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Can Clark be blamed for Zod?

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man-of-steel-1024x686Is Clark culpable for Zod’s crimes?

We do not know what the citizens of Earth know about the full facts of the story, but nonetheless, there are Man of Steel detractors that blame Clark for bringing Zod to Earth. They reason that all of Zod’s crimes are Clark’s fault for bringing Zod to Earth. Now admittedly anyone can be blamed for anything. Bigots are no stranger to scapegoating. However, is such a position reasonable, logical, or well thought out? Based on our conception of justice and reason, I don’t think it is.

Justifiable blame- or culpability- generally attaches if one has a culpable mental state, for example intending harm, combined with an avoidable action that is the proximate cause of that harm (and there are no excuses or justifications for the action).

In other words, we don’t punish people for wrongful thoughts if they do nothing wrong and we don’t punish people for conduct with harmful results unless their mindset behind the action was wrongful (purposely, knowingly, recklessly, or negligently). There must be an aspect of free will to the act. read more

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So which football game is Clark watching?

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The insights here are courtesy of Mark Dent at The Brew House. His entire analysis can be found here. As someone not particularly into sports, I still found Dent’s detective work interesting.

I came across his post while in the process of unraveling the timetable for the events starting with Zod’s ultimatum.  I don’t know whether the game is meant to be a live one diegetically, however, even a rebroadcasted game would not represent a story-breaking plot-hole.  Notable games are rebroadcast on select channels, and Dent concludes that this was a “hell of a game” perhaps worthy of rebroadcast.  The fact that CNN’s feed is shown when the breaking news interrupts is not an issue.  Branding from other channels is permissibly and often carried over for breaking news, particularly with exclusive footage.

Enough apologetics, on to Dent’s conclusion….

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How did Clark destroy the truck without being caught?

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MOSAIC 17 – Doc, 7/6/15

On January 12, 2012, we received one of our first glimpses of an intriguing visual from the set of Man of Steel.

It was one of the first released materials and likely earlier in production. In the film, the final scene looks like this:

So how does Clark, in the heat of the moment, vent his frustrations on this truck, where the end result is as we see it AND Clark does not get caught in the process? Clark can’t fly yet. He doesn’t have Flash-like super-speed.  No one warned Ludlow (the truck driver) so it apparently happened quickly without anyone hearing… read more

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Did Jonathan Kent die for a dog?

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kevin_costner_and_friends_by_elspethmac-d34c9j1Did Jonathan die for a dog?

No, he died for Clark’s future. Jonathan believed Clark’s destiny was to change the world. However, Jonathan also acknowledge that Clark could grow up to be a man of bad character. If the world discovered Clark before he had answers, before he was ready, it would have captured him, persecuted him, and experimented on him. Clark would have been tormented by questions that he couldn’t answer and subjected to all that, his character likely would have soured. A being with Clark’s strength and abilities who had been made to hate the world would not change it for the better. Jonathan was convicted that the world wasn’t ready for Clark and Lois (and Perry) agreed. read more