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Supergirl: First Look (~6 minutes of clips from the upcoming Fall CBS show)
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Wiktor
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Yeah..and they need to be sterilized too, before they can join in on the action, just to remove every possible feminine aspect of their personality.
this majestic gif...I'm still not seeing where the clothes part of "OMG boys and clothes" is coming from. Is it the gags about the costume? Because assembling an adequate costume is a plot point in the first Spider-Man and in Man of Steel, and Bruce Wayne spends about 80% of Batman Begins collecting his, just to pick a few.
Addressing the existence of silly spandex superhero costumes & capes in-universe is bog-standard superhero movie stuff. They seem to be adding the very slight extra layer of joking about the ridiculously scanty variety that is typical of female superhero outfits in comics.
Evil Monkey DTT
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I wish studios wrote women as people first.... christ she's a superhero crying throughout half the trailer!
Uh people cry, dude. Hell, Barry Allen and Oliver Queen cry and have emotional moments all the time on their respective shows.
Evil Monkey DTT
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There's a difference between having an emotional moment and having the trailer promoting the show consider that a highlight as a first impression.
She has one moment of "crying" and it's where she had a crisis of faith about being a hero. The first trailer for the Flash did the same thing. lol
Wiktor
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I don't think you know how upfront promos work. They're not real trailers. They're essentially summaries of the first episode. Her crying isn't a highlight, it's a moment that shows advertisers there will be more to her than just beating aliens up. That there will be emotional arcs involved.
MHWilliams
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Out of a 6:36 minute trailer, she cried for 7 seconds.
Jesus y'all.
In fact, let's break down the trailer.
0:00 - 0:28 - Krypton! Foster Family!
0:28 - 0:52 - I'm a personal assistant at a media company!
0:52 - 1:10 - The infamous "Devil Wears Prada" boss. (18 seconds!)
1:10 - 1:33 - Introducing Jimmy Olsen.
1:33 - 2:00 - Introducing Alex, the sister. Establishing that we know she has powers and doesn't use them.
2:00 - 2:54 - Saving a fucking plane!
2:54 - 3:05 - Sister tells her to stay on the downlow.
3:05 - 3:34 - "What's wrong with Supergirl speech?"
3:24 - 4:09 - "Look I have powers!"
4:09 - 4:15 - Costume #1 - In-joke for comics fans
4:15 - 4:21 - Costume #2!
4:21 - 4:25 - Police chase!
4:25 - 4:33 - Costume #3
4:33 - 4:37 - I'm bulletproof!
4:37 - 4:56 - Final costume.
4:56 - 5:17 - Supervillians are real, there's a government organization to collect them. Kicksplode.
5:17 - 5:27 - Black dude doesn't want my help. Sadness and popcorn.
5:27 - 5:35 - Crying, sister bonding.
5:35 - 6:05 - Flying, kicksplode, superheroes yay!
6:05 - 6:29 - "Your cousin doesn't want to talk to you. Here's a cape."
6:29 - End - Flying, kicksplode, superheroes yay!
Vermillion
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In order to check whether or not I'm being sexist, I try and make comparisons between male and female characters. So I would have complained about this myself, but Barry cried like every episode at the beginning of S1. Maybe not full tears but Jesus, shut the fuck up Barry.
So I can't complain about female superheroes crying like once. Under the same doubts.
MHWilliams
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Like all the time.
And they're some of the best moments on the show. Anytime Barry is with Joe or his dad? Tears bro.
NotTheGuyYouKill
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How many FEMINISM gifs we getting out of it
PhoncipleBone
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Cool. I know you said no more questions, but I don't think I ever caught your impressions on Flash before. If I did, I forget.
I hope Ivysaur makes one from every episode.
SHE IS A #STRONG #FEMALE #CHARACTER
I've seen a few episodes. It's pretty decent, and by far the best of the few comic book shows I've seen because it doesn't take itself too seriously and has a nice wit to it. I don't think the budget can match the ambition, though. I feel that for a lot of television that relies on CGI.
PhoncipleBone
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Cool. And at some point, if you have time, give the rest of the season a try. While you can see the constraints of the budget, some of the stuff they pull off on a CW budget is impressive. And they find some nice work arounds for some things by leaving them to your imagination.
I am just guessing that Supergirl will most likely have a bigger budget than Flash just by virtue of being on CBS.
I'm going to defy you and ask a question that isn't necessarily related but might clue me in to how I should read this impression: Do you watch the other DC shows?
Edit: Well shit, guess someone beat me to it.
BluenoseGames
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I believe they've only filmed the pilot so far so that's what the 'first look' is for
I heard someone say NIkita. I got here as fast as I could. What's going on??
PHOENIXZERO
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I'm sure a lot of those VFX will get tweaked before it airs in November.
Neither show ever mentioning the existence of Superman is a pretty big deal. The second Supergirl trailer basically saying Superman was the only super hero or whatever until now is another one.
Neither show ever mentioning the existence of Superman is a pretty big deal. The second Supergirl trailer basically saying Superman was the only super hero or whatever until now is another one.
Superheroes that cry isn't really an issue. More shows/movies should show more emotions. Not necessary with crying either.
Putting a crying girl in a promo about a female superhero is just a bit strange. Just wish they would have not included that in it. The promo makes feels like a fight for feminists in a way.
Hopefully it's a marketing thing and we will get a new promo closer to the release. Supergirl is an interesting character. Let's just hope they give her a good character development and not overdo it with the push towards a female demographic just for the sake of it.
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Wiktor
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Eva Green for Supergirl?
That would be like making Arnold play Spiderman.
Well, let's give it a try anyways. Cosigned!
my body is ready
unempLLOYD
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This show looks promising.
if i was a teenage-starbucks drinking, instagram filtering, selfie obsessed tumblrnistic girl. I think ill stick to Daredevil.
Posts like this make no sense. Not being a girl has nothing to do with being able to enjoy a girly show.
There is no reason a guy would be inherently turned off by the girly elements, it's all in your head. Girly stuff that is done well is fun, and this looks to be well done girly fun mixed in with super hero elements.
Honestly that doesn't bother me one bit. My bar is basically until Supergirl show casts its own Flash or Arrow, or vise versa, I'll consider all of them in the same universe.
Wiktor
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I'm my second rewatch of this preview I felt like I was watching Lifetime movie with an SFX budget. I still like it in general but I'm annoyed they spoiled the entire first episode.
They might as well go full Iron Man with this in terms of her celebrity. Those glasses won't fool anyone.
iZombie officially proven to not be part of the Arrowverse.
It's just as well.
They might as well go full Iron Man with this in terms of her celebrity. Those glasses won't fool anyone.
iZombie officially proven to not be part of the Arrowverse.
It's just as well.
To be fair, that's pretty common with the trailers coming out of the upfronts. Technically, the trailers aren't for us, they're for advertisers who want to know more about the show and they don't really care about spoilers.
I hope this show does well. I'm SO hyped for it...and the last show I got this hyped for was Almost Human. ):
Some of these comments are ridiculous (and make me worried about the ratings...). Do people expect Supergirl to be just like Superman (in terms of tone)? Because.... Supergirl =/= Superman. The "girly bits" (which aren't even THAT girly) fit her perfectly, and not every show needs to be Arrow or Daredevil. Like, damn guys. A Batgirl TV show wouldn't/shouldn't feel like a Nolan Batman movie either.
Also, did any of you watch Smallville, because DEAR GOD, talk about an actual soap opera. And I sat through four seasons of that shit.
Some of these comments are ridiculous (and make me worried about the ratings...). Do people expect Supergirl to be just like Superman (in terms of tone)? Because.... Supergirl =/= Superman. The "girly bits" (which aren't even THAT girly) fit her perfectly, and not every show needs to be Arrow or Daredevil. Like, damn guys. A Batgirl TV show wouldn't/shouldn't feel like a Nolan Batman movie either.
Also, did any of you watch Smallville, because DEAR GOD, talk about an actual soap opera. And I sat through four seasons of that shit.
Only for Lex.
Haha damn. We came close to finding out if Mirikuru or Utopium is the better super soldier serum.
Something I don't get (and if it's been mentioned in these 26 pages I apologize), the description in the OP says she was 12 when she escaped and it's 12 years later, so she's 24. However, we know Superman was a baby when he escaped, so he's 12, maybe 13, in this universe. So how does he know Jimmy Olson to start using him to send messages and send his cape when he's not out of middle school yet?
Or did the universe change and Supes was 20 when his parents put him in the pod?
Or did the universe change and Supes was 20 when his parents put him in the pod?
This is explained, but I think it's in the comics too.
BrokenFiction
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Without another explanation I was thinking maybe it was relativistic problems on the trip from Krypton to Earth. Supes is clearly grown-up in the clips where he holds's young Kara's hand.
morningbus
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It's been covered a few times, but the simple story is that both Clark and Kara were put into stasis/escape pods as a baby and a teen, respectively. Clark went straight to Earth. Kara got stuck in space for a while, finally reaching Earth, as a teenager, well after Clark matured and became Superman.
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