#cw supergirl's attempt with vilifying astra in s1 was really weak bcuz it was just a “But Their Methods” villain again

[jesncin]

What are your thoughts/takes on General Zod and other Evil Kryptonians of that ilk? Zod's been characterised and backstory'd very differently across the different iterations and I was wondering how you'd approach him (and associated characters like Ursa, Non, Astra, etc), especially in relation to your ideas of Krypton as a socialist utopia struck down by arrogance - where does the mean military man fit into this paradigm?

While I don't have a solidified idea for Zod and evil Kryptonians yet- I personally prefer imagining groups like them as a fringe movement within utopia-Kryptonian society. I'm even tempted to remove the idea of any organized military entirely and just have it so a few Kryptonians believe (because their society is so great) that Krypton should expand- but this is a small group and not something backed by Kryptonian leaders/government.

I was really into what CW Supergirl did with Reign (I'm not familiar with her comics version so the show is all I know), where she's this product of a Kryptonian cult and it's basically the horror version of "ordinary person discovers they have superpowers" in a fascinating way. Basically just because Krypton is a utopia, doesn't mean its beliefs are a monolith followed by all Kryptonians and I think you can get really interesting characters out of that set up.