THIS IS KATT LOSING IT WITH GLEE

[xenokattz]

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MARTHA KENT IS HIS ISLAND!
LOIS TOOK HIS HAND!
THE WORLD IS TOO BIG SO HE FOCUSES ON ONE PERSON ZOMG WHAT IS THIS BEAUTIFUL THING IN THE TRAILER PLEASE LET IT FOLLOW THROUGH I AM DIZZY FROM SPINNING IN MY CHAIR OF JOY & CHOCOLATE VODKA FOUNTAINS IN HEAVEN.

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[jlvsclrk]

It broke my heart though to hear Jonathan say maybe he should have let the boy die. But I love how they've set up the conflict here: is he simply too powerful to let fly free?

[xenokattz]

I don't think it was a "too powerful to fly" or "hide our shame/fear" thing. I saw it as a loving father, a human with faults as well as strengths, who panicked at that moment because his son could be in danger. It wasn't "Let the kids die" it was "Let my son live" which is, I admit, a very fine line but one that I can see Jonathan Kent treading. Clark got his protectiveness from Jonathan as much as he got his gentleness from Martha.

[jlvsclrk]

I expressed myself poorly. I agree that Jonathan wasn't saying 'let them die' so much as 'keep yourself safe'. But underlying his attitude is the fear of how society as a whole will react if/when Clark finally does start to publicly do his thing. I think that's really fertile soil for Super-story telling, shifting the ultimate conflict from a physical one (which Clark can always win) to an emotional one.

[xenokattz]

Clark's emotional & relationship conflicts are, IMHO, the most compelling stories because, as you said, he'll always win the physical ones.

[jadengreen36]

Ooooh, I hadn't seen this yet. Cool :-)

[vikingprincess]

What a great trailer!

(but part of me is just wondering, what on earth could shave Superman's beard?)

[xenokattz]

His own fingernails (a la HANCOCK). Or, if you follow comics, his own heat vision angled off a mirror/Kryptonian crystal.

[vikingprincess]

Heh, totally not a DC comic reader, but that second one occurred to me. )Hancock style just made me wonder what he'd use to clean under his fingernails afterward.) :P

It looks to me as though they took some excellent Smallville-flavored inspiration for the childhood parts, though.

[msp_hacker]

The burning question for me is still "Why is Clark Kent a crab fisherman?".

And LOIS.

[xenokattz]

Ain't nothing like fresh seafood, gosh darnit.

[philstar22]

Amazing. I'm so excited for this.

And I love that Martha is just as important here as Jonathan. I hope the same is true with Lara and Jor El. Too often, Superman things focus on the father/son relationships and ignore his mothers.

[xenokattz]

Isn't it lovely? Most of the Superman stories I've read/watched focussed a lot of Clark's relationship with Martha, actually-- the older 90s comics & Smallville mostly-- so I'm very excited to see that realised in the movies.

[philstar22]

I was thinking of the movies mostly, where even though Jonathan dies, he's still more important than Martha and where Lara barely registers in comparison to Jor El.

Really, I just love it when all four parents are equally important. And my favorite is where the Kents are really important and where Clark is Clark and Superman is just the mask rather than the other way around.

[xenokattz]

Yeah, that does happen in the movies, doesn't it? Again, this is the fun part about comics & SMALLVILLE-- MOAR mommas. ;) May I recommend BIRTHRIGHT by Mark Waid & Leinil Yu as an excellent comic where all 4 parents are important in different ways. I defo see BIRTHRIGHT in what I've seen of Jonathan's portrayal in MoS. And, of course, SMALLVILLE has HUGE Martha Kent arcs in it. Lara still didn't get as much screen time as Jor-el but she does get at least 1 episode (if not 2) focussed on her.

My favourite reading of Clark|Superman is when they're equal parts of a whole. He plays up his Clarkishness at the Planet & his Supermanness as Superman but they're both still genuinely him. The UP, UP & AWAY arc (Kurt Busiek, Geoff Johns, Pete Woods & Renato Guedes) does this really well, as does the AU, SUPERMAN: SECRET IDENTITY by Busiek (again) & Stuart Immonen.