Krypton Season 1, Episode 6
Would you trade the future of your planet for a grandson you’ve never met? This is what Adam Strange inarticulately asks of Seg in “Civil War,” a dramatic irony-laden, intensely suspenseful episode of Krypton that addresses some of the lingering time travel tensions in complicated, character-driven ways. I’m glad that Krypton is finally addressing the Adam Strange situation, but I do wish Adam and Seg had developed more of a friendship prior to this episode. While it still feels awkward that Seg is “turning on” this dude he has been friendly with for the past few weeks, I would have felt even more conflicted about this if these two had engaged in any real conversations past exposition in the last five episodes. Meanwhile, General Zod has Seg right where he wants him. While Seg (thankfully) doesn’t think they need to use Doomsday to save Kandor City, he does seem to trust General Zod enough that Zod will probably be able to manipulate him, if he so desires. One of the best parts of this episode is that it is actually really unclear what General Zod’s endgame is here. We know him as a villain and he is definitely taking some liberties in his description of Superman, but that doesn’t mean he isn’t earnest in his desire to save Krypton. (He probably wants to rule it, too, but whatever. One catastrophe at a time.) Inevitably, it is Dev who leads the Voice to his presumed slaughter, but things don’t exactly go according to play. It seems the Brainiac’s sentry has given the Voice some extra powers. When he removes his mask, he uses his tech-tacles to take out most of Jayna’s soldiers. They didn’t think it was going to be that easy, did they? Adding another layer of intrigue to all of this is the reveal that Brainiac didn’t come back in time to take Krypton; this is where he started. This means that Brainiac could be someone we already know and, given General Zod’s theory that this time is when Brainiac takes over, there are a few likely options, with Daron-Vex bring the frontrunner.
