The Red Coats

This is floating around and I felt the desire to address it without calling out the post negatively. We are all allowed to ask questions, to wonder, and to speculate. Good stories should make you ponder what happened. The bad ones are more obvious. For the courtroom scene in BVS, the whole thing was meant to set him up and destroy his already tumultuous relationship with the media and public. From a story standpoint, it was meant to show that no matter how powerful he is, he is also fallible. He’s not perfect. He’s not a god. He can be tricked, framed, injured, hurt, and killed. This attack exposed that to a degree (and more so with Doomsday later on). It wasn’t about why he didn’t save anyone (because he couldn’t have, since one of his weaknesses, lead, was used against him). It was about the fact that he DIDN’T see it, confirming those weaknesses to Luthor, who sought to expose and destroy Superman. It also tee’d up Luthor as a manipulative mastermind. He duped everyone in that room and played them against one another, then killed them, making him a fierce contender for Superman in a brawn vs brain scenario. It’s also to note that the Ultimate Cut has Superman sticking around the Capitol and saving people after the blast. Anyway, those are my thoughts on this post. Maybe it was trolling, maybe genuinely curious. Either way, that’s how I view the sequence in question.