Comic Con starts tomorrow and just before we jump on a plane to head to San Diego, we've got BIG Supergirl news! Just as Batwoman was announced as "in-development" for her own show, Supergirl is announcing a new series regular for season 4! Sam Witwer (Smallville, Being Human, Once Upon A Time, Battlestar Galactica, Dexter) is joining the show as Agent Liberty! He is described as:
AGENT LIBERTY is the founder and figurehead of the Children of Liberty – a hate group that supports a human-first world order. Ruthless and terrifying, the scariest thing about Agent Liberty might be just how easily he can convince you that he’s in the right. He’s a brilliant orator in the guise of a family man.
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One small concern I have with Agent Liberty is this description, "figurehead of the Children of Liberty – a hate group that supports a human-first world order." I do worry this opens up the door for more in show real world political commentary which really needs to go. Everyone like a good hate group beat down but lets not get preachy about things.
I think it's more that the comics Agent Liberty that Jurgens created is a hero, as opposed to a villain leading a hate group (and I'll be honest, to me this reeks of the ham-fisted preachiness that the show falls into sometimes).
Oh - OK, that makes sense!
I took it that he was putting down the writing on the show as a whole as being one-dimensional...
I think it's more that the comics Agent Liberty that Jurgens created is a hero, as opposed to a villain leading a hate group (and I'll be honest, to me this reeks of the ham-fisted preachiness that the show falls into sometimes).
I have no idea where he's coming from with that. To me, the TV version of Supergirl is certainly not "one-dimensional".
Agent Liberty could be a really challenging foe for Kara, too. His suit is able to generate a force field that can deflect bullets. So it may be able to deflect (or resist) Supergirl's punches, too. And it might also be able to reflect her heat vision, as the force field around Brainiac's space ship did.
Here's an idea for the writers - I just received the new issue of Chemical & Engineering News today. There's an article in it about how scientists are now making synthetic lava, to try to figure out exactly what's happening with the active volcanos in Hawaii (and hopefully make some fairly accurate predictions). Anyway, that started me thinking - how about a story in which the bad guy succeeds in making his own synthetic lava, and sets a trap for Supergirl with it? Maybe they could even work Jimmy Buffett's "Volcano" song into it! ("I don't know where I'm gonna go, when the volcano blows!")
Or as Buffett said in the song, "Lava me now - or lava me not!"
Sam Witwer played Doomsday/ Davis Bloome that's similar to Odette Annable's Reign/ Samantha Arias. So far the Smallville alumni that appeared on Supergirl are Laura Vandervoort, Erica Durance, and now Sam Witwer.
Unfortunately Agent Liberty creator Dan Jurgens is not a fan of Supergirl's take on the character as he slams it for being one-dimensional writing.
Sam Witwer being a regular like, Odette in season three, also makes me think he's the big bad. The character could be a great foe for Kara, someone she can't punch but has to use her brain to beat. I can picture him sorta like a charming cult leader, David Koresh had some very intelligent followers. I can see Lena falling under his spell.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_Liberty
Hard to say; Sam was having dialogue with Katie McGrath on the series' location shoot yesterday. Looked like some sort of LCorp promotional function.