It's late and I keeping messing up this reply, so let me try one last time:
I've said it before, I'll say it again: Anger is the way to the Dark Side. Take a deep breath, dude. You're gonna pop.
And let me take this moment of Zen to clarify a few things. I've never used the "we're following the comics" as an excuse for anything we do (at least I don't recall having said that). What I've said is that we are locked into certain things dictated by DC Comics and Warner Bros. These are mythology points that we cannot change, such as Pa Kent dies, Clark and Lex end up as mortal enemies, and eventually Clark winds up with Lois sometime in the future. A lot of the other events are open to reinterpretation. This is something that's also very common in the comics as well.
Elements of the legend have been re-imagined or altered many times before (just take a look at the evolution of Superman's "S" or the fact that in one version Superboy was responsible for Lex losing his hair). And do I even have to point out that General Zod was created for Superman the Movie? This pivotal character didn't even exist in the mythology before that.
So, to reiterate: we are beholden to certain mythological story points. Others are more fluid. And anger will never lead to inner peace.
Posted by
DeKnight on Saturday, August 19, 2006 at 1:19 AM