It’s not the size, it’s how you use it.

And yet, in the end, he does willingly die to save people from billionaire’s runaway death machine. An imperfect person, but better than a cop.

But I get the distinction being made now, thanks.

Ah, okay, so "saves people like a cop" was ironic, and it's just saying Cavill's Superman is like a cop in that he's a cowardly murderer? I was not picking up on that meaning. It's an extreme reading of the films.

Anson Mount doing some top tier mugging here.

The question is: Should Superman feel conflicted about being a god?

It's a valid, but not mandatory, theme for a Superman story. So is Superman having angst about his heritage. It's a matter of execution. People spend way too much time asking "is this what Superman is 'supposed' to be" and not enough time asking whether a story succeeds on its own terms or not.

Definitely still not getting it. They both put themselves in harm's way, right? Cavill's supes dies, even.

Picard's torturer engaging in a "take your child to work day" exercise like it's a normal 9 to 5 is so chilling.

Honestly, the eye gouging didn't hit me all that hard. I'll have to do a rewatch someday and see how I feel. But sure, if it were 2020 I wouldn't really bother arguing against the "gritty" description. Looking back at this point, only about 10% of the Kurtzman era had that kind of tone.

Yeah, I don’t get this complaint. By the end of Discovery, my partner started referring to the episode wrap ups as “Care Bears moments” because of how saccharine they could get.

Disco and Picard both got pretty dark in their first seasons, but that’s a decade ago, and not appreciably darker than DS9 was known for.

I don’t get it. If anything we see Cavill performing more “firefighter” type rescues, which I take to mean natural disaster type situations with no villains to punch — burning oil rigs, floods, etc. It’s not a focus of either movie, of course.

Nosferatu — any of them

“Love. You're better off without it, and I'm better off without mine. This vessel. I give, she takes. She won't permit me my life. I've got to live hers... Now I know why it’s called ‘she’.”