Season 3 of Superman and Lois is upon us. With the massacre of DC-TV (and the larger DCU), this may be the last season of the show, though no announcement one way or another has been made yet.
Jordan Elsass, who played Jonathan, has left the show for personal reasons and been replaced by Michael Bishop. It’ll take me a while for me to get used to the new actor. I was rather amused at the somewhat ham-fisted way they chose to introduce him. They really need to give the character something better to do rather than just passing his driving test. Shouldn’t Jordan also be learning to drive? Or does he intend to fly everywhere?
It looks like the Kyle-Lana split is actually going to be permanent. I think the writers are looking for a way to keep Kyle somewhat central to the story, and so (also ham-fistedly) introduced his hooking up with Chrissy. I dunno, isn’t his staying involved with his daughters enough?
I hear Lex Luthor (the real one this time) is going to make an appearance, but isn’t going to be played by Jon Cryer, signaling a true break from the Arrowverse. I thought Cryer did a good job over in Supergirl and made for a credible villain, although he overstayed his welcome post-Crisis.
Yeah, I felt the chemistry between the brothers was just… blah. You could see it between the first actor, but this one was kind of meh.
I’m not sure why the pregnancy storyline was needed. But I DID like the callback to the previous season by cleaning up all the messes, and showing the societal issues.
OK, so I figured out that the Big Bad – er, Bigger Bad – is supposed to be Onomatopoeia. I didn’t think it would be possible to make use him in a non-comic medium, but they seem to be making it work.
I think I’m on board with the new Jonathan now. He just need to be shown getting into some brotherly shenanigans.
I’m amused that Smallville has a ex-mayor important enough to be killed by a supervillain, while Metropolis has only one teen party per weekend (as two people independently invited to such a party end up at the same one).
Actually, I’ll walk that back a little - it’s not as weird a coincidence that everybody ended up at the same teen party as I originally thought. Natalie and Sarah go to a party hoping to run into someone that Natalie knew in her original universe, so someone who lived near a place where John and Lois chose to live in Metropolis. The boys went to a party after receiving an invite from Jonathan’s Metropolis ex-girlfriend - so a person who lived near where Lois and Clark chose to live in Metropolis. Lois and Alternate Lois may very well have lived in the same neighborhood. So still a coincidence (a single neighborhood may very well have multiple teen parties) but not as big as I previously thought.
I think they want to show how, despite all his powers, Clark is still helpless against human frailty. Thing is, they already showed this in the series premiere when his mother died, which was the precipitating event for the whole family to move to Smallville. And if we assume the conventional Superman backstory (and not the asinine Man of Steel origin), then Clark was also helpless against his father’s death from heart attack. Is there really a need to show it all again?
I agree that it was a good episode. I’ll add that the effects people really went all out animating Clark’s dream of being unable to save Lois from the destruction of the Daily Planet and Metropolis. For that matter, the fight between Superman and Jet Fist (what are we calling him?) was also excellent, as was smaller-stakes sequence of the kids recovering the truck.
Creepy trailer dad was a bit obvious, but I did enjoy the episode- it’s nice that Nat and John are still dealing with the wrenching effects of seeing not-their-Lois all the time.
Good Lord, Bruno Mannheim is so menacing. Now he’s tied together Lois’ cancer and John Henry’s arc. I didn’t realize that the doctor was John’s sister.
I also enjoyed the small stakes drama. The Cushings talking it out rather than letting the situation escalate. (Remind me why Kyle and Lana got a divorce. Couldn’t they have gotten past that bit of infidelity?) Also Clark pulling a Superman II and confronting a bully in a diner.
Bit of a slower episode this week, seemingly mostly spent on getting everyone hooking up with everyone else. They better not spend any more time on General Grandpa getting a mate; I think that’s where I draw the line.
Superman’s action sequence was cool and all, but why was he wasting his time fighting the meta of the week. The guy had hooked up some device to steal information; Supes should have gone after that. Just zap it with heat vision.
In this episode: Sophie runs off to the County Fair, having been perpetually ignored by her entire family. Please tell me that this is her supervillain origin story.