Krypton TV Series announced

Oh man, i really hope this is good. I really like the DC Universe! Let's hope they can have some awesome stuff in it!

Eh... didn't like the concept of Gotham, so this appears to be just another Gotham, but for Superman. I hope this isn't a new trend of making superhero TV series without the actual superheroes.

I wouldn't hold my breath.

If David Goyer is involved, I wouldn't get my hopes too high. I was one of the few people who was let down by Man of Steel, and the idea of a Superman show without, you know...Superman,doesn't exactly grab my attention.

Superhero stuff tends to work better as cartoons imo.

Besides; they probably have a skimpy budget. Kyrpton will probably take place in a bunch of abandoned warehouses.

will it be as terrible as Gotham?

This is interesting. I guess I'm one of the few here on Gamespot OT who really like Man of Steel and I own the Blu-Ray which is still the best Superman movie I watch but anyways, for some reason, I always I doubt this Krypton t.v series would work though I mean, Smallvill did okay but the way it sounds, this is going to be just like Gotham without the Batman so with that said, Krypton Citizens will be just normal people cause there Sun is not young yellow as it's on Earth so no powers here for them but I will say this, the 30 minute War in Man of Steel did get my interest and if they go that route, it's going to cost a lot of money. I'm a DC guy but this kind of stuff tends to be a hit or miss but this series looks like a miss and if I were them, I turn this into a Animation series since DC good at those then of Marvel Animations.

Gotham is good.

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I like Gotham as well. On the other hand I did not care for Man of Steel so I'm not looking forward to this series.

Man of Steel was okay....most reboots aren't the best in a series of movies. You have to get it out of the way to see what builds. It wasn't horrible....I liked that it was darker. But time will tell if the movie series picks up.

As for Krypton.....I won't make a decision until I watch it. I hate Agents of SHIELD. Watched several episodes before abandoning it. Hey I tried.

Considering how unremarkable Gotham is, I have serious doubts about how this show is going to be.

Agreed, I'm really enjoying Gotham. Hopefully they can do something with Krypton. It is a gamble to create a series without the Superhero, but so far I think Gotham has been doing a pretty good job.

I like the new CW's Flash. The acting is disappointing though.

I get Gotham since Batman is still there just as a kid and its interesting to see how he actually grows up and becomes Batman.

Krypton i don´t get and i dont see a point to it, do we really need to know about Krypton, in terms of superman it has no relevance. But its Syfy the place Sci-fi goes to die.

Same here Gotham is a excellent show and luckily it seems to have hit the high ratings so we will get a few more seasons of it :D

I liked MAn of Steel aswell. I am interested in this. So many haters in this thread

Wow the superhero genre is being milked dry. Its ludicrous just how hard producers are trying now.

Yet another superhero television series that I won't waste my time on.

I am hesitant considering the channel it is on, at least Gotham had a decent budget to work with being on Fox, being on SYFY is a bigger downgrade than the CW

How is it being milked dry when it's so big? Besides this is original, none of this are in the comics

indeed.

It is being milked because producers are innovating just way too hard, and at a hasty rate too. How many spiderman movies did we have over the course of the past few years? Nowadays it seems that the production of the next installment in a superhero franchise commences immediately after the premier of the latest installment if not coincidentally. There is no way these producers are making anything of decent quality. And then there is this new trend of superhero franchises giving birth to spin-offs that do not include the superheros themselves. If this is not milking a franchise then I don't what is.

SyFy? Yeah...no.

It took a while for us to be able to develop enough technology to properly/effectively bring the comic book universes to the big screen. One good success story led to another, and another after that and so on. I guess people have started appreciating the lore behind most of these comic books and they want to milk it as much as they can. Its basically a never ending mine for tv / bigscreen producers. Like most things, people will get tired of these types of movies, and then they'll move on to the next thing...our vidya games lol

You are not alone. To date, man of steel, is still my favorite superhero movie. Those fight scenes and the torment of the superhero and the super villain (not any of that plain-as-day good vs bad stuff). I too own the blu ray and I've watched it at least five times already. Can't wait for Batman vs Superman. If its anything half as good as the Dark Knight returns (best batman story ever written/animated imo), it might replace man of steel as my favorite movie. I got chills when I saw that teaser trailer they showed at comicon with Batman in the armored suit and superman's eyes burning red.

This.

They should juust make Batman/Superman tv shows, since DC's TV universe is seperate from their Movie universe...(confirmed by Flash/Arrow producers).

Instead we get garbage like Gotham and Kyrpton.

But how many sequels have we gotten of other movies that have had no plans or overarching story? Terminator hasn't really connected all the movies that well, we also have others. The new DC and Marvel movies at least do that and have quality imho. You can argue that Spiderman and the X-men movies have been meh. But the superhero movies have been mostly quality, also if you don't like it don't watch it

That's actually a fair point I concede. It is the nature of the genre to require advanced technical innovation in the department of special effects and whatnot for the work to be anything of quality. That has been achieved only relatively recently. It explains part of the overabundance of superheros movies but obviously not all of it.

What does terminator have to do with anything in the context of this topic? If the terminator franchise didn't produce decent quality sequels that connect the plot properly then the terminator franchise sucks. That's not an invitation for other franchises to suck as well.

Its possible that we have different opinions regarding what constitutes quality. At any rate, yes I don't like it and I don't watch it indeed which is not to say that I can't criticize it whether based on the fact that you know, I can, or on the fact that the more money is being poured into the production of movies I don't like the less likely movies that I might like will see the light of the day. As such, it actually concerns me in a way.

Gotham isn't garbage and it's stupid to pass judgment on Krypton sine there is no basis to form an opinion yet. Anyway....agreeing with Gaza shows bad judgment to start with so there's that.

Five over the course of twelve years.

I would say that there probably isn't a decent way to do a superhero movie universe the way Marvel has without putting out a bunch of movies quickly. It's already difficult to get big name actors to reprise the same roles again and again much less booking them to do it over the course of a decade or more just so that the audiences don't feel like superhero movies are getting tired out.

Also have you seen the Winter Soldier? Because it was excellent.

Terminator has been shot over 30 years, therefore it's been hard to get some sort of continued story on it. I am not saying they're not quality, it's just a better story combined in several movies

Can't say I'm following the point you're making. If the terminator franchise has, as per the opinion you stated, a better plot than other superhero movies and taking into account that it has spanned more than 30 years which is a long period of time in comparison to the mostly young superhero franchises and their offshoots then you're basically reiterating what I said and thus agreeing with me. I doubt that is your intention though.

Five installments of the same movie franchise in twelve years is hard to associate with quality. That's how I feel about it anyway. You simply suck the franchise dry with such pacing. Maybe I'm making the mistake of expecting quality out of everything. I mean people hardly watch superhero movies for quality; instead, they watch them as action flicks mostly. The fact that I don't particularly appreciate such contents as action flicks is kind of irrelevant to many people out there even if the point I'm making is true overall. With that said, this recent trend of superhero shows is really pushing the envelope even by the lowest acceptable standards and the lowest common denominator factor.

And with regards to Winter Soldier, No, I haven't really. Actually, didn't even hear about it until now. I'm only recently going back to movies as I've been watching mostly shows for the past couple of years.

I prefer superheroes in cartoon and comic form. Series like Agents of Shield tend to have too litlle super hero antics and too much talking.

Arrow and Flash crossover-ed well in the way both universe are simultaneously effected by one another. More series are welcomed.

Meh. I hope it's better than Gotham.

No i am just saying that the Superhero movies have been more consistent with actors and storylines. Arnold is the only one that's been in the Terminator movies over time