Krypton Series Announcement Thoughts

The People's Champ does not know what to make of this...

Greetings Ladies and Gents! It is I, The Shaman of Animation back again with a new topic discussion. The new hot topic in the world of Superhero TV shows: The recently announced Superman Prequel series coming to the channel Syfy titled Krypton. The series is set to take place 50 years before the Planet Krypton explodes and it will follow Superman's grandfather as he tries to, and this is an actual synopsis for the series, "bring hope and equality to Krypton,turning a planet in disarray into one worthy of giving birth to the greatest Super Hero ever known." 

My thought on this series being an actual thing is: WHY?! WHY, WHY, WHY?! The ONLY Noteworthy Krypton as a planet did, was blow up. It's the part that's ALWAYS in the beginning of a Superman Origin Story/Movie and quickly gone over cause there's no story that's all that interesting to tell there!

This is the series's actual Logo, which shows Krypton on the verge of blowing up!!

Now, to be fair, if this series revolved around Superman's birth father Jor-El, I could possibly see where you could go with that. You could go the route of Smallville, where Jor-El decides to create the Phantom Zone to lock away criminals. Also with Jor-El, you can introduce Zod, Kara Zor-E (Superman's cousin) along with her father, and Brainiac. Or You could turn Krypton into a mini series that's about Jor-El's final days on the planet, how he tries to convince the Kryptonian council about the planet's destruction and they just won't listen, and show him building the spaceship that would take Superman to Earth and how he discovers which planet would be most suitable for him.  

But instead of that, we're getting a series starring Superman's granddaddy...who, as far as I know, has never had any real big story that you could do about him. With this show being about him, you really set yourself back as with Supes's gramps, there'll probably be no superpowers because once again, Jor-El is the one that discovers Kryptonians get powers from the yellow sun. Plus, do you really think the show can properly present Krypton on a TV budget...A SYFY TV budget?

If this is to tell you anything, I'm not looking forward to this show. With Gotham, I can see how you could make a prequel series without Batman. This on the other hand...yea, good luck with that Syfy...

Till next time everyone, I'm the Shaman of Animation saying: Here's hoping the Supergirl show doesn't sound as bad as this...Take Care.