'Pilot' 'Supergirl' succeeded! This is the first thing I want to say after watching the pilot. Unlike her older brother 'Smallville' here Kara Zor-El wears a red and blue outfit with a beautiful letter ' S' already in the first series. The episode has an excellent scope of its action and interesting developments of further lines. Surprisingly, the fears of those who considered this series something in the spirit of the trailer ' The Devil Wears Prada' with superheroics - pure ' female' and there are not so many girl moments for the series, and the conflicts of the main character with the boss can not even be called boring, as well as the dialogues ' exclusively on the case ' with her sister. An episode without snot, but with great characters and a bunch of action.
In one series, we are shown a classic, but not outdated, original story. And from the very beginning - Krypton dies, the baby Kal-El, the future Superman, his parents, Lara Lor-Wan and Jor-El, goes in a rescue capsule to Earth. Following him, a teenage girl Kara, his cousin, goes to look after the baby on the instructions of his parents: Alura and Zor-El. But something went wrong, and Superman arrives on Earth much earlier and has time to grow by the time the capsule with the still little girl Kara crashes on the planet, dragging the entire Fort Rozz space prison. At the same time, it should be mentioned that most of the criminals there were sentenced to imprisonment by Kara’s mother – Alura Zor-El, who was a judge on Krypton, and now appears as a hologram just like Jor-El for Superman in the icy Fortress of Solitude.
Earth & #39; parents & #39; girls, the Danver family, are played by the eminent Helen Slater ('Supergirl' 1984) and Dean Kane (Superman of 'Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman'), and following the canon - they also have a daughter Alex, a half-sister for the future Supergirl, whose storyline here is perhaps the most original and interesting - she becomes a special agent of the DEO unit headed by Hank Hanshaw, known as a villainist in the series. The parents in the episode are no longer shown, wondering how many of them will be in the series at all or it was exclusively a cameo for the pilot episode.
Growing up Kara (by the way, she is not pretending to be Linda, but this imho canon is not as important as being Clark Kent for Kal-El) is an exact replica of Clark Kent, a goofy spectacle working for a media mogul. But only everything ' in female '. She works for the bitchy Cat Grant (extremely successful villainous image), and does not hide her super powers from her best friend - Wynne Scott (from the comics known as the villain Toyman - Master of Toys). Here migrates, perhaps, the only drawback of the pilot, and while the series as a whole, for some reason, black Jimmy Olsen with the award for the best photo of Superman (a photo he, of course, will give Kara and will also be aware of her super-powers, after which he will give a suitable super-impenetrable red cloak You Know From Who). Jimmy, in principle, is not bad as a character, but to accept the fact that he is now a Negro, is as difficult as watching the wretched trailers of the notoriously failed reboot & #39; Fantastic Four' (if you know what I mean).
The spectacular crash of the plane (we even explain why Superman didn’t save it!), which was impressive in the trailer, is not even the only action scene in the series. The first of the escaped alien prisoners is Vartox, armed with a special alien axe - one of the few weapons whose metal is still able to injure the bulletproof skin of Supergirl. The main character herself participates in car chases, learning the problems of the aerodynamics of the cloak, catches armed bank robbers, and most importantly - chooses variations of the costume before appearing in the final image (by the way, the authors have another respect that they chose a red skirt with a gold belt, not shorts or a blue variant), and even argues about the nickname Supergirl!
The attention to detail in this series is simply amazing, and even if someone has questions in the spirit of ' why Vartox came back so many years after the escape' - we are shown a whole lot of photos of escaped aliens, which are hunted by DEO (plus there is Superman and mentioned by Scott ' Super Friends' who also quite fought all this time with all this stuff and not only). At the same time, the Whirlwind even has a personal motivation to fight Kara. The pilot's script is excellent from and before, and implemented by Glen Winter, director of many series 'Smallville', 'The Flash' and 'Arrow' just brilliant! In the series, Superman even appears in full costume, although due to the glare of the sun, we do not see the face, only a cloak, suit, hand when he leads Kara to her parents, well, completely in the air during the flight. I wonder if we’ll see him again next season. [A Zayne Emory actor is also named Rick Malverne (a comic book character), but I didn’t like him in the pilot (or this guy from the alien picture, but Malvern didn’t have super powers or alien origins in the comics)]
For the first series, Kara (Melissa Benoit is just a nanny even under the guise of a goose in glasses) acquires a costume, she wildly fights from being Supergirl, saves the plane, fights several times with the villain of the week, saving the whole city from radiation, flies, watches X-ray vision, shoots lasers from the eyes, pathosly stands with her back to a spectacular explosion, as befits all cool movie heroes, in general, the pilot of the series turned out to be extremely rich and incredibly effective! Canonical where it is needed, and the original departure from the comics in a new interesting way (well, except Olsen, of course...), as befits any film adaptation, whether a series or a feature film. The pilot is at the level of a full-fledged entertainment blockbuster, and if the series itself continues in the same vein and is also full of comic characters, it will turn out just amazing!
10 out of 10
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