I was at the bottom of the pareto for Screen Rant's review of Smallville's finale: largely because I have a physics degree and I'm a comic purist.
Darkseid was referenced as some kind of a spirit/mist, and apparently "the devil": the planet Apokolips kind of wandered into earth's orbit to cause the end of the world, which is apparently this Saturday (I plan to be blogging on May 22nd). Superman/Christ-Avatar saves us by "pushing" the planet away -- one would hope it fairs better than city buildings in his grip. Here are my nerd points:
- F = ma: Kal-El would have to be of considerable mass and have considerable acceleration to PUSH a planet. The earth's velocity is about 100,000 kilometers/hour. Apokolips, our wandering planet might be a little slower, but looked kind of...massive in the CGI cartoon of it.
- Limited time was given to tidal forces, earthquakes of the entrance to our orbit of another planet, nor what force/propulsion system actually propelled it INTO our orbit.
- After spending a lot of time building up a "Watchtower" and a "Justice League" during the series (and hinting at a Legion of Doom), only Supes and Green Arrow see any action in the finale. What justice is that?
- Until this Nature article, I did not know planets "wandered" galaxies without suns.
MY guess: the science fiction plot device of an Einstein-Rosen Bridge had already been taken by the Marvel Comic movie Thor (and claimed by Marvel's lawyers), so they could not use the typical New God Tech/Mother Box Powered/Boom Tube. The link even mentions comparisons to Bifrost, the Rainbow Bridge.
I also like the reference to the Arthur C. Clarke quote: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." It made Asgard merely part of the other eight of the nine worlds, and benevolent (though highly warlike) space aliens.
Like I said...I'm a nerd, and a story purist.
Nature News: So many lonely planets with no star to guide them
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