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Re: Hot Toys - MMS - MOS: General Zod (Tease)
I think you guys have a few things mixed up.
When Kryptonians were exploring galaxies and being great people and accomplishing wonders as Jor-El tells Kal El, they were not interested in Eugenics which is creating superior social classes.
They weren't having natural child birth for medical reasons and because of advances in medical technology. They thought it was better not to have natural child birth but instead grow babies using genetic matter of their people in a Genesis Chamber. We do this now, but the female body is still our Genesis Chamber.
The Codex "decodes" the genetic makeup of the artificially incubated babies on the planet. It "translates" a child's genetic attributes before his or her birth. They could see what the children would become before their birth. They would know who was a worker, a leader, a warrior before they were born. And they could see the genetic makeup and be able to decide who is placed where in society. A child who was more of a worker, would then be trained in life as a worker. A child who had warrior genetics would then be trained in life as a warrior. etc etc. They were not given a choice. Like if you took Michael Jordans genetic makeup and created a baby, on Krypton that baby would be train to be a basketball player. They wouldnt have a choice. And this became law, their way of life.
So The Genesis Chambers were built more as a medical device it stored the embryos of the Kryptonians. Using The Codex, they could see in the Genesis Chamber who had what genetic makeup. Using the chamber and the codex together went on for Centuries, which is probably only several hundred years, not thousands...The Genesis Chamber on that 20,000 year old crashed ship was the original way to use the chamber, to be able to transport lots of Kryptonians and without having their males & females conceive and have to go through birth so they can populate a planet faster once they terraformed it. The ship could only hold a certain amount of crew members. With a Genesis Chamber, you had room for hundreds, maybe thousands of embryos. Therefor able to populate a planet quicker.
But then Krypton used up all the natural resources and they tapped into the planets core and it started to destroy the planet. Zod and his men staged a coup to overthrow the political rule because of the decisions the political rule made which destroyed the planet and a Civil War broke out. This was all fairly recent.
Zod wanted The Codex so he could pick the best of the best of all the kryptonian babies, and destroy the rest....Eugenics.
But going back to Jor-El and Lara and many others, they believed Kryptonians lost something, the idea of choice. If you had warrior genetics, why couldnt you be a worker, or scientists? Why did you have to be a warrior? Thats what they thought Krypton lost. the idea of choice, choice in choosing what their life can be.
These people were not robotic-like clones, they just had no choices in what they would become. And Zod reaction was that the people who were leaders had flawed genetics and they made terrible decisions and their decisions destroyed the planet. If Zod could only use the Codex and Genesis Chamber to create THE BEST OF THE BEST, then in his eyes their people would be better and not make the same bad decisions that he thought destroyed their planet....again Eugenics.
As far as "morality" Faora mentioned, she just meant being bred as a warrior she didn't have "morality" since she was trained not to. The evolution statement was meant as they were a superior being compared to humans. Kryptonians were tens of thousands years ahead of humans on earth. On an evolutionary scale, they are far more advanced.
Zod however, i think did have morality in his own way. He had a greater mind, and at one point, him and Jor-El were friends. Problem was once the planet started to die, Zod changed his mind and thought the political powers were wrong. Jor-El's problem was that he felt their way of life was wrong by pre-determining what you would become in life. Kal-El was born so he could make his own choices, not have the government tell him what he has to be.
I think you guys have a few things mixed up.
When Kryptonians were exploring galaxies and being great people and accomplishing wonders as Jor-El tells Kal El, they were not interested in Eugenics which is creating superior social classes.
They weren't having natural child birth for medical reasons and because of advances in medical technology. They thought it was better not to have natural child birth but instead grow babies using genetic matter of their people in a Genesis Chamber. We do this now, but the female body is still our Genesis Chamber.
The Codex "decodes" the genetic makeup of the artificially incubated babies on the planet. It "translates" a child's genetic attributes before his or her birth. They could see what the children would become before their birth. They would know who was a worker, a leader, a warrior before they were born. And they could see the genetic makeup and be able to decide who is placed where in society. A child who was more of a worker, would then be trained in life as a worker. A child who had warrior genetics would then be trained in life as a warrior. etc etc. They were not given a choice. Like if you took Michael Jordans genetic makeup and created a baby, on Krypton that baby would be train to be a basketball player. They wouldnt have a choice. And this became law, their way of life.
So The Genesis Chambers were built more as a medical device it stored the embryos of the Kryptonians. Using The Codex, they could see in the Genesis Chamber who had what genetic makeup. Using the chamber and the codex together went on for Centuries, which is probably only several hundred years, not thousands...The Genesis Chamber on that 20,000 year old crashed ship was the original way to use the chamber, to be able to transport lots of Kryptonians and without having their males & females conceive and have to go through birth so they can populate a planet faster once they terraformed it. The ship could only hold a certain amount of crew members. With a Genesis Chamber, you had room for hundreds, maybe thousands of embryos. Therefor able to populate a planet quicker.
But then Krypton used up all the natural resources and they tapped into the planets core and it started to destroy the planet. Zod and his men staged a coup to overthrow the political rule because of the decisions the political rule made which destroyed the planet and a Civil War broke out. This was all fairly recent.
Zod wanted The Codex so he could pick the best of the best of all the kryptonian babies, and destroy the rest....Eugenics.
But going back to Jor-El and Lara and many others, they believed Kryptonians lost something, the idea of choice. If you had warrior genetics, why couldnt you be a worker, or scientists? Why did you have to be a warrior? Thats what they thought Krypton lost. the idea of choice, choice in choosing what their life can be.
These people were not robotic-like clones, they just had no choices in what they would become. And Zod reaction was that the people who were leaders had flawed genetics and they made terrible decisions and their decisions destroyed the planet. If Zod could only use the Codex and Genesis Chamber to create THE BEST OF THE BEST, then in his eyes their people would be better and not make the same bad decisions that he thought destroyed their planet....again Eugenics.
As far as "morality" Faora mentioned, she just meant being bred as a warrior she didn't have "morality" since she was trained not to. The evolution statement was meant as they were a superior being compared to humans. Kryptonians were tens of thousands years ahead of humans on earth. On an evolutionary scale, they are far more advanced.
Zod however, i think did have morality in his own way. He had a greater mind, and at one point, him and Jor-El were friends. Problem was once the planet started to die, Zod changed his mind and thought the political powers were wrong. Jor-El's problem was that he felt their way of life was wrong by pre-determining what you would become in life. Kal-El was born so he could make his own choices, not have the government tell him what he has to be.
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Brilliant post, and %100 spot on! 
no hard feelings? 
