Well thats his view on the film and he's entitled to his opinion.
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I'v seen the film 3 times. 75% of the damage done was caused by the world engine,i mean u could actually see the people being lifted up and then being crushed down. by the time supes and the army destroy that,i think its safe to assume that any survivors in the buildings left standing would have evacuated. to assume people were still in the buildings during the zod fight is well,i dont agree with that. i Know im assuming they evacuated but im thinking about what would actually happen. Plus,like i sed iv seen it three times and i noticed that not once during the movie does supes hurl zod into or through a building,its always zod doing that.the only place supes tackles zod through something is that construction site after zod starts flying. then we have the last scene which takes place in like a grand central station type setting which is underground where u see people who have probably hidden underground and then whatever happens happens........alot of people are talking about the disregard for human life,if superman destroyed the ship in metropolis all the kryptonians would be alive(cuz the phantom drive wldve been destroyed leaving no way to send them to the phantom zone) and then would proceed to destroy eveything. if he stayed helping people escape the world engine and didn't destroy the other one,it would have continued to destroy more and more life not just in metropolis but everywhere. Supes was basically screwed all around in this one,in the comics he wldve had the JL picking up the slack but obviously he didnt have that advantage here. and the buildings...during the zod fight its very clear there's alot of people on the streets and the building they fight in where zod looses control of his heat vision was deserted.
And even if whatever i said is completely wrong..what else can you expect from a fight between beings of this power level?(in a real life setting) and because of Zod's relentlessness which is so clearly shown in this movie, even if he wanted to, i dont think supes wld be able to take time out of the fight to save people. and as for takin the fight somewhere else i dont thnk zod wld allow for that to happen. they went up into space and zod still brought him back down to Metropolis.And one last point-this is superman at the absolute start of his career,his Zero Year if u will. we can obviously expect more protector of the people stuff in the second one.
this is nothing against Mark Waid, i highly praise his writing but don't really care for his views here....and the above is just Justifying this Superman's actions in my eyes.this is My opinion.
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