There’s more to the legend than a big green Brainiac.
The House of El is in danger. Set two generations before Kal-El is packed up into a space shuttle and rocketed to Earth while his planet erupts around him, Krypton looks to expand on Superman’s well-established mythology by digging deep into his past. Starring Cameron Cuffe as the Man of Steel’s grandfather, Seyg-El (yeah — not so sure on that name), as the patriarch looking to hold down the fort before everything goes kablooey. The latest trailer gives us our first look at the big bad, Brainiac (Blake Ritson), but it also packs in several treats for comic book fans.
Accompanying today’s trailer release, SyFy also uploaded their first look of Brainiac. Show creator David S. Goyer is a self proclaimed geek that prides himself on rummaging through comic book continuity. Brainiac might make absolute sense for Krypton’s big bad, but he’s going to seal the deal by sticking closely to Geoff Johns and Gary Frank’s recent reinvention of the character. He’s a cold, ancient creature who looks down upon Kryptons with the fascination of a child frying ants with a magnifying glass. Their promise of finally revealing Brainiac’s skull ship design is enough alone to gain my viewership.
Adding extra terror will be Lyta Zod (Georgina Campbell), the great-great ancestor of Michael Shannon’s general (or Terence Stamp’s, depending on your favor) — “I WILL FIND HIM!” Their Klingon-like obsession with honor will drive the clan against the House of El for sure, but is there a place for a Zod/Brainiac team-up? At the very least, I’m expecting their cooperative siege of Kandor before the infamous city is torn from the ground and bottled up for further Superman adventures.
DC television has been on fire recently. Whatever ups and downs they had in the Arrowverse were forgiven when they came together in last season’s multi-show epic, “Crisis on Earth-X.” Don’t expect to see Seyg-El or Adam Strange knocking on The Flash’s laboratory door anytime soon, but it’s thrilling to see DC’s TV properties getting so geeky with their material while Marvel’s Netflix rage-fests bury their origins in gritty real-world violence.
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