No need to re-think it, SV has taken a TON more liberties, which doesn't bother me, but that's the truth. Singer introduced a kid that we don't know anything about yet, and he's returning. How is that a bastardization? I've heard it all now...............
You've read the script? If that's what you call a bastardization, I could name a ton more on SV than just this.
Singer is referencing comics as well as the Donner films. Why can't you understand this? It's a great story of what happens to a world without Superman - not only does he have an enemy in Lex, he's also got challenges emotionally. What's wrong with that? With him returning it fits our world with it taking so long to get a Superman film as well as it being a clever way to re-introduce him back to the world within the film............