Superman & Lois & Pals

EPISODE 1: The End & The Beginning - “Sometimes I’m a Little Dorky”

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Let’s talk about Superman & Lois Season 4, Episode 1

Directed by:

Gregory Smith

Written By:

Brent Fletcher and Todd Helbing

The Apple TV and Imdb description is:

Superman is locked in a brutal battle with Luthor's monster; Lois and the boys race against time to save General Lane.

• Opening shot of cape torn apart was perfect
• Biker jacket badass Lex music was great - he’s SCARY
• Amanda McCoy - from early in Byrne’s run. She’s the scientist who figured out Clark was Superman in Issue #2
• Boys picked up on Clark’s fear vs Doomsday
• The flashback kills me - “Sometimes I’m a Little Dorky”
• I never thought in a million years that I’d see Superman lose his virginity, unless that happened on Smallville lol. “Get ready to have a new best day of your life.”
• The fight was really really good. I love that it was in space - away from civilians.
• They Did the thing - Man of Steel #19!

• The Flashback of Lois in her signature Purple with the vest is almost too much for me to handle
• So a tiny shard of Kryptonite in Clark’s neck doesn’t hurt him?
• Gretchen Kelley is luthor’s personal physician, but here it isn’t her real name - “No one can hide from Luthor.” Wasn’t she also Lex Luthor II’s fake mother?
• Luthor sitting down with the kids scared the crap out of me and just when I thought he couldn’t scare me any more he slammed on the table and WHOA
• What did you think of Luthor’s bushy flashback look? I kinda liked it!
• What did you think about the whole source of the plot is that Lois screwed up, and screwed up big? I have a problem with it. To me Lois is infallible when it comes to journalism. Are there other times when she was just flat out wrong and it cost someone their life?
• I love Sam Lane being a guy who has 9 lives. I feel like he has more depth as a character than he ever had in the comics, with exception of around Krisis of Krimson Kryptonite when Lois’ mom was dying, and he accepted Clark etc.
• Sam said, “Luthor tried to kill him for years and failed” but does the timing work out? Seems like Luthor would’ve gone to jail right around Superman’s debut? The timeline is still fuzzy to me.
• Superman’s last stand when he emerges from the asteroid was an appropriate use of angry red eyes of anger.
• While I appreciate we needed Doomsday to take superman’s heart to have a plot for the next episode and because Lex said it early on, I don’t like that Superman didn’t die saving everyone. That should be the thing. Paying the ultimate sacrifice. Doomsday just straight up beat him. Don’t like that.
• “Milton,” “Brainiac going to his head…”
• The last few moments were really hard to watch. The combination of Lois’ horror with all the flashback moments was a lot. This is ACTING. I got to say to Bitsie in person last year that she was robbed of an Emmy nom. And She agreed lol. I know we talked about how these kinds of shows don’t get those kinds of awards and I just don’t accept that.

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