Krypton TV Show

[Cassandra]

Can you say Caprica?

[Iuz the Evil]

Just not that interested, and I'm a big fan of Superman.

[Matt the Bruins]

The ads I saw made it look about as appealing as Inhumans. Hard pass.

[Ragitsu]

Let me guess: talking, talking and more talking paired up with minimal or nonexistent special effects?

[Michael Hopcroft]

You could probably make a thoughtful, intelligent miniseries about the destruction of Krypton from the perspective of those who, whether by choice or accident, were left behind to die.

 

It doesn't look like this will be it....

 

On reflection, how likely is it that the rest of Krypton's vast and experienced scientific community, who all had access to the same data Jor-El had, would have come to a different conclusion. Perhaps they chose to keep it quiet and shut up Jor-El out of fatalism rather than skepticism. They knew the end was coming, and were preparing for death rather than clutching at vague straws of false hope. And there are, in the SUperman canon, several groups of Kryptonians who did in fact manage to escape the planet (the community from which Supergirl emerged is a prime example_).

 

There's a new Hulu series I want to watch that explored a very similar concept about the inevitable end of a doomed Earth. I believe it's called Dark Sun.

[Cassandra]

The Krypton scenes were the worst part of Man of Steel, and that's saying something.

[Lord Liaden]

14 hours ago, Michael Hopcroft said:

On reflection, how likely is it that the rest of Krypton's vast and experienced scientific community, who all had access to the same data Jor-El had, would have come to a different conclusion. Perhaps they chose to keep it quiet and shut up Jor-El out of fatalism rather than skepticism. They knew the end was coming, and were preparing for death rather than clutching at vague straws of false hope. And there are, in the SUperman canon, several groups of Kryptonians who did in fact manage to escape the planet (the community from which Supergirl emerged is a prime example_).

 

I think of the example of the attitude toward global warming in America today. Distrust of the motives of experts, societal pressure to conform, and powerful factions with a vested interest in maintaining the status quo, can outweigh objective evidence in making crucial decisions. By the time the truth is too self-evident to deny, it may be too late to change the outcome.

[RDU Neil]

15 hours ago, Michael Hopcroft said:

There's a new Hulu series I want to watch that explored a very similar concept about the inevitable end of a doomed Earth. I believe it's called Dark Sun.

 

Hard Sun... but yeah, looks good.

 

edit: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6402362/