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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dire Bare" data-source="post: 8230345" data-attributes="member: 18182">Well, yes. The entire enterprise is fictional . . .But the idea presented in the show that Superman is failing the world when he takes a break to be with his family is a poorly constructed one, a false dilemma, IMO. Super hero stories work best when they mirror our world, but with the difference that this one guy has amazing powers . . . I find stories where the setting undergoes an escalation to quickly "jump the shark" so to speak . . .Superman has amazing powers, that over the decades, become godlike (the writing, not in-universe) and every story arc needs a villain who can challenge Supes . . . and the cool villains never die (Zod, Metallo, etc) we just get more and more of them, and Superman also gets new super-friends . . . until the comic book world is seemingly populated with more costumed super-powered beings than regular people. These stories can be fun with comic-book tongue-in-cheek storytelling, or when exploring advanced humanity through a sci-fi lens . . . but it jars when juxtaposed with more realistic portrayals of the heroes like our man Clark struggling to be a good dad and husband without letting the latest ridiculous supervillain run around unchecked . . .All, IMO, of course.There's a reason why, when a new media adaptation of our favorite heroes gets going, it rarely puts us in a world mirroring the modern day comic book universe with absurdly high populations of powered individuals. We usually start off small . . . but overtime, a successful TV show universe (such as the Arrow-verse) starts approaching this problem the comics have had for decades . . . too many supers, too many super-villains, too many aliens, etc . . .Superman debuted in the already too-crowded Arrow-verse, but has a very grounded story-telling style, much more so than the other shows in the franchise. It jars with the idea that Superman just can't get even a weekend every once in a while without the next only-Superman-can-save-us disaster . . .</blockquote>

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