I wanted to like this. I really did.
Don't get me wrong. It looks like it will hold my interest longer than Constantine did, but I get a lot of red flags on this. Her character seems to be trying to channel Arrow's Felicity but isn't quite as amusing. The humor feels forced and off (seriously, about that lesbian line: if your joke sounds like a rifftrax comment, don't use it). But he big one, while I hope is just for the marketing, is the overplay of the "female superhero" and the problems within. After Agent Carter, I'm very wary of that premise for fear of how heavy and one dimensionally may be played. I mean, if you want this to be fun, you don't want to copy the Smallville formula of constantly knocking the main character back and keeping them from coming into their own, and if Supergirl falls into the "it's hard to be a girl" bit, that's all that will happen. Frankly I'd have preferred her in the Cat Grant role like how the current Power Girl incarnation ran a multi billion dollar corporation.
Action looks decent for TV, but the only thing I could say I look forward to is the use of the DEO. Come on Bones. I want to see your skeleton mug on screen, as well as Agent Chase in a frenemy role.
Don't get me wrong. It looks like it will hold my interest longer than Constantine did, but I get a lot of red flags on this. Her character seems to be trying to channel Arrow's Felicity but isn't quite as amusing. The humor feels forced and off (seriously, about that lesbian line: if your joke sounds like a rifftrax comment, don't use it). But he big one, while I hope is just for the marketing, is the overplay of the "female superhero" and the problems within. After Agent Carter, I'm very wary of that premise for fear of how heavy and one dimensionally may be played. I mean, if you want this to be fun, you don't want to copy the Smallville formula of constantly knocking the main character back and keeping them from coming into their own, and if Supergirl falls into the "it's hard to be a girl" bit, that's all that will happen. Frankly I'd have preferred her in the Cat Grant role like how the current Power Girl incarnation ran a multi billion dollar corporation.
Action looks decent for TV, but the only thing I could say I look forward to is the use of the DEO. Come on Bones. I want to see your skeleton mug on screen, as well as Agent Chase in a frenemy role.
