The Girl of Steel is back, on a different network and a different shooting location. I am actually impressed at how they got cold and rainy Vancouver to look like sunny Southern California. I’m also impressed with Tyler Hoechlin who did both Superman and Clark Kent quite well. He doesn’t exactly have the Herculean proportions we usually expect of Supes, but he wore the blue pajamas quite well. He also somehow managed to look bigger as Superman than as Clark Kent.
Some other random observations:
Clark doesn’t like J’onn. AWKWARD!
Lena Luthor ISN’T the Big Bad this season. (Or is she?)
Cat Grant was in fine form; I dare say, even better than last season. I guess with Callista Flockhart having only limited appearances now, they have to make each one count.
They appear to be dropping the whole Kara/Jimmy thing. Thank God!
Cat Grant’s inspirational speech to Kara about taking the plunge really made me admire her. And she can actually pronounce Kara’s name correctly when she’s being serious.
I totally agree about Tyler Hoechlin’s Superman. He reminds me of Dean Cain’s Man of Steel in Lois and Clark. Why can’t the movies go back to this type of Superman as played by Cain and Christopher Reeve?
I liked the little throwaway lines like Win referencing Luthor starting an earthquake in California and “This looks like a job for…both of us.”
I thought the acting for Clark/Supes was good, but the costume sucked ass. Where are the red briefs? What’s with the super-sized buckles holding the cape on? And come on, Superman has a curl on his forehead.
Calista Flockhart steals the show, in my opinion. The writers are doing a fine job of slowly adding depth to her character from its original cartoonish start.
Glad to see the James-Kara romance is being dropped. James should be a minor character, would rather see her hook up with Winn at some point.
The Superman-Martian feud seems silly. So they keep kryptonite around in case any bad Kryptonians pop up (as they have done before). Surely Superman can see that possibility.
I recall a reference to flying as the safest form of transportation. That’s from way back in Superman the Movie, and it was repeated in Superman Returns.
Yeah–I like the guy playing Jimmy Olsen, but Jimmy is just not a mature, deep-voiced 30-something guy who’s got his life together. I really wish they could figure out a way to introduce a real Jimmy Olsen* and say that this guy is James Olsen, older cousin of Superman’s Pal Jimmy. Keep him in the show. He’s a nice grounded character, but he ain’t Jimmy Olsen.
*The kid who they want to have as Mr. Terrific in Arrow would be perfect, btw)
Yeah, that bugged me, too. Heck, we’ve already seen Kara go a bit nutso from Red K, so it’s not that bad an idea to keep some of the green stuff around just in case.
Yes, he has, in the comics. Superman trusts Batman, he doesn’t trust certain government agencies.
Tyler Hoechlin did a great job as Clark and Superman. I imagine his appearance last night and next week are a backdoor pilot. His costume is fine, except the belt should be thinner and lose the shoulder straps.
Nice throwback, but does anyone think Cat Grant would call her assistant by her last name? She never even bothered to get Kara’s first name right.
Yeah, might also be interesting for Winn to move on and have Kara pining for him for a while. So far, the show has had the whole world available to Kara, and it’s been about her fretting and trying to decide what she wants from an infinite variety of options. Let’s see what happens when she wants someone she can’t have.
I don’t know if I’d call it silly. Seems to me that Supes is worried about what happens if the DEO goes bad, the DEO is worried about what happens if Supes goes bad, and both of them too stubborn to admit that the other’s worries are not only justified, but exactly the same as their own. The writers may have just wanted a reason for Superman not to be around all the time. It is Supergirl’s show, after all.
This was a good start to the season. Superman fit right in but didn’t overshadow and he smiled and was like Superman is supposed to be.
Cat is great. Her scenes with both Supergirl and Kara crackle. She will be missed and is probably the only bad thing about the move to the CW.
I like the new set.
I like the twist with a Luthor being a good guy.
As soon as I heard the name Corben I yelled “Metallo!” Guessing that hunk of Kryponite J’onn and Superman are fighting about is going to get stolen.
Speaking of names, I’m not gonna lie, I always thought Gene Hackman was saying, “Miss TessBaucher!” with a B. I wonder if this one’s Mom also lives in Hackensack
Why do they need Clark in National City again?
What I did like was that
i) Clark’s clumsiness is real, not an act.
ii) Clark is a genuinely capable and respected reporter in how own right. Clark Kent is Superman; its not a civilian identity, its a real person.
Great Caesar’s Ghost is Perry’s catchphrase in most versions (everything except Lois & Clark, where it was swapped for Great Shades of Elvis, I believe), not a reference to any particular adaptation.
