Lara

Yeah

... that Jor-El and Lara El-

I did, and it's not like Brainiac fucking with it or something.

Yeah, no.

You know, and all just the fact that he was raised by her, you know? We're...

Once again, we're going back to, uh, Kal-El being raised by the c- the Kents, you know, who, which kind of o- countermanded any program that, uh, that version of Jor-El and Lara might have wanted for him.

You know, it's, uh, he, he-

Nature versus nurture.

It's the first time we get a real exploration of the planet Krypton.

We get the names of his biological parents, Jor-El and Lara.

Jor-El and Lara.

Yeah, spelled a bit differently than they are today, but the core concept is there.

And critically, this is the story where John and Mary Kent, who are later renamed Jonathan and Martha, find the rocket and decide to raise him on a farm.

And, uh, you know, you're writing the whole ...

Uh, I guess you're writing a little bit of a backstory on Jor-El and Lara too a little bit.

Right.

It's, it ...

This is the story.

We all know that Superman as a baby gets stuck in a rocket ship and sent off moments before Krypton explodes.

And, and okay, that's a great beginning for a story, but why did the planet explode? And, and if Krypton was this incredibly advanced society, the best in 28 known galaxies, then how come every Kryptonian happ- happened to be home on the day the planet blew up? And, and why did they only have one spaceship, and why was it only baby-sized? And, uh, little things like that, as, as well as- The whole backstory of Jor-El and Lara and, and their romance, and they must have done something to have a baby.

Mm-hmm.

... pretty innocent person.

We're de- I'm definitely looking at Jor-El and Lara in an entirely new light after, uh, after James' Superman.

[laughs] Oh, my God.

Yes, exactly.

And eventually, because of that civil war, a detonation in the core of the planet that eventually led to the destruction of the planet and how the world went from being this kind of, you know, free thinking, free love, kind of very rich people coded existence to these people that all lived together.

by themselves in solitude and had a suit that they wore that took care of all of their biological needs and how Jor-El never even met Lara until we see her and him talking in Man of Steel number one.

They were just matched genetically.

None of that... is in Man of Steel number one, nor is it in Man of Steel number six.

That's all we see.

We get an idea that Jor-El is a bit of an outsider.

We also get an idea that Lara is the opposite of that because she freaks out.

about the idea that her son is going to go to this planet Earth where there's these two very hairy, you know, bare chested farmhands that probably maybe feel things she had never felt before.

They wanna know everything about me.

Some are even afraid of me, just like Jor-El and Lara warned.

Does this mean I'm going to have to give up my life?

No, son.

He's, uh, he's fast asleep in his little Krypton bed.

And as he's waking up, it's basically just all the experiences you would experience as, if, if you were a dog.

Like, just stretch and this and that and, and either Jor-El or, or Lara call him, and he goes out to the kitchen and does breakfast and, and everything else.

And man, what a dog.

Julian Sands returns as Jor-El.

We get Helen Slater as Lara El, and Teri Hatcher as Ella Lane, and we have Bud the Dog in their final appearance as Shelby.

Shelby.We also have Lay or Lee Baru as a young Tess Mercer.

Christine Wheels or Wiles debuts as Granny Goodness.

Let's get into the fan favorite segment of our show.

All right, the fan favorite question from last week was, what is your favorite Jor-El and Lara statue or action figure? And a few people responded this week.

Michael, who was up first?

Alan Vaughn.

thank you michael yeah that's a first that's a really interesting uh jimmy olsen action figure his eyes popping out there as turtle boy and some cool jor-el superman the movie action figures thank you very much Michael.

Next up, Celeste sent in, said, I hope you all had a great weekend.

My favorite Jor-El and Lara action figures are the ones from Superman the movie.

I love the way they are sculpted and how the design is closely related to the characters in the film.