# Syfy's Krypton (open spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 22, 2018, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/syfys-krypton-open-spoilers/811002 "2018-03-22T01:48:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2018, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/syfys-krypton-open-spoilers/811002/21 "2018-04-26T03:36:47Z")
Stop Brainiac and Krypton doesn’t explode so Kal-El never goes to Earth and becomes Superman; don’t stop Brainiac and Earth get’s Superman while the Kryptonians go extinct for all practical purposes. Adam’s sure going to have a hard time getting any of the local Kandorians to help him. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2018, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/syfys-krypton-open-spoilers/811002/22 "2018-04-26T04:58:03Z")
James Marsters (Spike from Buffy) also portrayed Brainiac (at least a version of him) on Smallville. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2018, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/syfys-krypton-open-spoilers/811002/23 "2018-04-26T08:36:30Z")
OK, someone needs to mention that Marsters played Brainiac on Smallville in post 33. Then again in post 44. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2018, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/syfys-krypton-open-spoilers/811002/24 "2018-04-26T10:40:29Z")
At this rate the thread might not reach post #44. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2018, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/syfys-krypton-open-spoilers/811002/25 "2018-04-29T01:39:10Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > James Marsters (Spike from Buffy) also portrayed Brainiac (at least a version of him) on Smallville. Milton Fine was (post Crisis) a sideshow psychic that somehow tapped into/got posessed by the Coulan intelligence Brainiac. Smallville turned him into a college instructor and sort of mashed up the erroneous Kryptonian supercomputer origin from the Animated Series version into it. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2018, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/syfys-krypton-open-spoilers/811002/26 "2018-04-29T01:42:25Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > Stop Brainiac and Krypton doesn’t explode _snip_ Brainiac isn’t behind Krypton exploding (usually, I suppose it could be a retcon in some version, like the Byrne version where it exploded and Krytonite came from a radioactive bomb anti-clone terrorists exploded in the planet’s core long before Jor-El’s time). ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2018, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/syfys-krypton-open-spoilers/811002/27 "2018-04-29T20:36:56Z")
In the most recent episode Dru-Zod said that it was basic Kryptonian history that Brainiac removing Kandor from the planet’s surface set a chain of events in motion that would eventually cause Krypton’s core to explode. So in the show’s continuity there is a direct link. Sent from my SM-G965U using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2018, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/syfys-krypton-open-spoilers/811002/28 "2018-05-24T03:05:10Z")
Well after tonight just wow, I can’t think of a way to finish this sentence. This has branched off into a very different reality than the usual Superman mythos. And it only took Dru-Zod a month to establish a military dictatorship and conquer Kypton’s other city-states. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2018, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/syfys-krypton-open-spoilers/811002/29 "2018-05-24T14:05:52Z")
Ah, time travel. I really should have predicted timeline shenanigans, given that I watch both _The Flash_ and _Legends of Tomorrow_. But I thought they were going to play it straight because, you know, Superman. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2018, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/syfys-krypton-open-spoilers/811002/30 "2018-05-24T14:28:01Z")
> [@Terminus\_Est](#): > > Ah, time travel. I really should have predicted timeline shenanigans, given that I watch both _The Flash_ and _Legends of Tomorrow_. But I thought they were going to play it straight because, you know, Superman. I haven’t watched the latest - but they were supposed to play it straight - but, like Star Trek Discovery - they can never figure out a way to do so. ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2018, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/syfys-krypton-open-spoilers/811002/31 "2018-05-25T06:21:49Z")
I think they frontloaded all of the Superman mythos too early. Brainiac! Zod! Doomsday! I would have been happy just to watch all the socio-political intrigues of Krypton. Ranked vs rankless. Vex vs El. Lyta vs Nyssa. Voice of Rao vs everybody. Then at the end of Season 1 have Adam Strange appear and warn them that Brainiac is coming. But they had to introduce Brainiac in the pilot episode and I couldn’t get into all the factions and counter-factions and counter-counter-factions knowing that they were all doomed anyway. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/syfys-krypton-open-spoilers/811002.md?page=1)