Spent today catching up with bills and doing a bit of Christmas shopping, love it . I’ve also been catching up with my movies and watched ‘Superman Returns’ ,which was great. Apart from watching it in Religious Studies teacher mode and identifying the ‘Messianic’, man who is sent from above, raised by an adoptive family, special powers, helps and heals, sees the world through his Father’s eyes, I did spot a geographical issue that confused me.

I thought in the original movies Superman’s Earth home, the ‘Fortress of Solitude’, was based in the Arctic, not in Antarctica, which Lex Luther in the new movie discovers. Surprisingly, Luther is able to land a helicopter on pack ice at the edge of the ice shelf and enter the Fortress! As for their clothing, don’t do there. I would have thought that the Fortress being within the ice shelf would be a problem, i.e. basal slippage and calving. But hey, he’s Superman.

It seems Superman has had a number of homes through the comic series, the Amazon has also been used. In earlier storylines Superman had a mountain retreat in the Andes.

You see there is Geography in everything, or maybe I’m a bit sad Nice starter for next year though…

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Written on Wed, 20 December 2006 at 10:00 pm

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