Post by Deleted on May 1, 2018 12:04:20 GMT
Agree that having Kara grow up on Earth was a mistake. Adjusting to life on earth, its people, culture, ways, etc would have made for a more interesting backstory. Instead we have her acting like any young adult rather than that of an alien torn between protecting this world and looking for acceptance among its inhabitants.
Regarding the use of Superman characters rather than those of the Supergirl comics, the writers are probably focused on the general audience. I would venture that most people who watch the show don't read comics and don't know who Supergirl is. To the average viewer, Supergirl is a female version of Superman, and for better or worse that is what the writers are giving the audience.
Yeah. It would have been better if they had gone with her original origins instead of humanizing Kara so much ‘cause it would have been interesting to watch her interacting with people and trying to live a human life after spending so many years living on ‘Krypton.’ While the ‘Supergirl’ movie with Helen Slater was far from perfect and had a lot of problems they had that part of her backstory and started the movie with Kara with her parents so I don’t think them changing it had anything to do with what was well known to the general audience since the majority of previous movie and TV show adaptions of Supergirl had her as spending more time on Krypton and not having a human family. I think the change was done to make her more like Superman just like having her as a reporter and wearing glasses instead of a wig. I think being too focused on the general audience is one of the main problems with some of these TV shows and what is known to general audiences shouldn't be important when it comes to using characters and villains. Most of Batman's biggest villains only become household names 'cause they used them in the Adam West show and it was the same with 'Smallville' using names like Braniac, Doomsday, Darksied, Bizarrio and Metallio that weren't well known to the general audiences at the time. Heck, a lot of people thought the Green Arrow was Robin Hood when he first turned up in 'Smallville.'
They need to take more risks and use lesser known characters. A lot of other TV shows do it all the time with new characters nobody has ever heard of like Buffy did with Spike, Dru, the Master, the Mayor, Glory, Adam, the First etc.
