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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Villano" data-source="post: 353885" data-attributes="member: 505">It's deja vu all over again...  Yeah, that does happen a lot.  I remember when Frank Miller did that Sin City toy of the character in the electric chair.  It was a bit controversial (at least on slow news days), and made some mainstream press. A story aired on the local tv news, and the "reporter" talked about how the toy was based on the comic, Sim City, and got Frank Miller's name totally wrong.Anyway, news of Birds Of Prey being made into a tv series (which I won't be able to watch since I have Direct TV, which doesn't carry WB or UPN, thank you very much), reminded me of a story from a few years back.I read an article about The Flash (which aired on CBS back in '89 or '90) in which one of the people involved in the series talked about how The Flash almost wasn't made.  It seems CBS was considering doing a different series which would follow the adventures of the children of today's superheroes in the far off year 2000 (I love when the far future is now the past.  I was sorely disappointed when we didn't get those pet gorillas in 1990 that were promised in Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes, btw <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />).One character was the daughter of Batman and Catwoman.  Obviously, in the comics, this was Huntress, but I think CBS was debating calling her "Batgirl" (the first Batman movie had just come out and they may have wanted to push the Batman connection).  Another one was the daughter of The Flash.I'm not certain who the other two were.  I think one was a new Green Arrow (the son or daughter of GA and Black Canary) and the last was something really weird.  I'm pretty sure they went with someone from the Legion Of Super-Heroes (which is set in the 30th century).  IIRC, it was a very, very strange choice, like Blok (a 7 foot tall stone alien).  And, no, I have no idea how they would have worked that out.Eventually, CBS passed on this in favor of The Flash due to the cost.I do wonder how that series would have played out, though.  It could have either been great or a total train wreck (when you have an "out there" concept, there really isn't a middle ground).  If the same people from The Flash had been involved in the production, I think it could have been a great series   Anyway, I just thought it was weird that there was almost another series with a Huntress/Black Canary connection.</blockquote>

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