Adam Strange was a straight up science fiction strip for the most part. Though he did crossover with superheroes on occasion.
"Krypton" coming to SyFy from David Goyer
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It seems very familiar to me too though I don't recall why. (I'm not thinking of the Quintessons - or the helmet in Chronicles of Riddick either).
Most of my Superman experience comes from tv and films from 78 onwards. Perhaps it popped up in the animated show at some point.
That's probably the one I've seen the least amount of times.
It falls into the broad definition of "sci-fi" that TV and movies tend to employ, in that it involves extraordinary technologies or mutations, aliens, etc. And superhero comics tend to be a mashup of elements from many genres, from straight SF to out-and-out fantasy and horror to detective noir to Westerns to romance comics to everything else under the sun. That's because they used to be just one of the many genres that comics covered, and over time, comics series in multiple different genres crossed over and converged with each other (for instance, the more sci-fi-oriented Superman, the more detective-oriented Batman, and the more fantasy-oriented Wonder Woman), or else creators who gained their experience working in those other genres (e.g. Lee and Kirby) ended up synthesizing their elements in their superhero comics.
But my point is, Krypton is a show on the Syfy channel and it's set on an alien planet. So it's being approached as a science fiction drama, and it's drawing specifically on those aspects of the DC universe that are connected to space opera and the more straight-up science fiction aspects of DC lore. So Adam, a character from present-day Earth, was included to provide balance to that alienness. He's still part of that cosmic/SF side of DC, basically their version of Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers, but he's also an ordinary 20th/21st-century American. His essence as a character is as a bridge between the Earthly and the alien, so that's how they're using him here.
That kind of mask design has been used in various places before; I don't think it's specific to one source. As far as I know, the Voice of Rao is a concept original to the show, though of course the idea of Rao as the deity of Krypton dates back to the early '80s (though it was originally just the name of Krypton's sun in the '70s).
You decided he was a bad person just because he smokes? That seems a bit harsh.
I'm not a smoker myself, and I do think it's a digusting habit that really needs to be stopped, but it's not enough to turn me against a person. I've known plenty of decent people who smoke. Hell, half the people I work with smoke, and most of them are good people.
Episode 3:
The word is "ordnance," not "ordinance."
That Lyta and Seg could have a secret meeting alone together while she is trying to keep her troops under control is laughable and absurd.
This show is pretty ridiculous.
The word is "ordnance," not "ordinance."
That Lyta and Seg could have a secret meeting alone together while she is trying to keep her troops under control is laughable and absurd.
This show is pretty ridiculous.
Sorry.
I am dumb and slow.
Seg-El... So that means that his wife eventually will be Shus-Ter.
God save us.
Flash Gordon became fantastic after a lengthy period of shittiness.
I saw Ming on Queer as Folk a couple days ago.
Nice body for an old dude.
One of my problems with Smallville was that the humans were too dumb to differentiate between an answerphone message and a real person, so I am glad that that was addressed straight away by explaining to Adam that gramps was AI.
So...
This Brainiac who we see on camera, and throwing probes into space, is from present day in the past.... (The 19th century? Have we been able to date when Adam is from? He was smoking a cigarette from frakks sake, which could mean that he is from the 1980s.) Who seems to have no special knowledge about Krypton that would have come from foreknowledge from being a time traveler, or being manipulated by a time traveler...
So that means possibly that there is a second Brainiac, but from the future, who has not become involved as yet, unless "he" (Brainiac is sometimes female) is under the mask of the Voice of Rao.
The Bottle City of Kandor is oldschool canon, so Brainiac is supposed to attack Krypton, and take Kandor... It's necessary history.
Are they kinda hinting that Kandor is the ONLY city on Krypton?
Brainiac is supposed to take Kandor.
Without that happening, the history of Superman is in danger.
Which means that Adam is the bad guy out to destroy Superman, by saving Kandor and marrying Seg-El off to the wrong woman who will make the wrong baby who will never sire Kal-El.
Moreso...
I don't think that Kandor is the only city on Krypton, I think that Kandor is already a bottle city, and that the Kryptonians inside the Bottle have been truman-show-ed into believing the shape of their world is very small and that the boundaries of their world should never be approached.
I am dumb and slow.
Seg-El... So that means that his wife eventually will be Shus-Ter.
God save us.
Flash Gordon became fantastic after a lengthy period of shittiness.
I saw Ming on Queer as Folk a couple days ago.
Nice body for an old dude.
One of my problems with Smallville was that the humans were too dumb to differentiate between an answerphone message and a real person, so I am glad that that was addressed straight away by explaining to Adam that gramps was AI.
So...
This Brainiac who we see on camera, and throwing probes into space, is from present day in the past.... (The 19th century? Have we been able to date when Adam is from? He was smoking a cigarette from frakks sake, which could mean that he is from the 1980s.) Who seems to have no special knowledge about Krypton that would have come from foreknowledge from being a time traveler, or being manipulated by a time traveler...
So that means possibly that there is a second Brainiac, but from the future, who has not become involved as yet, unless "he" (Brainiac is sometimes female) is under the mask of the Voice of Rao.
The Bottle City of Kandor is oldschool canon, so Brainiac is supposed to attack Krypton, and take Kandor... It's necessary history.
Are they kinda hinting that Kandor is the ONLY city on Krypton?
Brainiac is supposed to take Kandor.
Without that happening, the history of Superman is in danger.
Which means that Adam is the bad guy out to destroy Superman, by saving Kandor and marrying Seg-El off to the wrong woman who will make the wrong baby who will never sire Kal-El.
Moreso...
I don't think that Kandor is the only city on Krypton, I think that Kandor is already a bottle city, and that the Kryptonians inside the Bottle have been truman-show-ed into believing the shape of their world is very small and that the boundaries of their world should never be approached.
Saw that! Very happy, been waiting for this. Krypton should look and sound great on Blu.
It’s interesting, I watched the first couple episodes when they aired. I liked it but got distracted by too many other shows and real life. A couple weeks ago I want to catch up bit could not remember where I left off. I had read some episode descriptions and decided to just jump to the season finale out of curiosity. I really liked it, The picture quality is really poor watching episodes on the SYFY app through my Roku though. I am tempted just to wait any buy the Blu Rays and watch all the episodes from the beginning.
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