Apparently, Grandpa-El and Dru-Zod were frenemies (well, probably more enemies) during their shared time in the Phantom Zone, which is something I desperately hope we get to see in flashbacks: these two sniping at each other across not-time and not-space like an old, bitter married couple. The Zods always have a plan.ĭru-Zod’s plan revolves around bringing an apparently not-dead Grandpa-El back from the Phantom Zone, which is where he actually went when he was apparently “executed” by Daron-Vex all those years ago. After his and Nyssa’s failed attempt at stopping Brainiac, and given that Doomsday has fallen out of his reach, Team Seg is out of ideas. At this point, though, Seg would probably settle for any future at all. It is in this context that Seg is trying desperately to create the kind of better future his grandfather always promised him could exist for Kandor. This is chaos on a scale that Kandor, a powerful city, has probably never experienced before. This is an alien conquerer coming into the city and treating them like ants for his farm. This is the protective force field around Kandor failing and letting the harsh, eventually deadly elements in. They don’t have time to follow the political machinations and assassinations taking place far above their streets.īut, this, this is in the here and now. And, even before that, the Rankless especially have been distracted with having to deal with the threats that exist within their own city: mainly, the daily oppressions enacted by the Guild class. Val-El was murdered 15 years ago for spouting such heresy. Krypton never really pulled off giving this city a real personality beyond its main characters, but that doesn’t mean we can’t empathize with their terror as Brainiac’s ship floats closer and Brainiac’s alien, all-powerful self looks down over the city he’s about to conquer.įrom the people’s perspective, there is no outside threat from other worlds. It’s horrifying even if you don’t fully understand what Brainiac’s ship represents, which is a majority of the people who live in Kandor. The ship moves like a ghost and, in many ways, that’s what it is: a ghost spaceship filled with entire cities and worlds frozen in time if not in consciousness, filled with people who are condemned to a life with no real future. If you need any evidence of that conclusion, look no further than the season finale’s opening moments, which see Brainiac’s beautiful ship (vaguely reminiscent of the protomolecule ship recently seen on The Expanse) drifting into Kandor air space in a stunning visual of the quality that is unlike anything I have seen on superhero TV before.
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