Originally Posted by
Sacred Knight
Agreed. Comics and movies are very different mediums. What you can get away with in comics you can't get away with in movies. Comics get oversaturated with "mind-controlled Superman"? Okay, but there's another story right around the corner, at the very most in a month's time, at the very least one week, that won't feature it. And they're virtually everlasting as at least in Superman's case he always has at least one comic going at all times. Not only was this planned as a finite movie saga of four films, said films take a long time to come out. So moviegoers are left a few years with this evil Superman in the conscious mind until its resolved, and that's right alongside with dealing with a polarizing characterization of him in the previous films BEFORE he went bad. Its too much.
And I liked MOS so I was very much on board with things at the start. Judging off MOS alone I was a big Snyder defender. But if this was the plan all along and not a course-correction as I originally thought BvS to be, then all these revelations of what would have been just tell me that WB and Snyder indeed had no clue about the character from the get-go. You don't reintroduce Superman to a generation by giving him an origin story, promptly killing him off, then resurrecting him as the big bad before his weak-willed ass is saved by his girlfriend.