I always thought that! but someone told me that he would go to the bottle city of Kandor?was it ? where he had no super powers, to work out.
The logic of this escaped me,in the real world you are super strong so in your time off you bust a gut turning yourself into a brick outhouse.
I suspect vanity and Lois Lane may have some part to play in this.
No, I agree that Fisher and Hammill actually did a pretty convincing job. They did the best with the dialog that they were given (and I don’t even think the dialog was that bad.) Especially Luke’s interaction with R2D2 - it takes some acting skill to converse with a robot who communicates in bleeps and bloops, and actually sound not only like you understand what he is saying but also that he is your friend. Skywalker definitely came off as he was meant to - a cocky, young immature kid who eventually grows up into a confident and capable man - and I think that Hammill played the role just as well as anyone else could have. So this isn’t just nostalgia talking, I’m actually evaluating it with a critical eye and I think it’s far better than “nothing special.” Carrie Fisher also brought extreme confidence and a sassy attitude to the character of Leia, a woman who is more than just eye candy and who we can actually believe would be able to hold her own in a battle. Again, I don’t see how the character would have been improved with a different actor.
As a 21-year resident of Bloomington, IN, I think that Brian Dennehy did not do a good job portraying Bob Knight in Season On The Brink. He didn’t look like him at all, and he really did not project the intensity of the real man.
Well, if we want to fanwank like mofos, there’s a method to this madness. Should he lose his powers somehow, he would still be relatively strong and healthy from a human perspective. If he didn’t take this effort he would be emaciated, since his muscles are rarely taxed as mentioned above, and would be in even more danger if some villain managed to rob him of his powers. Instead of suddenly having to deal with a normal man’s weakness, he’d be verging on muscle atrophy.
There was a long-gone *Brave and the Bold * where Batman is teaching Judo to Superman. Superman remarks that if he resisted Batman could never throw him, but he does occasionally mix it up with people about his strength level, and knowing how to fight is then useful. I am reasonably sure that the comic book writers would claim that pumping iron in a depowered state would increase his total strength in a powered state.
The crap that gathers in my memory is incredible. I have a vivid memory of this splash page, but I can’t remember where my keys are.