My suspicion is that certain important people inside WB are convinced that The Secret for why Superman has so much enduring popularity is "The supporting cast". They are the real reason why a lame, boring boy scout is still so successful. So, a show focusing on just the supporting cast will do even better, once you strip out that weight from around its neck, right?
IOW, they fundamentally don't get Superman, and are unwilling to accept that maybe the "lame boring boy scout" *is* the appeal.
Not even close. It's not an either/or with it being either supporting cast or lead. It's about both rising together and supporting each other. When Batman gets a trilogy of films in the DCEU with Batgirl, Nightwing, and Joker films announced, the assumption is that WB is infatuated with Batman and that Superman not having similar spinoffs speaks to the weakness in his overall brand. Finally give Superman's supporting cast and other corners of the Superman mythos a chance to shine and get development they might not have gotten with him at the center, then all of a sudden the assumption reverses so that it's a sign that WB is ashamed of Superman and that his having spinoffs still speaks to the weakness of his brand. It makes no sense, and it's the kind of attitude that hinders Superman more than anything else.
Exactly.
Smallville was one of my favorite show, I love Clark, but a new Superman show would have been repetitive at this point.
I really hope the show is going to have good writers who give a good arc to Loïs, and flesh out Superman's world. I'm happy to know the serie won't have too many episodes since I got tired of the CW format.
I really want this show to be good. A few years ago, I would have doubted this could work but I loved Jessica Jones. And it wasn't because she had a nice costume, or because of crazy action sequences but because of her character development.
I'm quite suprised people will think this will flop because Loïs is "just a human". It's like the only characters worthy of our time should be the ones who have super powers.
Well said, and I have a lot of the same hopes for the show. Right now I'd really love if they got a woman on board to help write the show, and I would love if they cast a woman of color as Lois. On
Gotham, Jamie Chung played Vicki Vale's cousin, Valerie Vale, as a young journalist. She was written well generally, and Chung did an excellent job in the part.
I know Chung probably wouldn't get cast. And, although I never liked or respected Max Landis much so that the recent allegations against him only solidified my feelings about him, I did appreciate that his prequel comic series for Superman,
American Alien, featured a woman of color (Asian) Lois.
So, I hope whether she's cast as Asian or something else, that it breaks the mold. What should remain consistent, however, is a certain fire and intelligence. I hope whoever they cast gets the spirit just right. As for Lex, I am curious what their take would be. Will be be more charming businessman, mad scientist, something in the middle? Where will he be on the evil continuum?
