I hope Power Girl isn’t in it. Last thing Val Zod needs is the whole “White woman vs Black woman love interest” debate
So on HBO Max we have Green Lantern Corps starring Jessica and Simon, Superman with Val Zod, Afrolatina Batgirl, Blue Beetle and Static Shock… I’m sensing a pattern here. What other POC character will get put on HBO? I hope they all have big budgets and look theatrical at least
I'd be okay with Power Girl being in it in like a season 2 or 3 after she's already starred in her own series or film. Power Girl kind of deserves to premiere in her own thing. But after she's established separately and proven to stand on her own a series crossover love affair would be cool.
I think the fear is that in the comic Power Girl ended up being reduced down to mostly his love interest when she was the bigger legacy character. So she got passed over and I understand her fans not liking that and don't want her to be stuck in that role again, since it was kind of bad, but who knows what the series will be about. I think there is a chance for her to be in the series because she is the only love interest his character had and they were apparently childhood friends or something in that Earth 2 series? Been a while since I read it.
Isn't the John Cena Peacekeeper series also going to HBO Max? I think it is less about PoC characters/actors and more that WB wants to flood the HBO Max platform with as much content as possible to get more subscribers on it, and content with PoC leads are the trendy thing right now. Like the Batgirl movie was going to be on HBO Max before they even announced who they were looking at to cast.
Marvel is doing it, too with D+.
Besides, what's wrong with HBO?
If Power Girl was going to show up anywhere, wouldn't it be in Stargirl?
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I like both but I lean more towards Val. Calvin is the bigger power fantasy (he's Superman AND the President) but Val has the potential for a more compelling narrative arc especially if you focus on him being agorophobic and having to struggle with that while embracing his gifts (I could do without the pacifist angle).
There is no guarantee that a Val Zod project will include PG in it and that she would be reduced to being a love interest/arm candy for him.
Anyway, with Michael B working on his Val Zod project and Coates/Abrams on their black Clark Kent project and assuming WB/DC goes through with both projects, we are heading for a potential show down between race bending vs using original established characters.
What, that old movie vs TV thing they still seem to be obsessed with, even though it makes no sense? Frankly, unless they're willing to commit to a massive undertaking like the MCU, where individual characters appeared through multiple movies, they'd be better served from a character development point of view simply going for TV. Which they do seem to be doing with their streaming stuff now that the Arrowverse is pretty much on its way out. Which is fine with me, it had gotten tired, and a series without quite so many limitations of the sort imposed by broadcast TV. Though I have only marginally more faith in WB's TV properties.
Spears is not a good fit for the JSA, even the junior version of the show. Power Girl in general wouldn't work in much beyond a single episode appearance, as she's way to OP for that group. That said, I suppose you could have her in a one off where she returns to help Pat or something. But it just doesn't seem worth it to me, much as I'd love to see a live action PG. For the show, that is. Unless they come up with a really good reason for her to be there beyond that the writers wrote themselves into a corner and need a convenient deus ex machina. Though to be fair to the Stargirl writers, they actually seem to be quite good, better than the typical writing staff for the Arrowverse, and they haven't engaged in that sort of thing yet.