Powerless

[Osiris-Rex]

New trailer for Powerless.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjNDJlVevSI

 

[coluanprime]

New interview with the EP on TvLine:
http://tvline.com/2017/01/18/powerless-preview-bruce-wayne-dc-comics-nbc-comedy/

 

[Dark Raven]

When does this air?

 

[Osiris-Rex]

When does this air?

Powerless? February 2 right after Superstore.
The interview? Don't know.

 

[O'Haire]

Saw a trailer for this. Looks really awful. Not one thing in it was funny. One of those lazy "It's funny because we referenced that thing you know" shows. Hope it was just a bad trailer and it ends up being better than it looks.

 

[Dark Raven]

We'll see how it goes. Agents of SHIELD started off name dropping everything in its pilot and first season. And other comedies aren't always so strong straight out of the gate.

I'm surprised Vanessa Hudgens is doing TV though. Is her film career not doing too well? You wouldn't really get Zac Effron back on TV right now.

 

[coluanprime]

We'll see how it goes. Agents of SHIELD started off name dropping everything in its pilot and first season. And other comedies aren't always so strong straight out of the gate.

I'm surprised Vanessa Hudgens is doing TV though. Is her film career not doing too well? You wouldn't really get Zac Effron back on TV right now.

I mean it's not like TV is worse than film... The old TV-has-bad-actors stereotype doesn't really apply now.

 

[Dark Raven]

Not saying that TV actors are worse. I've never thought that really. But TV might be what someone does if they aren't regularly getting movies to play in.

I wonder if Ashley Tisdale will get a guest role in this. Isn't she good friends with Vanessa?

 

[2kt09]

Is her film career not doing too well?

supporting role/extra in b-movies
lead role in an edgy Juno
supporting role in Spring Breakers
supporting role in Sucker Punch
lead role in Journey sequel
lead role in that YA rendition of Beauty and the Beast

I think she's slightly overacting in these clips, but an NBC comedy sounds like the right role all things considered

 

[Pennywise]

This show doesn't look even close to funny. I'll watch the first few episodes, and see if it's worth watching.

 

[Dark Raven]

I feel this will be the DC equivalent of Agents of SHIELD with peripheral characters skirting around the main heroes.

If DC wanted a sitcom, they could have had an actual superhero show life Plastic Man or whoever else lends themselves to comedy.

 

[coluanprime]

New interview on TMS:
http://www.themarysue.com/interview-vanessa-hudgens-christina-kirk-powerless/

 

[Inhuman117]

How long will be the runtime from 1 Episode`?

 

[famicommander]

How long will be the runtime from 1 Episode`?

It's a half hour comedy, so roughly 22 minutes of show with 8 minutes of commercials.

 

[Inhuman117]

It's a half hour comedy, so roughly 22 minutes of show with 8 minutes of commercials.

Thanks so same as the Big Bang Theory

 

[Matt]

Saw a trailer for this. Looks really awful. Not one thing in it was funny. One of those lazy "It's funny because we referenced that thing you know" shows. Hope it was just a bad trailer and it ends up being better than it looks.

Yeah, none of the promos look very good. I was interested in this when it was a show about an insurance company and the mundane people who have to deal with superheroics disrupting their lives, the threat that such things present to the civilians, and the pure outlandishness of living in that type of world as an average person.

Then they changed the focus to Wayne Securities or whatever, and it just feels kind of like a cheap knock-off of Better Off Ted, with none of the cynical but clever satire of corporate America (after all, the lab portions of Better Off Ted weren't meant as mere slapstick as they seem to be presented on this show, those plots were meant to underline the ridiculous lengths corporations will go to to make a quick buck, even despite the risk involved in unleashing poorly tested and absurdly unsafe products to the market).

In other words, I feel like with its original concept, this show had potential to be a Community or Police Squad-type show. A live action cartoon that is a meta satire of a popular genre or trend. Instead we are looking at a slapstick, workplace version of The Big Bang Theory that constantly seems to be winking at the camera and saying "SEE! GET IT!? ITS A SUPERMAN REFERENCE!!"

We'll see how it goes. Agents of SHIELD started off name dropping everything in its pilot and first season. And other comedies aren't always so strong straight out of the gate.

I'm surprised Vanessa Hudgens is doing TV though. Is her film career not doing too well? You wouldn't really get Zac Effron back on TV right now.

In fairness, did Hudgens ever have much of a film career?

 

[Matt]

I feel this will be the DC equivalent of Agents of SHIELD with peripheral characters skirting around the main heroes.

If DC wanted a sitcom, they could have had an actual superhero show life Plastic Man or whoever else lends themselves to comedy.

I never knew that I wanted a Plastic Man sitcom so badly until you made this post.

Come to think of it, Plastic Man would actually make a great DC TV property. The tone would have to be drastically different from their CW shows. It would almost have to be like Chuck. Half-sitcom, half-sci-fi/adventure show. Come to think of it again, Chuck star Zach Levi would make a fantastic Plastic Man.

WHY HAS THIS NOT HAPPENED!?!

 

[Dark Raven]

Zach Levi could've worked as Plastic Man. Don't know if he'd find it too similar to Chuck though, but that would definitely be an approach.

I don't know if it might be because of budget constraints as you'd have to show him doing all the things that Mr Fantastic does (or should be able to do) in the FF movies. Some of it hasn't always looked that convincing. But perhaps with a more whimsical tone, it doesn't have to look completely convincing, especially since he could shape himself into the absurd, with only his imagination being the limit (much like Green Lantern's ring projections).

But then it could just be done as 44 minute comedy like Chuck instead of only 22 minutes, especially since you'd want to develop the plot and all the action more.

 

[NotNickFury]

All this talk of Levi, I rewatch the trailers for this and I do get a bit of a Chuck vibe from Powerless the same way I got somewhat of a 30 Rock vibe from The Good Place.

I'm curious to see how this will do ratings-wise, especially compared to the Arrowverse shows. At the very least it's not going up against any of those shows.

 

[Matt]

All this talk of Levi, I rewatch the trailers for this and I do get a bit of a Chuck vibe from Powerless the same way I got somewhat of a 30 Rock vibe from The Good Place.

I'm curious to see how this will do ratings-wise, especially compared to the Arrowverse shows. At the very least it's not going up against any of those shows.

I should certainly hope it does better than the Arrowverse shows. It is on one of the major four next works. The Arrowverse is on CW. If this does Arrowverse numbers, it's cancelled before episode 2 airs.

 

[coluanprime]

New interview on TMS:
http://www.themarysue.com/interview...alk-superheroes-comedy-feminism-and-politics/

“We’ve looked at it several different ways. There’s kind of a philosophical conversation that we had ongoing throughout the first season: Do we want to keep superheroes like gods in the sky? Like, they are sort of better than us and they don’t interact with us that much? But I think, as we’ve moved forward — and you’ll see with Crimson Fox a little bit — you’ll start to see them interact with our main cast even more. We like playing them, because they are the lesser-known heroes, [as if] they’re self-aware that they’re the ‘B team,’ if you will. That they’re never going to be members of the Justice League first team. And they’re a little pissy. Like, Crimson Fox is a little pissy that she got the invite to Justice League Europe, and not Justice League proper. It depends on the hero.”

 

[hopeless]

Would this work better if it was revealed Vanessa Hudgens is also playing Crimson Fox?

Spoiler

If I recall correctly Crimson Fox was both French and actually a set of twins so whilst one was in costume the other maintained their secret identity and they swapped places when necessary.

Would that make this series better?

 

[Mace Dolex]

It was average as most pilots go, maaaaaaayybbe it will get better but I mostly had it on as background noise if that's an indication of what I think of the show.

 

[Osiris-Rex]

It was average as most pilots go, maaaaaaayybbe it will get better but I mostly had it on as background noise if that's an indication of what I think of the show.

So in other words you don't know if the show is any good or not? Because you didn't actually watch it?

 

[Black Narcissus]

So this is not connected to the DCEU or CW universe, right?