Setting the series on Krypton a couple of generations before Superman is born, they're missing the opportunity to feature Jimmy Olsen as the Giant Turtle Boy...but maybe that won't stop them....
"Krypton" coming to SyFy from David Goyer
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Great. Just what we need. ANOTHER Superman origin story.
How many reboots can DC make in a decade?
I grew up with the Christopher Reeve films, which are some of my favorite movies ever. I love the Reeve films. I also got into the Adventures of Superman series, Lois and Clark and Smallville. I've always been a hardcore Superman fan.
But Superman Returns dropped the ball, and I thought Man of Steel sucked.
Clearly, nobody knows what the hell to do with Superman anymore except to make him suck.
Another origin story.
Ugh.
I'm so over it.
I never thought I'd say this but...Make Mine Marvel.
How many reboots can DC make in a decade?
I grew up with the Christopher Reeve films, which are some of my favorite movies ever. I love the Reeve films. I also got into the Adventures of Superman series, Lois and Clark and Smallville. I've always been a hardcore Superman fan.
But Superman Returns dropped the ball, and I thought Man of Steel sucked.
Clearly, nobody knows what the hell to do with Superman anymore except to make him suck.
Another origin story.
Ugh.
I'm so over it.
I never thought I'd say this but...Make Mine Marvel.
I doubt Superman will even be in it. The main character is Kal-El's grandfather. More of a prequel than an origin.
A Superman show without Superman, eh.
Pass.
I'm so sick of Superman's past and origin.
After 1980, nobody has been able to make a Superman SEQUEL worth a damn, so the Superman franchise has been living in the past ever since.
Figuratively and literally.
I'm tired of fuckin' Krypton, I'm tired of fuckin' Jor-El, Lara and all those people. They blow up. We know. How many different ways does DC and WB want us to see it?
How about a Superman story set in the PRESENT?
Fighting and battling NEW foes.
Has Superman had a cool cinematic villain BESIDES Luthor and Zod in nearly 40 years?
There has been no Brainiac, Metallo, or Doomsday.
Spiderman has had 5 movies and have seen almost all his rogues gallery. Batman has had 7 movies, same thing. We've had 6 Superman movies, with only 2 supervillains from his rogues gallery---Luthor and Zod basically. (I don't think Nuclear Man or Ross Webster, a Luthor clone, count.)
Can we get to that before we go back to Superman's past for the 4,569th time?
If the last one is any indication, I don't expect them to be very good...
I honestly didn't think we'd actually see this show, but color me intrigued.
I doubt it'll be connected to the DCCU, though, even with Goyer being behind it.
I doubt it'll be connected to the DCCU, though, even with Goyer being behind it.
I hope it looks like the Krypton of the 60s: Mile-high spires with bridges between them, flying cars, people who dress in color with stars and planets on their chests, wearing headbands. That would be a nice change of pace. 
I think there may be more potential here than it seems on first glance. I mean, sure, we know that Krypton blows up, but that's a generation or so in the future of this series, so it's basically a non-issue. And presumably they'll be going with the standard "Kryptonians have no powers under a red sun" premise rather than the '30s/'40s version where Kryptonians were a race of supermen to begin with. And what Krypton was like before its destruction is practically a blank slate; there have been various interpretations, but nothing immutable. It sounds like the focus is going to be on a disgraced family in a corrupt and chaotic society overcoming its hardships and leading its people into a better age. That sounds like an original interpretation of Krypton's past to me.
So basically, what we're talking about here is a dramatic series about an alien civilization. Period. It's essentially an original science-fiction worldbuilding narrative that they can approach in whatever way they want; calling it "Krypton" is little more than a way to use name recognition to draw in audiences. And that could be very promising. Lots of us have been saying we want more science fiction on Syfy, and now Syfy is trying to give us just that.
So basically, what we're talking about here is a dramatic series about an alien civilization. Period. It's essentially an original science-fiction worldbuilding narrative that they can approach in whatever way they want; calling it "Krypton" is little more than a way to use name recognition to draw in audiences. And that could be very promising. Lots of us have been saying we want more science fiction on Syfy, and now Syfy is trying to give us just that.
Do you think this would be a spacefaring civilization? That's generally a trope if they're shown to be "futuristic". Unfortunately they'd need to reconcile that with the entire race dying when the planet explodes. There are ways to do that; e.g. a bioweapon or a mysterious plague killing off all their colonies and a good number of people on-planet. But it would need to be addressed somehow.
Of course, they could just be (explicitly or implicitly) not shown as spacefaring.
Of course, they could just be (explicitly or implicitly) not shown as spacefaring.
If we ever manage to travel to a populated alien world, I will be incredibly disappointed if it turns out NOT to look like Vancouver.
The more I sat and thought about this, the more I started thinking that it could end up being conceptually similar to the Dune "House" Preludes written by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, which would be awesome.
One version of the Krypton backstory is they were at one time spacefaring, but retreated back to Krypton and put in the genetic modification that anchored them to their home world.
Maybe part of the story this series could tell is about that retreat from the stars, and a father instilling in his son a love of science and a desire to not accept that defeat and always look to the stars, no matter the persecution of his peers.
Matthew McConaughey as Coop-Er.
Coop-ER has not always had a very strong command of how relativity works.
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Gotham started out weak, but it's really become quite interesting by this point. It's actually one of my favorite portrayals of Bruce Wayne, capturing his core personality in a way I quite like.
Speaking of Gotham, has it gone on winter hiatus yet?
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