Originally posted by mrsMxyzptlk:
Originally posted by VirginiaR:
[b] Zod's comment about it taking them "33 years" to find Earth. Um... Would that be Kryptonian years or Earth years, and how to calculate "years" in space?
Originally posted by John Lambert:
I have no problem with him saying "24 hours". If he has mastered things about earth enough to broadcast in their own language a massive broadcast to the entire earth, I have no problem with him knowing about hours. If he can speak in English, he can use English terms.
33 years. There I think it is part of their deliberate analogies to Christ dying at 33. Persoanlly, I think that was a bit much.
I assumed it was a Hobbit reference, since in the Shire 33 is when you become an adult.
I do agree about the time references, we see scenes with the message "You are not alone" in many different languages. Clearly they spent sometime learning the languages, so why is anyone surprised that they learned our units of measurement for time and translated theirs into ours?
Originally posted by IolantheAlias:
[QUOTEI got the impression that the Army had been chasing Superman around for some time (I'm thinking weeks to months) to "find out where he hangs his cape". And I'm also thinking that by now, it's kind of turning into a game between General Swanwick (and his aides) and Superman. When Superman tells Swanwick that the latter should intercede for Superman in Washington, Swanwick responds with a sort of good-natured exasperation.
I like this idea, it also gives one a sense that some larger period of time has passed.
Originally posted by HappyGirl:
5. Perry must know S=CK. it's the only possible reason he'd hire a completely unqualified applicant like Clark. Either that, or Clark forged credentials the same way he forged previous identities for previous jobs.
First, Perry didn't hire him in the sense of a job with hours and a salary. It is made clear Clark is a
stringer 2nd why do you see Clark as an unqualified applicant?
We don't know how much time has passed between scenes. It could have been years.
I picture Clark as Superman doing all sorts of things all around the world while Clark as Clark takes classes to prepare for his new job as a reporter.
Imagine him already having finished college before he started wandering the world. Now he goes back, and adds the few classes needed to get a second or third degree, this one in journalism.
He could also use this time period to put some distance between Superman and Lois Lane. After being outed on TV and having the FBI come after her, clearly something needs to be done.
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I think the part I liked most was Clark traveling around the world, helping people and moving on.
Years of traveling, hundreds of rescues, time for Clark to make friends, to lose them, to help, to fail to help, to grow as a person.
