New Brevoort Formspring — but what if the killing of zod in MoS was meant to...

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but what if the killing of zod in MoS was meant to be a learning experience? Something that impacts the next movie and the choices that he makes? His own Uncle Ben moment in a way? It is after all a franchise, and clearly there's more story coming

I’ve heard this theory before, and I’m sorry, but that’s storytelling BS. First of all, at the moment what you’re talking about is just conjecture–the next film may not spend one frame on this question at all. But more importantly, if that moment was meant to be a big turning point for the character, a change in his ethos, then that change belongs in the story in which that action took place, not in the next story two to three years later. That is not the message that the story in the movie they made delivered, and even if they reverse course and make this case in the next film, that will still be a case of poor narrative construction.