I’m a dude, for the record. My name is uncommon, but I’ve yet to meet a female with it.

This seems like a bit of a double standard in your argument. You originally limited it DCAU, then invoke the comics as justification for your views. That’s fine, I’ll address those too.

Because I obviously have called everyone else who responded to this thread with a challenge a troll. Only those who earn it, I’m afraid. Guess I struck a nerve. We’ll compromise, you can be an asshole too.

He would have found another way - which is what I expect heroes to do when faced with an impossible situation. As I said in another part of this thread, Superman is essentially a paladin (lawful good) who will not compromise when it comes to preventing loss of life. The character has to decide how to meet that demand.

You’re welcome to it.

DCAU Superman still has a code against killing. This guy is something else entirely lol

Wow, ok. You’re throwing around quite a lot.

The thing about Clark is that he poses for the Justice League what’s referred to in D&D as the paladin problem.

I wrote this in response to someone else (and you deserve an answer), so I’ll paraphrase here:

Instead of maybe flying him to the Fortress of Solitude and helping him understand how to control his power or to space, since this is an inorganic life form. Finding a solution that doesn’t require loss of life is what defines DC’s heroes, especially Superman.

I think the basic outcome in both will mostly align, but I wonder if Martin will focus on the deviations as his series moves forward. I wouldn’t be surprised if the final book is marketed as “find out how the story really ends” (whenever it escapes GRRM’s word processor).

And that’s fine. It isn’t Clark, not Bruce, and it won’t be Diana either - but these characters aren’t heroes.

Both excerpts just make me want to avoid this thing all the more.

I’m inclined to agree with you as it came off as more of a cinematic concession to me.

The show-runners have consistently said their target is 7 seasons in total. HBO would like more, but they aren’t pressing hard to get it (although news surfaces from time to time that they’re in talks to produce a movie, prequel, or something else set in Westeros altogether).

Definitely not impossible. It would take little more than a line of dialogue in either format, we'll just have to wait and see what Martin and the show have in store.

I’m going to go out on a limb and say the show wants to personify the threat of the White Walkers and give the audience a face to associate the threat with - they’re 2 seasons away from the climax, after all.

According to the earliest account, Odyssey 11.409–11, Agamemnon was killed by Aegisthus, his cousin and Clytemnestra’s lover. Later versions have her murdering both him and Cassandra (the woman cursed by visions she could convince no one of), whom he had taken as a concubine and war prize from Troy.

Clytemnestra’s lover (and cousin to Agamemnon), Aegisthus, is the one who does the deed in earlier versions of the myth. She helps or does it herself in later versions, which are the more popular and well known today.

We’ll have to wait and see how far they go with the Agamemnon comparison - who was ultimately killed by his wife’s lover after returning from Troy. That was my nearest guess about what they're setting up with Selyse. Not that she'll take a lover, but play a role in his demise.