Oh, right, because it sucks.

[apocalypsos]

After stumbling through the Superman Returns section of the Pit of Voles, I've now got fresh reminders of why I avoid it like the plague. Not that I needed them, but STILL. For example ...

1. The man's name is Richard, not Robert. If you can't bother to get that much right, I can't bother to read it.
2. Richard was not an asshole. I repeat, Richard was not an asshole. He wasn't a drunk, he wasn't abusive, and he sure as hell wasn't presented as the kind of guy who'd respond to being thrown over for Superman by throwing a hissy fit.
3. I highly doubt that Lois and Richard would never bother to tell Jason that he was Superman's son until he was an adult and that he wouldn't have figured it out by then, considering he's a five-year-old who threw a piano at a henchman, his mother has a close relationship with Superman, and he's not missing his brain.
4. Oh, my God, the SUES. They're everywhere. Girlfriends who weren't there before, sisters who didn't exist, nieces who make me want to rip my own eyeballs out. *gags*

Heh. Sarah from SPN is on the CSI rerun I'm watching now complaining that all the guys she likes are jerks or leave or get killed. *snerk*

Comments

[mike-smith.livejournal.com]

3. I highly doubt that Lois and Richard would never bother to tell Jason that he was Superman's son until he was an adult and that he wouldn't have figured it out by then, considering he's a five-year-old who threw a piano at a henchman, his mother has a close relationship with Superman, and he's not missing his brain.

Since Movie-verse Superman can make Lois forget he's Clark by making out with her, I sort of interpreted the last scene of the movie to mean that Superman was filling Jason in on his true nature, but doing it in a subconscious way, so that Jason could live a normal life but still have Superman be a part of it.

Of course, that's pure speculation on my part, and from the sound of the writers you're talking about, they wouldn't care, anyway, but that's my take.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Well, the writers I was seeing were writing things like:

Lois: "Son, you're eighteen and you've been bench-pressing cars and chasing trains for ten years now, so we thought you needed to know that your biological father ... is SUPERMAN."

Jason: "What?! NO! That's not possible! How could that be?!" *ten chapters of emo denial, possibly with cutting*

Me: Erm. *headdesk*

[mike-smith.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's pretty weak. And really, why would anyone be disappointed to find out he's the son of Superman? In the comics, all his hypothetical love children will never shut up about how awesome it is.

[loopychew.livejournal.com]

The obviously classic ending to that particular scene ends with Jason, surrounded by about thirty broken razor blades.

[jacinthsong.livejournal.com]

Bwahahahaha.

[crevette.livejournal.com]

If it has Lois dying in horrible ways, I might be able to get behind even the worst fanfic.

Maybe.

Probably.

Yeah.. Anywas...

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Heh. Lois doesn't bother me so much in fanfic, although I wish she wasn't getting written so much like Mommy!Lois all the damn time.

And yet, on the other hand, I'm frantic for some decently written Daddy!Clark futurefic. I've got the notes for one sitting around my document files somewhere.

[astrothsknot.livejournal.com]

I utterly agree with you on the Richard front. He was the best thing in the film. I adored him so much that whenever I think about the kind of man i'd like to end up with, it'd be a guy like Richard.

That said, I didn't like the film - and what have you done that's so bad you're penancing yourself at the Pit?

[whatdanidigs.livejournal.com]

Richard was my favorite character in SR, Lois made me want to stab my eyeballs out.

I find myself shipping Richard/Clark.

[squee1123.livejournal.com]

Sarah from SPN is on the CSI rerun I'm watching now complaining hat all the guys she likes are jerks or leave or get killed. *snerk*

That right there is all kinds of awesome.

[smallship1.livejournal.com]

and that he wouldn't have figured it out by then

Haven't seen the film, but...we are talking about the son of the woman who was fooled in various incarnations for seventy years by a pair of glasses and a hand through the hair?

In the immortal words of "Tempus" from Lois and Clark: "HOW DUMB WAS SHE?"

(the answer being, of course, as dumb as the writers needed her to be to keep the, um, "suspense" going...)

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but Jason took one look at Clark and knew exactly who he was. (There's a shot of him looking between Clark next to him and Superman on a TV screen like, "Holy crap! Superman's right next to me!") So he didn't inherit his mother's obliviousness, it seems.