It's hard to think that CBS has developed a classic DC comic book legend into a modern day romance, but "Supergirl" seems to go off the original course and puts Kara Zor-El in league with other romance-style shows that are popular on TV, as reported on Tech Times.

But this CBS fall show, which has been heavily anticipated with the first trailer going viral upon its release, has got a lot of the themes present in CW shows, such as "Smallville" (which is coincidentally about Superman), "Gossip Girl" or even "Dawson's Creek." It featured a lot of modern tunes with a major pop-music leaning musical selection, as shown on TVLine.

But at the heart of the series is the young superhero who was born on Krypton and left just before the planet exploded. Given there have been various incarnations in popular fiction about how long ago the planet Krypton exploded, Kara Zor-El was featured in the narration of the trailer and she said it was 24 years ago.

But on the Christopher Reeve movie "Superman," Marlon Brando's Jor-El narrated the scenes that described Krypton as has having exploded thousands of years ago.

"Supergirl's" trailer showed that Kara hid her identity over the years until she was 24 years old and seemed to be working as an assistant to a high-power executive (Calista Flockhart). She displayed the klutzy alter-ego characteristics of her mortal existence, accompanied by the glasses and all other identity disguises inherent to the "Super" characters.

But she is also faced with decisions about dating, which leads her to a typical situation with her sister.

Her sister helps her blend in as a normal person, knowing who she really is and what she can do. But she emerges with her super powers when she saves an airplane, which had her sister aboard, and now she has been exposed to the world.

She is brought into a top-secret government agency, where she is treated as a second-class citizen by chiefs who do not trust aliens.

Alura Zor-El, played by "Nashville" actress Laura Benanti, will also play a role in the show, albeit in holograms and flashbacks. Benanti spoke with TVLine and gave them a little insight into her character.

"You'll see me in flashbacks, you'll see me in hologram and then you'll see me in one other capacity, which I can't tell you [about] -- but it is the thing that makes me the most excited and is why I wanted to do the show," Benanti said.