Krypton Ep. 7-8 Review

Hey you, welcome back to the channel. And guys, today we're going to review Krypton. This will be episodes, uh, 7 and 8. That is the episode, uh, entitled Transformation and the episode entitled Savage Night. And, uh, I do consider Krypton now one of my best superhero shows on TV. It is much must-watch TV for me, but I did miss last week. I had a kind of busy work schedule. I got in an Infinity Wars review that I had finally got to see, so you're invited to watch that review on the channel as well. But I really like where Krypton's going, guys. I know a lot of people have had some complaints about this show due to the ambition of the show. But the show has really week after week really stepped up things as it's went along and has kept me on board. And it gets a little bit better, you know, as I had always been saying that the main character, Segil, for me in the acting department was probably the weakest characters, but the weakest actor for me in the entire show. But a lot of these actors have come off other productions, and they are very good, and they do a very good job. And Sagal is all right when it comes to doing the heroic things, but as far as his character and his story, uh, he to me seems more like the back part of the story, similar to what, oh, you know, like how Superman is. Like, we kind of hear about Superman and all the great things, uh, you know, that he will do, uh, but as as far as it's engulfed here in the world of Krypton, it doesn't really have any much meaning beyond that. Also, I think Krypton is, as a TV show, is interesting enough on its own with the things that have happened, that happens in a comic book world with Krypton, to where it really doesn't need to depend on Superman so much. I watch Krypton because I'm interested in all those things that do happen on Krypton or did happen on Krypton, right? You know, I'm not really looking at Krypton to get a Superman story. I'm looking to get a Krypton story and fill in some blanks about what went on, and this show is a good opportunity to do that. But anyway, guys, um, you know, we, uh, in Transformation— I'm not going to spend a whole lot of time on Transformation, uh, I'm gonna mostly go into Savage Knight, but I'm just gonna tie up the, the, the ends of the story. And as we know that with Brainiac Krypton was left pretty much in his control with Daryl Vex as now in his servitude, being faced with the choice of will he kill his daughter Nyssa. And I thought that he was going to try to find a way to try to outsmart Brainiac, but evidently that wasn't the case. And Brainiac made it clear to him that he could sense any type of deception. He really does try to kill Nyssa, but Nyssa proves to be a very capable warrior on her own, and she's able to basically get out of that situation with the help of Segell, who's found out about her situation. He plays the hero as he does. He comes and he saves her, as she was instrumental in allowing him to save Lyta when she was in a similar situation with facing death. And it also, you know, we got to see what happened with the group that tried to assassinate Brainiac at the end. They were all turned into his— under his control with these shards in their head. We got to see Devium was infected and that Luthor had to, you know, obviously he was shot and We knew he wasn't dead, but we knew he was in bad shape as he had been turned. Was wondering what had happened with, with him. And so Litas, you could tell, is in emotional distress of her decision to do that as a connection with Devian. And, you know, basically we get Brainiac in control of Krypton and turning himself into this type of angel of fire and light, or this representation of the fire god or the sun god Ra. So that pretty much is what we got with Transformation, with Brainiac and Nissa going on the run with Segail, with Segail, Zod, Jayna all planning now to combat with— do a battle with Brainiac in order to save Krypton, as they know what Brainiac is. And then it pretty much transitions from that into Savage Night, which is what we got this week, which I thought was a great episode. Now Savage Night, what was a treat about it, what was very interesting about it, is it more or less deals with the Adam Strange story, right? A lot of us who don't really know who Adam Strange is, you know, we've explained a little bit about him in later reviews or earlier reviews, but never really got deeply involved with Adam Strange, but Adam Strange is one of these kind of minor DC characters that does some very interesting things. And we get in Savage Night, we get a kind of the show reflecting back on 2 weeks prior where we got what happened when Adam Strange first came to Segail, told him about what was going to happen in his future. Who his grandson was and explained a little bit about how he moves from the future into different places with the Zeta Beam. So in Savage Knight, it's very interesting. We get to go and see what's going on with Adam Strange, where he actually goes when he disappears, and we get to find out he's on a ship. Now, you know, in the comic books Adam Strange uses the Zeta Beam to— he's basically a human who gets zapped by the Zeta Beam. And we understand in the episode, the way they're explaining the Zeta Beam is that it was a device to send information back and forth over light-years. But the beam accidentally hits Adam Strange and he's sent to where these aliens are. One of the aliens is Sardath and his daughter Lana. And so Adam Strange gets all tied up with them. He's now in the ship, and of course, you know, from that he's kind of, you know, he's from Earth, and so he's basically affiliated with the heroes of Earth like Superman, and in comic books it's the Justice League, and, and he's, you know, a hero himself. Of using this device. He actually is the reverse of Superman in a way where he's actually a human sent to an alien planet where he becomes the hero of this planet called Rann. But he also falls in love with the daughter of one of the rulers of Rann, whose name is Sardath, uh, who creates the Zeta Beam, right? So Adam's using it, but as we get to see in this show, he steals the technology to try to save Superman. He uses the term he's borrowed it. And they're kind of just watching Adam because it's quite clear that how Adam is presented, uh, you know, in, in, in this production is that Adam is kind of one of these characters who's mostly just out for himself. He doesn't seem to be serious about much anything or care about much of anything except maybe his own, you know, affairs, uh, what's going on with him. But now he, you know, is raised into the ranks of he wants to be a hero, and they're kind of seemingly watching him in a type of entertainment, uh, Sardath and Alana, uh, you know, as to say that they know the type of person he is, but, uh, this is the first time they get to see him care about something, you know, other than himself and succeed at something, uh, not be a loser. And so they're allowing him to use the Zeta Beam and try to go through this mission. But it was— it's all very interesting to see them start to go into these other worlds as the writers and producers said they would do. So we are getting to see some of that. We've also heard mention of Hawkgirl, who— so they may encounter the planet Thanagar. But, you know, that's pretty much the story with Adam throughout this episode, Savage Night. He's getting desperate. Nothing seems to be working ever since they found out that he's been withholding information about destruction of Krypton. Obviously, that's hard for Kryptonians to swallow. There's concern about their livelihood and worlds as some future world they've never seen or don't have— don't feel the impact of what it means. Right? So Adam's trying to cut a deal here, as we got to see, with Darren Vex. He's explaining to Darren Vex, you know, what's, you know, what's going to happen with Brainiac, and that, you know, you're dealing with something far beyond your capabilities here. And Darren Vex is listening, of course, to gather as much information as he can for his own self-preservation, something that he's been quite good at, it seems. You know, and on the side of the resistance, you know, namely speaking of Jayna Zod and Lyta and Sagal and now their alliance with Zod. Zod is coming up with that they need to work with Black Zero to have the reinforcements to even battle someone like Brainiac. Brainiac. And the, the head of Black Zero is actually the character of Jax-Urr, and they were also part of a coup. And I don't know a whole lot about Jax-Urr in comic books, but I know that they do come up quite a bit. And as we get to see, they did try to stage a coup as well, and they became one of the ranklers, started the terrorist organization Black Zero. But basically were against the guild society. And it seems they understand this. That is why they attempted the coup. But they, they agree with Druzzad that facing the alien threat, that they need to all work together on one condition, and that is that Daren Vex, who's put them in that situation, be given over to them, um, you know, in which Anissa is very much okay with, uh, you know, provided that he's— he did attempt to kill her to save himself, uh, you know, and, uh, didn't seem to, uh, think twice about it. So we gotta know what type of person Darevixx is, uh, but you know what was kind of heartbreaking about this week's episode obviously was the situation what we got with Ono, who is the— is this new kind of disciple of Brainiac posing as the voice of Rao. And, you know, we were led to believe throughout that he's taking some type of liking to her and that she may be safe. And Kim, in a one last attempt, tries to get her back, but she's so happy and it seems she's safe for the moment. But we get to learn that after Brainiac is shot in the Genesis Chamber, you know, he's seemingly dead. But, you know, we knew it couldn't be that easy. But, you know, obviously, you know, we got to learn that he's some type of way generating power and feeding off energy of the embryos that are growing in the Genesis chamber. So it's very reminiscent of what we got in the Matrix movies with the machines feeding off of, of these, of these fetuses, like newborn, or I'm sorry, like batteries. And it's just kind of interesting that in the Matrix there's a machine feeding off humans, and Brainiac is a machine as well, and he's feeding off human energy. Kind of strange that that's the biggest energy source that he would have. Look like it would probably be more easy to get energy from a from a sun or something like that, or star. But, uh, that's what they're going with, and that's what he's doing. But anyway, they managed to shoot him. They managed to seemingly disable him, uh, the Sentry, uh, the, the, the, uh, voice of Rao. But he comes back in a battered condition long enough to talk to Ona, and we're trying to figure out where it's going there. But he basically makes Ona into this walking time bomb. Now here's where it is a little bit confusing in the story writing for me at this point. There are a few things I want to touch on in the story writing this week that I don't know was a mistake on the writer's department part or if it was just something that's going to be revealed later. But the one thing is that Brainiac, he uses Onna as a bomb and she goes back to where Segil is at in the bar in the downtown area where they usually hang out. Now what I'm trying to figure out is why did Brainiac do that? Why did he think it was important to just send them there where Segil was at? Is he trying to eliminate the leaders of the resistance by sending Ona into their camp. And, uh, it was only a few people down there that he could have got access to, uh, Sagal being one of them. But, uh, does he have some other type of knowledge of Sagal, uh, you know, to send her there first? Uh, why is Sagal so important? Uh, do he— does he feel Sagal is the leader, or has he Is this the time-traveling Brainiac? Because where it's kind of confusing is we got the Brainiac that's in his own— it is in the original time zone, right, where he discovers Krypton. He doesn't seemingly have any knowledge of the future, or does he? And if he does have knowledge of the future, looks like he would know what steps to take and where to be at. So that's kind of one problem for how the writing is going with what Brainiac are we dealing with here. Is this a Brainiac with knowledge of the future future? There's a time-traveling Brainiac, or this just a Brainiac in his own time zone? And is it just Zod who's time traveled in that respect? Uh, the other kind of thing that kind of bothered me was that there's a part where Jayna Zod is conversing with, uh, with, with first with Dru-Zod, and then from that conversation she's able to tell Segel about the history of Dru-Zod, how he survived because he wasn't on Krypton, but he was in the Phantom Zone. And then he mentions other notable Ls like Jor-El, Superman's father, and how he trusted him and was betrayed by him. And that, you know, that's how he was able to survive. And that he as well attempted a coup. We don't get the exact reasons for the coup, but he doesn't seem to really feel a need to explain, as he's explaining to what appears to be his grandmother She is in a similar situation where she's a part of a coup against Krypton. So it would seem like grandmother, like grandson. But what's surprising is she then goes back to Segel and she alerts Segel to the idea that he's there because he's thirsting for power. He wants to rule. And I'm gonna go out on two limbs there and say Well, that could make sense if at the end of the day what Jaina Zod is saying is, I'm still an honorable Kryptonian, that I've done what I've had to do out of love for my daughter, but I have no thirst for power to just rule because just for the sake of ruling. So in that respect, I could see why she would turn against Segel, but where where, uh, I think the writing could have done a little bit better job with that is explaining her motivation to us. Because at that point in time, for her just to, uh, give all this information over to Segell, uh, you know, it's not a real good build-up relationship-wise with her and Segell trusting each other to the point she feels that information was important for him to know at that point. Unless it's just for the sake of You know, we can't trust this guy. At some point, we're gonna have to— we got to keep an eye on him. And at some point, we might have to deal with him later because he might— when we have to restructure this government, you know, and try to give Crooktown back to the people, we may have to deal with a— some type of tyrant or some type of person who is a sociopath, you know. And so I can see that there, but still, the writing should have maybe given over to her reasons a little bit, you know, more clear in her writing to let us know that, hey, this is why we need to watch him, because I feel this particular way about him. But, you know, other than that, it was very interesting. We get Adam Strange. His plan was originally just to save Seguel. Now, I'm not exactly sure, you know, why that was so important just to get Seguel out, you know, in that although I understand that Seguel is instrumental part of Superman being born in the future, and that's why he would want to save Seguel, but isn't— wouldn't it also be that the grandmother and the And Superman's ancestors on the other side of the borrowed DNA and chromosomes would have to be saved. So whoever's going to be Superman's grandmother when they need to save him as well, you know, in addition to just saving Segel and sneaking him out so nothing happens to him, right? Or Superman wouldn't be Superman, he'd be someone else, right? So didn't really get that, but then it looks like Adam Strange ends up back on Rann, and I'm assuming that's Alanna who's in some type of trance, who he falls in love with, the daughter of Sardath who invented the Zeta Beam, you know, as there are all these aliens from another planet. And so I'm assuming something's happened with that, and they got something going on there. I don't know if it's their future Sueger and Brainiac has gotten to them in their time zone. Could be something like that. I also believe in the promos that are coming up, we finally are going to get to see in this upcoming episode— I believe it's entitled Hope— which is the model of the sigil of the House of El, you know, the, the what looks like the S that appears on Superman's chest, which is Kryptonian for The word Hope, uh, that's the title of the next episode coming up. I believe they're going to reveal Brainiac in his, his true form without the sentries, you know, as everybody else has kind of been destroyed that served as a sentry for him. But guys, I really like where it's going. Uh, it's going to be very interesting to see the other characters that get introduced to this, uh, to this show. And that's some of my favorite parts about— I think that's also some of my favorite parts about Supergirl, seeing the other characters in, in a more expansive DC Universe, you know, minor characters we don't get to see that often, you know, being introduced. And I think that makes a great deal more interesting. But I enjoyed the episode, guys. Tell me what you think about it. Tell me, are you starting to like Krypton? Is it becoming one of your favorite superhero shows? And, you know, I thought it would be Legion And I've kind of fallen off with doing reviews of Legion, which is kind of weird. But the thing is, I think what happened with me is it's kind of a little bit of burnout with Legion because Legion was, it was quite exhausting the first season. I know it was very good, it's very good, but quite exhausting mentally the first season. And although I want to stay inside of the head of David Haller in season 1, I thought they would be more expansive with it going into season 2. To give us a, uh, a more broader look of reality versus, uh, you know, what's going on in David's head. But guys, anyway, those are my reviews on Krypton for this week. Uh, let me know what you thought, guys. You like content like this, don't forget to like, subscribe, and until next time, take care.