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'Supergirl': TV Review
The Hollywood Reporter ^ | October 19, 2015 | Daniel Fienberg

Posted on 10/19/2015 3:06:12 PM PDT by Bratch

CBS' eagerly awaited new show starring Melissa Benoist as the DC Comics character comes weighted with significance.

CBS' Supergirl shouldn't have to be a feminist landmark, but it is.

In a cultural moment in which we're so far past superhero saturation that a greasy layer of superhero residue seems to be building up on every medium, Marvel still gets gloaty that by tacking the words "and the Wasp" onto an Ant-Man sequel, it had its first Marvel Studios release named after its heroine.

On the small screen, Marvel is doing a bit better with Agent Carter getting her own titled listing and with Jessica Jones on the way to Netflix.

For DC Comics, machismo also dominates, at least on the surface. Constantine had so little interest in its women that it swapped female leads between the first two episodes and nobody really cared.Gotham has a few interesting female characters, but the closest thing it had to a lead went off a rooftop last season. Arrow and Flash are full of vivid female characters, but they have been stealthily Trojan-horsed into male-driven vehicles.

No less a heroine than Wonder Woman, she of a beloved TV series from an era past, needed to be smuggled into an overstuffed Zack Snyder movie with two dudes in the title while DC struggles — and continues to fail — to bring her to the screen solo.

So when a waitress in the Supergirl pilot reflects on the arrival of her town's new savior, she surely speaks for some portion of the audience.

"Can you believe it?" she muses. "A female hero. Nice for my daughter to have someone like that to look up to."

Make no mistake, Supergirl is important, but taking some of the weight off of her Kryptonian shoulders, it's also just plain fun.

(Excerpt) Read more at hollywoodreporter.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: cbs; feminism; supergirl
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To: backwoods-engineer

LOL! *sorry* Hi Backwoods Engineer. I’m Rabidralph and I watched Electra Woman and Dyna Girl as a kid, too. I also watched ISIS and HR Puff n Stuff and a healthy dose of Fractured Fairy Tales and Tennessee Tuxedo. I regret nothing.


21 posted on 10/19/2015 4:02:42 PM PDT by rabidralph
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To: yarddog

Both Laura and Kristin are breathtakingly beautiful.


22 posted on 10/19/2015 4:06:26 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: dfwgator

I was a toddler when that show aired. :-P


23 posted on 10/19/2015 4:08:02 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: Bratch

The funniest ad was when Supergirl pulled back her blouse to
reveal a skinny little ribcage like Superman used to do. -
Catty Twinkie


24 posted on 10/19/2015 4:12:09 PM PDT by Twinkie (John 3:16)
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To: Snickering Hound
Damn skippy!

She had perfect form running.

I've seen Olympic athletes that would die for this form.

WONDER WOMAN!!!

25 posted on 10/19/2015 4:23:29 PM PDT by A Cyrenian (Don't worry about stuffing the bus or filling the fridge. Try filling the Church.)
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To: Bratch
I fail to see how it is affirming to women to be able to out-man men. I don't find masculine women particularly attractive, and am more drawn to women as confident in their femininity as I'm supposed to be in my masculinity.

The question, with apologies to Lerner and Loewe, isn't "Why can't a woman be more like a man?" but "Why would she WANT to?"

26 posted on 10/19/2015 4:25:16 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: fieldmarshaldj

She looks dull


27 posted on 10/19/2015 4:40:43 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Snickering Hound
We now have the girl in Supergirl:


28 posted on 10/19/2015 4:44:29 PM PDT by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental disorder: A totalitarian mindset..)
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To: Vendome

Which one ? Vandervoort or the new girl ?


29 posted on 10/19/2015 4:47:36 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: IronJack

It may very well be that Professor Higgins was a fag.


30 posted on 10/19/2015 4:48:48 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: Bratch

I always wondered why Superman didn’t fly in a Barcalounger of Lazyboy.
All stretched out like that, arms straight ahead, fists—it doesn’t look very comfortable.


31 posted on 10/19/2015 4:50:32 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: rabidralph

They reboot Electra Woman and Dyna girl for Netflix or one of streaming service


32 posted on 10/19/2015 4:58:41 PM PDT by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: dfwgator

OH MAN I remember ISIS


33 posted on 10/19/2015 4:58:55 PM PDT by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: Snickering Hound

I saw her in Vegas, in ‘83. She put on a good show and opened for George Burns.


34 posted on 10/19/2015 5:25:35 PM PDT by rabidralph
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To: fieldmarshaldj

New girl


35 posted on 10/19/2015 5:31:50 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Vandervoort was smoking hot in “V”

I would have been a “Live a Board” for her....


36 posted on 10/19/2015 5:34:03 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: jonrick46

Melissa Benoist is cute . And she had a revealing appearance early season one Homeland. She sang well on “Glee”


37 posted on 10/19/2015 5:34:36 PM PDT by SMGFan (Sarah Michelle Gellar is now on twitter @SarahMGellar)
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To: who knows what evil?
Is this the one with the black 'James' Olsen?

Yup. Instead of the dorky white guy Jimmy Olsen, or for that matter, a dorky black guy Jimmy Olden, it is a 6 foot 4 studly GQ model black Jimmy Olsen that Supergirl goes weak in the knees for.
38 posted on 10/19/2015 5:35:39 PM PDT by fr_freak
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To: Snickering Hound

I like that she doesn’t need a huge ‘S’ on her costume, just big...cleavages. If bullets bounce off of ‘em, she’s got it made!


39 posted on 10/19/2015 5:42:08 PM PDT by PLMerite (The Revolution...will not be kind.)
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To: Bratch

utter and complete garbage.

hollywood would be better served to spend more time on story and content and less time worrying about the demographics of their latest social engineering vehicle


40 posted on 10/19/2015 5:45:33 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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