yes, Superman returns

• Even when he was being kicked while he was down, he never stopped struggling.
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• There are complaints from women on my flist that Singer's Lois Lane is as wimpy as Singer's Storm. Maybe I just don't have the 'nads to see it, but when she jumped off the plane I decided I disagree.
• qtrhorserider said, "I bet Jim and Brandon had a lot of bonding moments over, 'Isn't that heat vision stuff cool?'"
• And, "Listening to Williams' score pieces is like hearing all the rules I learned in music theory."
• ( spoiler )

Mostly I'm put in mind of Alan Moore's comment in his introduction to the trade paperback of The Dark Knight Returns, that a legend requires an ending: it's not complete without the sword thrown into the lake, or the ascension to Olympus, or the arrow shot in the air to determine the burial spot. The development in Superman Returns isn't an ending - there are unanswered questions aplenty for mining sequels - but it's a landmark; nothing will ever be the same from now on. I hope Singer gets to make his sequels, and I'll wait to see how this development impacts the legend overall.

Imagination, anyone?

Okay, I guess I need to say this, once, in my own journal, so that from now on instead of typing it over and over again I can just link back here.

Just because a character can do anything, just because he has no physical limits, doesn't mean he's an uninteresting character. It just means you have to do stories about what he won't let himself do ... or, about the circumstances when he will let himself do that.

You just have to be a good writer.