Originally Posted by
Comic-Reader Lad
I grew up with the pre-Crisis Earth 1 Superman in comics also, but I learned from watching the Donner-Superman movie that any adaptation is going to take liberties with the character and change stuff. It took me awhile to warm up to Donner's movie because so many things had been changed from the comics -- mostly visuals, but also with his powers like turning back time. In time, I learned to appreciate the movie in spite of those things.
Later, Superboy, Lois and Clark, and Smallville all made their changes, and I like all these shows.
So, that's why by the time Man of Steel came around, I was just willing to let the creators do their thing, and I found their thing to be very intriguing. I'm ok with Superman not being the classic Superman right off the bat because I saw in the script and in Henry's performance that he was struggling to get there, and I loved that we got to witness that process. I imagine if Snyder were left alone we would have seen the culmination of Superman's character arc/hero's journey and he would have been at least a Snyderverse approximation of the classic Superman that we know. I didn't mind the more real-world take on the character. In fact, I preferred it.
My feeling is that since all these movies and TV shows are just adaptations and not official comics canon, then go for it and let me see the character in a new way. I was still definitely able to recognize the character's essential goodness and his wanting to do the right thing in Snyder's version.