Sam and Henry are back for Season 2 of Superman & Lois & Pals! This week we break down the season 2 premeire, have a couple good 90's Superman comic tangents and even find time to trash the Zach Snyder films. Welcome back!
EPISODE 1 - “Whatever We Can Do To Help”
Greetings Super friends! Welcome to Superman & Lois & Pals. I’m Henry Bernstein and alongside me is my favorite super pal, Professor Sam Brody.
Let’s talk about Superman and Lois Season 2
S02E01 - “What Lies Beneath?”
Directed by
| Gregory Smith |
Writing Credits:
Brent Fletcher and Todd Helbing
Three months after Nat's arrival, things start to settle down. Sarah returns from camp and gives Jordan the cold shoulder, Clark and Lois fight, Lana throws herself into a mayoral campaign, Superman comes to terms with Sam's replacement, and earthquakes shakes Smallville.
Things we wanted at the end of last season:
Better costume - done. S looks brighter, and is set within the costume. The costume moves a bit when he moves around showing that he’s not wearing the fake padding anymore. Much more form fitting. As much as I like 5 o’clock shadow Clark, I still want clean shaven Superman.
Stories that make sense - kind of but the angry Lois thing, eh.
3 months later:
Lois - So are we to believe that Lois has just been an asshole to sweet, kind, sensitive, patient Clark and her CHILDREN for 3 months with zero explanation? DOesn’t sound like the Lois we’ve gotten to know. Her explanation was totally reasonable but THREE MONTHS?! “Dad, how long is she gonna be like this?” That’s some intense shit for a family. Lois is kinda acting like a moody teenager. It just wasn’t realistic to me that everything Clark said to her she found annoying. And the argument they had was just completely unreasonable. She’s short with Jordan but then mad when he doesn’t go into details about Sarah. Who cares that he got arrested at Atlas Pond? Who cares that he doesn’t want to talk about it? He’s being respectful.
Really interesting stuff with Lois’ mom being a deadbeat and abandoning her and Lucy. That would definitely harden someone like Sam. This isn’t something we’ve heard about before so it came as a bit of a surprise. Seemed odd though that a couple that previously had amazing communication, would take 3 months to have this talk. I guess Clark has super-patience as one of his powers.
Irons
What have John Henry and Natalie been doing for 3 months? Why did John Henry have to stop Natalie from running and hugging Lois?
Clark - Awesome dad, awesome partner. The way in which I fell in love with Bitsie Tulloch last season, I’m falling in love with Tyler. He gets this character. His talk with Lois is so supportive and his talk with his boys was so sweet and hilarious. When Jonathan mouths, “mom,” I laughed. Clark’s super smell thing with Jordan's cologne.
Super funny thing that Jonathan’s girlfriend said the same advice as clark and he’s just like “stupid teenagers.” and then being like, “oh Jonathan Come on!” when Lois is pissed about catching Jonathan with Candace.
Superman - BANGER of a way to show some Super feats. Superman lifting a freaking sub and the North Koreans saying, “Superman saved us” is just pure joy. I was smiling ear to ear. Rescuing people from an earthquake is also so super.
I’m enjoying the conversation about whether Superman is just for America or not. I sort of like this soft spoken, thoughtful General Anderson. What was affecting Superman’s super-senses? Kryptonite? Who were those Super beings? X-Kryptonite soldiers?
Cushings - Gotta say, I’m a little disappointed that Lana is just running this stranger’s (to us) campaign and she’s not running herself. I like Clark and Kyle bonding a little. Sarah’s weirdness around Jordan is totally relatable. And I don’t really care. I love that Smallville is cashing in on Superman to help the economy. Love the JLGL cut out of Superman.
Doomsday - It looks like they’re going to do some comic-accurate stuff. But I feel like we’ve seen Doomsday recently with BvS crap and Krypton.