The Supergirl-on-Smallville casting news is once again bouncing about the blogosphere, thanks in part to a new interview with Wizard and a feature in IF Magazine
Reactions naturally have been varied.
Blankie from “It’s Thursday, I’m in Love” is excited:
Anyway, Kara Zor-El is making her debut on the new season of Smallville. Yep, that’s right, the girl who will eventually become Supergirl. And man, did they choose a drop dead gorgeous actress to play her…she looks exactly like one of Michael Turner’s characters jumping off the page into real life!
Rich from Comic By Comic has some criticism for her costume:
Okay, first off let me say that Laura Vandervoort is clearly a ridiculously attractive woman who puts a lot of work into looking good – and she does.
But….
..sweet lord have mercy, that outfit in the top two pics is terrible. I get that they want to emulate modern Kara’s bellyshirt wardrobe, and the hoodie somewhat suggests a short cape but a boobtube? Really? And, at the risk of surrendering all manly points I’ve ever accumlated ever, those boots are just plain ugly (clearly I have been spending too much time in shoe shops with my wife).
The Rational Madman speaks up in support of the costume:
Now naturally the fembots have already started their complaining. Apparently theres something wrong with what shes wearing in these pics. Personally I don’t see nothing wrong with a pretty little girl wearing a belly shirt, but then I aint stark raving bonkers neither. Either way I got a feeling I’m going to be watching smallville this season.
The Occasional Superheroine takes the Wizard interview and translates it for everyone:
“This version of Kara is based on the new relaunched character—the new Supergirl, who appeared in Superman/Batman and in her new series.”
Translation: The producers were given a stack of the “bad girl” Supergirl comics a year or so ago as “research” into what DC was currently doing with her.
The Occasional Superheroine also makes note of an interesting bit of stunt casting.
(Personally I’m really embarrassed that it took me so long to figure out what “Supergirl’s Aunt” meant.)
So what do you think?
September 1st, 2007 at 10:22 am
wow…as if Smallville wasn’t painful enough last season….I think this is the first case of the COMICS ruining a show that I like and not vice versa.
September 1st, 2007 at 11:58 am
Why is she dressed like a cheap Daisy Duke?
September 1st, 2007 at 5:55 pm
What? Sorry my brain was fried by Rational Madman’s grammar.
“Personally I don’t see nothing wrong with a pretty little girl wearing a belly shirt”
So… You see something wrong with it? Or wait you don’t see NOTHING wrong, therefore EVERYthing is wrong. Well I GOT a feeling I’m not going to be taking him seriously for awhile.
September 2nd, 2007 at 12:22 am
Isn’t the “stuntcasting” thing fairly old news?
September 2nd, 2007 at 12:29 am
Yes, actually. I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but this is not actually a news column.
This column’s about reaction, thus, as long as the reactions are recent, they’re fair game.
September 9th, 2007 at 6:32 pm
I hope we don’t see a superbrat emerge. The comic is going that way. I’d like to see her character eventually be supergirl. Have her get serious with her ‘super’ title. Let her be Supergirl were she fights criminals. Have her get caught in kryptonite traps or by superpowered beings. For me that will make an interesting series. Her being a superbrat is going against the grain.