Spoilers Superman Spoiler Thread

Not sure I can be bothered to read all 42 pages of comments before saying anything myself. I got through the first five. My Dad and I enjoyed it, though it took a minute to get him to watch it.

I have read all about what version of Supergirl they are doing before and I am cool, super cool, with that. As far as the issue of whether she was holding back from Clark on what Kryptonians were like... I have seen speculation that maybe the message was altered by Brainiac, but I think that would alter the significance of Superman healing to videos of growing up with the Kents too much. I have also seen Krypton, and understand that whole thing about Clark is different even for a Kryptonian because he is the first one conceived and carried naturally in centuries. I wonder whether the direction they will take is that that uniqueness warped Jor and Lara's perspective. Or, perhaps more likely, their wildly different outlook someone led to them conceiving naturally. Maybe Zor and Allura will stay true to the traditional ethos of the House of El, and maybe they too were unaware of Jor and Lara's true intentions. After all, for them, their daughter, being a "normal Kryptonian" likely has no prospects of having a hybrid human family. Her future lies only in how she lives her life, not in her reproducing Kryptonian society.
I don't think we need to assign any monolithic traits to Kryptonian culture as a whole based on this message. Even back in the Christopher Reeve Superman there were Kryptonians who took a more virtuous outlook, others (like Zod) who would've been right at home with the whole "rule Earth as a god" thing, and plenty more somewhere in the middle neither particularly good or bad.

Ultimately we saw one couple's perspective of the "true" Krypton in this movie, and may see a different one in any forthcoming Supergirl movie.
 

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Just got done watching it and it was good.

It was way more idealistic than either the last few movies or the mainline comics have been. I can see why folks prefer this version over others.

It will be interesting to see how Gunn tackles Batman, since The Batman isn't part of Gun's vision for the DCU.
 

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