Anyone Else Tired of Hearing about Supergirl???

[foreversmallville]

I don't know about anyone else on this site...but I'm already tired of hearing about Supergirl...and the season hasn't even started yet!!! Sorry...but I think Supergirl is going to ruin this season for me. I'll watch a few episodes...but if Supergirl is featured more than Clark Kent...I'll be watching some other show.

[krewsaider]

Some other show like what....IMO there's nothing else on Thursday to watch. Well nothing that interests me.

[Mello Penelo]

Scrubs? I don't like The Office, but I hear a lot of people do. NBC Thursdays have always been top rated.

[krewsaider]

For me,I put on Scrubs right after Smallville. So on Thursdays it's action/drama then comedy. What I meant was the 7:00-8:00 spot.

[Mello Penelo]

My Name is Earl?

[xrayvision]

Originally posted by foreversmallville
...but if Supergirl is featured more than Clark Kent...I'll be watching some other show.

Sorry, but based on past statistics and trends of other heroic (or non-evil) new characters on this show (Green Arrow in S6, Lois in S4), this is what will likely happen. I hope we're surprised and they don't repeat the same mistake, but I will not hold my hopes high.

It's sad, but based on some speculation I've read around these forums, it seems like they will do more interesting things with Lana than Clark.

[Mello Penelo]

Originally posted by xrayvision
It's sad, but based on some speculation I've read around these forums, it seems like they will do more interesting things with Lana than Clark.

Like him cry about her secrets and lies instead of the other way around? :\

[xrayvision]

^^Bingo.

[Ilovebeinglost]

It's going be be a fun season with new stories I can't wait.

She's not going to be featured more than Clark because he's the star of course but maybe more than other characters.

And guess what the green arrow is back :lol:

[Mello Penelo]

Originally posted by Ilovebeinglost
She's not going to be featured more than Clark because he's the star of course but maybe more than other characters.

Of course she will. Oliver was in a whole lot more episodes than Clark was last season.

Shoot, most of the regulars, especially Lana and Lex, got more screen time than Clark does.

[xrayvision]

Exactly. Clark is supposed to be the star, but lately the guest stars are the stars over him. Even though there is no more Lexana to take away Clark's screen time, there will probably be something else. So between Kara and that something else (Lana's secret?), Clark may again not be getting the time he should.

[ginnyfan]

Well I've been avoiding spoilers for the most part so I haven't heard about her ad nauseam. LOL!

I wasn't very enthused about the news. I feel that there are other characters I'd rather see progress than spend time introducing Supergirl. However, I've felt that before with Lois and Green Arrow and I was pleasantly surprised. Here's hoping it'll happen again. :)

[Dr. Walden]

I was never a fan of Lois or Green Arrow. I'm still not a fan of Lois, although for some reason I'm hoping Oliver will come back for a little bit, just to leave his character with a little bit more certainty.

Only semi-regular I've ever really loved was Brainiac. I somewhat doubt Supergirl can live up. Nothing against Laura, but she's just not James Marsters.

[xrayvision]

I wish Marsters could return. They don't do the same with villians like they do with heroes. The new guest star villians don't hog all the screen time like Ollie did in S6 and Lois did in S4.

[Mello Penelo]

If you'd seen the newest spoilers, Marsters is coming back. But they'll insult and under-utilize him again.

[xrayvision]

He is?!?!!? I hope they don't make the same mistake twice. This is now the only thing I'm looking forward to this season. I'm actually more excited about finishing the remaining 19 episodes of my version of season 7 than watching the actual season 7 on TV. I can't believe how much material I came up with. I wish they would have also had Clark vs. Kal-El. Too bad.

[MidgardDragon]

More tired of hearing the b*tching about Supergirl, personally.

[Mello Penelo]

Originally posted by MidgardDragon
More tired of hearing the b*tching about Supergirl, personally.

Dude, instead of unilaterally defending everything TPTB do, most people are concerned that this will be another season of just the same.

Clark had the least amount of screen time last season and had the least amount of growth. Don't you get it? We're tired of hearing everything about Supergirl because she's going to take all of Clark's screen time this season.

It was bad enough Oliver being in half of the episodes, totally eclipsing Clark. But Kara's gonna be in more than half of the episodes. Don't you see how had TPTB are going to make her kill his character?

Pick your battles Midgard Dragon. Stop defending the defenseless and stop b!tching at us for wishing they'd do something a little more creative than throw more cleavage into the mix.

[Clark_kent2007]

I personally wish all of the complaining would stop too. Face it, we're not always going to get what we want, and that is a fact. So the only option we have is to stop complaining,deal with it,and just enjoy it for what it is. Because the complaining is getting extremely old.

[xrayvision]

Well, if Al/Miles occasionally stop by here and see that their customers (us) are unhappy, then maybe it will motivate them to give us what we want. It's not hard. I've read some pretty good fanfics here and if non-professional writers can come up with ideas that don't relegate Clark to just a few minutes per episode and are able to write storylines where he is developed in a rate where he doesn't become Superman in 1 episode but is developed in steps with noticeable progression, then so should the professional writers. Very few liked Lexana and had they taken the advice of the fans, they could have avoided a lot of disappointment.

Don't forget, viewers are customers of the show. If the viewers wouldn't have supported the show by watching it, there would be no show. So if the viewers are unhappy, the executive producers should listen to them. People who are unhappy want the show to live up to its potential, which is much higher than what we've been getting lately.

The way to constructively criticize something is to compliment the stuff that's liked and point out the stuff that isn't and give suggestions. That's how I like to do it anyway. I've seen some good suggestions from others here as well. vyperman has some damn good ones.

[Pesk]

Originally posted by MidgardDragon
More tired of hearing the b*tching about Supergirl, personally.

I totally agree. She's not even on the show yet and people are already complaining, assuming that her presence will make the show worse. Wait and see, people!

Oliver was in half the episodes? I didn't realise 7 was half of 22.

[Joelito]

Originally posted by foreversmallville
I don't know about anyone else on this site...but I'm already tired of hearing about Supergirl...and the season hasn't even started yet!!! Sorry...but I think Supergirl is going to ruin this season for me. I'll watch a few episodes...but if Supergirl is featured more than Clark Kent...I'll be watching some other show.
I think we can expect more or less like the Green arrow arc in the begining of season 6.

[Mello Penelo]

Originally posted by xrayvision
Well, if Al/Miles occasionally stop by here and see that their customers (us) are unhappy, then maybe it will motivate them to give us what we want. It's not hard. I've read some pretty good fanfics here and if non-professional writers can come up with ideas that don't relegate Clark to just a few minutes per episode and are able to write storylines where he is developed in a rate where he doesn't become Superman in 1 episode but is developed in steps with noticeable progression, then so should the professional writers. Very few liked Lexana and had they taken the advice of the fans, they could have avoided a lot of disappointment.

Don't forget, viewers are customers of the show. If the viewers wouldn't have supported the show by watching it, there would be no show. So if the viewers are unhappy, the executive producers should listen to them. People who are unhappy want the show to live up to its potential, which is much higher than what we've been getting lately.

The way to constructively criticize something is to compliment the stuff that's liked and point out the stuff that isn't and give suggestions. That's how I like to do it anyway. I've seen some good suggestions from others here as well. vyperman has some damn good ones.

It's already been proven that they don't care what we think. During an interview right after the last season ended, Al Miles said, "No one likes Lana, but I can't understand why." They know how disappointed with the show we get, but don't do anything about how we feel. They're intent on destroying Superman.

[smallvilleobsessor17]

Originally posted by foreversmallville
I don't know about anyone else on this site...but I'm already tired of hearing about Supergirl...and the season hasn't even started yet!!! Sorry...but I think Supergirl is going to ruin this season for me. I'll watch a few episodes...but if Supergirl is featured more than Clark Kent...I'll be watching some other show.

I'll keep watching SV, but HELL YEAH, I'M SICK OF KARA!

[Clark_kent2007]

Look just deal with the fact that we're not always going to get what we want. That's life. Live with it/ That's just the way it is/ It's not your show. It's theirs. And they will do what they want regardless if we like it or not. So just live with what we have and deal. Because complaining about it isn't going to change things

[TWLOVER03]

Lana = wayy to much screentime, seriously, like all of the episodes are about her


Originally posted by Pesk
I totally agree. She's not even on the show yet and people are already complaining, assuming that her presence will make the show worse. Wait and see, people!

Oliver was in half the episodes? I didn't realise 7 was half of 22.

haha that was an lol moment:rotfl:

[KryptonStones]

Man, the impression I get with the SV writers is that they keep doing what THEY want to do with the characters, completely forgetting about what the audience wants. I love Smallville, but I don't want it to end up like so many other has been television series in the past. THAT is why people complain. Because we see potential in a decent show that could become amazing, but we also see the potential of it becoming horrible. Me, personally, I'm not TOO happy with the entire Kara thing. I've always had this gnawing feeling that they're introducing way too many super hero characters far too early. Like Braniac. Maybe if they had made him like...a villain from the future like they did with Super: TAS....hey, I would've embraced him. I mean, I loved the braniac arc and all..but I just don't see how Clark Kent could handle someone on such a level as Braniac. This season better BLOW-ME-OUT of the water man..I better see some Clark development despite Kara's appearance.

[foreversmallville]

I guess what I really meant by that I'll be watching some other show...is that I won't be watching anything...because you are right there is nothing else on...on Thrusday nights that interests me.
I guess my problem is that I enjoy all the old characters of Smallville...CLARK...Lana...Chloe...Lex...The guest stars are great if they only last an episode or two. Supergirl will be great...but not for more than a few episodes...after that I'd like her to be gone.

[Kal26]

I can't hear enough about supergirl, and after tonight, I can't see enough either. They did her perfect, and she wasn't in it enough to steal clark's thunder either.

[Kryptonian-Ronin]

Not a big fan personally, don't see the point, other than eye candy :), but I will reserve final judgement based on how they use the character.

[kal-el_Girl]

Originally posted by krewsaider
Some other show like what....IMO there's nothing else on Thursday to watch. Well nothing that interests me.
hello?? Ugly Betty's the best (second best LOL) only to SMALLVILLE :p

[xrayvision]

Originally posted by Kal26
They did her perfect, and she wasn't in it enough to steal clark's thunder either.

Something about her seems to lack charisma. For now, I'm going to reserve my judgment.

As for her stealing thunder, we'll have to see by episodes 3 or 4. By then we will know. Ollie didn't hog Clark's airtime until Arrow. But Lexana & Chlimmy started hogging Clark's time in Wither. They don't have a good track record with this stuff. Whenever they get a new hero, the spotlight is usually focused on them. This is not true with villians though. I'd rather have it be the case with villians, because when they spotlight other heroes, they're building them up on this show when they could do it in a spinoff. They wouldn't make a spinoff of a villian, so there really is no other place to give a villian airtime.

I just wish they would have a JLA spinoff already so they could free up Smallville for Clark, Lex, Lionel, Lois, Lana, and Chloe (hopefully Pete & Martha again one day). This is what every show that introduced another leading character did in the past rather than tearing down their main star. I remember Knight Rider had an episode with David Dalton, where Michael barely had any airtime. But that was a 2 hour episode. After that, Dalton was in a spinoff called Code of Justice (unfortunately was not successful), and Michael got the spotlight again as natural. Dalton was a cool character, but had they continued giving him all the spotlight, Knight Rider would have been cancelled that same season (season 3) because people would get pissed off. The same is true here. Luckily for SV, there is no alternative show with DC heroes (or Superman) on now, or else people would switch...especially if it was on at the same time.

[Kal26]

Hmm. I thought she had all the charisma in the world based on the spoiler for the next episode. In this one she's still acting very Kryptonian. Reserved. It makes sense, given she just got to earth. However I will also reserve my judgement for a later date, as things could go in any direction at this point.

I just watched season six in order and really didn't think anyone stole Clark's thunder. I've heard a lot about how that was being done, but imo they did a very good job of balancing things. Now if all you want to see is clark (and I understand that as it's his show), than anyone else period may be a turn off. But it seems to me that the other characters take a back seat to clark when it counts. Maybe they are featured in their own episodes, but on the hole, preparation H feels good,:D , joking, on the whole I felt clark was still the star.

But, you have to take my opinion with a grain of salt because I love the JLA, and watch JL, and JLU religiously, so I love to see clark interact with people he will later be on the league with. I too wish there was a JLA spin off, but it must have Tom Welling in it.

[xrayvision]

I thought Ollie at times made Clark look bad in season 6. The way TPTB made Ollie question Clark all those times and made Clark look like an idiot (again) was very annoying.

The biggest problem was not just Ollie though, it was a bunch of things that were given higher priority than Clark. Though I like MM, I didn't like how he trumped Clark so bad by killing Aldar.

The reason I want a JLA show is to attract all the other heroes to it so there are no more interruptions in Smallville and Clark could finally be allowed to train, which if I were TPTB, would make be a combination of physical fighting (against his Kal-El side), FOS learning, and mental training by having episodes where Clark has to learn when to act on his human behalf and when to act like a Kryptonian. I think a JLA show with Green Arrow, Aquaman, Kara, Cyborg, Impulse, and Martian Manhunter would work very well. I would not want TW in it except for guest appearances and perhaps as a regular once Smallville is over.

[clana4everfan2]

I'd like Oliver to return and for this season to focus more on Clark as well as Chloe's new power or powers... I understand the writers feel introducing Supergirl will help evolve Clark to fully embrace his destiny and his Kryptonian world. Slowly he is accepting the fact that he will always be different / not human...and that it's time for him to not be scared and run from what his future will hold for him.

[llamaboydave]

oh my god dude how can u not wanna hear about her? cuz i mean come on! she's hot!

[Kal26]

Originally posted by xrayvision
I thought Ollie at times made Clark look bad in season 6. The way TPTB made Ollie question Clark all those times and made Clark look like an idiot (again) was very annoying.

The biggest problem was not just Ollie though, it was a bunch of things that were given higher priority than Clark. Though I like MM, I didn't like how he trumped Clark so bad by killing Aldar.

The reason I want a JLA show is to attract all the other heroes to it so there are no more interruptions in Smallville and Clark could finally be allowed to train, which if I were TPTB, would make be a combination of physical fighting (against his Kal-El side), FOS learning, and mental training by having episodes where Clark has to learn when to act on his human behalf and when to act like a Kryptonian. I think a JLA show with Green Arrow, Aquaman, Kara, Cyborg, Impulse, and Martian Manhunter would work very well. I would not want TW in it except for guest appearances and perhaps as a regular once Smallville is over.

I see your point, and respect it, totally! I guess the way I look at it is different. Ok, Ollie may be the wrong choice for this role, but what they are trying to do is show clark that it's ok to do what Ollie and the gang are doing. Should he have to be shown in this way? Not clark from the comics, but on this show he needed a nudge. What Ollie gave him was a very respectful nudge, so I don't see it as making him look like an idiot, just a young man who doesn't have all the answers yet, which he is, and should be. What they are doing is showing us that the in charge superman we know, started as a naive, sometimes wrong, sometimes hesitant boy. To me, it makes the character more lovable, but to some it takes away from who he'll become, and I respect that. I don't see it, but I respect it.

As for MM, of course he would outshine clark, he's older, more knowledgeable about what's out there, and more in control of his own powers. That's exactly what it would be like if a fully mature MM ran into superman as a pre adult IMO. Again opinions vary, and they should. If clark was able to out due MM at this point, I would say it wasn't believable, and was ruining the show, because at that point we'd be seeing a clark kent who really has had no training, and no real world experience compared to what he will get just suddenly taking charge, and being in control. To me it's all about the build up. IMO if they go for an eighth season everything will work out perfectly. However, I agree with you that it should be spent on clark's training.

I do have to say though, that a JLA spin off IMO wouldn't work without superman.

[LKent113]

I am interested to see where they take her character, but there is so much hype about her, I don't want it to become the "supergirl show" they didn't even make that big of a deal about green arrow and I enjoyed him as an addition to the cast, I wish he was in more eps.... but I am glad they brought kara on because she seems to be the only real person that can teach Clark about his heritage and family since she is related.

[Princess_Kara]

I could never get enough of Supergirl on Smallville. I hope they kick off a good merchandising line with the Supergirl character. They could create shirts, purses, posters, and action figures.

[Runestone]

Well, usually I'm tired of hearing about Lana, so Supergirl's a nice change!

[gategod]

noooo, well idk yet, if Supergirl is all corny and weird then no i will hate her and will still dislike Lana and Clark weirdness together. "I love you, oh wait my secret, lets break up."

But if she isn't corny, and i can't picture how she won't be ..<.< but if she isn't then things will definitely be better then they have been

But if she isn't great then i fear things will creep back into the 'really? was that wrapped up into a 43 minute episode'

^_^

[shadow4486]

I will never get tired of hearing of her....Hee hee hee

[MetroGirl06]

Um, we have barely even seen SG. Pass judgment THEN.