We tuned into Kara Zor-El’s official television debut Thursday and …
… well …
Laura Vandervoort is a very attractive woman, but we wonder if - deep down - she wishes her costume covered a bit more skin.
The Keeper realizes that Hollywood values sex appeal, but surely an emerging actress like Vandervoort would appreciate a little depth to her role.
Thursday’s Smallville threw a bone or two to viewers who appreciate strong-willed, kick-@$$ heroines, but the episode made it abundantly clear that Vandervoort is around to goose the aging show’s ratings through good, old-fashioned fan service.
Yeah, yeah … your naive host probably could have figured that out through the network’s promotional photos. Still, hope springs eternal for an eternally beleaguered Supergirl fan.
(It should come as no surprise that we also follow the mostly mediocre San Francisco Giants and 49ers … teams whose greatest glories are in the distant past.)
To make matters worse, the next episode revolves around a beauty pageant - which should provide … um … “ample” opportunity for character development.
Throw in a mysterious sinister past - one of the worst aspects of the Loeb • Turner • Churchill Supergirl revival - and it looks like Kara Zor-El’s TV career will be as muddled and ill-conceived as Joe Kelly’s tenure on the comic book.
*Sigh*
Oh well, foggy old-timers like the Keeper can still look back at Helen Slater’s Supergirl with some fondness. That movie was hardly a masterpiece, but Slater and the film’s creators did a better job of capturing Kara’s spirit than anyone associated with Smallville.
Nice looking actress…glad in a general sense as a Kara fan that she is there, despite the fact that the whole mishaugas is continuity lunacy…
But…this is Smallville and my guess is she is a killer Robot courtesy Uncle Zor or else Kara will be killed off for cheap heat at the end of the season.
Just keep in mind one thing, DC HATES all Supergirl fans and will go to extraordinary lengths to degrade and ostracize her aficionadoes.
Once you get that, any excess DC indulges becomes easy to understand.
I didn’t make it past the opening teaser before the credits. I think I’m finally out. No more Smallville for me.
>_> I wish she wasn’t as old as Clark (basically) :\
Also, it makes no sense as to why she’d dress like that immediately upon arriving on Earth
More frighteningly, it seems like they’re setting her up for a relationship with Lex
Hey, it could be worse– It could be Power Girl.
Oh wait, that’s right, she’s got the muscles to match her heritage, she’d make the little boys feel threatened. Best to get some skinny little thing who looks like she’d have to strain to open a door.
Yeeeeah. Between yet another ridiculous Lana subplot (first a long-lost father, then a witch, and now a fake death) and this insult of a Supergirl, I might be done as well.
-M
Now, wait a minute.
I don’t think she’s badly dressed. She’s a real woman and sculpted. She’s a far cry from the anorexic Kara they kept trying to promote in the comics, and she’s wearing more clothing than that Kara. In the season premiere, after she discards her Kryptonian clothing, she wore blue jeans if I’m not mistaken. In the second episode she was wearing an outfit that resembled the uniform design of the animated Supergirl. Her emphasis is on power not merely beauty.
I also don’t believe she has a sinister past. I mean it’s the Jor-El computer at the Fortress that tells Clark to watch out for her. It may have the memory and imprint of Jor-El’s personality, but it’s still just a machine. Its track record hasn’t really been very good when it comes to factoring in emotions has it?
Clark also believes you shouldn’t blame the daughter for the sins of the father. Zor-El and Jor-El may not have gotten along, but Kara appeared to like Lara and Kal-El. She “snuck away” from Kandor to visit them and babysit Kal-El.
Supergirl hasn’t done one thing to suggest she’s more than what she seems, a rare heroic Kryptonian. Clark was raised human. She is in mind and body a Kryptonian. She states in the episode “she hasn’t killed anybody.” She could have killed Lois Lane, but she didn’t.
She states to the boy she picks up when looking for Kal-El, “Don’t worry, I won’t hurt you.” She’s genuinely worried that her ship might blow up with the intensity of a nuclear blast. She furthermore is willing to sacrifice herself to stop that from happening. There’s no way she could have known that light wouldn’t hurt her.
That’s the trouble with being fed Dan DiDio designed comic book garbage for so long. You lose the ability to accept something good. I think Kara is a good addition to Smallville, and I’m looking forward to the rest of the new seasons.
Ray
I think smallvile will be terribly boring:There isn’t Justin Haratley
I thought it was suposed to be based on the comics, apparently this is a different story and the comics are a different story from what I used to read. I haven’t read comics in 20 years or more but it looks like dc is changing all of their characters in the name of “diversity” and they’re pissing people off. Some authors supposedly received death threats because they drew some muslims in unflatering ways and the feminists are mad because the girls look like whores and dc is probably doing more harm than good.