Krypton (TV Series) Pilot (2018) User Reviews

Mystery solved: It was a Detroit Tigers fan who brought Superman to Earth and saved us all from Braniac

[Ed-Shullivan · 8/10 · 22 March 2018]

Having just watched the premiere episode of this new science fiction TV series I am quite impressed how the writers take us back some 200 years before Superman was even born. Some loyal fans will say that Superman is only a fictional superhero originated by two writers from Cleveland , Ohio, to profit from their new comic book series. But truth be known, this fresh new science -fiction TV series proves that it was actually a loyal Detroit Tigers fan named Adam Strange (Shaun Sipos) who travelled back in time some 200 years to confront a young 23 year old Kryptonite named Seg-El (Cameron Cuffe) to warn him that the planet Krypton is in critical danger of being annihilated by a universal destroyer of planets named Braniac (Blake Ritson).

How Adam Strange travelled back in time some 200 years in the past wearing denim jeans and jacket and prominently displaying his Detroit Tigers baseball cap is not important. What is important is this messenger named Adam Strange from the future who travelled from Detroit, planet Earth to land on Krypton held in his position the metaphorical and physical key to Superman's ice fortress.

This pilot episodes which was one hour in duration flew by rather quickly which is generally a very good sign that a new science fiction series has sustaining power with the many good versus evil characters we are introduced to. Of course our young hero Seg-El who will become the future grandfather of Clark Kent, the Superman who eventually lands on earth to save our planet, has two women who are interested in sharing his bed and his sperm. So we will have to stay tuned to future episodes to see who Clark Kent's eventual grandmother will be.

I give this pilot episode an excellent 8 out of 10 rating. On a side note though maybe Adam Strange has appeared on Krypton to see if Superman can not only save earth, but more importantly to help his Detroit Tigers win another World Series since they have been running on empty since 1984.

Pilot - The Fortress

[Tigerbai1 · 8/10 · 29 March 2018]

Seg-El, Kal-El's grandfather is the focus of this series about Superman's family history. I've been watching syfy for over 40 years and am loving it. I began with Time Tunnel and Lost in Space. Both Smallville and Harry Potter series ended the same year. This has not come too soon for me. The pilot episode is at a perfect pace in character development and keeping you engaged with action and purpose. Something is coming, Val-El the creator of the fortress said. There is also a visitor from the future. Will Seg-El believe and react in time to save Krypton and the House of El?

Wonderful new series from DC , I really loved it

[nmn-89075 · 10/10 · 22 March 2018]

This show is really going to be a huge success bcas acting of characters are really good.....I really enjoyed it. And VFX is extraordinary ....way better than most of the Hollywood big budget craps

Detroit Tigers hat?

[avtkrmn-239-613846 · 8 April 2018]

WHY is someone supposedly on another planets years in the past wearing a Detroit Tigers baseball hat?

Loved it!

[mtengaronald · 10/10 · 26 March 2018]

Realistic alien world.

Writing isn't quirky as is the norm for many tv shows.

Bottom line- I loved it!!!

KryptoMan

[blkhwk41 · 1/10 · 14 April 2018]

English accents, Baseball caps, Hoodies, Sneakers ? REALLY ? We have had Superman for 80 Years, Superboy, Supergirl, Young Clark...All pretty much followed the original DC comics....THEN, this calamity of Brit foolishness. Londonish slums, Naziish uniformed thugs? Lets make sure we include all the minorities... Velcro Superman 'S' patches... Blasters, Muscle shirts, Martial Arts, Gangish tatoos..Thinkpads, advanced computers, cigarettes & Zippo lighters? CANDY CRUSH?? --GIVE Me a BREAK-- and...all of this shoved into the first 1 1/2 episodes. Siegel and Shuster will be rolling in their graves at this melding of Flintstones, Lost in Space and Dr. Who. Children's pablum on acid. Barf. this entire review is a spoiler to this atrocity

This needs to get better... and fast

[bmsobel-21275 · 2/10 · 29 March 2018]

I waited a few months and had the premier date on my calendar - for this? The acting is weak, the story is weak and I'm going to give it one more week. I'm not certain that some of the reviewers here watched the same show I did.

The Grandfather Paradox is not a place to start a series.

[jd-538-793868 · 3/10 · 20 March 2018]

Set 200 years before the destruction of Superman's homeworld, Krypton, we follow the life Seg El (Cameron Cuffe), Superman's Grandfather, as a young adult, and we're prefaced initially with the fall of the House of El. Krypton has a very deliberate Caste system of Noble houses and guilds, similar to Game of Thrones and their Great Houses. The House of El has always been in the Science Guild, researching and exploring, in efforts to make the lives of Kryptonians easier. When Seg was a boy, a new religious order comes to power and Krypton falls into a dark age, Seg's Grandfather Val El (played by Game of Thrones veteran, Ian McElhinny (Ser Barristan Selmy) Is told to either bend the knee or walk the plank, he'd rather die and cause his house to be cast out, than compromise his honor.

Thats just the first 5 minutes of the Pilot. Front loading a lot of convoluted ideas. Krypton fancies itself a mixture of Game of Thrones meets Terminator on an familiar-ish Alien World. The Terminator aspect comes in as Adam Strange (Shaun Sipos), one of DC Comic's oldest cosmic characters plays the "Kyle Reese" of the show, traveling back in time, to Krypton before its destruction, to save it, and Superman's Grandfather from the looming threat of Brainiac. In the Comics, Adam Strange could travel to distant planets by way of Zeta Beam. Time travel, however, was never part of his skill set, though he was the most likely character for this task. Its not like there's another team of Time Traveling DC Heroes, on Television... In Strange's timeline, Brainiac (Blake Ritson) somehow prevents Superman from existing, much like how in Back to the Future, Marty started to fade away because the events of the past were changed. This is known as the "Grandfather Paradox" in science, 'if you go back in time and kill your grandfather, will you cease to exist?'

The Game of Thrones allusions are also pretty strong with Krypton, the new religious leader, The Word of Rao, wears a helmet of multiple faces, which looks like Marvel's "Living Tribunal" mixed with the Multi-faced God that the Faceless Men of Braavos serve. (Rao is the name of Krypton's Red Son, Chad Lowe on Supergirl has a whole thing about the Roaism religion).

Seg El is also in love with Lyta Zod (Georgina Campbell). A forbidden love, Krypton is a weird society, as part of a deal to restore the honor of House El, Seg must marry Nyssa Vexx (Wallis Day), the daughter of the man that cast his grandfather out, and they go to the Genesis Center, put their thumbs on a panel and that makes a baby, and projects how long the child will live and what kind of career he is destined to have. What you may recognize is the Zod name, Lyta, it seems is General Zod's mother...

Performance-wise, the actors do their best with a fair bit of nonsense that are the scripts (take a drink anytime someone says Rao, Kandor, or a monosyllabic name). English Accents in an Alien Society everywhere. Seeing Ian McElhinny, was an initial ray of hope, although short-lived, and the only joke in the show is in regards to Adam Strange's Detroit Lions cap, a not so subtle wink at DC Helmer, Geoff Johns always wearing a Detroit hat. Costuming is a little pedestrian, the 'everything needs to have complicated textures' is a little too prevalent as of late, and does not fit the Uncaste society we see for much of the pilot episode, and the repeating oblong cut outs that dart the production design is a lazy bit of "Doctor Who did it, so everyone has to do it" the general design aesthetic for Krypton does carry over from Man of Steel, Smallville and Supergirl. The Graphics are good although what also seems to be a glaring omission is, in the opening shot, we see a second domed city in the distance, before we're brought into Kandor, the primary setting, and probably most famous Kryptonian city, as in nearly every version of Superman, Brainiac miniaturizes and collects the "bottled city of Kandor" the show treats Kandor, as if it is the ONLY city on Krypton.

In short, "Krypton" is kind of a mess, to fully get it you need to be an in-the-weeds kind of comic book / sci-fi fan. It's not terribly interesting, it does not connect to any of the DCEU Films, (although Elliot Cowan does look a lot like Russell Crowe, the Jor-El of "Man of Steel"), Krypton doesn't connect to any of the 5 Greg Berlanti Arrow/Supergirl-verse series, or any of the animated shows. Krypton has its own timeline and the last thing I want is to keep track of another rogue DC series. Though the first season may be worth a binge watch. It's skippable.

3/10

Interesting Drama

[ranger51262 · 2/10 · 22 August 2018]

For starters, Superman being a USA Icon, None of the actors were from the USA nor was it filmed anywhere in the USA. Not much in the action dept. either. The sfx were really good and Im still confused over Adam Strange wearing Detroit Tiger ball cap