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This is a Dynamike Network podcast.

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Hi and welcome to the Dynamic Duel Podcast,
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and debate the superiority between Marvel and
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battle simulations. I'm Marvelous Joe. And I'm
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we are going to review season one of My Adventures
with Superman. which is an animated television

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series that debuted on Cartoon Network and Max.
It was 10 episodes long and it was pretty good.

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Can't wait to talk about it later on this episode.
Before that, we're going to break down the

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latest comic book movie news to come out this
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film and television. This week on Wednesday
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a fight between Tire Harabelle from Bleach and
Hoshigaki Kasami from Naruto. I am horrible

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at pronouncing these names. Damn it, Zach. But
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selection. I don't know who these characters
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to learn about these anime characters in the
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all the shows if only I had time. Visit dynamicpodcast.com
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to all the shows in our network. But with that
out of the way, quick to the no prize. A no

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prize is an award Marvel used to give out to
fans. Our version, the Dynamic Duel No Prize,

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is a digital award we post on Instagram and
in our email newsletter for the person that

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we feel gave the best answer to our question
of the week. Last week we asked you guys to

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pitch us your perfect Marvel vs. DC video game
and to tell us what it would be like. We only

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got two eligible answers. To be fair, we are
recording this episode early due to Labor Day

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weekend. Right, right. But still, that's not
a whole lot of participation. For what I thought

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was a pretty interesting question, like just
describe the most awesome Marvel versus DC

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video game you can think of. Yeah, like Rampage,
but with Lestaro or Fing Feng Fum. That's just

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off the top of my head, guys. Fucking bejeweled
blitz, but it's Marvel versus DC. I don't know

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how you would do that, but you can imagine it'd
be pretty awesome. It would be Infinity Stones

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and Green Lantern Rings. Boom, off the top of
my head, it just happens. It's that easy, guys,

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to call in. We did get pretty solid answers
for the two answers we did get, so let's go

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ahead and run down our honorable mention and
the no prize winner. Our first honorable mention

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goes to Colby Hentges, who said, Hey boys, Colby
Hentges. I could have any Marvel vs DC video

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game. It would play like Skullgirls. Batman
Robin vs Caveland Deadpool, Three Teen Titans

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vs Spider-Man, Rocket and Groot vs Bane, any
one-on-one or three-on-three matchup or anything

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in between. It would be awesome. Okay, I've
never actually heard of Skullgirls, but I looked

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it up and it looks pretty interesting. Basically,
the premise of the game is you're a bunch of

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goth schoolgirls that are fighting against each
other that have like magic powers. The gameplay

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style is very much in the vein of Marvel versus
Capcom, but like way more insane and you can

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choose any combination of up to three fighters
per matchup, kind of like how in Marvel versus

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Capcom, you select two fighters and they fight
back to back or you can switch off in between

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them. during the course of the fight. It looks
like a pretty damn cool game. It would be incredible

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to have a Marvel vs DC video game like this.
Yeah, with the appeal really being that you

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don't have to select just one character to fight
with, but up to three or maybe more for this

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game. Like give me the entire seven roster member
Justice League to fight with. That'd be dope.

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I would do it. I'd play the shit out of that
game. That would be dope. I do love how you're

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comparing it to Marvel vs Capcom though, instead
of just Street Fighter. Just say Street Fighter.

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Well, I always thought of Marvel vs. Capcom
as being a much more over the top, crazy video

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game than Street Fighter. Although, you know,
Street Fighter has gotten pretty over the top

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as well over the years. But yeah, they're both
great games. Great answer, Colby. We do have

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to give a shout out to Christopher Manotti,
who recorded an answer, but he described a

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Arkham style nightcrawler video game with no
DC element to it. So it didn't qualify, unfortunately,

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but thank you for taking the time to record
your answer. The winner of this week's snow

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prize though is Matt Lamb who said, Hey guys,
Matt Lamb here. So my idea for this game would

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be in the style of injustice and mortal combat.
Um, I think it'd be a good way to show off

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their powers and abilities. I think it put in
a, uh, Finisher, not a fatality, but something

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special to, uh, in the match for the winner.
Um, and I was thinking storyline, this could

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all start off where Mr. meets Mojo and they
decide to have a fun game between both universes.

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Yeah, considering Ed Boon made comments regarding
a Marvel vs. DC video game last week, and Ed

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Boon is the head of NetherRealm Studios who
makes the Mortal Kombat and Injustice video

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games, it seems most likely that if this game
were going to be made, it would be in that

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same Mortal Kombat style. And they're great
games! Yeah, they're fantastic. I love NetherRealm's

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storytelling. You know, they created Injustice,
which is just fantastic. They also have incredible

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character designs. They've gotten much better
at that than they have in the past, I feel.

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So I would love to see them render all of the
Marvel and DC characters that they would have

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on the rosters. It would be insanely cool and
brutal AF. It's fricking Netherrealm. Right.

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If I'm being honest, I actually do like the
moral combat renders more than Capcom's, which

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tend to be a little bit cartoony, you know,
like in the Street Fighter vein. Right. Mortal

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Kombat approaches the characters almost like
if they were live-action movie costumes, you

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know? Right. And I think that would be really
cool to see in a video game for Marvel and

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DC. I think they'd have to brighten up their
palette a bit, because a lot of their games

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feel like very dark. Mm-hmm. But yeah, it could
totally work. I think it would be fantastic.

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Now I know Matt Lamb said that the characters
wouldn't have fatalities but special finishers,

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but screw that, what would Batman's fatality
be? He would just run your ass over with the

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Batmobile. That's pretty good. What about Spider-Man?
Spider-Man's Mortal Kombat fatality, he would

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totally like mark of Kane your shit up. Like
he'd stick his hand onto your face and then

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just rip your face right off. Oh damn! And then
he'd web up your entire body and then web swing

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you and slam you into the ground until you're
just like bag of mush. I will accept that.

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Great answer, Matlam. Congrats for winning this
week's No Prize. If you, the listener, want

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a shout out winning your own No Prize. Stay
tuned till later on in this episode where we'll

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be asking another question of the week. And
now that that's done, on to the news!

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Alright, this past week we heard from the Hollywood
Reporter that Marvel is shuffling their TV

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calendar, setting new dates for The Agatha Show,
Echo, X-Men 97, and What If. Initially we were

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supposed to get all of these shows this year
in 2023, considering it's already September.

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It seemed highly unlikely that this was all
going to happen this year, especially due to

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the ongoing writers and actor strikes. Disney
Plus is still going to release Loki Season

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2 this year, starting on October 6th. But the
first show to get pushed back was What If,

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which is now going to debut around Christmas
time of this year, so the very end of the year.

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Echo was originally supposed to drop in November,
all the episodes were going to drop at the

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same time, but that got pushed to January of
2024. The animated series X-Men 97, which is

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going to be a continuation of the classic 1990
series from Fox, that's going to come out sometime

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early 2024, around springtime. And then finally...
Agatha Coven of Chaos has been renamed to Agatha

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Darkhold Diaries, and it's going to drop in
the fall season of 2024. It's crazy because

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the Agatha show was originally named House of
Harkness, then it got renamed to Coven of Chaos,

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and now it's called Darkhold Diaries. It's like
pick a name, holy shit. Seriously. But I do

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think that like right around Halloween time
is a perfect time to drop an Agatha television

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series. Do you like the name Darkhold Diaries?
I mean, sure, it works just like the rest of

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them worked. I think they all were fine. I liked
Covenant of Chaos, I'm not gonna lie. Yeah,

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I liked that one too. But considering that we
now have a show dropping early 2024 in Echo,

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spring 2024 in X-Men 97 and autumn 2024 in Agatha
Darkhold Diaries, it makes me think that other

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shows that have been filmed or partially filmed
such as Ironheart, Daredevil Born Again and

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Wonder Man. are all getting pushed into 2025,
which is possibly a good thing. I know there's

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a lot of concern going around that Marvel is
producing too much content that people aren't

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able to keep up with and therefore are kind
of losing interest in. And so I think the aim

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is to focus on the quality and make sure that
the release dates are staggered to hold audience

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interest. Yeah, I think it's a smart move. Bob
Iger pretty much admitted that there was too

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much Marvel content on Disney+. This gives them
some breathing room to kind of reevaluate what

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they want to do with each series and make sure
it's a little bit more cohesive, I think, going

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forward, hopefully. But speaking of all of these
shows, in particular X-Men 97, that brings

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us to our question of the week.

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90s kids, what was your favorite Marvel or DC
cartoon from the 90s and why? Basically, if

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you're listening to this and you were born after
the 90s, you can still answer but also you're

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too young. You're just too young. You're too
young. Be older, because we're looking for

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90s cartoons. It was the best era for Marvel
and DC cartoons, in my humble opinion. Yeah,

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I think it was definitely like the Renaissance
after shows like Super Friends and stuff like

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But I think that does it for all the news for
this episode, so let's go ahead and move into

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our main event, where we review the DC animated
series on Cartoon Network and Max, My Adventures

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with Superman, Season 1.

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Adventures with Superman is a 10-episode animated
series made for Cartoon Network's Adult Swim

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programming block and the Mac streaming platform
by the series' showrunners Jake Wyatt, Brandon

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Kloffer, and Josie Campbell. The series explores
Clark Kent's early career as both a journalist

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for the Daily Planet and as the superhero Superman,
as well as the burgeoning relationship with

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his colleague Lois Lane. It was a fantastic
series. that modernizes Superman in a way that

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has never been done before. I definitely recommend
watching it. It's available on Macs. Once again,

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please watch it before listening any further
to this spoiler review. Yeah, even as a Marvel

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fan, I highly recommend this series. It actually
turned out better than expected when the executive

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producers requested that we review the show.
I was kind of a whiny bitch about it. I didn't

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want to do it. I feel like we've seen this story
done well before in the Smallville television

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series and even in animated form recently with
the Man of Tomorrow movie. But this show ended

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up blowing all my expectations away and when
I first started watching it I was like, what's

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this cartoony shit? By the time I was done,
I considered it one of the best interpretations

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of Superman's origin story that has existed.
Way better than Man of Tomorrow, honestly.

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Oh, absolutely. Yeah, no question. Like you,
when this cartoon was first announced... I

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can't say I was looking forward to it, and I
was also surprised when it was decided that

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we were going to review it, because we don't
usually review Cartoon Network shows. You know,

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considering the fact that the episodes were
dropping on Macs shortly after their Cartoon

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Network debut, and because the episode count
was relatively short, we figured we'd review

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it, and I'm really glad we did, because like
you mentioned, the show was way better than

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I thought it would be, and it's definitely a
far cry from the character that we've seen

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on the big screen for the past decade, I would
say. When My Adventures with Superman was first

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announced in early 2021, based off the title,
I was under the impression that it was a series

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that focused on Lois Lane specifically, and
you know, like her perspective regarding Superman

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and life in Metropolis. Right away, I assumed
I wasn't the target demographic. And you know,

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I'd probably watch it with my daughters, but
probably wouldn't enjoy it. I was totally wrong.

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I enjoyed the shit out of the show, because
I forgot how much I could relate. to the romantic

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side of the Superman story, which is an element
that has been there since the very beginning

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of the character's introduction since 1938.
Jerry Siegel, one of the creators of Superman,

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said that one of the inspirations for Clark
Kent as an alter ego was because he had crushes

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on girls who didn't even know he existed. And
he thought to himself, what if, secretly, he

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was really great? What if he was super? The
love triangle of sorts that stemmed from Clark

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Kent loving Lois Lane, but Lois Lane loving
Superman, was this tragic component that allowed

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readers to connect with these otherwise perfect
characters. And it's a component that was noticeably

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lacking in Zack Snyder's take on the character,
or from any other medium other than maybe Smallville

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for decades. I would argue that this show nails
the romantic aspect between Superman and Lois.

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than any film or television series in history
because of the novel approach they take with

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the Clark Kent alter ego. His awkwardness in
this show isn't necessarily an act like it

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was for the Christopher Reeve version of the
character. It's often been debated amongst

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comic readers whether Clark Kent should be an
act, and in this show we see that Clark Kent

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and Superman are essentially the same person.
It's just that Clark Kent is clumsy, due to

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having to control and hide his powers at all
times, which is difficult to do when his attention

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is on a pretty girl like Lois. I'm not usually
one for romantic media, I'll admit that. I

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think my tastes as a hyper-masculine dude is
pretty much in the vein of, you know, I like

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to see the action aspect of these superheroes.
The romantic side never really interested me.

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But You know, I think that Superman actually
has one of the most interesting romantic angles

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out of all superheroes in general. Yeah, I mean,
his romantic relationships, and I guess not

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just that, his relationships in general are
the source of his vulnerability, right? And

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plus, like Superman's really only loved one
girl for the most part. I think he's had some

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a few other romantic interests in his history,
but for the most part, Lois is Superman's girl

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ever since the 1940s, you know. Whereas I think
most other male superheroes have quite a number

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of romantic interests, like another prime example
is Spider-Man, but he's had Gwen Stacy, Mary

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Jane, Felicia Hardy, you know? Spider-Man's
a ho! It's much more wholesome, I think, with

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the Superman-Lowes relationship. Absolutely,
yeah. Now, there was a lot of length, but that

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was in high school. You know, since becoming
an adult, Superman is primarily a wood woman

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man. Now, the show is so well written. And the
chemistry between the characters of Superman

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and Lois is so well realized that even though
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than halfway through the series, it doesn't
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the characters. And it even helps address a
criticism many have levied at the writers of

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Lois Lane for decades in that if she's such
an intelligent investigative journalist, why

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didn't she deduce that Clark Kent was Superman
early on? Here she does. and in a more believable

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and natural way than, say, Amy Adams' version
of the character. The way the showrunners approached

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the relationship between Clark and Lois wasn't
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the most blatant being the anime animation style.
We saw shades of the anime style in the DC

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animated movie universe that began with the
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film, but my adventures with Superman is, for
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both animation and story style. Shounen animes
are geared toward teenage boys and include

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tropes such as growing in power like leveling
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and the power of friendship, many of which are
found in this show. I love that for almost

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every villain that Superman went up against,
Lois and Jimmy were on the sidelines figuring

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out how to help Superman, whether it was pushing
buttons on a crate or... you know, finding

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the off switch for a high tech panic room. Yeah,
the anime art style was pretty well done here.

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I never knew how well suited the character of
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it. And it works really damn well. Yeah, there's
a lot of visual anime tropes on the show as

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well. You know, such as Superman sparking with
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into a super suit. There's a teaser for the
next episode at the very end of the one you're

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watching. And you know, overall the fast action
and exaggerated facial expressions. I don't

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watch a lot of anime, but I do know that some
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My Hero Academia, and Sword Art Online, would
be considered shounen. And recognizing some

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of those anime tropes, both story and visual,
was part of the fun of watching this show.

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I never would have thought, like you, that Superman
would have worked in that style, but he totally

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did. For sure. And going back to the romantic
angle, I think for some reason, the anime art

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style does a really good job of expressing that
sort of like shy, flirtatious behavior between

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characters. Yeah. You know, with like the blush
cheeks and everything like that, it just worked

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really well in selling their romantic back and
forth in an endearing way. Yeah, totally. Japanese

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shounen don't really shy away from romance in
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geared towards young men do. It was like, oh,
they love each other. I was like, he likes

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her, oh no. No, my daughter loves this series
as well. She's 12 years old. She's in middle

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school. She watched the new episodes before
I did. She was like really into it. Girls love

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anime, I found. Yeah. And I think a large part
of it has to do with, yeah, they don't shy

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away from things like romance. Now, as a Superman
fan, one of the things I loved most about this

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show was the approach it took with Superman's
origin and how it resulted week to week. and

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a who's who of supervillains from DC Comics.
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for creating many of Superman's villains in
the Smallville television series, in this show,

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many of them are powered by repurposed Kryptonian
technology. Superman doesn't realize this until

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the very end of the season, so he doesn't have
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but I'm sure that's coming next season. Some
people got tired of the Kryptonite villain

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of the week, Shtick from Smallville. But since
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I didn't feel that aspect overstayed its welcome.
And it helped story-wise in coming up with

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a simple solution for why all of these superpowered
beings emerged for Superman to fight. We got

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to see Livewire, Silver Banshee, Mist, Rough
House, Dr. Ivo, Parasite, Heatwave, Deathstroke,

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Mixi Spidlic, Amanda Waller, Lex Luthor, Omac
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and the Brain. At the very end, we even get
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get much character development, and it shouldn't
work because of that, but it somehow does because

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of the way all of the villains get their powers
and because the show is so focused on Superman

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and his friends. Yeah, I think the tech aspect
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as well. A lot of the bad guys almost seem like
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But it doesn't feel untrue to the characters
themselves. Like Livewire, I think she was

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actually a villain introduced in the Superman
animated series from the 90s. But her origin

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here, I think is actually better than the one
they introduced in that old cartoon. And you're

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right, it was fun going like, oh, that's Livewire.
Oh, that's Deathstroke. It's funny how like,

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I was so ready to write off the show in the
beginning. Cause I thought that was lame. I

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was like, what the fuck are they doing? Like
reinventing all these characters. And I was

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like, this is just some else world's bullshit.
But by the end I was like, man, this would

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be a great angle for a film adaptation, honestly.
Oh man, don't even get me started. Like I liked

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this show so much that it actually got me a
little depressed by how good it was. Because

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like most DC animations, I don't understand
why Warner Brothers couldn't adapt this approach

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for live action, you know? Like each of these
episodes were only 22 minutes long. This could

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have easily been a pair of films, maybe even
a trilogy. And that would have been amazing.

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Like whatever James Gunn is doing with the Superman
legacy film, the bar has been set for how well

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you could introduce Superman already right now.
It does have its work cut out for it in telling

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Superman's early years better than this show
did. Right. Exactly. And it's been said that,

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you know, it's not focusing on Superman's early
years as Superman. but it is supposed to focus

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on his early years in Metropolis with Lois Lane
and stuff like that. So, I don't know. Maybe

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he could go like the Superman birthright route
in that regard, but we'll see, I guess. For

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my money, this was a better modern adaptation
of the character of Superman than the Man of

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Steel movie, which I thought was an interesting,
you know, alien sci-fi approach to the character.

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You know, I love Man of Steel. It's one of my
favorite DC movies, and I would agree with

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you. That's why I'm depressed. But moving on
to the character breakdown, there's really

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only three main characters to talk about. Of
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he was voiced by Jack Quaid, who's the son of
Meg Ryan and Dennis Quaid, and is probably

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best well known for playing Huey and the boys.
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but I thought Jack nailed this version of the
character. I've never heard or seen Superman

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to be this expressive on screen. Oh, he was
incredible. I didn't even know that was him.

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And now I'm kind of blown away by that. Yeah,
yeah. I didn't realize it was him either. He's

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pretty talented. Now, the show asks numerous
times, who is Superman? Superman asks himself

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that question. As we see each of Superman's
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he learns that he's a hero who simply does what
he can to help others. A good example of this

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is when he steps in front of Lois. to shield
her from a barrage of lasers without thinking,

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without even knowing that he was invulnerable
to them. Superman being a hero isn't the most

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shocking answer to the question of who he is.
The bigger shock comes from the angle they

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took in showing us that not only are some supermen
across the multiverse seemingly evil, but they

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also make us believe for a time that

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Yeah, there's an aspect to the show that was
kind of reminiscent of the invincible comic

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book series and animated show on Amazon, where
they portrayed the Kryptonians almost like

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Viltrumites, where like they're these super
powerful beings. And I think Jor-El in this

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show can almost be seen as an analog to invincible's
father Omniman. I thought that was really fascinating,

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even though we know that Jor-El is ultimately
going to be a good guy. But then you have Zod

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at the end. Right. Yeah. So cool. I can't wait
for season two. And I think that's a testament

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to just how good this show is. I spoke earlier
about how like this show does a better job

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of bringing the character into modern times
while making him feel like Superman. Yes, like

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a young classic version of Superman in the modern
day. And they never thought that they would

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be able to do that as successfully as they did
here. I think that's really why I was so happy

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with the show by the end of it, because it proved
that it could be done. Right. Like Henry Cavill's

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Superman was a little bit dark for some people's
tastes. He was a little bit brooding. You cannot

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say that about this animated version of Superman.
Should have been live action. Damn it. Moving

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on to Lois Lane, she was voiced by Alice Lee,
a singer and actress from Zoe's Extraordinary

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Playlist. I never saw the show. Alice is of
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is also of Korean descent and I believe this
is the first time we've ever seen the character

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depicted that way. And I don't mind it, you
know, they also race-bent Jimmy Olsen to match

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his voice actor, and we'll talk about that character
in a bit, but I think matching the ethnicity

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of the voice actor best suited for the role
is admirable. And I have to say, I loved the

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voice work for Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen. Oh
yeah, they did a perfect job. Now, Lois's arc

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really revolves around her relationship with
her father. She disdains him for keeping secrets

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from her growing up about his classified work
and her mother's cancer, and she struggles

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to find success in part due to feelings of neglect
from him ignoring her growing up. I think it

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was brilliant that they made her father, General
Lane, the primary villain. I thought it was

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going to be like Lex Luthor or maybe Brainiac,
but having it be General Lane added a whole

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other layer of conflict to the relationship
between Superman and Lois. I mean, who didn't

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see that coming? But also, yeah, brilliant idea.
I mean, I didn't initially until we actually

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saw him. I was like, oh, shit. Nice. I did kind
of roll my eyes when we learned that there

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was a multiversal league of Lois Lane's because
we've seen that done so many times by this

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point. Like Council of Rick's Council of Reed
Richards, you know. But after a while, I realized

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it was a clever way. to not only add further
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and introduce Kryptonite, but also to qualm
any haters who may have an issue with this

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adaptation of the world of Superman, or even
the race-bending, by saying that this is its

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own thing, its own world. Your classic Superman
world still exists, but this is our interpretation

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and our stance. There's a little bit of the
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especially in the early episodes for Lois Lane,
but Lois Lane is kind of like the OG Manic

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Pixie Dream Girl. She's always been this like
borderline insane woman who will always be

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impulsive and go out and do the dangerous thing.
Right. And that's also an anime trope, you

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know, the wild impulsive anime girl. And I really
liked how they kind of blended that characterization

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into this version of Lois Lane. For sure. Yeah.
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He was voiced by Ishmael Saheed, and I have
to say I haven't enjoyed Jimmy Olsen this much

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in a long while. It's always been hard to sincerely
say that Jimmy Olsen is Superman's best pal

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in the comics, because he's always been like
this dimwitted and somewhat annoying peon of

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sorts. But here they made Clark and Jimmy bros,
like equals, who were friends even before they

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arrived at the Daily Planet. And on top of that,
they made Jimmy a conspiracy theorist vlogger.

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which was a brilliant way to add tension to
him and Clark. Yeah, at first I thought it

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was just like this random character trait that
was done for comedic relief. And I was prepared

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to be really annoyed by Jimmy Olsen actually.
And then I kind of saw how all the pieces fell

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together as Clark always found himself nervous
around Jimmy because Clark is an alien, you

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know? Right. So it was pretty interesting. Again,
you know, there's an anime trope of like the

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comedic relief character that this version of
Jimmy Olsen fell squarely into, but uh... The

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way that the show was able to fill those molds
while still staying true to the Superman mythos

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was just brilliant. Yeah, I mean, tropes and
cliches exist for a reason. And when they're

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well done, they're really well done. Now, I
don't know how I feel about the reveal that

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Jimmy recognized that Clark was an alien early
on as roommates, but I guess it makes sense

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considering they were living together. And it
also shows how true of a friend Jimmy was in

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that. as a vlogger about aliens, he wouldn't
expose Clark as one. Like if that isn't the

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sign of a true friend, I don't know what is.
My impression is that it was his realization

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that Clark was like a super strong alien guy
that manifested his whole conspiratorial nature

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to begin with. Oh interesting, maybe. He's like
holy crap this guy's like superhuman, the fantastical

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must exist, and I must learn all about it. I
love that, that's great. Let's move on to the

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story highlights.

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In episode 1, titled Adventures of a Normal
Man, part 1, in Smallville, Kansas, a young

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Clark Kent awakens the power of flight and strength
to save a woman and her baby from a car accident.

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Years later, in Metropolis, Clark and his roommate
Jimmy Olsen, a photography student and alien

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conspiracy theorist, start their first day as
interns for the Daily Planet. Assigned to senior

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intern Lois Lane, she deceives them into helping
her investigate a military-grade technology

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theft. With a lead from Flip Johnson's News
Kid Legion, the trio finds the thieves loading

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military robots at the docks. The thieves' leader,
Leslie Willis, unleashes a robot to attack

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them. Clark gets out of view and returns in
disguise to destroy it. As Willis activates

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the remaining robots to battle Clark, Lois successfully
deactivates them while he awakens his super

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speed to destroy the final robot. Despite their
efforts, Editor-in-Chief Perry White refuses

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to publish the story based on Jimmy's blurry
photos without real proof of the new metahuman

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that Lois dubbed Superman. Once the trio become
friends, Lois invites the boys to help her

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get an exclusive interview with Superman. Now,
I'll admit this first episode I did not love.

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When it came to the wacky, you know, Jimmy Olsen
hijinks, the manic characterization of Lois

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and like the kids' newspaper brigade or whatever.
I was like, God. I didn't... Why are we reviewing

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this? Like, I would have rather have reviewed
the live-action Superman and Lois television

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series is what I thought to myself or something
like that, you know, because I've heard that's

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good. But to the show's credit, as the show
progresses, it gets more serious along the

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way, which I think resulted in nice growth for
the characters. Yeah, true. Like you, I wasn't

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thrilled by this first episode. Like, I didn't
think it was the greatest adaptation ever for

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Superman. I didn't really feel that way until
maybe episode three or four. But episode 2

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was pretty good. That was titled Adventures
of a Normal Man, part 2. While Lois doggedly

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follows up on the robot theft for a lead to
Superman, Clark returns to Smallville to investigate

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his past and understand his new powers. Digging
up the space pod that delivered him to Earth,

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Clark activates an alien hologram and sees visions
of an alien planet amid a space war being destroyed.

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After Clark gains new alien clothing from this,
His mother, Martha, adds a belt and shorts

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to complete the look. Meanwhile, Willis is hunted
by the organization she stole the robot technology

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from, Task Force X, and arranges a meeting with
leading agent Slade Wilson, aka Deathstroke.

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When Willis threatens to detonate explosives
across the city sewers if they continue hunting

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her, Lois and Jimmy's surprise interruption
turns the meeting into a scramble for the detonator.

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Willis reveals her electrical super suit to
fight Deathstroke until Superman arrives to

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subdue her. Deathstroke damages her suit's power
crystal, leading Superman to destroy it after

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it gives him another vision of the space war.
Though Jimmy's clear photos convince Perry

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to publish the story, he gives the byline to
uninvolved staff reporters. Later, Deathstroke

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tortures Willis, now Livewire, at a black site
for information about Superman. I've seen a

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lot of flack online for the transformation scene
in this episode, and I really feel like early

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on when the show's first episodes were coming
out, there was a lot of antagonism towards

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it. But I am happy to see more and more people
admit that they liked the series online. Well,

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I mean, it just made sense for the context of
the scene, right? Clark activating the ship

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for the first time and going down into it and
seeing partial visions of the Kryptonian. story

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and you know getting a suit from that I think
worked really well. And yeah like it's kind

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of a funny anime cliche for the characters to
suit up in this overtly grandiose fashion but

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considering it only happened once in the season
and it had that context to go with it I thought

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it was spot on. Yeah I don't even think it was
that over the top either. It literally only

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lasted five seconds, maybe not even that long.
Yeah. I do love the fact that Martha helped

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contribute to the suit in some way because in
the comics... She did, you know, she helped

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him make it and design it. Yeah. So that was
cool. It really only took me up until this

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episode to start getting into the show. Once
you kind of saw what they did with LiveWire,

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something kind of like clicked for me and I
understood what they were going with in terms

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of bringing in the larger DC universe. Right,
yeah. We've begun to episode three, titled

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My Interview with Superman. While Lois attempts
to interview Superman, Clark struggles to figure

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out how to help her while protecting his secret
identity. However, the interns must also contend

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with the Daily Planet's established Scoop Troop
reporters, who pericredited for their Superman

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story. Specifically, Steve Lombard, Kent Grant,
and Ronnie Troop. Meanwhile, Myst and his friend

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Ruff House use technology they obtained from
Livewire to break his sister, Chauvin McDougal,

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out of prison and equip her with sonic tech
to rebuild their small time crew, Intergang.

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Despite Clark's misgivings, the interns impersonate
the Scoop Troop to investigate Chauvin, now

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Silver Banshee, discovering a clue to Intergang's
next heist. When Intergang attempts to rob

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the Metropolitan City Bank, their ice cannon's
power crystal malfunctions and begins to freeze

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everything in proximity. Seeing Lois and Jimmy
in danger, Superman awakens his heat vision

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and destroys the crystal, granting him a vision
of an invading robot army. While Deathstroke's

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organization secretly takes the defeated Inter
Gang members into custody, Superman accepts

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00:37:25,101 --> 00:37:31,083
Lois' interview and discloses that he is still
figuring himself out, but is committed to saving

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people. However, to his dismay, Lois later tells
Clark that she suspects Superman is lying.

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Now, when I first saw Inter Gang pop up here,
I was guessing that the main villain was going

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to be Darkseid and that this was apocalyptic
tech, but that turned out to not be the case.

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Right, because traditionally, intergang is supplied
with new god technology, right? I do like the

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way they kind of flipped it here so that it
was Kryptonian tech though. I think it still

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00:37:56,515 --> 00:38:02,958
worked. Yeah, I agree. I also think it's interesting
how crystals power Kryptonian tech. You know,

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Sunstone is a thing in the comics. We saw that
in the Superman movie as well. where like all

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the architecture and stuff is created from crystals.
So it was nice that they found a way to incorporate

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00:38:15,088 --> 00:38:21,051
crystals and even kryptonite as a crystal into
Superman's mythos. Yeah, when Superman destroyed

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00:38:21,111 --> 00:38:26,553
the ice crystal with his heat vision, that's
when I recognized the shonen tropes of him

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00:38:26,593 --> 00:38:32,016
like leveling up to face new challenges throughout
the course of each episode. I thought that

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00:38:32,036 --> 00:38:37,506
was really neat. It's really interesting. It's
still not entirely clear how his. new powers

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00:38:37,546 --> 00:38:41,708
were unlocked, he kind of just like sparked
with electricity and then boom, had a new power.

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00:38:42,229 --> 00:38:46,751
But I thought it was cool and I thought it worked.
I have a feeling maybe Jor-El was kind of keeping

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tabs on his son and would unlock new powers
as he needed them. Episode 4 was titled, Let's

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Go to Ivo Tower, You Say. Perry assigns the
interns to cover the Amazotech Gala, held by

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CEO Dr. Anthony Ivo. Lois is snubbed by the
attendees for her invasive questions. while

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Clark stumbles upon an argument between Ivo
and his chairman, Curtis, regarding the board

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of directors voting out Ivo. Ejected by Ivo's
security, Lois sneaks Clark back inside. They

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00:39:17,884 --> 00:39:23,829
open up to each other before discovering a secret
room with technology that connects Ivo to Livewire

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00:39:23,969 --> 00:39:30,455
and Intergang. An angered Ivo demonstrates the
Parasite 1.0 armor and attempts to kill Chairman

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00:39:30,495 --> 00:39:36,763
Curtis. Clark becomes Superman to save Curtis,
and while Ivo traps the attendees in the Amazo

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00:39:36,803 --> 00:39:42,708
Panic Room to make them witness him overpowering
Superman. Realizing the armor absorbs energy

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00:39:42,768 --> 00:39:48,652
from his attacks, Superman stops fighting Ivo
directly as Lois and Jimmy deactivate the panic

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room. With the suit depowered, Superman removes
it from Ivo, who became deformed due to the

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00:39:54,496 --> 00:40:00,560
suit's side effects. With Ivo under EMT care,
the interns return to find the secret room

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empty. Lois kisses Clark, considering the night
a date night. Later, after submitting her expose

436
00:40:07,165 --> 00:40:13,590
on Ivo, Lois finds a torn tabloid article involving
Kansas' miracle sightings in Clark's coat.

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After reworking her evidence board, Lois concludes
that Clark is Superman. Now, Ivo was the one

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00:40:21,256 --> 00:40:26,561
villain, I think, that they really didn't do
justice, or I should say parasites. Professor

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00:40:26,661 --> 00:40:31,985
Ivo in the comics, of course, is a mad scientist
of sorts who is responsible for the creation

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villainous robots such as a mezzo. Parasite
is his own villain. For some reason, they decided

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00:40:37,902 --> 00:40:43,086
to merge the two here and I really didn't care
for the character design. I don't understand

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00:40:43,167 --> 00:40:49,352
why it needed a tail of all things. It was weird.
Yeah, Parasite has never traditionally been

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00:40:49,392 --> 00:40:55,437
depicted as a tech. I mean, a lot of Superman's
villains are not tech based, although you could

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00:40:55,497 --> 00:40:59,941
rationalize a lot of their abilities as tech
oriented. Take for example, Silver Banshee,

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00:40:59,961 --> 00:41:05,678
which I thought was Well done. Parasite, I'm
not quite so sure, successfully makes the transition

446
00:41:05,738 --> 00:41:09,863
over to Tech Villain. Although, you know, the
whole power draining aspect of it made sense

447
00:41:09,883 --> 00:41:16,429
for me, but the weird, like, tail and insectoid
elements of the armor didn't quite make sense.

448
00:41:16,970 --> 00:41:21,795
I also thought that they really played a little
bit probably too heavily off of Tony Stark

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00:41:21,935 --> 00:41:28,552
for Ivo, making Kim like this. you know, celebrity
CEO on Playboy. I don't know, I think they

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00:41:28,572 --> 00:41:33,594
could have done a better job although I do appreciate
the effort, I suppose. By this episode, with

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00:41:33,694 --> 00:41:38,497
Alex making an appearance, you know, Ivo's like
scientist assistant, I totally thought that

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00:41:38,537 --> 00:41:43,220
the main bad guy of the season was going to
be Lex Luthor. What are your thoughts on the

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00:41:43,240 --> 00:41:48,423
show kind of like positioning Lex Luthor as
more of a secondary villain type? I don't mind

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00:41:48,483 --> 00:41:55,298
it, honestly. Like, if you want to build up
Lex Luthor as a major antagonist, over a season

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00:41:55,339 --> 00:42:01,003
or two, that's fine by me. Like give next season
to General Zod, maybe have Lex Luthor help

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defeat him in some way, but become bald in the
process and then have him be like the main

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00:42:06,068 --> 00:42:10,111
villain by season three. That's that's fine.
Yeah, I think that totally works. I assume

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00:42:10,131 --> 00:42:15,316
that they're going to have Alex take over his
former boss's company. Essentially, he's going

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00:42:15,336 --> 00:42:21,301
to take over a Mazotech and turn it into Lex
Court or Lex Tech, one of those episode five

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00:42:21,341 --> 00:42:26,615
was titled. you will believe a man can lie.
Hoping to confess his burgeoning feelings for

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00:42:26,675 --> 00:42:31,636
Lois, Clark asks for her help in developing
a story about the stolen military technology

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00:42:31,976 --> 00:42:37,498
spreading throughout Metropolis and a mysterious
individual kidnapping anyone using it. However,

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00:42:37,618 --> 00:42:42,599
she sees it as an opportunity to expose him
as Superman. Using an old dispatch scanner,

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00:42:42,840 --> 00:42:48,241
she chases down Superman as he foils various
crimes before eventually meeting him after

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00:42:48,281 --> 00:42:53,868
he defeats Heatwave. another criminal empowered
by the stolen technology. While Superman is

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00:42:53,888 --> 00:42:59,452
distracted, Heatwave escapes, believing he is
behind recent kidnappings of inter-gang members

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00:42:59,712 --> 00:43:04,436
who have used the high-tech weaponry. After
Superman drops off Lois at the Daily Planet

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00:43:04,476 --> 00:43:09,939
to keep her safe, he reconfronts Heatwave and
discovers the true culprit behind the abducted

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00:43:09,999 --> 00:43:16,464
criminals is an armored Deathstroke aided by
similar robots that Livewire used. Their subsequent

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00:43:16,524 --> 00:43:23,569
fight soon endangers civilians. leading to Deathstroke's
superiors, the General and Amanda Waller, ordering

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00:43:23,609 --> 00:43:29,294
him to withdraw so Superman can save them. After
returning to Lois, she forces Clark to reveal

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00:43:29,334 --> 00:43:35,799
his secret identity to her and is left distraught.
Meanwhile, Jimmy is disappointed to learn that

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00:43:35,839 --> 00:43:40,622
Clark and Lois fail to attend a pre-planned
camping trip to investigate Bigfoot sightings

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00:43:40,663 --> 00:43:46,262
with him. He goes alone, but a large gorilla
kidnaps him. I thought this was a pretty good

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00:43:46,282 --> 00:43:51,505
episode both action wise and like drama wise.
I was actually surprised by the amount of drama

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00:43:51,525 --> 00:43:56,908
they were able to milk out of the whole Superman
Clark Kent reveal to Lois Lane. Right? Yeah.

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00:43:56,968 --> 00:44:02,251
This is one of my favorite episodes. There's
often criticism that, oh, you know, Lois Lane

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00:44:02,291 --> 00:44:08,114
should know that Superman is Clark Kent because
Superman is just Clark Kent without glasses.

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00:44:08,415 --> 00:44:12,877
But I think this episode does a decent job of
sort of showing that Lois doesn't really get

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00:44:12,937 --> 00:44:18,782
the best. looks at Superman. He's never around
enough for her to interact with him the way

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00:44:18,802 --> 00:44:22,906
that she wants to. I mean, that all depends
on what version of Lois Lane you're talking

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00:44:22,946 --> 00:44:27,209
about though, because like, if you look at Richard
Donner's movie, they had a whole like date

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00:44:27,249 --> 00:44:31,333
night interviewed together, so she got a pretty
good look then. Margot Kidder should have known

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00:44:31,353 --> 00:44:36,357
better. It's fair. Well, she did figure it out
in Superman 2 on her own. That's true. To be

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00:44:36,397 --> 00:44:43,654
fair. Episode 6 was entitled, My Adventures
with Mad Science. After failing to locate Jimmy,

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00:44:43,994 --> 00:44:50,036
Clark reaches out to Lois for help. Despite
still being mad at him, she agrees. Scouring

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00:44:50,076 --> 00:44:56,118
the woods, the pair find an abandoned military
installation called Area 52, but upon crossing

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00:44:56,158 --> 00:45:02,140
the fence, Clark's powers falter due to the
area being exposed to red solar radiation before

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00:45:02,160 --> 00:45:09,502
they are chased by OMAC robots. Meanwhile, inside
Area 52, Jimmy meets and befriends the gorilla

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00:45:09,562 --> 00:45:15,523
Matsumala, and his partner, the Brain. The pair
reveal they originally worked for Project Cadmus,

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00:45:15,823 --> 00:45:22,025
a branch of Task Force X that focused on developing
futuristic technology, before the latter organization

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00:45:22,065 --> 00:45:27,907
betrayed them and raided Area 52. Ever since,
the Brain and Mala have been attempting to

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00:45:27,947 --> 00:45:33,648
create a wormhole to access other dimensions
where they will be accepted. Eventually, breaching

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00:45:33,748 --> 00:45:39,430
Area 52, Clark and Lois reconcile with each
other and Jimmy, who reveals he knew of Clark's

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00:45:39,470 --> 00:45:45,413
secret identity all along, before joining Brain
and Mala in defeating the Omacs. Successfully

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00:45:45,493 --> 00:45:51,235
opening their wormhole, the Brain warns Clark
that Task Force X is after him before leaving

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00:45:51,315 --> 00:45:57,478
with Mala. Concurrently, the General recruits
Ivo to help him use Cadmus' technology to kill

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00:45:57,558 --> 00:46:03,861
Superman. This is one of the lesser episodes,
in my opinion, largely because of the characters

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00:46:03,901 --> 00:46:08,215
amongst your Mala and the Brain. I know them
as Doom Patrol villains from the Brotherhood

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00:46:08,255 --> 00:46:15,138
of Evil. Right. And they weren't very evil in
this reality. Well, no, I think a lot of the

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00:46:15,198 --> 00:46:20,740
villains that were under the hands of Grant
Morrison were reinterpreted in a way that made

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00:46:20,760 --> 00:46:27,243
them less evil than they were prior, I would
say. Like he's the one who made Munsu Ramallah

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00:46:27,383 --> 00:46:32,750
and the Brain lovers to begin with, which just
struck me as really weird in this show. Yeah,

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00:46:32,810 --> 00:46:38,535
especially considering that the brain was a
scientist that helped give Monsier Mala the

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00:46:38,575 --> 00:46:43,539
gorilla his genius, and then fell in love with
him, which seems like a weird case of bestiality

506
00:46:43,579 --> 00:46:49,585
going on. Like, was he fucking that gorilla
the whole time? I hope not. I don't know if

507
00:46:49,625 --> 00:46:53,248
we want to be... He better not be. Right? Yeah,
like I didn't feel like comfortable with some

508
00:46:53,268 --> 00:46:58,592
of the implications of this episode. There's
definitely like a breach of ethics there somewhere.

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00:46:59,153 --> 00:47:03,344
Anyway... Yeah, I didn't love what they did
with the Brandon Manseuramala. They're Doom

510
00:47:03,364 --> 00:47:08,388
Patrol villains again, so I'm not sure why they
were here in this episode. There are other

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00:47:08,428 --> 00:47:12,552
villains from Project Cadmus that I think could
have worked here just as well. Can you explain

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00:47:12,692 --> 00:47:18,477
why the area was doused in red solar radiation?
Cause I guess I didn't quite get that part

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00:47:18,977 --> 00:47:23,921
or like why there were booby traps around as
the OMAX were chasing Lois and Clark through

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00:47:23,941 --> 00:47:29,181
the jungle. Well the booby traps were set up
to protect Mansuramala and the brain from Task

515
00:47:29,201 --> 00:47:35,626
Force X should they ever return to the base
of Area 52. I don't know what the red solar

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00:47:35,646 --> 00:47:41,230
radiation thing was about, I also didn't catch
that. Again I don't think it was a great episode

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00:47:41,270 --> 00:47:46,374
because of unexplained things like that. I did
think the omacs were cool, and I was actually

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00:47:46,394 --> 00:47:51,077
surprised to see them so soon after watching
Blue Beetle. Yeah they're like everywhere now.

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00:47:52,146 --> 00:47:58,412
Episode 7 was titled Kiss Fallen Portal. After
Clark shows Lois and Jimmy his spaceship and

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00:47:58,452 --> 00:48:04,538
clarifies his incomplete alien origin, Clark
and Lois plan their first date. However, he

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00:48:04,578 --> 00:48:10,003
is interrupted by Mr. Myxhospitalik, a multiversal
imp who deceives him into helping him steal

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00:48:10,083 --> 00:48:16,029
a recorder from a museum on Earth-1, revealing
Clark is from the planet Krypton in the process.

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00:48:16,618 --> 00:48:21,361
Meanwhile, Lois and Jimmy are recruited by the
Multiversal League of Lois Lanes to help them

524
00:48:21,441 --> 00:48:27,085
stop Mixy Spitalik and Clark. Suspicious of
their intentions, Lois searches their files,

525
00:48:27,205 --> 00:48:33,609
stumbling onto the redacted File X. Upon finding
them, the League attacks Clark, while Mixy

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00:48:33,629 --> 00:48:38,552
Spitalik hijacks the League's vessel and travels
to their headquarters with the recorder and

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00:48:38,632 --> 00:48:45,237
Lois' help. As she steals the original File
X, Mixy Spitalik retrieves his hat, regains

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00:48:45,277 --> 00:48:51,210
his full strength, and causes chaos until Superman
distracts him, allowing Lois to depower him

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00:48:51,330 --> 00:48:56,795
and Jimmy to restrain him. While the League
arrests Mixius Spidelik, Jimmy's counterpart,

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00:48:56,915 --> 00:49:02,560
Jelena, secretly brings the interns back to
their native Earth-12, where Clark and Lois

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00:49:02,620 --> 00:49:08,685
finish their date. Following this, she opens
File X and finds recordings of evil alternate

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00:49:08,765 --> 00:49:14,238
universe Superman and a sample of kryptonite
that the League used to injure him. I actually

533
00:49:14,298 --> 00:49:20,300
really like this interpretation of Miksi Spedulik,
and I never know if I'm pronouncing that correctly.

534
00:49:20,640 --> 00:49:24,882
Well, that's how they pronounced it in the show.
Yeah, it was very different from other iterations

535
00:49:24,902 --> 00:49:29,024
of the character that I've seen. Typically he's
portrayed as like this impish looking character,

536
00:49:29,064 --> 00:49:34,666
but here he definitely had like mystic alien
influences. I thought he was more like a feline

537
00:49:34,866 --> 00:49:40,288
genie, which kind of made sense to me considering
that fifth dimensional imps in DC comics are

538
00:49:40,348 --> 00:49:45,523
often interpreted as genies like the thunderbolt.
I liked it. The hat didn't make sense, but

539
00:49:45,564 --> 00:49:50,588
I liked it. No, yeah, and the fact that he got
his powers from his hat, I thought was a little

540
00:49:50,608 --> 00:49:55,533
bit convenient. But no, there were a lot of
great references in this episode to alternate

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00:49:55,653 --> 00:49:59,978
animated universe Superman that I appreciated.
I don't think he got his power from his hat.

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00:50:00,338 --> 00:50:07,425
I just think he was in toll without his hat.
Okay, yeah. Episode 8 was titled Zero Day Part

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1. The General uses shock collars to forcibly
recruit Livewire, Intergang, and Heatwave into

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assisting Deathstroke and Ivo in capturing Superman.
Meanwhile, after developing Superhearing and

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sensing everyone in the city crying for help,
Clark runs himself ragged, helping everyone,

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and soon becomes sleep deprived and weakened.
When Gotham Gazette journalist Vicky Vail arrives

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to cover his activities, Lois is star-struck
to meet her. only to be disappointed when Vail

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runs a biased story defaming Superman as a menace
to gain a promotion. Superman saves an invisible

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Mist from being hit by a truck, but causes an
accident, turning public opinion against him.

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Mist says Task Force X kidnapped Silver Banshee,
and Superman offers to rescue her, only to

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be led into a trap and attacked by the group.
Though he holds his own despite his weakened

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state, Superman is eventually knocked out by
Ivo, via his upgraded parasite armor and livewire.

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The General stops Ivo from killing Superman
as he wants to interrogate him, Mr. Egress

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luring Superman into the trap as Lois and Jimmy
rush to the scene but arrive to see the group

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carry Superman away. And this was cool, like
this was a way to introduce the Suicide Squad

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without actually naming them as such. Just repurposing
all of the villains that they showcased throughout

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the season. I thought was pretty well done.
Yeah, and seeing Superman going up against

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all of them was a lot of fun to watch. It's
like that video game that's never coming out.

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Suicide Squad killed the Justice League. Right,
right. The angle they took for this episode

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where his super hearing kind of creates this
vulnerability in that he struggles with being

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everywhere at once and therefore doesn't sleep
and therefore is less effective playing upon

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people's fears that are being stirred by this
new biased reporter. It all works really well

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together. The show can be really well written
at times. Most times, I would say. Yeah, I

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agree. Episode 9 was Zero Day Part 2. In flashbacks
to Zero Day, the General, Waller, and their

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forces were attacked by an alien army led by
a Superman-like figure codenamed Nemesis Omega

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before a mysterious event forced the army back
into a retreat that left their technology behind.

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In the present... The News Kid Legion helps
Lois and Jimmy search for Superman, while the

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General interrogates him for information on
Zero Day. From Superman's anguished reaction,

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the General doubts his connection to it, while
a displeased Waller secretly helps the prisoners

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escape, during which Livewire electrocutes Deathstroke's
right eye. A vengeful Ivo attacks Superman,

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but inadvertently frees him. Flip from the News
Kid Legion eventually finds Superman, and takes

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him to safety. Clark believes he was sent to
Earth to destroy it, but Lois assures him otherwise.

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Upon learning Ivo is siphoning the power grid
and going on a Kaiju rampage through the city,

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Lois and Jimmy use social media to petition
Metropolis's citizens to turn off their power,

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weakening Ivo so Superman can use his newly
awakened x-ray vision to locate and remove

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Ivo from the suit. As Superman and Lois declare
their love, Jimmy Fine's File X. On Checkmate's

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behalf, Waller demotes the General and gives
him Ivo's last invention, the Omega Cannon,

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with orders to kill Superman. And again, I didn't
love Ivo in this episode. The whole Kaiju parasite

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thing was recently done in Superman Man of Tomorrow.
So it wasn't like novel to see it done again.

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No, it was pretty cool how Superman's newly
gained ability of X-ray vision assisted in

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Parasite's defeat though. That was cool. Yeah,
I agree with that. I actually thought this

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was the season finale. I knew that there was
10 episodes, but for some reason I was like,

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oh, it must be a mistake. I think there's actually
only nine. So I was surprised and pleased to

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see that there was episode 10 because I thought
episode 10 was great. Episode 10 was called

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Hearts of the Fathers. After having nightmares
about Zero Day. Clark is promoted, along with

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Lois and Jimmy, to full reporters for their
article on Ivo's defeat. They have Thanksgiving

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dinner with Clark's parents, and Lois invites
her father, Sam Lane, revealed to be the General,

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though he fails to recognize Clark. In private,
Clark finds File X and the Kryptonite Shard,

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which hurts him. His space pod reacts to the
Kryptonite, and releases a signal that prompts

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an invasion similar to Zero Day. Superman and
Sam battle the invaders, with Jimmy learning

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the kryptonite hurts them as well. Superman
takes the kryptonite and, despite being weakened,

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uses it to destroy the mothership, halting the
invasion. A hologram of his father helps return

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him to Earth. Sam prepares to kill him, but
Lois pleads for his life and reminds him that

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he just saved them, causing him to leave. Jimmy
reveals he sold his social media platform,

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Flamebird. to the daily planet for over 5 million
dollars and is now rich. On a distant world,

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a robot seemingly brainiac informs his Kryptonian
master about the halted invasion. His master,

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seemingly General Zod, says that the rebellious
world will soon kneel. I thought this was a

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fantastic finale episode. The stakes were incredible.
The sacrifice of the hero, I thought, was profound.

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Great arc resolution. All around well done.
The action of this episode was fantastic. When

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he started throwing down in that spaceship corridor
with those robots, right, I was like, kick

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their asses, Superman. Superman gets his own
hallway fight scene. Yeah. I mean, the action

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overall is not really comparable to some of
the better anime action I've seen. I think

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that could have actually been done better in
the season. But I did really enjoy seeing Superman

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throw down with all these robots. That's what
the character is good for. You know, these

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larger than life fights. Exactly. Yeah. Superman
has battles that no other superhero really

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can have. It's top tier for sure. I also loved
seeing Jor-El like help his son fight alongside

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him in the hallway, just like short circuiting
all those robots by zapping through them as

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a hologram. I was like, you go, Jor-El, you
go. I wasn't quite sure why Jor-El's recognition

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of the Kryptonite initiated a Kryptonian invasion,
but I am super interested in seeing why all

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of that happens the way it happens in season
two, when we get reintroduced to characters

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like Brainiac and General Zod, and get the whole
missing side of the story there. Exactly, yeah,

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for sure. It almost seems like the ship woke
up in a response to the kryptonite for some

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reason, and there wasn't much that Jor-El could
do about it. I'm not sure. I did love the final

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line of Jimmy Olsen when he was like, oh yeah,
I'm rich now. My mouth went open just like

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everyone else's around the table, just like
what, what? It's definitely a fun angle for

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Jimmy Olsen, I think. For sure. Really interested
in seeing where that goes. Yeah, I'm interested

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in seeing where all of it goes, because this
series is just so refreshing as a DC fan and

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a Superman fan in particular. It modernizes
the character in a way that, again, I didn't

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think could ever be done. It was this perfect
blend of anime action and romance, and the

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show's sleek character designs and charming
animation just successfully modernized Superman

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and his friends. so well that I'm giving this
season four and a half out of five stars a

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fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Yeah I have
to agree with the four and a half star rating.

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I wasn't going that way at the beginning of
the season but one of the most impressive things

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about the show is how it managed to turn me.
My mind on what it was completely changed from

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beginning to end. Like at the start I was like
oh this is like some kid's show you know. I

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thought the characterizations were too and the
universe was too unrecognizable. But the characters

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really grew throughout the season, and I think
the universe that they built here came to be

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one of the more compelling iterations of the
Superman story ever. I agree. To me, it was

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near perfect. I think the worst thing you could
say about it is that the show doesn't do the

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best job of adapting lesser known Superman villains,
but they are lesser known Superman villains.

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It's not like they botched Zod or Brainiac or
Bizarro or something like that. These are Livewire

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and Heatwave. So I didn't mind the creative
liberty they took with the characters. And

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overall, fantastic show. Yeah, I hope the show
does well because I think that this version

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of Superman will be to the 2020s that Smallville's
Clark Kent was to the early 2000s. I hope so.

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I hope so because Smallville was insanely popular.
And I hope for all the people who were maybe

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00:59:01,835 --> 00:59:05,278
thinking about this show the same way we were
going into it, that it was, you know, just

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this kiddie show. Take the time to watch this
and really find something to admire like we

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did. But that does it for this review. Let us
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website. Our next episode is going to be a duel
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between Doom Patrol and Guardians of the Galaxy.
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going to find out who'd win in a fight between
Dorothy Spinner and Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur.

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01:00:14,824 --> 01:00:19,086
Yeah, this is going to be a pretty interesting
match. The story of Dorothy Spinner is pretty

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01:00:19,146 --> 01:00:23,429
tragic. I don't know much about Moon Girl and
Devil Dinosaur, but I'm definitely interested

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01:00:23,469 --> 01:00:27,163
in seeing them throw down. But that does it
for this episode, we want to give a big thanks

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to our executive producers Ken Johnson, John
Sturowski, Zachary Hepburn, Dustin Balcom,

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01:00:32,285 --> 01:00:37,748
Miggie Matten-Geehan, Brandon Estergard, Nathaniel
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we'll talk to you guys next week. Up up and
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