a reversal..Just that clark would be a lot like superman instead of bumbling around, similar to how peter's not really hiding under any fake persona and is himself until he puts the mask on to become spidey which gives him more freedom to be the charming friendly superhero.
Didn't batman have all these same post crisis/pre crisis/different versions from Adam west to burton to bruce timm too? how did that effect begins' reception by fans?
The idea of making superman seem to come from our collective consciousness was great! But unfortunately, and here's the downer, he came more from donner's collective conscious than anywhere else, although even that's not entirely true. He has a little fleischer to him and something else never really seen before I believe.
what I think may have been lacking a little was the smallville side to superman. We flashback to witness a happy kid learning he's a god in smallville. his mom assures him that he's still got her. we know all that. In the next movie maybe we can learn more about what he was taught by his earth father rather than Jor-el. i remember it was written somewhere that if superman had fallen into the hands of some bad guys, he'd become an evil guy. I think that comes from the animated show and I believed a part of donner's film too. Superman does all these good things because that's who he is and who he was raised to be. In returns it seems as if the only voice that compelled superman to do his service to humanity was jor-el's while his more human side that exploits the good in all of us, mostly his parents, became more and more lost. i'd be interested in more exploration of that human side of superman in relation to his son, heck, even his new family if richard dies, than the side that has to fight like jor el's little soldier. Maybe we will see how he father's his son similarly to how johnathan fathered him?
