Precies acht dagen geleden kon je hier op Eigenwereld.nl de zes minuten durende trailer van Supergirl bekijken. Maar vandaag 'lekte´ geheel TOEVALLIG deze pilot aflevering van de show het download circuit in. Wat zes maanden is voor de geplande TV release, iets wat overigens vorig jaar ook al gebeurde met The Flash pilot. Iets zegt me dat door alle negatieve publiciteit er ergens besloten is om deze eerste aflevering gecontroleerd te laten lekken.

The Whispers Speaks Through The Light Promo After a commitment in September 2014, the series was officially picked up by CBS earlier this month. The pilot was scheduled to debut in November, but those plans have now massively unraveled after the episode leaked online, six months earlier than its planned debut.

Two 'Scene' release groups - DiMENSiON and LOL - competed to premiere the title first this morning, with the latter beating the former by around 90 seconds. LOL's version is a convenient 400mb so likely to become the most sought after copy. On the other hand DiMENSiON's is more than 15 times the size, but for 1080p connoisseurs it'll be worth the wait.

Although it's certainly possible that the pilot contains hidden watermarks, as far as visible identifiers go the 46 minute episode looks very clean. As illustrated by the image below, there are no tell-tale 'property of' warnings that are regularly seen on 'screener' copies of leaked movies.

The leak of the pilot came as a complete surprise a couple of hours ago so download stats on BitTorrent sites are a currently quite modest 25,000 or so. However, given the anticipated media snowball effect during the day the number of downloads is likely to increase dramatically, probably to more than a million by this time tomorrow.