up the rivalry between her and Cat Grant if Calista is in the episode 'cause Cat Grant was Lois Lane's rival in a number of adaptions of Superman and the two didn't get along. 
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Post by dazz on Jan 18, 2018 0:16:11 GMT
I just hope they don't do something silly and hire a way too young looking actress, which they could very well do being simple and trying to get an actress that looks right with the young looking Superman, but I hope they keep in mind Clark looks younger due to his Kryptonian nature, Lois should look a decent bit older than him imo, obviously not granny old but they shouldn't look the same age atleast.
With the CW I fear they'll just cast Phoebe Tonkin or someone similar in the role.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2018 12:51:02 GMT
I just hope they don't do something silly and hire a way too young looking actress, which they could very well do being simple and trying to get an actress that looks right with the young looking Superman, but I hope they keep in mind Clark looks younger due to his Kryptonian nature, Lois should look a decent bit older than him imo, obviously not granny old but they shouldn't look the same age atleast. With the CW I fear they'll just cast Phoebe Tonkin or someone similar in the role.  |
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Post by BexxyJ on Jan 23, 2018 14:15:18 GMT
I just hope they don't do something silly and hire a way too young looking actress, which they could very well do being simple and trying to get an actress that looks right with the young looking Superman, but I hope they keep in mind Clark looks younger due to his Kryptonian nature, Lois should look a decent bit older than him imo, obviously not granny old but they shouldn't look the same age atleast. With the CW I fear they'll just cast Phoebe Tonkin or someone similar in the role. Let's hope they don't make Lana the new Lois Lane. After getting muddled up with that sex cult I don't think she can be trusted to be a reporter. |
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Post by General Kenobi on Jan 23, 2018 20:04:16 GMT
I think the rest of the Smallville actresses are busy, so I doubt we'll be getting nay of them on the show soon. At this point it feels like pandering to entice comics fans to stick around. Well, maybe if you had Supergirl be Supergirl and not Superman, and had comics characters look and act the way they're supposed to you wouldn't be driving people away.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2018 7:19:19 GMT
I think the rest of the Smallville actresses are busy, so I doubt we'll be getting nay of them on the show soon. At this point it feels like pandering to entice comics fans to stick around. Well, maybe if you had Supergirl be Supergirl and not Superman, and had comics characters look and act the way they're supposed to you wouldn't be driving people away.
Kara is supposed to be more aggressive, edgy and have a short temper. She flew villains up into the sky and dropped them and caught them right before they landed on the ground and set people on fire with her heat vision and put them out when they told her what she wanted to know. The government saw her as a threat 'cause her anger made her unpredictable and she wasn't a symbol of hope. Kara is also supposed to be out looking for what and who destroyed her home planet but they have grounded her taking away her ability to breath in space. Hopefully the movies can change that and I wouldn't mind if they didn't use Kara and used Linda Danvers instead 'cause we would get something far more unique. We were supposed to get Linda in the early 00s but one of the heads of Warner Bros stopped it 'cause they didn't want an edgier Supergirl than Superman on screen. |
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Post by dazz on Jan 24, 2018 10:28:28 GMT
Too be fair the character hasn't always been that either, it's clear that's the version you identify with the character as a whole, like how most of us identify the darker characteristics as being true to the Batman character, but both have been as silly, wholesome and campy as any other comic, just their modern iterations tend to lean to being edgier, but doesn't mean doing something other than that is a incorrect version of the character, the edgier version may appeal more to you or even me but it's likely that it wouldn't hit the audience the show aims for quite the same way. Also going the edgier route wouldn't mean it would be any better in quality, competence is competence and lazy is lazy regardless of it being edgy, campy, pompous or goofy you would get the same quality of writing and lame edgy can be far worse than lame cheese. The show went the way it did because this is the version they feel best appeals to a mass audience whilst also acting as a positive role for young female viewers, having Kara be more extreme or dickish wouldn't do that, it'd probably appeal more to male fans tbh, much like how Supernatural has a very strong female fanbase despite it being a general sausagefest. On a bit of a side note what are the odds the writers introduce Supergirls pet horse? Think they'll do the horse being in love with her thing? now bestiality...that's edgy  |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2018 11:25:45 GMT
Too be fair the character hasn't always been that either, it's clear that's the version you identify with the character as a whole, like how most of us identify the darker characteristics as being true to the Batman character, but both have been as silly, wholesome and campy as any other comic, just their modern iterations tend to lean to being edgier, but doesn't mean doing something other than that is a incorrect version of the character, the edgier version may appeal more to you or even me but it's likely that it wouldn't hit the audience the show aims for quite the same way. Also going the edgier route wouldn't mean it would be any better in quality, competence is competence and lazy is lazy regardless of it being edgy, campy, pompous or goofy you would get the same quality of writing and lame edgy can be far worse than lame cheese. The show went the way it did because this is the version they feel best appeals to a mass audience whilst also acting as a positive role for young female viewers, having Kara be more extreme or dickish wouldn't do that, it'd probably appeal more to male fans tbh, much like how Supernatural has a very strong female fanbase despite it being a general sausagefest. On a bit of a side note what are the odds the writers introduce Supergirls pet horse? Think they'll do the horse being in love with her thing? now bestiality...that's edgy
The lame cheesy writing in the 80s was what lead to Supergirl being killed off 'cause many saw Kara as an unrealistic and unrelatable bubbly character who smiled all the time and critics described her as a robot. It was when they brought Peter David into the fold and he created Linda Danvers to merge with the Matrix 'Supergirl' become a far more relatable character and got a major increase in sales especially among female readers. I loved the Linda Danvers series the most and it was that and 'Witchblade' along with some other series like Razor, Shi and Darkchylde that got me into reading comic books and I read a number of comic books before that but I had never seen female characters like that before. They were their own characters and were bad ass. The Linda Danvers got more fan letters from female fans and female fans talking to writers at conventions than any female superhero series before it and it is still the biggest selling series of Supergirl to date. I think a Linda Danvers series would have got a lot of 'Buffy' fans with the Horror elements and a lot of my friends and ex boyfriends that didn't like Supergirl before that loved Linda and thought she was awesome. I personally would have preferred if they had kept Kara dead and left Linda Danvers as the main Supergirl and Peter David and Geoff Johns having a falling out at the time lead to the sequel series 'Fallen Angel' going to IDW and apparently Peter David owns the Linda Danvers character since he is getting paid for all the graphic novel releases and DC gave him all the issues of 'Fallen Angel' that were under DC to release in anthologies with the IDW comics..
As for Comet, I think Comet should definitely show up in 'Supergirl' but they should go with the modern version they had in the 90s and 00s that we first saw in the Linda Danvers series and it would be great to finally see more proper Supergirl characters and villains like Power Girl (who appeared in more Supergirl comics than any other character apart from Superman), Twilight, Buzz, Carnivore, Blithe, Baalzebub, Lesla-Lar, Xenon, The Fatal Five, Lilith and Lucifer but what they have done with Reign has been disappointing.  |
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Post by General Kenobi on Jan 26, 2018 12:28:35 GMT
Comet might be too weird for Supergirl to ever tackle.
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