After watching the pilot I have to say I am having mixed feelings about it, Of course Supergirl is super hot as always(enough of a reason for me to watch it regularly) but Cat Grant(Calista Flockhart) seems too old, I always thought Cat Grant was a hot 20/30 year old not 51 years old, Jimmy Olsen seems too old(He appears to be in the 30s, athletic, confident) Jimmy has always been a late teen/early 20 nerd.
As for the story it seems that they are using Smallville season six storyline where Clark escape the phantom zone and Phantom Zone prisoners escape with him including(In Supergirl she escapes the phantom zone and the phantom prisoners escape with her).
I like how they have cast Dean Cain(Clark Kent/Superman in The New Adventures of Superman) as Kara's(Supergirl) Earth Father and Helen Slater(Kara/Linda Lee/ Supergirl in the 1984 Supergirl movie) as her Earth Mother i hope they get a big part.
I also like how they only showed a silhouette of Superman, but I think they did it because the DC Television and Movie universes are separate and they are trying to get Tom Welling to play him in their television universe if they still want to someday bring Supergirl into The Flash and Arrow series and the producers of The Flash wants Tom Welling as their Superman.
Over all Supergirl is well worth a watch plus if we don't watch it they will give us another reality show or another NCIS(anyone want to see really want to see Survivor:NCIS
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