yes, Superman returns

[scarfman]

• Even when he was being kicked while he was down, he never stopped struggling.
• qtrhorserider spotted when I didn't that the boy seems to be empowered by kryptonite.
• 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."
• Superman will not want to come between Lois and Richard now. He'll want Jason to have it as good as he had: a loving foster father to whom he comes first.

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.

Comments

[kail-panille.livejournal.com]

(If somehow one reached this point without being aware of the spoilers, um... SPOILER!)

If he is empowered by Kryptonite, it must be a lasting thing. He did his only notable super-stuff when the kryptonite was out of his vicinity, and had been for some time. Perhaps it was a one-off thing--maybe he just needed to be exposed once for the Kryptonian DNA to kick in? I don't recall him being asthmatic after the kryptonite showed up, even when he was under lots of stress.

[scarfman]

But by the time Jason and Lois were shut up in the storage room, his strength had receded again, so even if the kryptonite had a lasting effect on his asthma the superpower effect was only temporary. It does seem there was a delay in, as it were, powering up. Yet, did Jason attempt any other super-powered feats between when Luthor waved the Kryptonite at him and the piano incident? No - but he no had reason to think he could, plus no impetus to try. The assault on Lois gave him the impetus to try. Perhaps, if they had only known, in the immediate wake of the exposure, he was empowered enough that he could have flown off with Lois.

Actually ... what's more likely is that he stores kryptonite power like a battery does, the way his father stores yellow solar energy. And he didn't charge enough from Luthor's pass that he could perform more than one feat of super strength (but enough residual charge remained to treat or maybe cure his asthma). He'd need the kind of exposure to kryptonite that his father got to sunlight growing up in Kansas to realize the same potential.

(Of course the obvious corrolary to the latter hypothesis is the hypothesis that yellow sunlight affects him the way kryptonite affects his father. Which could explain those Ds in P.E.)

We need sequels.

[larksilver.livejournal.com]

I didn't find Lois particularly wimpy, but I did find her difficult to like, as usual.

For some reason, the Lois character has always been an unsympathetic one to me. She lies whenever it suits her, she treats Clark like dirt, and yet, he dotes on her.

The man of steel is the ultimate b*tch magnet?

Sure, sure, she did pull out all the stops to save his arse, later, which redeemed her some in my mind. But grr.