Sunday, January 28, 2024

Superman and Lois

Judged on its own merits - Taken in Context.


It isn't confirmed until the end of season 2 but this series takes place on another Earth in the multiverse. And at least 5 other Earths did survive Crisis. In the season 2 finale General Lane mentions that Clark ins the only Super-powered hero on this Earth. Meaning there is no native Flash either. They kept a general continuity of things that could be read either way. John Diggle's comment about fighting alongside Superman could have been possible on Earth Prime since post-Crisis they have always lived on the same Earth. This Earth's Oliver Queen did know them, as is as dead as ours. But there is no native Supergirl on this Earth, anymore than there was on Earth-1. You'd actually have to watch the last episode of Arrow to see why some Earth's merged and others didn't. Tal-Rho and General Anderson are original characters...but Tal-Rho is unique. General Anderson is a proxy for any human authority-figure who doesn't understand that Superman is anything but Superman.


Lana Lang Cushing is the single most annoying character in the show to me personally. So I won't waste time talking about her. The big thing is Superman can have kids. Traditionally Superman cannot procreate with humans. What we think of as Kryptonian physiology is incompatible with an Earth humans for making offspring. In the show Supergirl Lois and Clark could have a kid because they were on the asteroid of Argo City when Lois became pregnant. No yellow sun means no powers, no powers means Clark is essentially human and they can get pregnant. I bet a lot of people were wondering how Lois and Clark could have had kids if there was no mention they'd ever gone to Ago City. But it's never actually stated this rule is even a thing here. Maybe Generals Lane and Anderson wouldn't actually be surprised that Superman can biologically have kids. Anderson was just surprised that Superman had a human Life...at all. Ultimately this show draws that fine distinction between being part of the Arrowverse and being part of the multiverse. Diggle mentions having fought alongside Superman which actually still works because Team Arrow is almost completely self-made heroes without superpowers anyway. This is not Clark and Lois from Supergirl now living on Earth-prime. It's thier dopplegangers on one the very few Earths we KNOW survived Crisis. Earth 12, 19, 21, or Earth-9. Which explains Why Sam and Lucy Lane are such completely different characters from who we saw on Earth-38. Although again, the old world-new world differences could have explained that.

Almost everyone goes over the top in both drama and emotion in season 3. Far more real-world problems. Tension/dissension that feels like it's mostly there to make something of the production. Most of it actually NOT coming from Lana Cushing, but from practically everyone else.

Superman & Lois: Bizarros in a Bizarro World (2022) So many things at once all of it awesome

Okay Anderson gets way too much hate to begin with. A lot of that is either explained, excused, undone or repaired in this episode. Which is one of three reasons I freaking love it. One: it's inventive. Two it's probably as amazing for fans of the comics who know there are two backstories to Bizzaro in the first place as it is to fans of life-action Superman stories, who don't know the rest of the stuff too well. People probably found the going back and forth in the episode a little confusing but I loved it. Anderson had a hard time seeing Superman as anything but Superman and had gone over the edge a couple episodes earlier. Here he learned the truth about literally who he was fighting, that the multiverse even existed or at least that Bizzaro wasn't a clone of Superman but had a life and people he was fighting for. And his jaw was probably to the floor when he saw an Alice in Wonderland version of people he knew. We as the audience knew this was coming, knew what was going on had more of the story than Superman and were pretty blown away. Which is almost always a crowning achievement unto itself.
But also in one completely crushing moment Anderson saw that the solider he killed at Tal's fortress wasn't a monster, he was a family man. And that Superman himself, the Superman he knew and had mistrusted since day one, had a family and had a reason to play things so close to the vest, to put it mildly. He made things right with Superman and instead of getting home like Superman suggested/wanted he fought literally to the death, however out-matched he was. Personally I think a big part of why Superman could forgive him so easily is he realized that even if it was for a good reason, keeping Anderson in the dark about so many things could not have helped Anderson trust him. That maybe he should have extended some trust to the man... or at least let him know more of what was going on so the guy could make reasonable decisions.
Tal Rho was awesome. Seeing Bizzaro Tal Rho so close to his brother. Bizzaro had said he and his Tal Rho were the closest of brothers and we actually saw that relationship. Superman, obviously didn't. But He saw first hand what Tal Rho was willing to do to make it right. Whatever 'it' was.

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