EPISODE 2 - A World Without - “Powers beat Psycho Everytime”

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 & Lois Season 4, Episode 2 - A World Without

Directed by:

Sudz Sutherland

Written By:

Katie Aldrin and Kristi Korzek

The Apple TV and Imdb description is: 

Lana and Sarah join the fight against Luthor, who starts making moves in Smallville; Jordan and Jonathan butt heads over an important decision.

• Very sweet of Lana to get everyone away but “Superman is Lois’ friend, her GOOD friend” was just sooooo cheesy.
• That must’ve been painful for Lana as she knew and loved Clark first, I wish it had been a better moment. 
• First time around I missed that Lara put Clark in a sort of suspended animation. In previous iterations of the Death including the comics he wasn’t really dead. He just needed time to regenerate. In this case he doesn’t have a HEART. So he’s legit dead right? “An alter state of existence.” At first I thought it was the phantom zone but it’s how Kal-El made it to earth in his pod.
• Lana going after Luthor makes sense. She is the mayor Smallville, he’s in her town now. Also if you remember in the early Byrne era, Lana took a literal beating from Luthor’s goons in Superman #2, as mentioned previously. She had a rough go of it in the comics until she married Pete Ross.
• An Ocean’s 11 type one last score does not seem to fit with the prize being Superman’s FUCKING HEART. I dunno, it’s so gruesome. 
• Obviously Lex figured out that Jordan has powers. Even though he didn’t figure out Clark was Superman, something about Jordan’s disguise seemed so obvious. The idea that he never figured out Clark’s secret because of his hubris/arrogance makes sense to me. 
• I’m sorry but this plan to go on a two-front heart stealing with Sarah distracing is just silly. I get that the first episode had heavy emotion so they needed an action plot but it was silly
• Jordan standing up against the Kryptonite was cool but I wish there was some nuance where because he’s half-human Kryptonite doesn’t affect him as much and that he could fight against it
• Can’t believe Luthor squashed Superman’s heart. Like how are they going to get out of this one? I love that we don’t know. 
• Jor-El Clark. I like it. Does this mean Clark’s the fortress guy for the next couple episodes? 
• With only 10 episodes are they really going to not have Superman in the show for more than like one more?

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