[quote=@Vandy]
The problem with everyone's view of Superman is that he is infallible. When he is written that way is when he is written badly. I LOVE THIS CHARACTER but at the end of the day he is just a kid from Kansas who happens to have incredible powers. That is how he sees himself. This shows that even Superman is prone to mistakes and human nature. Take him out of the equation, what would you have done in that situation? 
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That would be fine if he was written as the Kansas kid with abilities. He isn't, he's written as Space Jesus. They spend the whole film saying: 'you're gonna do great things, you're the chosen one, you can SAVE THEM ALL'...and he doesn't. Not even remotely. It's a good job Metropolis is a big city, if it was the size of Smallville...oh wait, that got destroyed anyway... 

[quote=@vandy]
No sense that he failed? The entire plot of BvS is dealing with the fact that he failed. They were setting this up. Lex casting and Doomsday appearance aside I think they had a good plan of what they are doing. Did you want another thirty minutes of the movie showing him mope around? 
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I can't watch BvS while I'm watching MoS. The way that Man of Steel ended, Superman trading quips with the military and turning up as Clark Kent in the Daily Planet (which is a career path we never saw him even consider in the movie btw), gives us the impression that the events that have occurred have all ended well enough for everyone who matters. Say it was a standalone movie, they'd have just sidestepped an utter calamity the likes of which we've never seen because they want a cutesy finish. I honestly think that if there hadn't been fuss kicked up about it, we wouldn't have a BvS focusing on the events of MoS the way it is.
I don't need to see him mope, I just need to see Clark acknowledge that this wasn't ok and he will do better next time.

Also, just read this next bit :P

[quote=@Vandy]
And think about it, what else was he going to do? The phantom zone projectors were all destroyed. You can't hold Zod in a prison.[/quote]

Except they totally could, put Zod in one of his space suits that block out the Earth's atmosphere (because that's what gives Kryptonians powers now...nice spacewalk Clark) and put him in a straitjacket. There, problem solved!