That's alright. I haven't seen season 3 of Doom Patrol yet, or a couple of other shows I actually want to catch up on. When you said 'staff' for a moment I had to think who besides Mother Mayhem had one.
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I'm on my library's waiting list for Doom Patrol season 3. They have Titans S3 too, but I wanted to do them one at a time, and I'm more interested in Doom Patrol. Although the waiting list is taking surprisingly long to advance.
That Lex Luthor clip is fucking aces. Liking Welliver already.
I am here for Welliver's Luthor. "I can assure you ... the gods already know me."
Going rather supernatural here. Where's Constantine when you need him?
Did they get an assman for a cinematographer, anyway Starfire looked a smokeshow taking on Lex's goons. Odd how she disappeared once the ninjas came out. You'd think that might be a good time to apply some force on Lex. Credits have her as Mame-Anna Diop now.
I think they really seemed to get the look down pretty good this time around. A couple of odd moments like the janky (Chekhov's?) car in the RV and Dick's sleight-of-hand move but overall looks pretty slick. Speaking of the RV I liked the old styling just because it wasn't so typical.
Glad they didn't drag the Connor being locked up for too long because it seems like a cursory autopsy should clear him pretty quickly.
Guess this version of Superman is a bit more cosmic than we typically get.
Never seen ropes on the bowling pins before.
A little cost savings on Beast Boy's lab rampage? I found it amusing so it didn't bother me, like Gene Wilder's feats of speed in Blazing Saddles.
Did they get an assman for a cinematographer, anyway Starfire looked a smokeshow taking on Lex's goons. Odd how she disappeared once the ninjas came out. You'd think that might be a good time to apply some force on Lex. Credits have her as Mame-Anna Diop now.
I think they really seemed to get the look down pretty good this time around. A couple of odd moments like the janky (Chekhov's?) car in the RV and Dick's sleight-of-hand move but overall looks pretty slick. Speaking of the RV I liked the old styling just because it wasn't so typical.
Glad they didn't drag the Connor being locked up for too long because it seems like a cursory autopsy should clear him pretty quickly.
Guess this version of Superman is a bit more cosmic than we typically get.
Never seen ropes on the bowling pins before.
A little cost savings on Beast Boy's lab rampage? I found it amusing so it didn't bother me, like Gene Wilder's feats of speed in Blazing Saddles.
So is Lex actually dead and gone?
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Some interesting tidbits I noticed from episode 1.
- Superman has been in action for 40 years. That must be the longest active Superman we have seen in live action so far. Even Superman and Lois is only 20 years.
- People seem to know his real name, which I don’t know is wise with Silver Banshee around. Lex also seems to know his human name. Hopefully Connor knew that when he introduced himself as Connor Kent.
- Lastly Lex seems to be dying for Kryptonite poisoning, which has been a thing in the comics. There he used to wear constantly a kryptonite ring to keep Superman away, which poisoned him in the long run keeping the fact that Kryptonite does affect humans. It just takes longer.
He might be beat by Ron Ely's "Old Superboy" in the third-season finale of The Adventures of Superboy from 1991 (which didn't have the rights to the name "Superman" and had to tiptoe around naming him). He'd landed on his parallel Earth during the Depression and started his Super-career sometime after World War II, though he was retired in the present, having successfully achieved world peace and prosperity. That means he could've been active as long as 45 years, if he arrived right at the start of the Depression in 1929, begun his Superboy career at age 16 just after the war, and retired only a year before the episode. Although it could certainly have been under 40 as well.
There are too many inconsistencies between the Reeve movies and Superman Returns for that, most of all in the chronology. SR was never meant to be a literal, direct sequel, just a very similar universe where nearly the same events happened roughly 25 years later.
Regardless if he was or wasn't, it was heavily implied he was the Kingdom Come Superman and was probably active for 40 years.
As for the identity of Clark, in the comics his identity is public--at least until the end of Dark Crisis.
He didn't look old enough. He had a bit of silver in his hair, but if he'd been living as Clark Kent for 40 years, people would ask questions about why he didn't look like a man of 70 (the Donnerverse Clark was 30 when he came to Metropolis). It makes more sense that he's the Superman Returns version who lived through Kingdom Come-like events in the years since the movie.
78 to '18 is 40 years.
Which is exactly what I said it was.
There's a few youtube video's of people talking about this movie and keep calling it a sequel to Superman 2. As far as I recall, Singer always said it was 'a sequel in spirit, not literally'. As in keeping the feel and vibe of the first two Reeve movies, but definitely its own thing.
I never really understood why people keep insisting it's a direct sequel either.
I also want to watch Returns now.
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