I guess I'm fine with Zod. But, to quantify, about as fine as I am with this entire production. It all feels very...........
meh. I dunno. I kind of agree with Rob's analysis, as well. While Zod has been around since the 50's/60's, he wasn't that prominent until Terence Stamp ordered Chris to kneel before him. And like G said, they reappeared in their militaristic cold-war-Russian-esque outfits by the early-to-mid 80's when Byrne wrote the most logical approach to them with Ka-El becoming their executioner. After that, the Phantom Zone trio didn't appear until Jeph Loeb did his gayest to fuck it all up by having some dude who had powers under red sunlight call himself "Zod". Keep in mind, this is the same era and writer who insisted on having people talk, breathe, and in the Flash's case,
run in the empty, cold depths of space. No, that was not sentence error. You read all of that correctly. So, I say again, fuck Jeph Loeb.
But, I digress. General Zod is only known because he appeared in Superman II. They are using this character again to (a) hook the fanboys, (b) hook anyone who remembers Superman II, and (c) give him someone who he can fist-fight with on an even level.
I Pro-dict: it gets a 7-out-of-10. Great effects. Too many Snyder slow-mo-punch shots, though. And Amy Adams is horribly cast as Lois. The sequel could be better. We'll see.
