Supergirl pilot wasn't awful

[Larson]

 

The fact that you are on the internet contradicts this.

 

Heeh. I had a marketing professor in college that said once that ppl who say that persuasion through media holds no power over them are typically the ones who are persuaded the most because they feel that the choices they have been subtly guided to are their own :evil:

 

Straight white American gun loving Republican who will vote for Donald Trump.

 

How else may I prove you wrong today?

 

[...]

 

 

Did not mean to offend. Like I said, it was what a professor in college lectured on once - not an opinion i conjured up myself just to contradict you. Still, I'm not certain how claiming any of those things can be used as empirical evidence that you are impervious to media suggestion.

It was a jok, I was not offended in any way:)

And for instance, because everyone is all "ohhhhh guns are bad" owning a gun would prove that media does not have a hold of me. But everything was meant in joking

Actually, it wouldn't. Because people who like guns and the companies that want to sell them also do the same thing.

 

Marketing is not just "YOU CAN BUY THIS FOR 19.99!!"

 

Marketing is also me paying someone attractive yet relatable to wear a certain thing and walk around where people who will probably like that thing hang out.

Marketing is you going to a bar, having a good experience, and then bringing your friends next time.

Your forum avatar and signature are marketing.

The layout of this website is marketing.

Everything on every search engine is marketing.

 

Basically everything on the internet is in some way marketing. Reddit and Imgur are marketing for hits, and their users are marketing for upvotes.

 

Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr users are marketing for attention, which in turn makes the companies money. They WANT you to go there. They WANT you to load another page, because each page that loads even the tiniest ad makes them money. You don't have to click the ad. The ad loading is enough because you the ad is now visible to you. You can scroll past it, but for a split second it passed your field of vision.

 

This website does not have advertisements...or does it? It advertises FF14 in its entirety, but the transactions taking place here are increases in the size of the RP community. RP is the prduct, activity is the currency.

 

 

Supergirl is marketing DC comics, the Justice League Franchise, the Superman Franchise, the Supergirl Franchise. Adding feminism gains them the support of millenials and tryhard parents who, unfortunately, have money and will buy DC things.

Companies don't toss concepts in your face poorly when they actually care about them (unless they have an annoying staff member obsessed with the topic), they do it so that the message is very clear: FEMINISM GIVE US YOUR MONEY.

[-no longer matters-]

If Super Boy became Superman, how come Super Girl never became Superwoman?  That always bothered me.

 

Super Boy never became Superman. He's an entirely different character who is as angsty as he is irrelevant.

Incorrect, Superboy in the Golden and Silver Age of comics was in fact the adventures of a young Clark Kent.

 

The Superboy you are referring to is Conner Kent he is actually a clone of Clark Kent and Lex Luthor, he was introduced in 1993 (Maybe it was 94 I don't feel like wiki-ing), and as of the New 52 he's the clone of the future psychotic son of Superman and Lois Lane.

 

 

The more you know.

[Larson]

To branch these topics together,

 

I have no interest in Supergirl innately. I think she's a stupid character that was only created to "female empower" and does not fit the Superman story naturally.

 

With that in mind, I have been bombarded with Supergirl the past few weeks. Ads, billboards, people talking.

 

Have I chosen to acknowledge those ads? No. I have skipped, scrolled past, glanced, and just been generally uninterested in the topic since it started.

But the inescapable fact is that I was made aware that the show exists. Like it or not, the existence of the show has been registered by my brain some way some how. Eventually I see a topic on it, and even though I will never watch the show by choice (no cable, and I don't series binge on Netflix unless I wanted to see it from the start), I checked to see if it was good.

 

This very thread is marketing the show just by discussing it, which in turn markets all the things the show markets.

[Sylentmana]

If Super Boy became Superman, how come Super Girl never became Superwoman?  That always bothered me.

 

Super Boy never became Superman. He's an entirely different character who is as angsty as he is irrelevant.

Incorrect, Superboy in the Golden and Silver Age of comics was in fact the adventures of a young Clark Kent.

 

The Superboy you are referring to is Conner Kent he is actually a clone of Clark Kent and Lex Luthor, he was introduced in 1993 (Maybe it was 94 I don't feel like wiki-ing), and as of the New 52 he's the clone of the future psychotic son of Superman and Lois Lane.

 

 

The more you know.

 

Actually, the one I was thinking of doesn't have any Kriptonian blood in him. He uses some kind of kinetic manipulation ability to simulate super strength. He can't even fly and he's super angsty about people comparing him to Superman and his abilities being a "curse". Oh poor baby. Having superhuman god-like abilities is SOOOO hard.:roll:

[Talisa Rina]

I tried to watch Supergirl but really I didn't enjoy it. I mean "I am trying to live an average life." I feel like if they wanted to they could have made it about a 14 year old girl instead about her just crashing onto earth instead of her being assistant living a 'normal life' . And the "female" inputs kind of got on my nerves I was "Yes she is female! Yes she is a female figure who is a super hero."

Also when they were "first female super hero to have her own show since Wondwoman." BIRDS OF PREY BIRDS OF PREY! It was made a year after Smallville and wasn't a hit and got campy yes, but man I love it as a teenage girl, it was like 13 years ago.

 

But the thing was with Supergirl it feels like "Look female super hero show."

I would enjoy it more if it didn't feel pushed and ditzy like I get that is how she is but it felt like too much for one episode and I dunno if they wanted to have young girls to watch the show wouldn't they rather want her to be the thirteen year old girl or entering high school? And what was with the forced love triangle?

[-no longer matters-]

If Super Boy became Superman, how come Super Girl never became Superwoman?  That always bothered me.

 

Super Boy never became Superman. He's an entirely different character who is as angsty as he is irrelevant.

Incorrect, Superboy in the Golden and Silver Age of comics was in fact the adventures of a young Clark Kent.

 

The Superboy you are referring to is Conner Kent he is actually a clone of Clark Kent and Lex Luthor, he was introduced in 1993 (Maybe it was 94 I don't feel like wiki-ing), and as of the New 52 he's the clone of the future psychotic son of Superman and Lois Lane.

 

 

The more you know.

 

Actually, the one I was thinking of doesn't have any Kriptonian blood in him. He uses some kind of kinetic manipulation ability to simulate super strength. He can't even fly and he's super angsty about people comparing him to Superman and his abilities being a "curse". Oh poor baby. Having superhuman god-like abilities is SOOOO hard.:roll:

That one actually does still have Kryptonian blood he's the watered down version of the clone the used in Young Justice, there's never been a Superboy that wasn't realted to Superman in some Fashion. However there has been a Supergirl that was an alien called Matrix, that had no relation to Superman.

[Sylentmana]

That one actually does still have Kryptonian blood he's the watered down version of the clone the used in Young Justice, there's never been a Superboy that wasn't realted to Superman in some Fashion. However there has been a Supergirl that was an alien called Matrix, that had no relation to Superman.

 

I never saw Young Justice. I was thinking of the Super Boy from the new Teen Titans comic, which suck giant donkey dong, in my opinion.

[-no longer matters-]

That one actually does still have Kryptonian blood he's the watered down version of the clone the used in Young Justice, there's never been a Superboy that wasn't realted to Superman in some Fashion. However there has been a Supergirl that was an alien called Matrix, that had no relation to Superman.

 

I never saw Young Justice. I was thinking of the Super Boy from the new Teen Titans comic, which suck giant donkey dong, in my opinion.

Oh he ended up being the clone of the future son of Superman and Lois, and yes that book is very bad. I sat through it way to long before I dropped it.

[Martiallais]

That one actually does still have Kryptonian blood he's the watered down version of the clone the used in Young Justice, there's never been a Superboy that wasn't realted to Superman in some Fashion. However there has been a Supergirl that was an alien called Matrix, that had no relation to Superman.

 

I never saw Young Justice. I was thinking of the Super Boy from the new Teen Titans comic, which suck giant donkey dong, in my opinion.

Oh he ended up being the clone of the future son of Superman and Lois, and yes that book is very bad. I sat through it way to long before I dropped it.

Slightly related to the OP, you should check out Young Justice. It's actually really really good.

 

And as a fan of Superboy, yes agreed. The new 52 Superboy is pretty much something out of a very, veeeerrry bad fanfic. Then again, IMO, that describes a lot of the new 52. >_>

[-no longer matters-]

That one actually does still have Kryptonian blood he's the watered down version of the clone the used in Young Justice, there's never been a Superboy that wasn't realted to Superman in some Fashion. However there has been a Supergirl that was an alien called Matrix, that had no relation to Superman.

 

I never saw Young Justice. I was thinking of the Super Boy from the new Teen Titans comic, which suck giant donkey dong, in my opinion.

Oh he ended up being the clone of the future son of Superman and Lois, and yes that book is very bad. I sat through it way to long before I dropped it.

Slightly related to the OP, you should check out Young Justice. It's actually really really good.

 

And as a fan of Superboy, yes agreed. The new 52 Superboy is pretty much something out of a very, veeeerrry bad fanfic. Then again, IMO, that describes a lot of the new 52. >_>

Yes Young Justice was fantastic.

 

As for The New 52...

I really can't disagree with that. 

 

Though there was good in it as well, and they have done strides to fix a lot of the mistakes they made at launch.. but Teen Titans is still a mess, and the current Superboy is.. really the new Donna Troy of DC with confusing backstory of what the fuckness.

 

Sadly both Marvel and DC seem so out of touch with story telling and character growth these days with some gems mixed in of course, but Creator Owned comics are the way to go atm.