The
phrase “Its just the pilot” can no longer be used as an excuse
for a new series. We live in a time where there are way too many TV
shows on for the first episode to not at least get close to be really
good. The new Supergirl series debuted on CBS last night and it was
just like I feared it would be according to a post I did earlier this
year. This show suffers from uneven acting to a very rushed origin
story and by the middle of it I was ready to check out. Supergirl is
already a character that I'm not a fan of except in the Justice League cartoons. But the same could be said for Flash. I was not a
fan of him at all but love the show.
Melissa
Benoist stars as Kara Zor-El aka Kara Danvers aka Supergirl. This
starts off with her being put on a rocket ship from Krypton and told
that she is supposed to protect her cousin who would one day become
every version of the name Superman. Its weird. I think they said his
name maybe once and used other versions the rest of the time. Her
ship gets knocked off course and by the time she gets to Earth he's
already doing his thing. She is raised like a normal girl fully aware
that she is strong as all hell. A dull girl becomes a dull girl with powers.
Then...a
lot of boring happens. Her sister secretly hates that she was once
special until a real special girl showed up. Her rocket ended up
bringing a bunch of angry alien criminals with her that want her dead
because her mother sentenced them to the Phantom Zone. Jimmy Olsen is
Black. Its all crazy. The bad guy she goes against kicks her ass, she
gets captured by a special team, and ends up beating the bad guy
thereby making anything they do from now on seem ridiculous. This
girl that hasn't even flown in years and I doubt has any fight
training was able to beat an alien that spent untold amounts of time
in prison and kills for sport? Okay. Sure.
I have
no interest is watching another episode of this and that sucks. I
wasn't hoping this would be bad. I like new shows especially
superhero related ones. But this one has the oddest mixture of
actors. White characters are made Black for some odd reason. Yeah.
I'm that guy. Supergirl has no personality. Hell, Superman himself
barely does. They could have saved a boss fight for episode three but
they decided to squeeze an origin story, costume design, and naming
the character into forty something minutes. There was talk of this
and Flash being in the same universe. I hope not.
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