man of steel 4, 5, and 6

in today's episode i'm doing three chapters because i want to get this krypton shit over and done with. i'm gonna do things a little bit differently today, and keep the recap short, since i'm doing three whole chapters.

so, chapter 4:

jor and kelex go into battle and try to fight off zod's men. they do good for a while until a) jor gets trapped under some debris, and b) a whole ship full of dudes lands and unloads in the time it takes for him to get out. kelex does another badass move and suicide bombs them with plasma guns to buy the baby more time. even so, zod actually gets into the house and sees what they're doing and that they had a baby naturally and he's fucking pissed so he kills jor but he can't stop baby!! and they're all caught just as baby leaves the planet's atmosphere.

chapter 5:

the whole chapter is just zod and his folks getting arrested and sentenced to a bajillion years in the phantom zone. he screams at lara that he's gonna find the baby when he gets out and stuff. nothing else really happens this chapter is really short.

chapter 6:

we're with lara as krypton comes to an end, just like jor said it would, of course. the whole chapter is just her floating around despondently before she goes out onto the porch to watch the world end. the very last part, though, is baby ship entering our solar system and landing on earth.

so, things!:

• chapter 4 goes through three perspective changes before it ends (jor, then lara, and zod) and that's interesting, mostly because we've been stuck with jor for most of this, but weird because we're only with lara for a tiny bit.
• we finally got a stake that hindered jor!!! why did it take that fucking long???!!!
• there's more of the zod/jor friendship in this, and we got to see lara from zod's pov, which was really interesting, brief objectification aside. he actually, like, cares about her! like, when he realizes that jor and lara had a baby, like, the original way he's terrified that jor raped her or s/t. and, like, that gives very little credit to lara's free will and mind, but it does show that he's worried about her well being to some description, which is a good way to humanize the villain.
• speaking  of that, it's been six chapters, and the only character i was really interested in was zod. that's a damn shame, because, if you recall, we've been following jor since chapter 1. that's not good!!
• WE'RE FINALLY GETTING TO SUPERMAN NEXT CHAPTER. seriously, the civil war and stuff on krypton is interesting in concept, and i'd be lying if i said that i wasn't invested in the jor/zod relationship, but god dammit that went on way to long. how the hell did they manage to take something that should have been prologue and stretch it out to six chapters??? i'm so glad this is over.

so, the next time we see each other, we're finally getting to modern day, and the part of the book i read in the bookstore that one time. hopefully the rest of the book won;t be as exhausting as this, but i won't hold my breath.

edit: just in case you were wondering, the codex still isn't explained. :/