Updated Aug 25 with new pictures
TV Guide: Smallville Suits Up Supergirl!
Smallville offers an exciting glimpse of what’s to come for Clark Kent in the show’s final season with the October 8, 2010 return of Laura Vandervoort as Clark’s cousin Kara, who has been MIA for almost two years.
“Kara returns in a very heroic way,”Laura tells me.“When I found out this could be my last episode, I thought it would be great to see a quick glimpse of her in the uniform before she takes off.”Lucky Laura’s getting her wish!
“You really see her as Supergirl,”says exec producer Kelly Souders.“Not the whole outfit, but her wardrobe will have evolved even a little more than Clark’s. She’s less Kara and way more Supergirl.”Watch for Kara to don her new look for a photo shoot after she becomes a media darling following a heroic save that reveals her flying capabilities to the world. To protect her superhero identity,“You’ll see Kara in the [brunette] wig and glasses [as] a bit of an homage to her other identity from the comics, Linda Lee Danvers,”Laura says.Might Clark be inspired to further define his own blurred personas? Souders hints,
“Kara has a lot of input down the road in Clark’s transformation into Superman.”
The print version of the TV Guide article (posted to the KryptonSite forums by Angela) shows a fuller body shot of Kara in her “Supergirl” outfit and a wider shot of Kara in disguise next to Clark in his officewear than the online article’s images.
So she won’t really be in costume (“Not the whole outfit”) but in what looks to be an early prototype Supergirl costume that she dons for a photo shoot after being accidentally revealed to the public. Oh Smallville, you’re such teases! (That’s a lot of bright blue and red pieces of clothing hanging behind Laura Vandervoort on set – is that a blue dress or cloak I see?)
Kara has a lot of input down the road in Clark’s transformation into Superman.
I think this is more in their heads than something that’ll make it to screen. But, yeah. In my personal Smallville canon, I can picture a slightly older Kara taking the lead in defining their superheroic identities and debuting as Superwoman shortly after she arrived on Earth. Clark would in turn be inspired by her to don a costume a few years later (I understand he has a costume in a box already). (My Smallville fanon also features a university-graduate Clark with a journalism degree ;-)
Hat tip to Sterling Gates!
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