Spoilers Krypton season 1

[The Realist]

I've only seen the first episode, meant to binge the rest but I hear the ending's a cliffhanger, so without being too spoilery, what kind of a cliffhanger is it?

Is it "most plot threads resolved" or more "everything up in the air" type.
Cause if it's the latter, I'll just wait till Season 2.

I would say more the latter, with a couple of major characters, Krypton, Earth, Superman, the future, and who knows what all else in some kind of unresolved crisis or jeopardy. (Not sure why that means you should wait till next year to watch, however.)

 

[Kytee]

I've only seen the first episode, meant to binge the rest but I hear the ending's a cliffhanger, so without being too spoilery, what kind of a cliffhanger is it?

Is it "most plot threads resolved" or more "everything up in the air" type.
Cause if it's the latter, I'll just wait till Season 2.

I would say they resolve the core season one story while setting up several mysteries for next season. My suggestion would be to watch the whole season rather then wait. If there was still a doubt as to whether or not season two will go ahead I might tell you to hold off, but since we will see more, it satisfied me

 

[Christopher]

I would say they resolve the core season one story while setting up several mysteries for next season.

Yes. It decisively resolves the major story arc of this season, then has a time jump at the end to show the new status quo that will drive the second season.

 

[dahj]

(Not sure why that means you should wait till next year to watch, however.)

Limited time, big backlog of stuff I wanna check out and I'd rather check out something that has some sort of an ending, though....

I would say they resolve the core season one story while setting up several mysteries for next season.

Yes. It decisively resolves the major story arc of this season

... its sounds like that is the case here. I don't mind if the cliffhanger is a tease for next season.
Thanks all.

 

[The Realist]

A Den of Geek interview with one of the showrunners has clarified the situation with Adam Strange somewhat.

Spoiler

Apparently, he zeta-beamed back to present-day Detroit, which in the altered timeline, first fell under Zod's dominion and was then captured and bottled by Brainiac -- not the Brainiac of Krypton's era, but one still active in the 21st century, thus proving his defeat in this episode wasn't permanent.

Confused yet?

 

[Mr. Adventure]

Which population seems smaller, Kryptonians or Asgardians?

 

[Christopher]

Which population seems smaller, Kryptonians or Asgardians?

In the movies, Asgard seems about the size of a single city. In the show, I believe they said that Kandor is one of seven Kryptonian city-states. So I'd say that, between those two versions, the Asgardian population is smaller.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

I was thinking on-screen, show not tell, they both seem pretty puny.

 

[Guy Gardener]

In the movies, Asgard seems about the size of a single city. In the show, I believe they said that Kandor is one of seven Kryptonian city-states. So I'd say that, between those two versions, the Asgardian population is smaller.

With lifespans of 50 centuries... Pregnancies would last 30 years, and the window for an ethical abortion would be 8 years.

It'd be positively exhausting to grow their village more than a few thousand persons.

 

[Christopher]

I was thinking on-screen, show not tell, they both seem pretty puny.

In that case, I'd still go with Asgardians, if we're talking about Thor: Ragnarok specifically. The Asgard scenes carried little emotional weight because there was nobody there to identify with except Heimdall, and maybe Skurge if a few conflicted, brooding looks from Karl Urban are enough to constitute a characterization. There was hardly any there there. But Krypton has established a fair number of supporting characters to give a feel for the community on the various social strata.

 

[Marc]

Which population seems smaller, Kryptonians or Asgardians?

A few eps back it was mentioned the population of Krypton was in the millions which I thought in a way was a bit small but as the planet is depicted here, it's not particularly hospitable leading to a lower population.

 

[Tuvix5675]

Whoa... Imagine how frustrating it would be if Syfy hadn't renewed the show and we were left with that cliffhanger.

Once Brainiac was in the Fortress, I thought it was going to turn out to have been Zod's idea all along to lure him into the Phantom Zone. So I anticipated what the solution was, but not who was behind it. I guess it did have to be Seg who saved the day -- although in so doing, he may have lost the future. We've gone from a timeline where Krypton would live on peacefully for another 200 years and leave Superman as its legacy to one where it's conquered by General Zod in a single month and on the verge of becoming a galactic menace.

I don't get how the temporal logic plays out, though. How does Superman's cape get restored by Seg being lost in the Phantom Zone? There's no way he'd even be conceived without his grandfather around to produce his father. Unless it turns out that the fetus Kor-Vex gets renamed Jor-El.

And did Adam get sucked into the future? It looked like he was on Earth, and an Earth that had been conquered by Zod, so it must be in the future -- but he was in one of Brainiac's bottle cities, and Brainiac was defeated in the present. So does Zod end up using Brainiac's ship and its bottle technology for his own conquests?

And what was the deal with that whole business about Nyssa turning out to be a clone? That was a weird digression that didn't seem to have anything to do with the story. I guess it's setting up a season 2 arc, but it felt like an intrusion here.

I'm confused by the appearance of Dev Em in this episode. How did he get back to normal? Didn't he die as an infected agent of Rao a few episodes back?

 

[Marc]

I'm confused by the appearance of Dev Em in this episode. How did he get back to normal? Didn't he die as an infected agent of Rao a few episodes back?

Well 3/4 normal given he's not got an artificial arm but yes there seems to be something missing about his resurrection. Maybe what ever "infected" him withdrew thinking that he was a good as dead but then how does he get back into Kandor after he was shot and left for dead. Perhaps S2 will explain all.

 

[DigificWriter]

Well 3/4 normal given he's not got an artificial arm but yes there seems to be something missing about his resurrection. Maybe what ever "infected" him withdrew thinking that he was a good as dead but then how does he get back into Kandor after he was shot and left for dead. Perhaps S2 will explain all.

I'm confused by the appearance of Dev Em in this episode. How did he get back to normal? Didn't he die as an infected agent of Rao a few episodes back?

Did you guys not watch Episodes 8 and 9?

 

[Marc]

Did you guys not watch Episodes 8 and 9?

Yes.

I can remember him getting shot and dragging himself (or maybe that was Jayna).

 

[DigificWriter]

Lyta, Jayna, Seg, and Zod go retrieve him in Savage Night and use his interface connection with the Voice of Rao to incapacitate the Red Shard so they can attack while the Voice is draining the Genesis Chamber.

 

[Marc]

Lyta, Jayna, Seg, and Zod go retrieve him in Savage Night and use his interface connection with the Voice of Rao to incapacitate the Red Shard so they can attack while the Voice is draining the Genesis Chamber.

okay remember that part now - though still no sure who he got medical help as I thought he was left for dead.

 

[DigificWriter]

okay remember that part now - though still no sure who he got medical help as I thought he was left for dead.

They brought him to the Fortress of Solitude and hooked him up to the equipment that they used to access his neural interface, and also hooked him up to medical equipment at the same time, and Lyta mentions in passing in Episode 9, Hope, that he's recovering and will survive.

 

[crookeddy]

okay remember that part now - though still no sure who he got medical help as I thought he was left for dead.

It was pretty much clear as day that they brought him to the fortress and he was making a recovery... You had to have missed an episode to be this confused.

 

[crookeddy]

0.56 million is the rating for the finale, which is the second lowest of the season. This show will have to pick up viewers before season 2 premieres to survive past 2 seasons, and I don't think it's going to pick any up, due to the fact that it's a rather awful show.