LMAO!!!!!
I'm so old (insert "how old are you?" here), I have an *8-track tape* with that skit on it!
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I'm so old (insert "how old are you?" here), I have an *8-track tape* with that skit on it!
All this talk of older Supes series reminds me of this Superboy clip:
Could somebody please explain to me how one simple act...
could cause such a collapse of society? I don't remember the episode ever explaining how that happened.
I mean, at one point, Superboy just says
But WHY? It never explains why or how that happened. It doesn't make any sense.
Could somebody please explain to me how one simple act...
Superboy killing Luthor
could cause such a collapse of society? I don't remember the episode ever explaining how that happened.
I mean, at one point, Superboy just says
"This is what would happen if I did kill him."
But WHY? It never explains why or how that happened. It doesn't make any sense.
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I think another line from that clip -- "It's all hopeless" -- is a big part of the answer. When Superboy betrays the heroic ideal he represents by committing murder, the idea is that it shakes the world that has come to believe in him to its core.
Is it "realistic" that the effect would be so devastating? Probably not. But realism is wildly overrated as a goal in these kinds of stories. Think of it more as a parable, where what the character represents morally is more important than any logical cause-and-effect.
Is it "realistic" that the effect would be so devastating? Probably not. But realism is wildly overrated as a goal in these kinds of stories. Think of it more as a parable, where what the character represents morally is more important than any logical cause-and-effect.
...because there was no way that was not going to be used to give insta-credit as a real journalist without doing anything to earn the distinction. Supergirl is not alone in depicting journalism as some banging-the-typwriter-during-the-1940s profession, or the most honorable, heroic profession on earth. It does not fit with either perception.
I see Berlanti productions answer to that question as a collective shoulder shrug.
Aww, Dr. Quinn! I loved that as a kid, watching with family.
Superboy is all that's pure and good in the world. Seeing him do something unforgivable broke everyone's spirit, all at once.All this talk of older Supes series reminds me of this Superboy clip:
Could somebody please explain to me how one simple act...
Superboy killing Luthor
could cause such a collapse of society? I don't remember the episode ever explaining how that happened.
I mean, at one point, Superboy just says
"This is what would happen if I did kill him."
But WHY? It never explains why or how that happened. It doesn't make any sense.
Like is somehow everyone got irrefutable proof that Jesus was a douchebag.
As much as I love Supergirl, even I'll admit they never seemed to really put any real effort into anything the characters did as reporters. The few times they did focus on them being journalists, it was pretty clear they didn't put even didn't bother trying to makng it realistic.
I'm not sure which is worse ther Arrowvere's handeling of journalism, or trials.
All I know about journalism I learned from movies and TV.
I'd watch it.
Lois Lane and Billie (from Lou Grant) are why I took - and nearly failed - a journalism class in high school.
OMG! There's a name I haven't heard in a while. Loved Billie.
Me too.OMG! There's a name I haven't heard in a while. Loved Billie.
All this talk of older Supes series reminds me of this Superboy clip:
Could somebody please explain to me how one simple act...
Superboy killing Luthor
could cause such a collapse of society? I don't remember the episode ever explaining how that happened.
I haven't seen the episode, but I can see people putting on their brown pants if some one that powerful started going off the rails at all.
^ Even if it was Luthor he killed?
Hopefully, he'd kill Zod again.
In my head canon the first Zod was killed by the Christopher Reeve Superman since the deleted scenes from the Fortress of Solitude show him destroying the Fortress on top of the bodies of the three supervillains. Maybe they weren't dead when they first fell or were thrown or knocked into the bowels of the Fortress but they were dead afterwards.
Yes, the ramifications would still be terrifying.
