Hello Superman fans over the years there have been tons of shows based on Superman but apart from a few scenes here and there there has not been a show set on Krypton well that all changes so here is my review of the pilot episode of Krypton.
Now for some unknown reason this show has taken a whopping four years to get here and even during that four year long waiting period nobody knew if it was going to be made or not and for the life of me i cannot think why it's taken this long for the show to finally air but all I can say is the wait was worth it.
The plot of the pilot is Superman's grandfather Seg finds out somethings he never knew about his family and that's all I can really say about the episode because anything else would give away the episode it self but I can say that I thought the story was a little bit slow paced at times which I do understand since it's a pilot episode but it's also a science fiction show.
I'm not kidding when I say this but the shows cast is mostly British people and i'm ok with that so starring in it we have Cameron Cuffe as Seg-El , Georgina Campbell , Shaun Sipos , Elliot Cowan , Ann Ogbomo , Wallis Day and Rasmus Hardiker. I don't know who did the casting for this show but i'm guessing they are a fan of British actors since alot of the cast are as I mentioned British and they all turn in really good performances which i didn't expect from a pilot episode.
I'm a huge fan of Superman: The Movie it is in my opinion the best Superman movie ever made and it stars the best greatest Superman ever period so I was glad that this episode incorporated something truly iconic from this movie into the episode and it actually fits in quite well i'm not going to say what it is but anyone with half a brain could figure it out.
Now what I noticed is that for some reason this episode has two directors listed and yet when I did some research about the show I found out that when they announced the start of production on this episode only one director was listed so i'm not left wondering if they did any re-shoots on this episode or not and if they did you actually cannot tell.
For a show based on a Superhero character there's shockingly not a lot of action in this episode at all I think in total there's only two or three action scenes spread out the entire forty five minuets and while that is kinda refreshing to see at the same time I did find myself wondering when there's going to be an action just so things would get interesting.
One of the few things I think we can all agree on is the fact that The Cw DC shows have great CGI and now I would like to formally add Krypton to that list of shows with great CGI since the CGI in this show to me was almost on par with the effects used for Grodd in The Flash season 3 yes they are that good.
Overall this wasn't a bad pilot but it does leave a lot of room for improvement and it has nine weeks to improve because unlike The CW which renews any show Syfy isn't that kind and i'm not going to rate this episode since it is just a pilot and thus the beginning of the story but I might do a series review after episode 10 if i'm still watching by that point.