Yeah, I’ve never understood why people don’t get this. The scene has him flying around the planet so that we can see within a single frame what he is doing and what effect it is producing. Granted, it is completely made up physics he is using, but it isn’t as stupid or unreasonable as people portray it as.
They don’t get it because it was poorly presented to the audience. In Donner’s defense, filmmaking has come a long way on presenting such sci-fi concepts. It wasn’t his fault, he tried something and fell flat.
Yeah, I’ve never understood why people don’t get this. The scene has him flying around the planet so that we can see within a single frame what he is doing and what effect it is producing. Granted, it is completely made up physics he is using, but it isn’t as stupid or unreasonable as people portray it as.
They don’t get it because it was poorly presented to the audience. In Donner’s defense, filmmaking has come a long way on presenting such sci-fi concepts. It wasn’t his fault, he tried something and fell flat.
Wait, he actually did this in a comic? What ended up happening?
He does this a lot in the comics, starting in the Silver Age. Superboy regularly visited the 30th century.