Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2018 12:19:00 GMT
Jul 9, 2018 11:44:49 GMT @deblovesbeccy said:
Yeah. You make a good point about ‘Supergirl’ with CBS and the original ‘Supergirl’ spinoff show with Laura Vandervoort was meant to be on CW Network and air at the same time of the year as Season 9 of ‘Smallville’ with Clark and other ‘Smallville’ characters guest appearing in some episodes but from what I read the President of the network at the time (who is no longer there now) mislead Laura and the producers to believe the show was going to happen and they kept putting it off and putting it off until Laura moved on to other things and signed up for the leading role in ‘Bitten.’ Not a lot is known about the original ‘Supergirl’ spinoff show apart from some of the things I have talked about on here before but one of the people involved in it said they had written some episodes and were waiting to film it. When they put the new ‘Supergirl’ show together I read their original choice was Laura Vandervoort for the role of Kara but she was too busy doing ‘Bitten’ so they had to go with a different actress and they also originally tried to get this show picked up by the CW Network but CW turned it down and it got picked up by CBS not long after. At the time the CW Network didn’t want any more superhero TV shows but that obviously changed later since they picked ‘Supergirl’ up but I think the script changed sometime between then and when they started it with the intentions of having Laura Vandervoort in the leading role to Gemma Atkinson to Melissa Benoist ‘cause if they had got Laura like they wanted I think it would have been a continuation to ‘Smallville’ like the original spinoff show was meant to be but it probably would have been based years later since Kara went to the future in Season 10.
I think CBS made them change the script to have it that she had been on earth for years and grew up with a human family to try and make the character more relatable to younger viewers but by doing it they ultimately lost a big part of the Kara Zor-El character. With Kara in the comic books she did care about humanity but when she first woke up on earth she didn’t trust anybody –she didn’t even trust Clark at first ‘cause she was looking for a young boy and couldn’t believe how much he changed and they fought and she beat him up until he convinced her it was him and he told Kara what happened to Krypton and she didn’t believe him and went up in space to see it for herself. When Kara returned to earth she was heartbroken and angry and wanted to find out who destroyed Krypton and make them pay.
Kara saw the worst of humanity during her first few days on earth and she couldn’t understand why Clark went out of his way to save them all the time and had such faith in them and she saw them as being beneath her but after spending more time with humans and making friends she comes to like humans and wants to save people and be a superhero like her cousin. The difference was Kara does not share all the same beliefs as Clark and that lead to them fighting in the comic books sometimes. For example, Kara doesn't know much about humans and earth and feels like a stranger on earth, she doesn't know anything about pop culture which leads people to ask when she is undercover if she is from another planet and she often says she comes from a town far away, she is full of a lot of anger and rage over what happened to Krypton and all the years she missed out on and she takes out that rage on villains, she spends most of her time in the sky searching for villains to fight with, she doesn't hold back with her powers and will burn people or freeze them if they piss her off or don't tell her what she wants to know and she will kill if she thinks it is the best way of stopping a villain. The last one is something Superman and Superman used to fight about the most 'cause Clark doesn't believe in killing where Kara does and thinks by not killing more villains Clark just makes it harder for himself when they get out and he has to stop them again.
No. I don't think they do either and that is one of the main problems with 'Supergirl' in my opinion. If you are going to write a TV show or a movie about a superhero you should know everything there is to know about that superhero at least do some research and read some of the comic books at the very least but I don't think these people have read many 'Supergirl' comic books and they most likely only read some of the 'Superman' comic books she appeared in and are basing most of their knowledge on that. While it is known as bad as what they did with 'Birds of Prey' which was give it to writers who had never read the comic books and had no idea what to do with the characters it is far from perfect and they should have studied the character more.
