Krypton Episode " Hope" Review

Hey guys, welcome back to the channel, and today we're going to discuss Krypton episode entitled Hope. Hope referring to the sigil on the, uh, or the family crest of the L family, um, the what appears to be the S on the chest of Superman. in Kryptonian. Some have also described it as the number 8 and not the letter S. But, um, basically the going theme with, uh, the word for hope seems to be that symbol on the, on the L family's, uh, crest, right? Or their, or their sigil. So this episode, um Whereas I thought we were going to deal with the cliffhanger we got from last week, which was Adam Strange going back to— it looks like Earth— and seeing everybody kind of frozen in time, not able to move. It didn't go back to there. So Adam Strange's kind of story is kind of left off, and it dealt more with the Kryptonians coming to understand that Brainiac is still very much alive and that his fall from the Genesis Chamber wasn't enough to kill him. And Zod is basically still going after the Doomsday weapon or Doomsday himself to use him as Brainiac. Now the only problem, you know, With Doomsday, once he gets going, uh, you know, he's going to destroy pretty much everything in sight. General Zod's plan is to cross that bridge when they get there. So, uh, as he explains, Doomsday is gonna always go after the biggest target, the strongest opponent. Uh, we've seen in comic books and various, uh, stories of Doomsday, he always seeks out to destroy Superman, you know, the most powerful being on the planet, before he levels the rest of the planet. So General Zod's plan is throughout the course of this attempt to deal with Doomsday after he deals with Brainiac. Of course, at this point they don't know if they have a plan or if the plan will work at all, but, uh, they're reasoning that it's better than doing nothing at all, uh, with the direct doom of Brainiac definitely is going to come their way at that point in time where it is a clear and present danger. So I like this episode, guys. Like I said, every week this episode's gotten, uh, you know, even better. But keeping on, you know, speaking of Zod and Zod trying to release Doomsday from his, uh, from the holding, uh, the holding cell that, um, you know, is basically put together and being guarded by, uh, these, uh, Surtoneans or Kryptonians. I can't seemingly remember their names again, but they worship the ice goddess of Krypton. Zod discovers some way through this that he is an El himself and a Zod. Now, so obviously we get to learn that Segil and Lyta are the, you know, have the true parentage relating to Zod. I don't recall that ever being— I've seen a lot of different plays in the comic books with Zod being related to the Els. There was a a movie released, an animated movie, not many years ago, where Superman is actually the product of Laura and Zod, and not Laura and Jor-El, right? Not Superman's father, but Zod is actually parents, is Superman, right? So it's a— you get this mix of the Zod and Yells there. But apparently this is what happens with, uh, Zod. This would make Zod and Jor-El brothers. And that's kind of interesting to, to, to look at because Jor-El and Zod have always shared this very interesting connected relationship where they were both, uh, admired each other at some point in Kryptonian history, but they come to this bridge where they have to make a decision. So, um, I don't know if this is played out in the comic books with Jor-El and Zod being brothers ever, but it's, it's done in this show and I think it worked pretty well. But Zod pretty much figures out he doesn't even need Segale to help him open Doomsday's containment chamber because— or the, or the holding cell, rather. You know, as Doomsday is locked away, and you know, he's so dangerous he's locked away twice. He's first in this containment, in this, um, in this, this holding cell room, and then he's locked within an ancient containment cell. So Zod's able to open the doors, we got to see, and, uh, with just his blood, the blood of both the Zod house and the L house. As Seguel has decided not to help him. But it's a lot more than that going on in the story this week. There's a, this rift between the Zod's and the Els. It's always been in Superman lore. There's always been this, there've been these, how they start out together and they split. And now we get to see this kind of played out between Seguel and Lightazod as well, whereas they're very connected and close all throughout the series. Now all of a sudden betrayal has entered into their relationship. Now Lyda's doing things without telling Seagal behind his back. And I think a lot of this comes from, or stems from, as we got to see earlier in the episode, he seems to be losing confidence in their mission. He's starting to agree with Adam Strange more and more as Adam's saying that the focus needs to be on his grandson being the force that's going to save the— do so many great things throughout the universe later in the future, and that maybe these course of events need to happen as they are. And whereas it seems like Lyta and the rest of the Kryptonian, you know, rebellion against Brainiac, or trying to stop Brainiac, is still on the course of trying to save Krypton. Where it seems like Segel is losing hope in that. And I think Lyta seems like she has to now fulfill her genetic role of being a defender of Krypton, um, and, uh, you know, in whichever way that means or to whatever extreme that is. And that's why it's seemingly she's betrayed Segel, and now they have this giant rift where Segel only feels like he can trust now Nisa Vex, and they now have their, uh, their moment. Uh, Nisa also very interesting is, uh, we learn about these clones, uh, that exist in the Genesis Chamber information. I imagine to kind of protect the, the Kryptonian bloodline. The Codex is mentioned. We remember that this, uh, there was a similar thing going on in Man of Steel where Superman had the Codex. He was actually— the Codex was in planted it within him, so he carried all the information of the Kryptonians within him, within his body, within his cells. And so it seems like a similar idea there going on with the Genesis Chamber, as Jax-Ur is trying to get all this information from Darren Vex, who uses his survival skills to escape, you know, as we got to see. Um, so I really enjoyed this episode. A lot of, um, Interesting information came up. A great fight scene with Jayna and with, and with General Zod. Speaking again of betrayals, Lyta is certainly fulfilling her role as defender and protector of Krypton in a sense, in that she's willing to betray everybody to keep going with General Zod and her mission to try to stop Brainiac and save Krypton. To the point where she even shoots her mother Jaina in this fight to the death between her and Zod. As it has the opposing ends, and the way that the Sagittarii or the Zod family deals with this is they're not fighting for Primus, and they can't have any insurrection in their midst, so now they're bowing out. Now, Jaina's really badass because she's kicking Zod's butt, and it's clear that she's stronger than him. She's a better fighter. As we've seen her get down in many previous episodes, so we get to learn she's the best fighter. She's about to— looks like she's about to get the best of Zod, and Lyta shoots him and stops her and shoots her pretty bad. And so, you know, Lyta's on a course of no return. I don't know if she's ever going to be able to get back in their good graces after these levels of betrayal that she's doing. And Um, this could be, you know, I had a little problem with that and that, uh, the writing, you know, they moved so quick with Lyta. I know it's only so many minutes in the show, but could have took a moment to let us see that she's somewhat struggling with this because it's just kind of out of her character to, to move so quick into these decisions that she's done, right? There, there's no reflection there. There's no reflection to the audience that, hey, This is a struggle, but this is something I feel I have to do. But, um, I'm under the assumption that's the place she's at. Um, and, uh, another big, big situation. We get, uh, uh, a kind of Nisa brokering this deal with the remaining Sagittarius, and, uh, Sagale, uh, you know, brokering a deal with Black Zero that, hey, we— our forces are limited here. We have to come together, and together perhaps we can stop Brainiac. They get that going. Brainiac has some cerebral powers well beyond theirs where he gets them to turn the guns on themselves and shoot it. So he obviously has some type of psychic ability, and if you're somewhat weak-minded, you cannot fight Brainiac. So they kill each other, and Seagal's in a lot of trouble. He's levitating him to himself. So Brainiac's very psychically powerful. And I imagine from conquering all these planets and collecting all these information, he's, uh, he's learned a great deal here, uh, in order to do all these various feats. But I, uh, Segel saved by Nisa, as we got to see. She stabs him with the, uh, key to the fortress, right? As we knew, we knew Segel gave her that key to protect, uh, with everything that was going down. He didn't want to, you know, want to lose— he wanted her to go off to Argo City And everything was great. And of course, the big final moment is after they think they've destroyed Brainiac by breaking him up or stabbing him, Nissa, with the, with the Force of Solitude key, he reforms. And we get to see the comic book Brainiac. We get to see Brainiac. It looked like he looks exactly in the comics. And I like, I liked how Brainiac looks. The best version of Brainiac on TV so far, no doubt. It's better than Smallville's version, obviously better than the Supergirl version, you know, Brainiac 5. And so that all worked well. I really enjoyed this episode. I wish we could have saw what was going on with Adam Strange, but I imagine they're saving that for the last episode coming up here. So guys, uh, enjoyed the episode. Tell me what you think about it. Tell me if you're on board with Krypton and, uh, if you feel it's really done a 180-degree turnaround and where it started from, and if you think it's become as great of a show as I think it is. 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