Odyssey v. Doomsday

[Ella]

Someone made this comparison on another forum, and I'd thought I'd post it here because it was pretty interesting:


It was Odyssey flipped on its head.

Odyssey-Clark came Home to Lois.
Doomsday-Lois is gone, Clark loses his home.

Odyssey-The JLA team up to find Clark and save him.
Doomsday-The JLA team up to betray Clark.

Odyssey-Chloe accepts Jimmy's proposal, starting a new life together.
Doomsday-Jimmy dies.

Odyssey-Clark embraces his new life and job at the Daily Planet, essentially his humanity.
Doomsday-Clark walks away from his own humanity.

Odyssey-Lois sneaks into the mansion to find information on where Chloe is, meets Tess, steals a zip drive.
Doomsday-Tess accuses Lois of stealing the orb from her, they get into a fight.

Now, Odyssey was about 100 times better than Doomsday, but there were direct and obvious connections.
source: achtunbecca

[antx]

Wow now that is a pretty interesting comparison.They do seem to rival one another's themes.I would have to say that Doomsday was far better than Odyssey.It was much more exciting and enjoyable.

[Kryppy]

Well I wonder if the producers real reason for brining on the JLA this episode was to try and hide bad writing. If that was their idea it didn't work for me.

[susangail]

A very nice set of bookends.

[mr lane]

so basically another big regression

[SGuthrie27]

TOTALLY regression, ack! I hated that they had to go there. Clark was FINALLY headed in what seemed to be the ultimate heroic direction, but he's like a Kryptonian pendulum, and he's swinging back toward uncertainty, self-doubt, and self-pity again, which really irks me. I can understand why they're doing it, story-wise, since they have a whole other season now to build on what just happened and bring Clark back up to where he was, but it's still aggravating to true Superman fans. That is a very interesting comparison, though, Ella. Thanks for sharing!

--SGuthrie ><>' :)--

[Mai4et0]

You should compere Arctic and Doomsday not the season premiere and season finale ;)

I'm sure all the pieces will come together in 9th season premiere ;)

[Ella]

You're welcome, SGuthrie! :)

[bebenecio]

Season 7's finale was wayyyyy better than this last season finale. It really seemed to create a state of suspense, of "OMG, I have to see what happens, of how this will work itself out". But now....just a state of ho-hum and dissappointment. The whole season had been building up to a DD - CK showdown, and in the end it just fizzled, no pop. Plus, the killing off of Jimmy and Davis...what a lost shot in the dark.