Comments | dr_hermes: Superman gets yet another new power

dr_hermes

Superman gets yet another new power

Aug 12, 2010 22:54

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egm3 August 13 2010, 03:22:53 UTC

"Just start over at a certain month with the origin stories and take it from there."

That's what Toho did with the "Millenium" Godzilla series. Except for one Mechagodzilla sequal, all of the movies from "Godzilla 2000" thru "Final Wars" were stand-alone sequals to the original 1954 movie.

dr_hermes August 13 2010, 03:27:51 UTC

You know, I didn't quite catch that. I'm a moderate Godzilla fan and have watched nearly all of the recent ones. But the reset didn't register.

So not only do the recent films have nothing to do with say GODZILLA VS MEGALON, they are not related to each other either? That's a bold approach.

egm3 August 13 2010, 03:40:32 UTC

The series before that (the one featuring the psychic Miki) ended with "Godzilla vs Destroyer" in which Godzilla II (the original having died in the 1954 film), was killed by an internal meltdown. The baby Godzilla, now having grown to Godzilla Jr, survived and was apperently supposed to take over. That idea was dropped and instead they did the Millenium series.

I like how they always held the 1954 film as "sacred" and all series take off from that initial event.

dr_hermes August 13 2010, 03:51:27 UTC

That explains it. Thanks, I was confused a bit watching the later films but just figured continuity was not that high a priority for them.

m_faustus August 13 2010, 04:33:12 UTC

There's obviously a reason for the scans_daily to have a superdickery tag. As I read this story, Superman is jealous of a tiny version of his subconscious so he kills it. What a jerk.

dr_hermes August 13 2010, 11:38:03 UTC

No, I can sympathize with him. Without his consent, his super-powers have been taken from him and given to something that may or may not have independent thought and volition. The little duplicate starts acting on its own, before getting instructions from Superman. Maybe it is just receiving orders from his subconscious but maybe it is in fact making its own decisions ( ... )

m_faustus August 13 2010, 22:17:14 UTC

Well, perhaps. But he really didn't do anything to try and fix the problem. He didn't even try and talk to it. He used it until he got jealous and then put it in a situation where it was going to die. I am not really that sympathetic to our hero here.

dr_hermes August 13 2010, 22:34:30 UTC

The story could have benefitted from a few more pages. We don't see the duplicate speak at all, nor do we see Superman try to communicate with it. That could have been interesting, whichever way it went.

As it stands, having his powers removed and given to an energy homunculus who showed signs of developing its own volition was just forced on Superman. He didn't know anything about the process that caused this problem. A panel would be enlightening that showed him at the Fortress with advanced machinery, thinking "It's no use. Nothing in Kryptonian science relates to this. I don't know how to reverse the process... if it even can be reversed."

As it is, the story is rather ambiguous.