Melissa Benoist

shocked i'd be shocked if melissa

benoist came back i do not think melissa benoist is coming back

She is, and I say this as a true blue gleek, she is on to bigger and better things.

Leave this girl alone.

I love them, but I don't see any of them coming back.

I see him as a two.

I see Melissa Benoist as Marley Rose as a one.

I see Blake Jenner as a zero.

And I think that's a really cool way to do it.

But when I think about this version, it reminds me a lot of the CW show, originally on CBS with Melissa Benoist.

And I loved that show when it first came out.

But...

And at the time, it was nice to see... that we had like this hopeful super character on TV because at the time we had the very dour Man of Steel version in the movies.

So having Supergirl was a breath of fresh air.

Melissa Benoist, she's infectiously charming, right? She's just adorable.

And but when I look back on it, I think back to like Tyler Hoechlin's first appearance on that show.

We'll see.

Is that Supergirl? Is that Melissa Benoist? That's hilarious.

I didn't even know if she could sing.

This is clearly a later season.

Yeah.

So, so then, um, w- if you wanted to meet John Wesley Shipp and have a photo op with him, Grant Gustin, and Melissa Benoist, it was $300 for the three of them together for a photo for five s- for half a second.

So, lo and behold, I'm like, you know, I g- I get to New York Comic Con.

I'm like, I have the, the VHS in my bag.

There's nobody on John Wesley Shipp's line.

He's by himself just sitting there with his person.

Uh, M-Melissa Benoist is right next to him.

Uh, Grant Gustin is on the other side.

I love it.

Um, I actually, I, I, like, if you told me that Melissa Benoist was gonna be Supergirl, I'd be like, "Oh, come on," right? We, what else could you do with that character? Th- Like, it would just be the same thing, right? But I feel like Grant Gustin has more talent than every one of the Arrowverse, I think, combined Like I think he's a thousand percent-

Yeah.

No, I, I get it.

And I'm like, you know, you want this thing to inspire little girls.

I always think of that picture of Melissa Benoist and her fist up in the air, surrounded by the campfire girls.

They're all doing the same pose.

And it's like,

You didn't have anybody, like, you had only OGs on your list, only, like, season one people.

Do you think that in the cul- in the just vibe of it, if there could be a second edition, like a Jacob Artist, a Blake Jenner, a Melissa Benoist?

I think a Becca Tobin is, like, kind of, like-

Do you?

And we have Superman number eight, which is a really cool...

That was a neat storyline, mainly because it was... of the cool things that peter tabasi did with his superman run is he tied it into other stories so this is really kind of like the new frontier uh story because of the dinosaur island thing at the beginning of that uh in the real world we have something from every day this week this doesn't happen often uh october 4th melissa benoist was born in 1988 and she played Kara Zor-El Supergirl on the television series.

October 5th, Jesse Eisenberg, who was Lex Luthor in BVS and various versions of the Justice League, was born in 1983.

October 6th, Superboy, later renamed The Adventurous Superboy, premiered in 1988 in syndication.

Busy week, yeah.

Sadly finishing off with the commemoration of Christopher Reeve's death.

But many happy returns and happy birthday to Melissa Benoist, Jesse Eisenberg.

Britt Eklund, Mike Carlin, Yvonne Chapman, and Brandon Routh, who are all still with us and celebrating birthdays this week.

At its peak, The Flash brought in nearly seven million viewers for its premiere, becoming the most successful show in CW history.

Then they expanded again with Supergirl, starring Melissa Benoist.

Now, what's interesting from a pure storytelling perspective is how the showrunners deliberately used Kara Zor-El's character to contrast the rest of the universe.

Arrow was brooding and violent.