Superman and Lois Reviews Part One

 Superman & Lois (2021–2024)  8/10

The Answers are built into the Narrative 14 May 2023

Well the most glaring question/issue people have with the show other than the fact that it's as much about Clark and Lois as a couple/as parents than it is about Superman saving the world... which is also built into the fabric of the show. It isn't confirmed until the end of season 2 but this series takes place on another Earth in the multiverse. While the heroes of Flash don't realize this, we as the audience knew at least 5 other Earths did survive the Crisis of Infinite Earths. In the season 2 finale General Lane mentions that Clark is the only Super-powered hero on this Earth. Meaning there is no native Flash and no native Supergirl.

They kept a continuity of things that could be read either way. 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, and is as dead as ours. There is no native Supergirl on this Earth, anymore than there was on Earth-1. The lack of any mention of Supergirl was conspicuous -- because of the assumption that this was Earth-38 Clark and Lois now living on Earth Prime. 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. Superman can have kids. Traditionally Superman cannot procreate with humans because what we think of as Kryptonian physiology, is incompatible with an Earth humans for making offspring. In 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 watching this show were wondering how Lois and Clark could have had kids if there was no mention they'd ever gone to Ago City. It's never actually stated is even a thing here. Maybe Generals Lane and Anderson wouldn't be surprised to learn Superman can biologically have kids. Anderson was surprised Superman had a human Life...at all. Ultimately this show is part of the multiverse...but our heroes, THIS Superman and Lois are not connected with the heroes of the other shows. Diggle mentions having fought alongside Superman which actually still works because Team Arrow is a group of self-made heroes without superpowers. They established our characters and developed a fan base before telling us, they let us go with our assumptions for a while but this is not Kara's cousin and his fiancé now living on Earth-prime. It's THIER doppelgangers on Earth 12, 19, 21 or Earth 9. General Lane gets RESPECT in this show. Which is above the call and a particularly rare kind of awesome. (No Henshaw & no J'onn Jo'nzz )
The last few minutes of the Crisis on Infinite Earth's crossover showed that Earth 12, Earth, 21, Earth,19, Earth 96 and Earth 9 and a version of Earth-2 with Star-girl survived crisis. The merging of the multiverse was people and things from Earth-38, Earth2 and Earth-3. Most of, but NOT the entire multiverse was destroyed. Which explains Why Sam and Lucy Lane are such completely different characters from the show Supergirl. Although the old world-new world differences Supergirl and Barry spent a few episodes getting used to could have explained that. Almost everyone goes over the top in both drama and emotion in season 3. Far more real-world problems, which I was fine with but a lot of people had trouble with. Tension/dissension that feels like it's mostly there to make something of the production. For once most of the discontent, assumptions, arrogance does not come from Lana Lang Cushing. She actually seems pretty chill A particular conversation with Sarah on. Instead it comes from practically everyone else.

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Superman & Lois: A Brief Reminiscence In-Between Cataclysmic Events (2021)

AWESOME alone. Confusing to some Season 1 Episode 11

This episode is awesome, spectacular and sets this world apart from any others in a lot of cool ways. Most of which come out in Lois' interview with the man of Steel. Usually Superman is assumed to have landed on Earth only a few months before he showed himself to the world. In this universe Superman admitted right off that he came to Earth when he was young and grew up here.. Usually Lois swoons over Superman and ignores Clark, to varying degrees until she accepts Superman as a friend and Clark as a partner. It's refreshing to see Lois choose Clark over Superman from the get-go. But this episode does raise one huge question that actually has bothered people -purists- the entire show In Dean Cain's Lois and Clark and in Smallville it is established that Superman's physiology is incompatible with an earth woman's for having kids. They can have sex but they cannot procreate. What we think of as Kryptonian physiology prevents it. Even in the rest of the arrow verse. In Supergirl, Lois was able to get pregnant because they were on Argo at the time of conception. No yellow sun meant Clark was fully human. But that is not mentioned here. In fact Supergirl and Argo are not mentioned at all. It's actually a valid confusion on the part of so many fans how Clark can have kids being an alien and all that. But it's not an assumption just because he's an alien. Normally Superman specifically *can't have kids. But in this continuity, it's no problem. They have 2 biological sons. The rules and expectations literally don't apply. The plus side is once we realize they aren't supposed to. That some assumptions the rules that have been established for us over so long aren't supposed to fit here, we can stop shredding the series for not explaining things or for not being consistent and just enjoy the show for what it is. And this episode does a Brilliant job of setting the series apart.

Also I freaking Love Clark's sincerity and Openness talking to Tal-Rho, in the hospital. As Clark is pleading with him not to hurt his kids and Tal says 'how little you understand me' Tal is actually right. But misguided Clarks statement was, it was heartfelt and a desperate cry of a father. I laugh gently at the irony that Clark's statement "Whatever it is you want, threatening MY family is not how you'll get it." As that is exactly how Tal gets what he came for. Clark tells him, breathlessly. "I'll do whatever you ask, just leave my family alone." And he leaves with Tal, knowing he'll probably be turned against the people of Earth. But to keep his family safe -and possibly to buy more time for John Henry and General Lane to collaborate, he surrenders.

Superman & Lois: Fail Safe (2021) Season 1 episode 13

Very Real, Very Rare Stuggles 17 September 2023

When Tyler Hoechlin first showed up on Supergirl season 2 as Superman-Clark Kent he had a strong baby-face. But before he even showed up there was an episode Red-faced where newborn superhero Kara had to learn to control her anger. Hank Henshaw (later revealed as the Martian Manhunter) told her that a lot of people fear Superman, not because he has the power of a god but because they're afraid of what would happen if that 'god' lost control. And here we see Superman, having been Superman for at least 20 years, still struggling with that same question. "What can be done if I lost control...and will I allow it?"

Tal-Rho had a point in this episode. "You fight against your real nature everyday. You hold yourself back because that's the only way we can walk among-st humans without killing them." Clark had already confessed this to his son, Jordan. How he struggles with anger because if he does ever lose his temper people are so screwed. Proving Tal does understand him, at least a little. Also we get further proof that this General Lane Lane is not nearly the racist jar-head the General Lane of Supergirl's Earth-38 was. Although I have to admit I was confused why Clark was So resistant to Sam's change of heart. But Clark explains it in a Beautiful conversation to Lois. One of the best parts was seeing Clark and John Henry begin to develop a sincere report and start to grow as friends. Kara never had a friendship like that. And we never saw much of Superman and Jimmy Olsen together in the CW before. Like "A Brief Reminiscence Before Cataclysmic Events" This is everything being ABOUT to happen and we're taking a breath first.

Superman & Lois: Anti-Hero (2022) Season 2, Episode 7

Awesomeness and Darkness share the screen  8/10

5 September 2023

This episode is chock mostly full of awesome things. Beautiful moments like hearing so much actual Kryptonian. I think it sounds a lot like Hebrew. Shuster and Sigel were both Jewish so it makes sense. Not that I'm a fan of it but seeing Anderson in this state makes a lot of sense. He sees things so perfectly clearly and is so completely sure of what he knows. Thankfully he learns the truth in a later episode. And just how wrong he was. Then again, Superman is harboring the man who killed his men and has been keeping things from him forever. The scenes at Tal's Fortress are the highlight of the episode. Especially that brief little smile on Bizzaro's face. The only real drawback is the brief scenes with Johnathan being basically punished for being honorable. And feeling so completely stuck. Too busy being lectured and condemned, people too busy lecturing and condemning him and *demanding an explanation to let him talk or let him explain or even offer one. "Don't you have anything to say for yourself, never mind I'm too ticked off at what you did to listen." Is Lois's attitude and I'm pretty sure either in this episode or one coming soon she literally says that. "I'm too disappointed in what I've learned to listen to a thing you have to say." He's alone and scared that he won't be able to win his family back...and he literally did nothing wrong. I'm not saying those are weak scenes just kind of sad. Fortunately Tal and Superman shine and for a few brief moments they ARE truly brothers to each-other.

I'm kind of figuring this was intentional. A family that never existed coming together, a family that was always the closest of families tearing itself apart at the same time. But everyone is worried that Johnathan might be dealing drugs. And yet no one in the family, not for the rest of the season genuinely asks him if this is the case. It's heartbreaking and realistic but for those with troubled families or troubled histories it can feel waaaaaaaaaaaay too real and extremely out of place and distracting for a Superman show. That's how it felt to me.

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