Quentin
Senior HTF Member
33, 25, 13...it's all arbitrary and it's all moot. The fact is this is the VERY FIRST fight he has EVER been in! He has literally never raised his fists in anger against anyone his entire life. He's never had to defend himself. He has no fighting style. He is sloppy and he gets punched around like an amateur...because that is what he is. This is not the Superman that has been in 5 movies and a thousand+ comic stories. He has not fought hundreds of villains and monsters. It's his first fight!Patrick Sun said:He's 33 years old, and has the strategic capabilities of a 13-year old most of the times. They (the writers/producers) really stripped him of any appreciable foresight or care for human collateral damage (are we to assume that everytime Clark punches the other Kryptonians through buildings, he makes sure that building is deserted of people?). Frankly, the level of non-care for human casualties before the Zod moment makes the actual Zod moment laughable in many respects.
He doesn't know what taking a punch will do to him nor what his punches will do to them. He is purely fighting to stay alive and stop the bad guy. Fight or flight. Pure instinct. So, any arguments about how he could/should have reduced damage or casualties or how he should have taken the fight out of harm's way are, in my opinion, nullified. No argument.
The only thing I would have liked to have seen was 1 or 2 scenes where he destroys something and sees some people in danger and helps them before re-entering the fray. This would show his compassion, heroism, as well as how hard it is to be a protector of mankind against a foe like this. But, I don't think such scenes are REQUIRED to show us Superman cares. He is fighting for mankind. That shows he cares.