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Ignore Jamie's guffaws to the contrary, but I quite like being proven wrong about (some) things. Example: I started watching
Supergirl because I like Kara Zor-El quite a bit as a comics character (and mad props to Helen Slater for being better than her bad movie). I found the first couple of episodes of
Supergirl hilariously bad, and then the show start playing against expectations and I found myself
enjoying Supergirl in a sort of "this is okay TV and pretty fun" sort of way. It's not exactly
The Americans, and it can't sustain 22 episodes per year and I wish they'd cut it to 13, but it's in my TV rotation.
So despite the David S. Goyer association and SyFy channel "we're doing serious Sci-Fi now" and some pretty boring adverts for the show (which, weirdly, ran incessantly during the Winter Olympics on NBC), I wanted to give
Krypton a try. Sure, it looked plodding and joyless in the vein of Goyer's
Man of Steel work, selling that "but this is seeerious, Mom" vibe that one can only get when everything is gray and poorly lit like a nightclub that will have a brief but forgettable existence.
Krypton has an uphill battle no matter what. It's not a mistake that DC Comics has only explored Superman's home planet in bursts via single issue appearances and the occasional brief mini-series. If the stories don't arc toward Superman - you're more or less looking at a planet knowing "oh, you guys are boned". After all - the point of Krypton (the planet, not the show) is to be either a near Utopia that made some critically bad choices about getting out of Dodge, or to exist as a highly advanced planet that should have been named "Hubris".
