{"id":51106,"date":"2015-05-14T13:47:02","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T19:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/14\/so-this-is-supergirl.html"},"modified":"2015-05-14T14:09:35","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T20:09:35","slug":"so-this-is-supergirl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/14\/so-this-is-supergirl.html","title":{"rendered":"So this is &quot;Supergirl&quot;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This extended &quot;first look&quot; at the character in the new series is &#8230; not encouraging. The whole ditzy yuppie vibe of her civilian identity is just awful, not helped by the over-the-top boss lady and just a generally way overdone rom-com feel of things.<\/p>\n<p>That said, there remain glimmers of hope. Not every hero has to be grim and gritty and tormented. The heroic coming-of-age tale is a fine theme to work with. If the threats look pedestrian (and the SFX not all that impressive), it&#39;s still early days yet. And the lead actress comes across as an appropriately likable person.<\/p>\n<p>Still,  the stuff outside of being a hero is going to make or break the show. And that part isn&#39;t promising at all. I&#39;ll probably give it a couple of episodes, but right now I&#39;m not feeling like giving it anymore than that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div><iframe type='text\/html' width='100%' height='385' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Lm46-envrHo' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/K46MYGbATBj'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This extended &quot;first look&quot; at the character in the new series is &#8230; not encouraging. The whole ditzy yuppie vibe of her civilian identity is just awful, not helped by the over-the-top boss lady and just a generally way overdone rom-com feel of things. That said, there remain glimmers of hope. Not every hero has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/14\/so-this-is-supergirl.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;So this is &quot;Supergirl&quot;?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,852,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-dc-cinematic-univese","category-media-tv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":50171,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/27\/celebrating-super-hero-girls.html","url_meta":{"origin":51106,"position":0},"title":"Celebrating Super-Hero Girls","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 27-Apr-15 2:03am","format":false,"excerpt":"Though, to be honest, I'm not sure Poison Ivy or Harley Quinn are good role models. 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