I tell you what, the *Mariner* won't take ten years to whip Clark Kent into shape

[seriousfic]

At risk of being a bit too fannish, I'm going to spam you with some more movie stuff no one probably cares about. Kevin Costner as Pa Kent in the new Superman movie. That is just shockingly good casting there, since Costner has spent the last decade pretty much being Jonathan Kent. As disinterested as I am in watching, say, Swing Vote or The Postman, it's good to know there's someone out there rooting for aw-shucks cornfed Americana, and that's exactly what any Smallville scene needs to work. Echoes of how Batman Begins took Thomas Wayne and actually gave his inevitable death some traumatic impact...

I gotta say, between this, Nolan's involvement, and the shortlist for Lois (even though no one's been cast, it's good to know no one's thinking, say, Blake Lively for a Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist), I'm kinda getting excited about Superman again.

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[(Anonymous)]

Superman and Dark Knight Rises (hehe...she said rises!!) have me interested and hopeful.

Spider-Man and Wonder Woman on the other hand...not so much.

Thor looks pretty good. Corporal USA does too!

X-Men:FC looks...like it has Emma Frost in it? They better not make her anything but the Awesomest Bisexual Head Bitch In Charge Of Killing Horses. Horses named Butter Rum!

[jlbarnett.livejournal.com]

I have this bizarre idea. Okay, supposedly this is going to be a darker take, but what if Pa Kent's death(which happens far more often than Ma's) leads to the creation of Superman, but not Clark's heroics. Imagine a Smallville where it's an open secret that there's something "different" about the Kent boy and if you ever need a hand to do something that really should be impossible he'll be there to help. But then the open secret gets to someone who wants trouble and Clark decides he needs to be less blatent.