Baby On the Way

The Number One reason why the most recent Superman movie was awful was not the story or the acting. The Number One reason was that Superman had a kid with Lois Lane. Two reasons immediately come to mind why this is an awful plot twist and the guy who wrote the script should be hit with a frying pan:
1) If an invincible daddy gets together with a fragile and mortal mommy, I’m not sure mommy would survive the ordeal.
2) They are different species. Not like a chihuahua and great dane different. I’m talking fikus tree and African lion different.

6 thoughts on “Baby On the Way

  • 1/23/2008 at 9:30 pm
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    1) I’ve actually had this conversation before. Without going into detail, the consensus was that Superman (assuming his body is human enough that it works the same in conception) would destroy a human woman.
    2)I’m not sure “species” necessarily even applies to Aliens – it’s possible they don’t even fit into our known taxonomilogical framework.

    P.S. taxonomilogical only yields TWO results on Google! Cool.

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  • 1/23/2008 at 9:57 pm
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    reminds me of the movie Mall Rats where they start talking about how he could only do it with Wonder Woman or a Kryptonite Condom (which wouldnt result in a kid).

    That part of the movie about super-kid bugged me. The part that also bugged me was Lex Luthor’s plan for Real Estate Domination! I can understand making a kryptonite island to kill superman, but who the heck would want to live there??? (though I might have missed something, but that time I was looking at my watch waiting for it to be over)

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  • 1/24/2008 at 9:02 am
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    I can’t remember where I read this, but I remember from somewhere hearing that the Kryptonian genome is quadruple stranded… So, from a traditional genetic recombination standpoint, that spells huge imcompatibility with human genes in my remembrance of general genetics.

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  • 1/24/2008 at 12:06 pm
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    I only watched the movie once because it wasn’t that interesting, but didn’t the kid have asthma or something? That would be the wimpy human genes coming into play. But I should think that would interfere with the super strength. I just didn’t find it believable.

    Let’s say for argument’s sake that Lois could get pregnant by Superman, I should think the pregnancy itself would kill her. What happens when a baby with super strength starts kicking?

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  • 1/24/2008 at 3:57 pm
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    The thing is that even Superman slowly developed his powers while growing up on Earth. So, the kid could be fragile while young, but he’ll soon turn into an unstoppable juggernaut – supposedly according to the literature.

    An independent publisher, Dynamite, just published a comic called Boys where a similar thing happens. I’ll simply say that they don’t hold any punches when they show what happens when a human is carrying a superbaby.

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  • 1/25/2008 at 10:27 am
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    The kid thing is a logical fallacy, sure. But it’s a comic book. The dude flys can you explain that? Other than magic, I can’t really see how that would work.

    The reason the movie sucked was because there were about 10 lines of dialogue in the whole script. Kevin Spacey and Parker Posey were the evil people and they said about 5 words each. BORING.

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