Durakken

Not true.

Technological increase results less reproduction.

The reasons there are large amounts of reproduction that happens are...
Religion...
OR
Families farm their own food thus need more children to farm their food in an endless cycle...
OR
Low survival rate which means you need to have more children to insure survival of DNA.

With technology and education we've seen all 3 of those be reduced and lead to lower reproduction numbers to balanced out or in the case of the United Sates of America a reduction in population.

Neither do I, but you are assuming that to become a non-viral species we'd have to. That is flawed.

"expanding technology". You sound technophobic. Technological growth does not coincided with wastefulness. Wastefulness comes from outdated thinking, inability to understand ecosystems, and building on old systems.

We live wastefully largely for the same reason Win 7 is better than Win XP. We weren't thinking about efficiency when we built our world and just because we have better technologies and short cuts, adding them onto the old programming, while it might make them run a bit faster, you are still wasting 75% of the potential of the system.

That's something I would mind seeing. The plans for building a world efficiently. It wouldn't look anything like Earth ^.^

No.

As I said, this is because various companies have come out and said you're allowed to use their products in certain ways. This as well as their actions constitute a contract. Though that would be hard to argue with most companies I know of 1 company that has gone on records and said this. That's nintendo.

But we're talking Superman, and other Comic book characters here. Well, Almost all comics I know of have their copyright and what your allowed to do with their trademarked characters in every comic. Part of that is the allowance of independent drawings containing their characters to be sold.

I forget the exact language used but it's in there.

You can also paint a picture of say Superman and it'd still be considered fair use due to it could be construed as commentary.

There are a lot of things in water that has bio-luminescence. Though... it's mexico so she would have likely had themselves checked from just that, but it's not like they'd screen for super powers so it wouldn't turn up anyways.

Well... it's not like this show gets to look at heroes and see where they went wrong, like not having a focused show, but I still liked heroes for what it was.

They also have the benefit of 4 years down the road more special effects have been invented for the various powers... like Bamfing. It also helps that most of their powers are easily done via camera tricks, cheap practical tricks, or premade SFX so far.

Invulnerability is just not reacting.
Strength is making plastic props pretty much.
Super Jumping has been mastered by smallville.
Super Speed has been mastered by Heroes and Smallville.
Telepathy is just an audio track.
The "answer" power is just a camera trick along with a simple FX.
Bamfing is the hardest thing to do and it was premade and when was that made? So not really expensive...

Where as the primary power of Heroes was what? Claire's regen that is never done the same way twice and almost always needs prosthetics... that's hell of an expensive SFX after a while.

Use correct super hero nomenclature... That's called Bamfing, not teleporting ^.^ and it's the same effect that Nightcrawler uses in the X-men movies... wonder what their explanation for it.

Yes, because if I did that it's not like you could point to that in this thread right? You would have to go to some other thread and take something out of context likely to prove a point that if you are right would be readily demonstrable in this thread or any thread.

Perhaps you should choose a different word than ignore. It's hard for someone to "ignore" a point when they almost always try to cover every point and paragraph replied to.

Oh wait, according to you this post doesn't exist. Crud, I've created a paradox. We all gonna die now! This looks like a job for... Stanley Ipkiss!

You are making claims assuming that everyone accepts them as true. You haven't shown examples or even mentioned what you think is bad or how it is bad, so I'm left to my own opinion which is they were not bad and that's backed by its popularity.

And everything to me make perfect sense so if things don't make sense to you, that's your problem, not the show's.

Wow, let's just forget the season where they were blasting the **** out of him with magic ^.^

lol You are claiming that when you said you like the premise of the show which is MMPR with kryptonite and superman or as it's better known as the cliche Monster of the week. Good thing being contradictory is equivalent to being right today it seems ^.^

There are tons of shows that do that and far more noticeably than Smallville. In fact just about every show does this to some extent.


Oh and by the way, look into the writing process of a TV show. There are many factors outside of the writers' hands that crop up. Writers get too much praise/hassle for the stuff with their name on it in hollywood, because most of the time they have very little say in the process and what they wrote is almost never what shows up on the screen.


Can't handle the idea that Kryptonians had been visiting Earth for millenia and inspired myths to be written about them? It's not like the guy that is seen as having the powers of a god's people visiting earth could ever make that happen. Nope, no sir! Not gonna Happen!

Not to mention the magic and prophecy thing is fully supported in superman mythos, not in exactly the same form, but close enough so it's not like it's diverging wildly from what Clark should be learning throughout this period.

You got one, congrats.

Save for when it does. You know, like when Lex always tells Clark that he is welcome ANY TIME and that Lex considers Clark family. And besides if Lex had a problem with it, he'd probably would have said something like, "hey, don't come in my house without knocking" which he never did.

Good to know that your entire critique comes down to, "It's not the same style as this other show I like" Now we know why everything has to be grim and gritty in movies. It's Ironik doesn't like stuff done in other styles.

Her character is a victim of that thing i mentioned in a previous post. They had no direction after the 4th year or so. Also I'm expecting there is going to be a final episode with her losing her memory of Clark having powers.

And here I thought they lined it up perfect with what was in the comics like their goal was. If you thought there was going to be some sort a cataclysmic showdown you kinda missed what Doomsday's powers are. If that happened now, then it could happen then... wow, logic ^.^

Again, if you followed their creed of trying to line everything up with the comic, that was pretty much obvious. What did you think they were going to de-age him or something?

Just about everything they have done, makes sense within the context of what they are/were trying to do and the position they were put in.

I don't think that is true at all. And of course saying "writing" is still quite nebulous, because are we looking at individual episodes, execution, or overall plot?

The show had an idea for 4 or 5 years and was just successful enough to keep going and had no idea where to go so they were wandering around in the dark for a few seasons because they couldn't move forward really with the "no flight, no tights" rule. Those guys dropped from the production staff and a new leadership took over and dropped that...which it started getting better from there... the first of those seasons was just getting on it's feet and a lot of the money for FX was being saved up apparently for this last season (if you take what was mentioned in various interviews) because they knew no matter what season 10 would be the last. This is also why you get such week fights throughout which a lot of people are complaining about.

I don't think it's a bad idea and while the late middle seasons are not the best, they are reasonable and hopefully it will pay off with this last season...



Also as far as Chloe they dropped a hint that it was going to happen and with the Helmet of Fate she knew what to do and she had a reason to do it so it didn't need any more background or story.