#288: Josué and Lara discuss the premiere episode of Superman and Lois, and their son Jonathan’s social anxiety diagnosis.

Josué Cardona 0:07
Welcome gt radio on the Geek Therapy network here at Geek Therapy. We believe that the best way to understand each other and ourselves is through the media we care about. My name is Josué Cardona. I’m joined by Lara Taylor.

Lara Taylor 0:18
Hey,

Josué Cardona 0:19
yo, let’s put our names up. Oh, there we go. Oh,

Lara Taylor 0:25
now people can tell the difference between Lara and Josué.

Josué Cardona 0:28
Yep. listeners. We’re broadcasting live on Twitch, which we do every week now. And I forget to mention every week. That’s why we have visual gags now. that don’t translate well

Lara Taylor 0:41
and then we forget.

Josué Cardona 0:43
Yeah,

Lara Taylor 0:43
yeah.

Josué Cardona 0:44
Yeah, at least we can see each other, which is good. And you can join us every Wednesday at around 8pm. Central. 7pm. Eastern 6pm. Pacific.

Lara Taylor 0:56
That’s very wrong. 7pm. Eastern.

Josué Cardona 1:01
That’s right now it’s 9pm. Eastern, 8pm, Central, and 6pm. Pacific. I get

Lara Taylor 1:11
somewhere in there. Usually we’re up and going by like the 20 of the hour. Sometimes we’re not

Josué Cardona 1:19
depends. Yeah. Yep. Okay. Link isn’t here this week. So that was a last minute thing. So we just switched up the topic that we were gonna do.

Lara Taylor 1:31
Okay, hey. Yeah, I wanted to talk about one thing. And then we’re like, Huh, Superman and Lois came out started airing. And you texted me right away? That I needed to watch it until I watched it. Yeah. And we figured since we both watch it, we should talk about it.

Josué Cardona 1:52
Yeah, yeah. I actually watched a second episode today. I’m

Lara Taylor 1:55
I haven’t watched that one yet. Yeah.

Josué Cardona 1:57
So but but I’ll bring up some stuff that I think is relevant, too. So yeah, so why do you want to talk about Superman Lois?

Lara Taylor 2:05
Cuz like, you texted me that in the first three minutes, they talked about social anxiety disorder, and name it as a character having it.

Josué Cardona 2:16
So first of all, this show is on The CW. Technically, it’s an arrowverse show.

Lara Taylor 2:25
We’ve seen the Superman and Lois before.

Josué Cardona 2:29
This does not feel like an arrowverse show to me. It is.

Lara Taylor 2:35
It looks cinematic. Yeah,

Josué Cardona 2:38
yeah, I don’t I don’t know. I don’t want to disparage the other shows,

Lara Taylor 2:42
because they’re very good too.

Josué Cardona 2:45
I remember thinking the same way about the flash as I am thinking about Superman now. in context, right thinking like, Wow, I can’t believe that a show like the flash is on television. Because these effects look really good and everything like so many things feel high quality. I don’t feel that way anymore about the CW in general. I haven’t felt that way about the CW in a long time. I think Marvel has a lot to do with that. But so do other shows

Lara Taylor 3:16
Marvel’s got the very bright and shiny world. But the high quality special effects.

Josué Cardona 3:23
Yeah, I mean, the only one that really did it. The only real Marvel TV show before like in humans

Lara Taylor 3:30
shield, shield and humans.

Josué Cardona 3:33
Yeah. And humans was cheap. Yes, yeah. True. True True. True Agent Carter to Yeah, but in humans felt cheap. Agent Carter felt, I’m gonna say middle of the road in terms of like, feeling expensive

Lara Taylor 3:51
TV budget, right

Josué Cardona 3:52
to budget and shield started cheap. And then

Lara Taylor 3:59
got better

Josué Cardona 4:00
looking very expensive. And it looking like MCU level. And of course, like wandavision is just like whoa, what is this this is this is another level and so other DC shows like Doom patrol and even Titans. Not so much Titans but like Doom patrol feels pricey, right? Like it feels like like a cost like it feels it feels like I don’t know how much you know, any of these shows costs over another. But this Superman and Lois is on another level. And just in general, right? Like there’s the same

Lara Taylor 4:32
felt like I was sitting down to watch a movie.

Josué Cardona 4:34
It feels like a movie even the aspect ratio is is shorter. So it feels more cinematic in that sense, but everything the colors the way it’s shot. And the effects are really really good. And I thought Oh, is this only the pilot? No, the second episode feels exactly the same. And I am so me surprised.

Lara Taylor 4:57
The laser eyes felt the same. I think as supergirls laser eyes I think but the but the after effect like the explosions and the all those things. Yeah a little different.

Josué Cardona 5:10
Yeah, there’s I don’t know there’s something. There’s a

Lara Taylor 5:13
giant ice cube look like a giant ice cube. I’m just saying

Josué Cardona 5:18
it. It looked really good. It looked really good. I can just imagine. Like Ruby Rose, or what’s the actress who plays Supergirl?

Josué Cardona 5:29
Melissa Benoist

Josué Cardona 5:31
Melissa Benoist like both of them being like, whoa, wait a minute. Why didn’t our shows look like this? Like I could have imagined Ruby Rose sticking around if?

Lara Taylor 5:38
ruby rose would’ve stayed if it was that good

Josué Cardona 5:41
that but there’s something so far it’s two episodes and and there’s no monster of the week. Like that is like this is I think we’re going to talk about the show more often because this is a family drama. And this is like there’s a reason why it’s called Superman and Lois. This is about they’re, It could have been called the super family, but that’s not as good of a title.

Lara Taylor 6:04
One thing that I loved about this show is this is a Clark Kent we haven’t gotten to see yet like in TV comics, you might have seen them. But seeing him with teenage sons. I think being a parent. I think that’s a whole other level. And I think they’re tapping into like, nerds who are parents right now.

Josué Cardona 6:27
No, that’s, that’s probably that’s a good point. So do you remember the Lois and Clark show?

Lara Taylor 6:32
Oh, I loved that. That was my Superman.

Josué Cardona 6:35
Yeah. So So

Lara Taylor 6:36
Dean Cain is my Superman.

Josué Cardona 6:38
Yeah. Wow. Wow. So when that show, at the end of that show, Lois is pregnant. And they had plans for them to have the baby but the show that like it was canceled. And so they never I don’t remember if the last episode they had the baby, but we never got to see them having a family. So when they announced that this new Superman show was going to pick up from the last time we saw Superman on the Supergirl show are on the crossovers which was Lois is pregnant we’re going to have the baby we’re going to go off to

Lara Taylor 7:12
they went to Argo city

Josué Cardona 7:14
Argo City oh okay. Yeah. And so they went and they’re like no, we’re gonna have a baby there boba. After that the world kind of I don’t remember where exactly. That happened in terms of the

Lara Taylor 7:25
it was right over the multi right before the multiverse crossover

Josué Cardona 7:30
Yeah. Was it b...