Last week’s debut of Superman and Lois showed this CW show would be different from its predecessors. This show would focus more on the personal aspect and family than the superhero story. Sometimes a show starts one way but then veers another. Not the case here. If anything Episode 2 doubles down on the family premise. So mush so that the greatest enemy of the Kent family may be the Kent family itself. Perhaps the grass was greener in Metropolis.
Grass Was Greener – The Truth of Smallville
The goal of relocating to Smallville was to slow life down and focus on reuniting the family. Only now that life is beginning, everyone is finding out how rough life can be, even in Smallville. Jonathan pays the price for Jordan kissing Sarah. Her boyfriend and his posse steal Jonathan’s football playbook and harass him at every turn. Jordan finds out he has powers only to find out he doesn’t have powers. Lois loses her reporter power when Morgan Edge rewrites her stories, and Clark keeps getting pulled away for Superman duty.
The family looks like it will splinter, but with all great family shows, when things get tough the family pulls together. It may be a bit melodramatic, but it’s also refreshing to see the family pull together and reinforce each other when things get tough. They realize what the others have done for them, and they can weather this together as a family.
Grass Was Greener – The Enemies of the Show
Grass Was Greener – A Couple of Small Problems
The one big problem I have is a CW/Arrowverse problem. After the events stemming from the Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover from last season, I think Superman and Lois may be creating a plot fracture. The Flash spent all of the post-Crisis episodes saying there is only one Earth now. If this is the case, where is Luthor coming from? There should not be another Earth that exists.
We have awhile for the show to explain all this and I think it will, but will it agree with the Arrowverse, single-Earth set-up? Or will it strike out further on its own? If this show stands apart from the Arrowverse I won’t complain. It really does not need the other shows to succeed. In fact I think the other shows may drawn this one down by crossing over.
The second small problem may not be a problem. The episode I saw had two scenes with Superman in space that were rendered horribly. We are talking previz/story board level bad, but this may have simply been an unfinished cut. Let’s hope the final cut looks better.
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