That made me crack up. You know it takes 9 months for a human from conceiving until actual birth. Maybe for Kryptonians it's longer... A lot can happen in 9 months, y'know...
It doesn't have to go in that order, you know.
But doesn't it always go in that order?
Take Birthright: " I warned them, Lara. The building pressure at Krypton's core... the groundquake... my findings... all 'under advisement' by an administrative council of dismissive fools. By now, we should have a fleet of starcraft carrying us all to safety... instead of a single prototype barely large enough for our son."
How much time would it take for this lone, prophetic scientist to a) Verify the "building pressure" and present his "findings" and b) Develop a prototype "starcraft" (the like of which apparently does not yet exist) for the purposes of planetary evacuation? Sound time-consuming to me! Plus, he seems to think that this baby-sized prototype could have been elaborated into a fleet of starcrafts capable of transporting the planet's entire population to safety (presumably, to another inhabitable planet)! Or was he completely mental?
At some point while working on all of this stuff, Jor-El had to have decided "The misses and I should have a baby." Unless there was some Maury Povich paternity drama. If it's the latter case, then we better see it in MOS!
But doesn't it always go in that order?
But doesn't it always go in that order?
Take Birthright: " I warned them, Lara. The building pressure at Krypton's core... the groundquake... my findings... all 'under advisement' by an administrative council of dismissive fools. By now, we should have a fleet of starcraft carrying us all to safety... instead of a single prototype barely large enough for our son."
How much time would it take for this lone, prophetic scientist to a) Discover this potentially cataclysmic phenomenon, verify the "building pressure" and present his "findings", AND b) Develop a prototype "starcraft" (the like of which apparently does not yet exist) for the purposes of planetary evacuation? Sound time-consuming to me! Plus, he seems to think that this baby-sized prototype could have been elaborated into a fleet of starcrafts capable of transporting the planet's entire population to safety (presumably, to another inhabitable planet)! Or was he completely mental?
At some point while working on all of this stuff, Jor-El had to have decided "The misses and I should have a baby." Unless there was some Maury Povich paternity drama. If it's the latter case, then we better see it in MOS!
I'd say it goes like this:
Lara gets preggers and shortly after, some weird earthquake starts happening. Jor-el, a scientist, is unhappy with the way that the council is treating the earthquakes (basically dismissing them), and worried for his families future, he starts to conduct his own research for his own peace of mind.
Within a few months, he's discovered the horrible truth (krypton is doomed) and presented it to the council. But they have dismissed him still.
He then sets about building this prototype, out of his own money and materials, and in his own time. In THAT time, feesibly the entire of Krypton could have been working on a fleet of star ships to get their people to safety if they'd listened to him. If one man can build one ship, surely the planet could have sorted out a fleet of ships.
And then baby Kal-el is born. We have no idea how many months old he is by the time the ship is finished and the planet is doomed.
Seems alright to me
Eh, people just think it's cool to be hyper-critical on the internet. They want to be the discerning, learned observer. Really, they're just posers.
Huh? How else would Kal-El get to Earth?
I think your post covers it rather well... but that sentence just reeks of awkward
"Don't worry dear, those aren't kicks... they're earthquakes. All of Krypton feel it. There is no baby El."
