My Adventures with Superman Season 1 Review

1 00:00:00,930 --> 00:00:02,972 This is a Dynamike Network podcast. 2 00:00:24,686 --> 00:00:29,151 Hi and welcome to the Dynamic Duel Podcast, a weekly show where we review superhero films 3 00:00:29,491 --> 00:00:34,577 and debate the superiority between Marvel and DC by comparing their characters in stat-based 4 00:00:34,717 --> 00:00:41,164 battle simulations. I'm Marvelous Joe. And I'm his twin brother Johnny DC. And in this episode 5 00:00:41,204 --> 00:00:47,607 we are going to review season one of My Adventures with Superman. which is an animated television 6 00:00:47,627 --> 00:00:53,531 series that debuted on Cartoon Network and Max. It was 10 episodes long and it was pretty good. 7 00:00:53,631 --> 00:00:56,714 Can't wait to talk about it later on this episode. 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Our version, the Dynamic Duel No Prize, 37 00:03:45,467 --> 00:03:50,210 is a digital award we post on Instagram and in our email newsletter for the person that 38 00:03:50,270 --> 00:03:55,193 we feel gave the best answer to our question of the week. Last week we asked you guys to 39 00:03:55,253 --> 00:04:01,878 pitch us your perfect Marvel vs. DC video game and to tell us what it would be like. We only 40 00:04:01,918 --> 00:04:07,101 got two eligible answers. To be fair, we are recording this episode early due to Labor Day 41 00:04:07,121 --> 00:04:11,515 weekend. Right, right. But still, that's not a whole lot of participation. For what I thought 42 00:04:11,535 --> 00:04:15,418 was a pretty interesting question, like just describe the most awesome Marvel versus DC 43 00:04:15,438 --> 00:04:20,340 video game you can think of. Yeah, like Rampage, but with Lestaro or Fing Feng Fum. That's just 44 00:04:20,400 --> 00:04:26,303 off the top of my head, guys. Fucking bejeweled blitz, but it's Marvel versus DC. I don't know 45 00:04:26,343 --> 00:04:30,346 how you would do that, but you can imagine it'd be pretty awesome. It would be Infinity Stones 46 00:04:30,466 --> 00:04:35,909 and Green Lantern Rings. Boom, off the top of my head, it just happens. It's that easy, guys, 47 00:04:35,929 --> 00:04:41,213 to call in. We did get pretty solid answers for the two answers we did get, so let's go 48 00:04:41,233 --> 00:04:45,076 ahead and run down our honorable mention and the no prize winner. Our first honorable mention 49 00:04:45,116 --> 00:04:51,401 goes to Colby Hentges, who said, Hey boys, Colby Hentges. I could have any Marvel vs DC video 50 00:04:51,441 --> 00:04:58,007 game. It would play like Skullgirls. Batman Robin vs Caveland Deadpool, Three Teen Titans 51 00:04:58,027 --> 00:05:03,992 vs Spider-Man, Rocket and Groot vs Bane, any one-on-one or three-on-three matchup or anything 52 00:05:04,012 --> 00:05:09,258 in between. It would be awesome. Okay, I've never actually heard of Skullgirls, but I looked 53 00:05:09,298 --> 00:05:14,500 it up and it looks pretty interesting. Basically, the premise of the game is you're a bunch of 54 00:05:14,640 --> 00:05:19,281 goth schoolgirls that are fighting against each other that have like magic powers. The gameplay 55 00:05:19,321 --> 00:05:24,343 style is very much in the vein of Marvel versus Capcom, but like way more insane and you can 56 00:05:24,383 --> 00:05:29,964 choose any combination of up to three fighters per matchup, kind of like how in Marvel versus 57 00:05:29,984 --> 00:05:34,145 Capcom, you select two fighters and they fight back to back or you can switch off in between 58 00:05:34,165 --> 00:05:38,967 them. during the course of the fight. It looks like a pretty damn cool game. It would be incredible 59 00:05:39,447 --> 00:05:44,068 to have a Marvel vs DC video game like this. Yeah, with the appeal really being that you 60 00:05:44,108 --> 00:05:48,429 don't have to select just one character to fight with, but up to three or maybe more for this 61 00:05:48,469 --> 00:05:53,651 game. Like give me the entire seven roster member Justice League to fight with. That'd be dope. 62 00:05:53,671 --> 00:05:57,092 I would do it. I'd play the shit out of that game. That would be dope. I do love how you're 63 00:05:57,132 --> 00:06:02,513 comparing it to Marvel vs Capcom though, instead of just Street Fighter. Just say Street Fighter. 64 00:06:04,438 --> 00:06:09,661 Well, I always thought of Marvel vs. Capcom as being a much more over the top, crazy video 65 00:06:09,701 --> 00:06:13,083 game than Street Fighter. Although, you know, Street Fighter has gotten pretty over the top 66 00:06:13,143 --> 00:06:17,445 as well over the years. But yeah, they're both great games. Great answer, Colby. We do have 67 00:06:17,485 --> 00:06:22,928 to give a shout out to Christopher Manotti, who recorded an answer, but he described a 68 00:06:23,189 --> 00:06:28,852 Arkham style nightcrawler video game with no DC element to it. So it didn't qualify, unfortunately, 69 00:06:28,992 --> 00:06:33,234 but thank you for taking the time to record your answer. The winner of this week's snow 70 00:06:33,274 --> 00:06:40,559 prize though is Matt Lamb who said, Hey guys, Matt Lamb here. So my idea for this game would 71 00:06:40,599 --> 00:06:45,383 be in the style of injustice and mortal combat. Um, I think it'd be a good way to show off 72 00:06:45,423 --> 00:06:52,147 their powers and abilities. I think it put in a, uh, Finisher, not a fatality, but something 73 00:06:52,187 --> 00:06:57,471 special to, uh, in the match for the winner. Um, and I was thinking storyline, this could 74 00:06:57,491 --> 00:07:06,028 all start off where Mr. meets Mojo and they decide to have a fun game between both universes. 75 00:07:06,609 --> 00:07:13,033 Yeah, considering Ed Boon made comments regarding a Marvel vs. DC video game last week, and Ed 76 00:07:13,053 --> 00:07:17,076 Boon is the head of NetherRealm Studios who makes the Mortal Kombat and Injustice video 77 00:07:17,096 --> 00:07:21,879 games, it seems most likely that if this game were going to be made, it would be in that 78 00:07:21,999 --> 00:07:27,423 same Mortal Kombat style. And they're great games! Yeah, they're fantastic. I love NetherRealm's 79 00:07:27,483 --> 00:07:32,926 storytelling. You know, they created Injustice, which is just fantastic. They also have incredible 80 00:07:33,066 --> 00:07:36,728 character designs. They've gotten much better at that than they have in the past, I feel. 81 00:07:37,048 --> 00:07:41,950 So I would love to see them render all of the Marvel and DC characters that they would have 82 00:07:42,010 --> 00:07:47,713 on the rosters. It would be insanely cool and brutal AF. It's fricking Netherrealm. Right. 83 00:07:48,493 --> 00:07:54,336 If I'm being honest, I actually do like the moral combat renders more than Capcom's, which 84 00:07:54,396 --> 00:07:58,418 tend to be a little bit cartoony, you know, like in the Street Fighter vein. Right. Mortal 85 00:07:58,458 --> 00:08:03,220 Kombat approaches the characters almost like if they were live-action movie costumes, you 86 00:08:03,240 --> 00:08:06,782 know? Right. And I think that would be really cool to see in a video game for Marvel and 87 00:08:06,802 --> 00:08:10,424 DC. I think they'd have to brighten up their palette a bit, because a lot of their games 88 00:08:10,744 --> 00:08:15,087 feel like very dark. Mm-hmm. But yeah, it could totally work. I think it would be fantastic. 89 00:08:15,487 --> 00:08:20,190 Now I know Matt Lamb said that the characters wouldn't have fatalities but special finishers, 90 00:08:20,510 --> 00:08:24,452 but screw that, what would Batman's fatality be? He would just run your ass over with the 91 00:08:24,472 --> 00:08:31,224 Batmobile. That's pretty good. What about Spider-Man? Spider-Man's Mortal Kombat fatality, he would 92 00:08:31,244 --> 00:08:36,128 totally like mark of Kane your shit up. Like he'd stick his hand onto your face and then 93 00:08:36,148 --> 00:08:41,612 just rip your face right off. Oh damn! And then he'd web up your entire body and then web swing 94 00:08:41,652 --> 00:08:46,355 you and slam you into the ground until you're just like bag of mush. I will accept that. 95 00:08:48,457 --> 00:08:52,540 Great answer, Matlam. Congrats for winning this week's No Prize. If you, the listener, want 96 00:08:52,580 --> 00:08:56,509 a shout out winning your own No Prize. Stay tuned till later on in this episode where we'll 97 00:08:56,549 --> 00:09:01,397 be asking another question of the week. And now that that's done, on to the news! 98 00:09:06,998 --> 00:09:11,800 Alright, this past week we heard from the Hollywood Reporter that Marvel is shuffling their TV 99 00:09:11,820 --> 00:09:19,424 calendar, setting new dates for The Agatha Show, Echo, X-Men 97, and What If. Initially we were 100 00:09:19,444 --> 00:09:24,807 supposed to get all of these shows this year in 2023, considering it's already September. 101 00:09:24,927 --> 00:09:28,809 It seemed highly unlikely that this was all going to happen this year, especially due to 102 00:09:28,889 --> 00:09:34,152 the ongoing writers and actor strikes. Disney Plus is still going to release Loki Season 103 00:09:34,172 --> 00:09:39,046 2 this year, starting on October 6th. But the first show to get pushed back was What If, 104 00:09:39,206 --> 00:09:43,728 which is now going to debut around Christmas time of this year, so the very end of the year. 105 00:09:43,928 --> 00:09:48,069 Echo was originally supposed to drop in November, all the episodes were going to drop at the 106 00:09:48,089 --> 00:09:54,791 same time, but that got pushed to January of 2024. The animated series X-Men 97, which is 107 00:09:54,811 --> 00:09:59,652 going to be a continuation of the classic 1990 series from Fox, that's going to come out sometime 108 00:09:59,832 --> 00:10:07,740 early 2024, around springtime. And then finally... Agatha Coven of Chaos has been renamed to Agatha 109 00:10:07,940 --> 00:10:13,544 Darkhold Diaries, and it's going to drop in the fall season of 2024. It's crazy because 110 00:10:13,705 --> 00:10:18,968 the Agatha show was originally named House of Harkness, then it got renamed to Coven of Chaos, 111 00:10:19,028 --> 00:10:26,474 and now it's called Darkhold Diaries. It's like pick a name, holy shit. Seriously. But I do 112 00:10:26,514 --> 00:10:31,577 think that like right around Halloween time is a perfect time to drop an Agatha television 113 00:10:31,597 --> 00:10:36,801 series. Do you like the name Darkhold Diaries? I mean, sure, it works just like the rest of 114 00:10:36,821 --> 00:10:40,463 them worked. I think they all were fine. I liked Covenant of Chaos, I'm not gonna lie. Yeah, 115 00:10:41,064 --> 00:10:47,268 I liked that one too. But considering that we now have a show dropping early 2024 in Echo, 116 00:10:47,468 --> 00:10:54,633 spring 2024 in X-Men 97 and autumn 2024 in Agatha Darkhold Diaries, it makes me think that other 117 00:10:54,653 --> 00:10:59,737 shows that have been filmed or partially filmed such as Ironheart, Daredevil Born Again and 118 00:10:59,817 --> 00:11:05,722 Wonder Man. are all getting pushed into 2025, which is possibly a good thing. I know there's 119 00:11:05,762 --> 00:11:09,966 a lot of concern going around that Marvel is producing too much content that people aren't 120 00:11:10,046 --> 00:11:15,431 able to keep up with and therefore are kind of losing interest in. And so I think the aim 121 00:11:15,532 --> 00:11:21,477 is to focus on the quality and make sure that the release dates are staggered to hold audience 122 00:11:21,517 --> 00:11:26,124 interest. Yeah, I think it's a smart move. Bob Iger pretty much admitted that there was too 123 00:11:26,144 --> 00:11:31,087 much Marvel content on Disney+. This gives them some breathing room to kind of reevaluate what 124 00:11:31,107 --> 00:11:35,029 they want to do with each series and make sure it's a little bit more cohesive, I think, going 125 00:11:35,089 --> 00:11:40,812 forward, hopefully. But speaking of all of these shows, in particular X-Men 97, that brings 126 00:11:40,852 --> 00:11:42,113 us to our question of the week. 127 00:11:46,602 --> 00:11:53,786 90s kids, what was your favorite Marvel or DC cartoon from the 90s and why? Basically, if 128 00:11:53,806 --> 00:11:57,528 you're listening to this and you were born after the 90s, you can still answer but also you're 129 00:11:57,548 --> 00:12:02,011 too young. You're just too young. You're too young. Be older, because we're looking for 130 00:12:02,131 --> 00:12:07,775 90s cartoons. It was the best era for Marvel and DC cartoons, in my humble opinion. Yeah, 131 00:12:07,795 --> 00:12:11,317 I think it was definitely like the Renaissance after shows like Super Friends and stuff like 132 00:12:11,357 --> 00:12:16,239 that, you know? Yeah. Record your answer at dynamicduel.com by clicking on the red microphone 133 00:12:16,279 --> 00:12:20,000 button in the bottom right-hand corner of the screen, which will prompt you to leave us a 134 00:12:20,060 --> 00:12:24,742 voicemail. Your message could be up to 30 seconds long, and don't forget to leave your name in 135 00:12:24,782 --> 00:12:29,303 case we include you on the podcast. We'll pick our favorite answer and award that person a 136 00:12:29,363 --> 00:12:34,525 Dynamic Duel No Prize that we'll post to Instagram and our email newsletter. Be sure to answer 137 00:12:34,565 --> 00:12:36,025 before September 9th. 138 00:12:43,310 --> 00:12:46,952 But I think that does it for all the news for this episode, so let's go ahead and move into 139 00:12:46,992 --> 00:12:54,036 our main event, where we review the DC animated series on Cartoon Network and Max, My Adventures 140 00:12:54,176 --> 00:12:55,737 with Superman, Season 1. 141 00:13:11,150 --> 00:13:16,371 Adventures with Superman is a 10-episode animated series made for Cartoon Network's Adult Swim 142 00:13:16,431 --> 00:13:22,753 programming block and the Mac streaming platform by the series' showrunners Jake Wyatt, Brandon 143 00:13:22,773 --> 00:13:29,095 Kloffer, and Josie Campbell. The series explores Clark Kent's early career as both a journalist 144 00:13:29,135 --> 00:13:34,757 for the Daily Planet and as the superhero Superman, as well as the burgeoning relationship with 145 00:13:34,797 --> 00:13:40,295 his colleague Lois Lane. It was a fantastic series. that modernizes Superman in a way that 146 00:13:40,335 --> 00:13:45,740 has never been done before. I definitely recommend watching it. It's available on Macs. Once again, 147 00:13:46,141 --> 00:13:51,566 please watch it before listening any further to this spoiler review. Yeah, even as a Marvel 148 00:13:51,586 --> 00:13:57,271 fan, I highly recommend this series. It actually turned out better than expected when the executive 149 00:13:57,311 --> 00:14:03,337 producers requested that we review the show. I was kind of a whiny bitch about it. I didn't 150 00:14:03,357 --> 00:14:08,703 want to do it. I feel like we've seen this story done well before in the Smallville television 151 00:14:08,743 --> 00:14:14,186 series and even in animated form recently with the Man of Tomorrow movie. But this show ended 152 00:14:14,226 --> 00:14:18,227 up blowing all my expectations away and when I first started watching it I was like, what's 153 00:14:18,247 --> 00:14:24,210 this cartoony shit? By the time I was done, I considered it one of the best interpretations 154 00:14:24,510 --> 00:14:28,852 of Superman's origin story that has existed. Way better than Man of Tomorrow, honestly. 155 00:14:29,012 --> 00:14:34,122 Oh, absolutely. Yeah, no question. Like you, when this cartoon was first announced... I 156 00:14:34,342 --> 00:14:37,945 can't say I was looking forward to it, and I was also surprised when it was decided that 157 00:14:37,965 --> 00:14:43,029 we were going to review it, because we don't usually review Cartoon Network shows. You know, 158 00:14:43,209 --> 00:14:47,573 considering the fact that the episodes were dropping on Macs shortly after their Cartoon 159 00:14:47,593 --> 00:14:52,277 Network debut, and because the episode count was relatively short, we figured we'd review 160 00:14:52,317 --> 00:14:56,040 it, and I'm really glad we did, because like you mentioned, the show was way better than 161 00:14:56,100 --> 00:14:59,983 I thought it would be, and it's definitely a far cry from the character that we've seen 162 00:15:00,044 --> 00:15:04,634 on the big screen for the past decade, I would say. When My Adventures with Superman was first 163 00:15:04,714 --> 00:15:09,636 announced in early 2021, based off the title, I was under the impression that it was a series 164 00:15:09,656 --> 00:15:14,957 that focused on Lois Lane specifically, and you know, like her perspective regarding Superman 165 00:15:15,197 --> 00:15:20,619 and life in Metropolis. Right away, I assumed I wasn't the target demographic. And you know, 166 00:15:20,639 --> 00:15:25,240 I'd probably watch it with my daughters, but probably wouldn't enjoy it. I was totally wrong. 167 00:15:25,600 --> 00:15:30,714 I enjoyed the shit out of the show, because I forgot how much I could relate. to the romantic 168 00:15:30,794 --> 00:15:35,296 side of the Superman story, which is an element that has been there since the very beginning 169 00:15:35,316 --> 00:15:41,599 of the character's introduction since 1938. Jerry Siegel, one of the creators of Superman, 170 00:15:42,039 --> 00:15:47,322 said that one of the inspirations for Clark Kent as an alter ego was because he had crushes 171 00:15:47,382 --> 00:15:52,884 on girls who didn't even know he existed. And he thought to himself, what if, secretly, he 172 00:15:52,904 --> 00:15:58,388 was really great? What if he was super? The love triangle of sorts that stemmed from Clark 173 00:15:58,448 --> 00:16:04,814 Kent loving Lois Lane, but Lois Lane loving Superman, was this tragic component that allowed 174 00:16:04,854 --> 00:16:10,219 readers to connect with these otherwise perfect characters. And it's a component that was noticeably 175 00:16:10,319 --> 00:16:15,284 lacking in Zack Snyder's take on the character, or from any other medium other than maybe Smallville 176 00:16:15,304 --> 00:16:20,989 for decades. I would argue that this show nails the romantic aspect between Superman and Lois. 177 00:16:21,442 --> 00:16:26,664 than any film or television series in history because of the novel approach they take with 178 00:16:26,704 --> 00:16:33,107 the Clark Kent alter ego. His awkwardness in this show isn't necessarily an act like it 179 00:16:33,147 --> 00:16:37,409 was for the Christopher Reeve version of the character. It's often been debated amongst 180 00:16:37,489 --> 00:16:43,431 comic readers whether Clark Kent should be an act, and in this show we see that Clark Kent 181 00:16:43,491 --> 00:16:49,074 and Superman are essentially the same person. It's just that Clark Kent is clumsy, due to 182 00:16:49,094 --> 00:16:54,476 having to control and hide his powers at all times, which is difficult to do when his attention 183 00:16:54,636 --> 00:17:01,139 is on a pretty girl like Lois. I'm not usually one for romantic media, I'll admit that. I 184 00:17:01,179 --> 00:17:09,923 think my tastes as a hyper-masculine dude is pretty much in the vein of, you know, I like 185 00:17:09,963 --> 00:17:14,245 to see the action aspect of these superheroes. The romantic side never really interested me. 186 00:17:14,265 --> 00:17:19,459 But You know, I think that Superman actually has one of the most interesting romantic angles 187 00:17:19,519 --> 00:17:24,801 out of all superheroes in general. Yeah, I mean, his romantic relationships, and I guess not 188 00:17:24,841 --> 00:17:29,622 just that, his relationships in general are the source of his vulnerability, right? And 189 00:17:29,682 --> 00:17:34,203 plus, like Superman's really only loved one girl for the most part. I think he's had some 190 00:17:34,303 --> 00:17:39,545 a few other romantic interests in his history, but for the most part, Lois is Superman's girl 191 00:17:39,865 --> 00:17:44,488 ever since the 1940s, you know. Whereas I think most other male superheroes have quite a number 192 00:17:44,528 --> 00:17:49,713 of romantic interests, like another prime example is Spider-Man, but he's had Gwen Stacy, Mary 193 00:17:49,753 --> 00:17:55,719 Jane, Felicia Hardy, you know? Spider-Man's a ho! It's much more wholesome, I think, with 194 00:17:55,859 --> 00:18:00,343 the Superman-Lowes relationship. Absolutely, yeah. Now, there was a lot of length, but that 195 00:18:00,363 --> 00:18:04,467 was in high school. You know, since becoming an adult, Superman is primarily a wood woman 196 00:18:04,507 --> 00:18:09,826 man. Now, the show is so well written. And the chemistry between the characters of Superman 197 00:18:09,846 --> 00:18:15,128 and Lois is so well realized that even though Lois discovers Clark Kent as Superman less 198 00:18:15,148 --> 00:18:20,349 than halfway through the series, it doesn't ruin the dramatic flow and tension between 199 00:18:20,389 --> 00:18:25,551 the characters. And it even helps address a criticism many have levied at the writers of 200 00:18:25,591 --> 00:18:31,012 Lois Lane for decades in that if she's such an intelligent investigative journalist, why 201 00:18:31,052 --> 00:18:37,803 didn't she deduce that Clark Kent was Superman early on? Here she does. and in a more believable 202 00:18:37,903 --> 00:18:43,527 and natural way than, say, Amy Adams' version of the character. The way the showrunners approached 203 00:18:43,587 --> 00:18:48,371 the relationship between Clark and Lois wasn't the only novel aspect of the show, however, 204 00:18:48,771 --> 00:18:54,875 the most blatant being the anime animation style. We saw shades of the anime style in the DC 205 00:18:54,935 --> 00:18:59,019 animated movie universe that began with the Justice League The Flashpoint Paradox animated 206 00:18:59,059 --> 00:19:04,859 film, but my adventures with Superman is, for the most part, a shounen anime in terms of 207 00:19:04,899 --> 00:19:10,543 both animation and story style. Shounen animes are geared toward teenage boys and include 208 00:19:10,603 --> 00:19:17,128 tropes such as growing in power like leveling up, having a romantic rival, themes of teamwork, 209 00:19:17,168 --> 00:19:22,411 and the power of friendship, many of which are found in this show. I love that for almost 210 00:19:22,551 --> 00:19:27,135 every villain that Superman went up against, Lois and Jimmy were on the sidelines figuring 211 00:19:27,175 --> 00:19:31,534 out how to help Superman, whether it was pushing buttons on a crate or... you know, finding 212 00:19:31,574 --> 00:19:36,896 the off switch for a high tech panic room. Yeah, the anime art style was pretty well done here. 213 00:19:37,156 --> 00:19:41,958 I never knew how well suited the character of Superman was to the anime style until I saw 214 00:19:42,158 --> 00:19:47,040 it. And it works really damn well. Yeah, there's a lot of visual anime tropes on the show as 215 00:19:47,100 --> 00:19:53,563 well. You know, such as Superman sparking with electricity like Goku or the Majoko style transformation 216 00:19:53,863 --> 00:19:58,145 into a super suit. There's a teaser for the next episode at the very end of the one you're 217 00:19:58,165 --> 00:20:03,672 watching. And you know, overall the fast action and exaggerated facial expressions. I don't 218 00:20:03,712 --> 00:20:09,136 watch a lot of anime, but I do know that some of my favorites, like Neon Genesis Evangelion, 219 00:20:09,496 --> 00:20:15,159 My Hero Academia, and Sword Art Online, would be considered shounen. And recognizing some 220 00:20:15,179 --> 00:20:20,482 of those anime tropes, both story and visual, was part of the fun of watching this show. 221 00:20:20,823 --> 00:20:25,425 I never would have thought, like you, that Superman would have worked in that style, but he totally 222 00:20:25,465 --> 00:20:30,685 did. For sure. And going back to the romantic angle, I think for some reason, the anime art 223 00:20:30,705 --> 00:20:36,569 style does a really good job of expressing that sort of like shy, flirtatious behavior between 224 00:20:36,609 --> 00:20:40,211 characters. Yeah. You know, with like the blush cheeks and everything like that, it just worked 225 00:20:40,251 --> 00:20:46,055 really well in selling their romantic back and forth in an endearing way. Yeah, totally. Japanese 226 00:20:46,075 --> 00:20:51,058 shounen don't really shy away from romance in the same way that I think Western cartoons 227 00:20:51,298 --> 00:20:58,374 geared towards young men do. It was like, oh, they love each other. I was like, he likes 228 00:20:58,434 --> 00:21:04,656 her, oh no. No, my daughter loves this series as well. She's 12 years old. She's in middle 229 00:21:04,696 --> 00:21:10,197 school. She watched the new episodes before I did. She was like really into it. Girls love 230 00:21:10,237 --> 00:21:14,819 anime, I found. Yeah. And I think a large part of it has to do with, yeah, they don't shy 231 00:21:14,839 --> 00:21:20,220 away from things like romance. Now, as a Superman fan, one of the things I loved most about this 232 00:21:20,240 --> 00:21:25,646 show was the approach it took with Superman's origin and how it resulted week to week. and 233 00:21:25,686 --> 00:21:31,528 a who's who of supervillains from DC Comics. In a similar way to how Kryptonite was responsible 234 00:21:31,548 --> 00:21:36,710 for creating many of Superman's villains in the Smallville television series, in this show, 235 00:21:37,030 --> 00:21:42,533 many of them are powered by repurposed Kryptonian technology. Superman doesn't realize this until 236 00:21:42,553 --> 00:21:47,635 the very end of the season, so he doesn't have like that same guilt that Clark did in Smallville, 237 00:21:47,935 --> 00:21:52,337 but I'm sure that's coming next season. Some people got tired of the Kryptonite villain 238 00:21:52,357 --> 00:21:57,532 of the week, Shtick from Smallville. But since my adventures with Superman was only 10 episodes, 239 00:21:57,672 --> 00:22:02,896 I didn't feel that aspect overstayed its welcome. And it helped story-wise in coming up with 240 00:22:02,936 --> 00:22:08,060 a simple solution for why all of these superpowered beings emerged for Superman to fight. We got 241 00:22:08,100 --> 00:22:16,246 to see Livewire, Silver Banshee, Mist, Rough House, Dr. Ivo, Parasite, Heatwave, Deathstroke, 242 00:22:16,546 --> 00:22:23,306 Mixi Spidlic, Amanda Waller, Lex Luthor, Omac Robots, General Lane and even Matsumura Mala 243 00:22:23,386 --> 00:22:29,528 and the Brain. At the very end, we even get teases of Brainiac and Zod. None of these characters 244 00:22:29,808 --> 00:22:36,090 get much character development, and it shouldn't work because of that, but it somehow does because 245 00:22:36,150 --> 00:22:41,892 of the way all of the villains get their powers and because the show is so focused on Superman 246 00:22:41,972 --> 00:22:47,993 and his friends. Yeah, I think the tech aspect goes a long way in making the show feel modern. 247 00:22:48,354 --> 00:22:52,556 as well. A lot of the bad guys almost seem like Iron Man or something like that, you know? 248 00:22:53,276 --> 00:22:58,819 But it doesn't feel untrue to the characters themselves. Like Livewire, I think she was 249 00:22:58,879 --> 00:23:05,803 actually a villain introduced in the Superman animated series from the 90s. But her origin 250 00:23:05,863 --> 00:23:09,205 here, I think is actually better than the one they introduced in that old cartoon. And you're 251 00:23:09,225 --> 00:23:13,868 right, it was fun going like, oh, that's Livewire. Oh, that's Deathstroke. It's funny how like, 252 00:23:14,308 --> 00:23:17,766 I was so ready to write off the show in the beginning. Cause I thought that was lame. I 253 00:23:17,786 --> 00:23:20,988 was like, what the fuck are they doing? Like reinventing all these characters. And I was 254 00:23:21,008 --> 00:23:25,632 like, this is just some else world's bullshit. But by the end I was like, man, this would 255 00:23:25,672 --> 00:23:31,796 be a great angle for a film adaptation, honestly. Oh man, don't even get me started. Like I liked 256 00:23:31,836 --> 00:23:36,540 this show so much that it actually got me a little depressed by how good it was. Because 257 00:23:36,580 --> 00:23:42,464 like most DC animations, I don't understand why Warner Brothers couldn't adapt this approach 258 00:23:42,524 --> 00:23:48,034 for live action, you know? Like each of these episodes were only 22 minutes long. This could 259 00:23:48,054 --> 00:23:52,636 have easily been a pair of films, maybe even a trilogy. And that would have been amazing. 260 00:23:53,036 --> 00:23:58,297 Like whatever James Gunn is doing with the Superman legacy film, the bar has been set for how well 261 00:23:58,317 --> 00:24:03,719 you could introduce Superman already right now. It does have its work cut out for it in telling 262 00:24:03,779 --> 00:24:08,900 Superman's early years better than this show did. Right. Exactly. And it's been said that, 263 00:24:08,980 --> 00:24:14,471 you know, it's not focusing on Superman's early years as Superman. but it is supposed to focus 264 00:24:14,491 --> 00:24:19,655 on his early years in Metropolis with Lois Lane and stuff like that. So, I don't know. Maybe 265 00:24:19,695 --> 00:24:24,619 he could go like the Superman birthright route in that regard, but we'll see, I guess. For 266 00:24:24,699 --> 00:24:29,723 my money, this was a better modern adaptation of the character of Superman than the Man of 267 00:24:29,783 --> 00:24:35,588 Steel movie, which I thought was an interesting, you know, alien sci-fi approach to the character. 268 00:24:36,028 --> 00:24:41,152 You know, I love Man of Steel. It's one of my favorite DC movies, and I would agree with 269 00:24:41,192 --> 00:24:47,467 you. That's why I'm depressed. But moving on to the character breakdown, there's really 270 00:24:47,667 --> 00:24:53,130 only three main characters to talk about. Of course, starting with Superman, aka Clark Kent, 271 00:24:53,210 --> 00:24:58,852 he was voiced by Jack Quaid, who's the son of Meg Ryan and Dennis Quaid, and is probably 272 00:24:58,912 --> 00:25:04,574 best well known for playing Huey and the boys. It's a lighter, more comedic take on Superman, 273 00:25:04,934 --> 00:25:10,417 but I thought Jack nailed this version of the character. I've never heard or seen Superman 274 00:25:10,497 --> 00:25:15,403 to be this expressive on screen. Oh, he was incredible. I didn't even know that was him. 275 00:25:15,464 --> 00:25:19,026 And now I'm kind of blown away by that. Yeah, yeah. I didn't realize it was him either. He's 276 00:25:19,046 --> 00:25:25,331 pretty talented. Now, the show asks numerous times, who is Superman? Superman asks himself 277 00:25:25,351 --> 00:25:30,395 that question. As we see each of Superman's powers activate during the course of the show, 278 00:25:30,875 --> 00:25:37,540 he learns that he's a hero who simply does what he can to help others. A good example of this 279 00:25:37,580 --> 00:25:42,236 is when he steps in front of Lois. to shield her from a barrage of lasers without thinking, 280 00:25:42,476 --> 00:25:48,001 without even knowing that he was invulnerable to them. Superman being a hero isn't the most 281 00:25:48,082 --> 00:25:53,266 shocking answer to the question of who he is. The bigger shock comes from the angle they 282 00:25:53,306 --> 00:25:59,432 took in showing us that not only are some supermen across the multiverse seemingly evil, but they 283 00:25:59,512 --> 00:26:01,694 also make us believe for a time that 284 00:26:05,778 --> 00:26:09,681 Yeah, there's an aspect to the show that was kind of reminiscent of the invincible comic 285 00:26:09,721 --> 00:26:14,325 book series and animated show on Amazon, where they portrayed the Kryptonians almost like 286 00:26:14,365 --> 00:26:19,369 Viltrumites, where like they're these super powerful beings. And I think Jor-El in this 287 00:26:19,429 --> 00:26:25,234 show can almost be seen as an analog to invincible's father Omniman. I thought that was really fascinating, 288 00:26:25,734 --> 00:26:30,038 even though we know that Jor-El is ultimately going to be a good guy. But then you have Zod 289 00:26:30,058 --> 00:26:35,454 at the end. Right. Yeah. So cool. I can't wait for season two. And I think that's a testament 290 00:26:35,494 --> 00:26:40,616 to just how good this show is. I spoke earlier about how like this show does a better job 291 00:26:40,697 --> 00:26:45,379 of bringing the character into modern times while making him feel like Superman. Yes, like 292 00:26:45,519 --> 00:26:50,801 a young classic version of Superman in the modern day. And they never thought that they would 293 00:26:50,841 --> 00:26:55,764 be able to do that as successfully as they did here. I think that's really why I was so happy 294 00:26:55,804 --> 00:27:01,106 with the show by the end of it, because it proved that it could be done. Right. Like Henry Cavill's 295 00:27:01,206 --> 00:27:05,669 Superman was a little bit dark for some people's tastes. He was a little bit brooding. You cannot 296 00:27:05,709 --> 00:27:11,473 say that about this animated version of Superman. Should have been live action. Damn it. Moving 297 00:27:11,533 --> 00:27:17,357 on to Lois Lane, she was voiced by Alice Lee, a singer and actress from Zoe's Extraordinary 298 00:27:17,397 --> 00:27:23,361 Playlist. I never saw the show. Alice is of Korean descent and her version of Lois Lane. 299 00:27:23,926 --> 00:27:28,169 is also of Korean descent and I believe this is the first time we've ever seen the character 300 00:27:28,229 --> 00:27:32,952 depicted that way. And I don't mind it, you know, they also race-bent Jimmy Olsen to match 301 00:27:33,052 --> 00:27:38,276 his voice actor, and we'll talk about that character in a bit, but I think matching the ethnicity 302 00:27:38,316 --> 00:27:44,000 of the voice actor best suited for the role is admirable. And I have to say, I loved the 303 00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:48,983 voice work for Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen. Oh yeah, they did a perfect job. Now, Lois's arc 304 00:27:49,084 --> 00:27:54,130 really revolves around her relationship with her father. She disdains him for keeping secrets 305 00:27:54,170 --> 00:27:59,293 from her growing up about his classified work and her mother's cancer, and she struggles 306 00:27:59,313 --> 00:28:05,295 to find success in part due to feelings of neglect from him ignoring her growing up. I think it 307 00:28:05,335 --> 00:28:09,817 was brilliant that they made her father, General Lane, the primary villain. I thought it was 308 00:28:09,857 --> 00:28:15,359 going to be like Lex Luthor or maybe Brainiac, but having it be General Lane added a whole 309 00:28:15,460 --> 00:28:21,214 other layer of conflict to the relationship between Superman and Lois. I mean, who didn't 310 00:28:21,254 --> 00:28:26,155 see that coming? But also, yeah, brilliant idea. I mean, I didn't initially until we actually 311 00:28:26,255 --> 00:28:32,597 saw him. I was like, oh, shit. Nice. I did kind of roll my eyes when we learned that there 312 00:28:32,617 --> 00:28:37,699 was a multiversal league of Lois Lane's because we've seen that done so many times by this 313 00:28:37,739 --> 00:28:44,641 point. Like Council of Rick's Council of Reed Richards, you know. But after a while, I realized 314 00:28:44,701 --> 00:28:49,747 it was a clever way. to not only add further tension to Superman and Lois's relationship 315 00:28:49,927 --> 00:28:55,149 and introduce Kryptonite, but also to qualm any haters who may have an issue with this 316 00:28:55,189 --> 00:29:00,751 adaptation of the world of Superman, or even the race-bending, by saying that this is its 317 00:29:00,891 --> 00:29:07,573 own thing, its own world. Your classic Superman world still exists, but this is our interpretation 318 00:29:07,793 --> 00:29:12,576 and our stance. There's a little bit of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl characterization here, 319 00:29:12,616 --> 00:29:18,040 especially in the early episodes for Lois Lane, but Lois Lane is kind of like the OG Manic 320 00:29:18,060 --> 00:29:23,964 Pixie Dream Girl. She's always been this like borderline insane woman who will always be 321 00:29:24,004 --> 00:29:27,986 impulsive and go out and do the dangerous thing. Right. And that's also an anime trope, you 322 00:29:28,006 --> 00:29:33,110 know, the wild impulsive anime girl. And I really liked how they kind of blended that characterization 323 00:29:33,250 --> 00:29:38,553 into this version of Lois Lane. For sure. Yeah. She was really well done. As was Jimmy Olsen. 324 00:29:38,934 --> 00:29:44,115 He was voiced by Ishmael Saheed, and I have to say I haven't enjoyed Jimmy Olsen this much 325 00:29:44,315 --> 00:29:51,297 in a long while. It's always been hard to sincerely say that Jimmy Olsen is Superman's best pal 326 00:29:51,317 --> 00:29:56,338 in the comics, because he's always been like this dimwitted and somewhat annoying peon of 327 00:29:56,398 --> 00:30:02,240 sorts. But here they made Clark and Jimmy bros, like equals, who were friends even before they 328 00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:08,061 arrived at the Daily Planet. And on top of that, they made Jimmy a conspiracy theorist vlogger. 329 00:30:08,534 --> 00:30:13,596 which was a brilliant way to add tension to him and Clark. Yeah, at first I thought it 330 00:30:13,616 --> 00:30:19,098 was just like this random character trait that was done for comedic relief. And I was prepared 331 00:30:19,138 --> 00:30:23,940 to be really annoyed by Jimmy Olsen actually. And then I kind of saw how all the pieces fell 332 00:30:23,980 --> 00:30:28,722 together as Clark always found himself nervous around Jimmy because Clark is an alien, you 333 00:30:28,742 --> 00:30:32,724 know? Right. So it was pretty interesting. Again, you know, there's an anime trope of like the 334 00:30:32,764 --> 00:30:37,978 comedic relief character that this version of Jimmy Olsen fell squarely into, but uh... The 335 00:30:38,078 --> 00:30:43,181 way that the show was able to fill those molds while still staying true to the Superman mythos 336 00:30:43,581 --> 00:30:49,204 was just brilliant. Yeah, I mean, tropes and cliches exist for a reason. And when they're 337 00:30:49,244 --> 00:30:53,707 well done, they're really well done. Now, I don't know how I feel about the reveal that 338 00:30:53,767 --> 00:30:59,630 Jimmy recognized that Clark was an alien early on as roommates, but I guess it makes sense 339 00:30:59,650 --> 00:31:05,493 considering they were living together. And it also shows how true of a friend Jimmy was in 340 00:31:05,533 --> 00:31:11,788 that. as a vlogger about aliens, he wouldn't expose Clark as one. Like if that isn't the 341 00:31:11,828 --> 00:31:16,930 sign of a true friend, I don't know what is. My impression is that it was his realization 342 00:31:16,970 --> 00:31:22,613 that Clark was like a super strong alien guy that manifested his whole conspiratorial nature 343 00:31:22,633 --> 00:31:28,035 to begin with. Oh interesting, maybe. He's like holy crap this guy's like superhuman, the fantastical 344 00:31:28,075 --> 00:31:32,877 must exist, and I must learn all about it. I love that, that's great. Let's move on to the 345 00:31:32,917 --> 00:31:33,737 story highlights. 346 00:31:41,418 --> 00:31:46,879 In episode 1, titled Adventures of a Normal Man, part 1, in Smallville, Kansas, a young 347 00:31:46,959 --> 00:31:52,381 Clark Kent awakens the power of flight and strength to save a woman and her baby from a car accident. 348 00:31:52,921 --> 00:31:58,562 Years later, in Metropolis, Clark and his roommate Jimmy Olsen, a photography student and alien 349 00:31:58,602 --> 00:32:04,604 conspiracy theorist, start their first day as interns for the Daily Planet. Assigned to senior 350 00:32:04,684 --> 00:32:09,905 intern Lois Lane, she deceives them into helping her investigate a military-grade technology 351 00:32:09,965 --> 00:32:15,608 theft. With a lead from Flip Johnson's News Kid Legion, the trio finds the thieves loading 352 00:32:15,688 --> 00:32:22,232 military robots at the docks. The thieves' leader, Leslie Willis, unleashes a robot to attack 353 00:32:22,252 --> 00:32:28,056 them. Clark gets out of view and returns in disguise to destroy it. As Willis activates 354 00:32:28,096 --> 00:32:33,959 the remaining robots to battle Clark, Lois successfully deactivates them while he awakens his super 355 00:32:34,019 --> 00:32:40,163 speed to destroy the final robot. Despite their efforts, Editor-in-Chief Perry White refuses 356 00:32:40,203 --> 00:32:45,947 to publish the story based on Jimmy's blurry photos without real proof of the new metahuman 357 00:32:45,987 --> 00:32:51,711 that Lois dubbed Superman. Once the trio become friends, Lois invites the boys to help her 358 00:32:51,751 --> 00:32:57,615 get an exclusive interview with Superman. Now, I'll admit this first episode I did not love. 359 00:32:57,855 --> 00:33:03,459 When it came to the wacky, you know, Jimmy Olsen hijinks, the manic characterization of Lois 360 00:33:03,559 --> 00:33:08,786 and like the kids' newspaper brigade or whatever. I was like, God. I didn't... Why are we reviewing 361 00:33:08,826 --> 00:33:13,628 this? Like, I would have rather have reviewed the live-action Superman and Lois television 362 00:33:13,668 --> 00:33:16,970 series is what I thought to myself or something like that, you know, because I've heard that's 363 00:33:17,030 --> 00:33:22,352 good. But to the show's credit, as the show progresses, it gets more serious along the 364 00:33:22,392 --> 00:33:27,614 way, which I think resulted in nice growth for the characters. Yeah, true. Like you, I wasn't 365 00:33:27,854 --> 00:33:32,276 thrilled by this first episode. Like, I didn't think it was the greatest adaptation ever for 366 00:33:32,316 --> 00:33:38,058 Superman. I didn't really feel that way until maybe episode three or four. But episode 2 367 00:33:38,078 --> 00:33:43,822 was pretty good. That was titled Adventures of a Normal Man, part 2. While Lois doggedly 368 00:33:43,862 --> 00:33:49,466 follows up on the robot theft for a lead to Superman, Clark returns to Smallville to investigate 369 00:33:49,506 --> 00:33:55,150 his past and understand his new powers. Digging up the space pod that delivered him to Earth, 370 00:33:55,530 --> 00:34:02,135 Clark activates an alien hologram and sees visions of an alien planet amid a space war being destroyed. 371 00:34:02,635 --> 00:34:08,692 After Clark gains new alien clothing from this, His mother, Martha, adds a belt and shorts 372 00:34:08,732 --> 00:34:14,677 to complete the look. Meanwhile, Willis is hunted by the organization she stole the robot technology 373 00:34:14,717 --> 00:34:21,684 from, Task Force X, and arranges a meeting with leading agent Slade Wilson, aka Deathstroke. 374 00:34:22,164 --> 00:34:26,608 When Willis threatens to detonate explosives across the city sewers if they continue hunting 375 00:34:26,648 --> 00:34:32,133 her, Lois and Jimmy's surprise interruption turns the meeting into a scramble for the detonator. 376 00:34:32,630 --> 00:34:37,452 Willis reveals her electrical super suit to fight Deathstroke until Superman arrives to 377 00:34:37,492 --> 00:34:43,616 subdue her. Deathstroke damages her suit's power crystal, leading Superman to destroy it after 378 00:34:43,656 --> 00:34:49,019 it gives him another vision of the space war. Though Jimmy's clear photos convince Perry 379 00:34:49,039 --> 00:34:55,982 to publish the story, he gives the byline to uninvolved staff reporters. Later, Deathstroke 380 00:34:56,023 --> 00:35:02,214 tortures Willis, now Livewire, at a black site for information about Superman. I've seen a 381 00:35:02,274 --> 00:35:07,319 lot of flack online for the transformation scene in this episode, and I really feel like early 382 00:35:07,399 --> 00:35:11,903 on when the show's first episodes were coming out, there was a lot of antagonism towards 383 00:35:11,983 --> 00:35:18,009 it. But I am happy to see more and more people admit that they liked the series online. Well, 384 00:35:18,069 --> 00:35:22,834 I mean, it just made sense for the context of the scene, right? Clark activating the ship 385 00:35:22,854 --> 00:35:27,330 for the first time and going down into it and seeing partial visions of the Kryptonian. story 386 00:35:27,590 --> 00:35:31,774 and you know getting a suit from that I think worked really well. And yeah like it's kind 387 00:35:31,814 --> 00:35:37,959 of a funny anime cliche for the characters to suit up in this overtly grandiose fashion but 388 00:35:38,079 --> 00:35:42,062 considering it only happened once in the season and it had that context to go with it I thought 389 00:35:42,082 --> 00:35:46,186 it was spot on. Yeah I don't even think it was that over the top either. It literally only 390 00:35:46,226 --> 00:35:52,371 lasted five seconds, maybe not even that long. Yeah. I do love the fact that Martha helped 391 00:35:52,411 --> 00:35:56,190 contribute to the suit in some way because in the comics... She did, you know, she helped 392 00:35:56,210 --> 00:36:00,734 him make it and design it. Yeah. So that was cool. It really only took me up until this 393 00:36:00,794 --> 00:36:05,939 episode to start getting into the show. Once you kind of saw what they did with LiveWire, 394 00:36:06,059 --> 00:36:10,043 something kind of like clicked for me and I understood what they were going with in terms 395 00:36:10,083 --> 00:36:16,228 of bringing in the larger DC universe. Right, yeah. We've begun to episode three, titled 396 00:36:16,348 --> 00:36:21,851 My Interview with Superman. While Lois attempts to interview Superman, Clark struggles to figure 397 00:36:21,951 --> 00:36:27,494 out how to help her while protecting his secret identity. However, the interns must also contend 398 00:36:27,734 --> 00:36:33,357 with the Daily Planet's established Scoop Troop reporters, who pericredited for their Superman 399 00:36:33,397 --> 00:36:39,500 story. Specifically, Steve Lombard, Kent Grant, and Ronnie Troop. Meanwhile, Myst and his friend 400 00:36:39,580 --> 00:36:44,947 Ruff House use technology they obtained from Livewire to break his sister, Chauvin McDougal, 401 00:36:45,187 --> 00:36:50,391 out of prison and equip her with sonic tech to rebuild their small time crew, Intergang. 402 00:36:50,711 --> 00:36:56,335 Despite Clark's misgivings, the interns impersonate the Scoop Troop to investigate Chauvin, now 403 00:36:56,375 --> 00:37:02,019 Silver Banshee, discovering a clue to Intergang's next heist. When Intergang attempts to rob 404 00:37:02,119 --> 00:37:07,683 the Metropolitan City Bank, their ice cannon's power crystal malfunctions and begins to freeze 405 00:37:07,743 --> 00:37:13,078 everything in proximity. Seeing Lois and Jimmy in danger, Superman awakens his heat vision 406 00:37:13,338 --> 00:37:19,640 and destroys the crystal, granting him a vision of an invading robot army. While Deathstroke's 407 00:37:19,700 --> 00:37:25,061 organization secretly takes the defeated Inter Gang members into custody, Superman accepts 408 00:37:25,101 --> 00:37:31,083 Lois' interview and discloses that he is still figuring himself out, but is committed to saving 409 00:37:31,123 --> 00:37:37,445 people. However, to his dismay, Lois later tells Clark that she suspects Superman is lying. 410 00:37:37,965 --> 00:37:42,266 Now, when I first saw Inter Gang pop up here, I was guessing that the main villain was going 411 00:37:42,287 --> 00:37:46,989 to be Darkseid and that this was apocalyptic tech, but that turned out to not be the case. 412 00:37:47,570 --> 00:37:53,333 Right, because traditionally, intergang is supplied with new god technology, right? I do like the 413 00:37:53,353 --> 00:37:56,495 way they kind of flipped it here so that it was Kryptonian tech though. I think it still 414 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, 415 00:38:03,639 --> 00:38:09,386 Sunstone is a thing in the comics. We saw that in the Superman movie as well. where like all 416 00:38:09,426 --> 00:38:14,788 the architecture and stuff is created from crystals. So it was nice that they found a way to incorporate 417 00:38:15,088 --> 00:38:21,051 crystals and even kryptonite as a crystal into Superman's mythos. Yeah, when Superman destroyed 418 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 419 00:38:26,593 --> 00:38:32,016 like leveling up to face new challenges throughout the course of each episode. I thought that 420 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 421 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. 422 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 423 00:38:46,791 --> 00:38:52,574 tabs on his son and would unlock new powers as he needed them. Episode 4 was titled, Let's 424 00:38:52,594 --> 00:38:58,538 Go to Ivo Tower, You Say. Perry assigns the interns to cover the Amazotech Gala, held by 425 00:38:58,618 --> 00:39:05,374 CEO Dr. Anthony Ivo. Lois is snubbed by the attendees for her invasive questions. while 426 00:39:05,414 --> 00:39:10,778 Clark stumbles upon an argument between Ivo and his chairman, Curtis, regarding the board 427 00:39:10,798 --> 00:39:17,784 of directors voting out Ivo. Ejected by Ivo's security, Lois sneaks Clark back inside. They 428 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 429 00:39:23,969 --> 00:39:30,455 and Intergang. An angered Ivo demonstrates the Parasite 1.0 armor and attempts to kill Chairman 430 00:39:30,495 --> 00:39:36,763 Curtis. Clark becomes Superman to save Curtis, and while Ivo traps the attendees in the Amazo 431 00:39:36,803 --> 00:39:42,708 Panic Room to make them witness him overpowering Superman. Realizing the armor absorbs energy 432 00:39:42,768 --> 00:39:48,652 from his attacks, Superman stops fighting Ivo directly as Lois and Jimmy deactivate the panic 433 00:39:48,712 --> 00:39:54,436 room. With the suit depowered, Superman removes it from Ivo, who became deformed due to the 434 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 435 00:40:00,660 --> 00:40:07,125 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. 437 00:40:14,191 --> 00:40:20,756 After reworking her evidence board, Lois concludes that Clark is Superman. Now, Ivo was the one 438 00:40:21,256 --> 00:40:26,561 villain, I think, that they really didn't do justice, or I should say parasites. Professor 439 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 440 00:40:32,618 --> 00:40:37,862 villainous robots such as a mezzo. Parasite is his own villain. For some reason, they decided 441 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 442 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 443 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 444 00:40:55,497 --> 00:40:59,941 rationalize a lot of their abilities as tech oriented. Take for example, Silver Banshee, 445 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 449 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 450 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 451 00:41:33,694 --> 00:41:38,497 Alex making an appearance, you know, Ivo's like scientist assistant, I totally thought that 452 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 453 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 454 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 455 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 456 00:42:01,204 --> 00:42:06,008 defeat him in some way, but become bald in the process and then have him be like the main 457 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 458 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 459 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 460 00:42:21,341 --> 00:42:26,615 was titled. you will believe a man can lie. Hoping to confess his burgeoning feelings for 461 00:42:26,675 --> 00:42:31,636 Lois, Clark asks for her help in developing a story about the stolen military technology 462 00:42:31,976 --> 00:42:37,498 spreading throughout Metropolis and a mysterious individual kidnapping anyone using it. However, 463 00:42:37,618 --> 00:42:42,599 she sees it as an opportunity to expose him as Superman. Using an old dispatch scanner, 464 00:42:42,840 --> 00:42:48,241 she chases down Superman as he foils various crimes before eventually meeting him after 465 00:42:48,281 --> 00:42:53,868 he defeats Heatwave. another criminal empowered by the stolen technology. While Superman is 466 00:42:53,888 --> 00:42:59,452 distracted, Heatwave escapes, believing he is behind recent kidnappings of inter-gang members 467 00:42:59,712 --> 00:43:04,436 who have used the high-tech weaponry. After Superman drops off Lois at the Daily Planet 468 00:43:04,476 --> 00:43:09,939 to keep her safe, he reconfronts Heatwave and discovers the true culprit behind the abducted 469 00:43:09,999 --> 00:43:16,464 criminals is an armored Deathstroke aided by similar robots that Livewire used. Their subsequent 470 00:43:16,524 --> 00:43:23,569 fight soon endangers civilians. leading to Deathstroke's superiors, the General and Amanda Waller, ordering 471 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 472 00:43:29,334 --> 00:43:35,799 his secret identity to her and is left distraught. Meanwhile, Jimmy is disappointed to learn that 473 00:43:35,839 --> 00:43:40,622 Clark and Lois fail to attend a pre-planned camping trip to investigate Bigfoot sightings 474 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 475 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 476 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. 477 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 478 00:44:02,291 --> 00:44:08,114 should know that Superman is Clark Kent because Superman is just Clark Kent without glasses. 479 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 480 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 481 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 482 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 483 00:44:27,249 --> 00:44:31,333 night interviewed together, so she got a pretty good look then. Margot Kidder should have known 484 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 485 00:44:36,397 --> 00:44:43,654 fair. Episode 6 was entitled, My Adventures with Mad Science. After failing to locate Jimmy, 486 00:44:43,994 --> 00:44:50,036 Clark reaches out to Lois for help. Despite still being mad at him, she agrees. Scouring 487 00:44:50,076 --> 00:44:56,118 the woods, the pair find an abandoned military installation called Area 52, but upon crossing 488 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 489 00:45:02,160 --> 00:45:09,502 they are chased by OMAC robots. Meanwhile, inside Area 52, Jimmy meets and befriends the gorilla 490 00:45:09,562 --> 00:45:15,523 Matsumala, and his partner, the Brain. The pair reveal they originally worked for Project Cadmus, 491 00:45:15,823 --> 00:45:22,025 a branch of Task Force X that focused on developing futuristic technology, before the latter organization 492 00:45:22,065 --> 00:45:27,907 betrayed them and raided Area 52. Ever since, the Brain and Mala have been attempting to 493 00:45:27,947 --> 00:45:33,648 create a wormhole to access other dimensions where they will be accepted. Eventually, breaching 494 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 495 00:45:39,470 --> 00:45:45,413 secret identity all along, before joining Brain and Mala in defeating the Omacs. Successfully 496 00:45:45,493 --> 00:45:51,235 opening their wormhole, the Brain warns Clark that Task Force X is after him before leaving 497 00:45:51,315 --> 00:45:57,478 with Mala. Concurrently, the General recruits Ivo to help him use Cadmus' technology to kill 498 00:45:57,558 --> 00:46:03,861 Superman. This is one of the lesser episodes, in my opinion, largely because of the characters 499 00:46:03,901 --> 00:46:08,215 amongst your Mala and the Brain. I know them as Doom Patrol villains from the Brotherhood 500 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 501 00:46:15,198 --> 00:46:20,740 villains that were under the hands of Grant Morrison were reinterpreted in a way that made 502 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 503 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, 504 00:46:32,810 --> 00:46:38,535 especially considering that the brain was a scientist that helped give Monsier Mala the 505 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. 509 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 511 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 512 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 513 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 514 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 516 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 517 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 518 00:47:46,394 --> 00:47:51,077 surprised to see them so soon after watching Blue Beetle. Yeah they're like everywhere now. 519 00:47:52,146 --> 00:47:58,412 Episode 7 was titled Kiss Fallen Portal. After Clark shows Lois and Jimmy his spaceship and 520 00:47:58,452 --> 00:48:04,538 clarifies his incomplete alien origin, Clark and Lois plan their first date. However, he 521 00:48:04,578 --> 00:48:10,003 is interrupted by Mr. Myxhospitalik, a multiversal imp who deceives him into helping him steal 522 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. 523 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 526 00:48:33,629 --> 00:48:38,552 Spitalik hijacks the League's vessel and travels to their headquarters with the recorder and 527 00:48:38,632 --> 00:48:45,237 Lois' help. As she steals the original File X, Mixy Spitalik retrieves his hat, regains 528 00:48:45,277 --> 00:48:51,210 his full strength, and causes chaos until Superman distracts him, allowing Lois to depower him 529 00:48:51,330 --> 00:48:56,795 and Jimmy to restrain him. While the League arrests Mixius Spidelik, Jimmy's counterpart, 530 00:48:56,915 --> 00:49:02,560 Jelena, secretly brings the interns back to their native Earth-12, where Clark and Lois 531 00:49:02,620 --> 00:49:08,685 finish their date. Following this, she opens File X and finds recordings of evil alternate 532 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 541 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. 542 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 543 00:50:07,725 --> 00:50:14,007 1. The General uses shock collars to forcibly recruit Livewire, Intergang, and Heatwave into 544 00:50:14,047 --> 00:50:20,393 assisting Deathstroke and Ivo in capturing Superman. Meanwhile, after developing Superhearing and 545 00:50:20,433 --> 00:50:25,457 sensing everyone in the city crying for help, Clark runs himself ragged, helping everyone, 546 00:50:25,777 --> 00:50:31,182 and soon becomes sleep deprived and weakened. When Gotham Gazette journalist Vicky Vail arrives 547 00:50:31,262 --> 00:50:36,871 to cover his activities, Lois is star-struck to meet her. only to be disappointed when Vail 548 00:50:36,911 --> 00:50:42,715 runs a biased story defaming Superman as a menace to gain a promotion. Superman saves an invisible 549 00:50:42,795 --> 00:50:48,219 Mist from being hit by a truck, but causes an accident, turning public opinion against him. 550 00:50:48,619 --> 00:50:54,263 Mist says Task Force X kidnapped Silver Banshee, and Superman offers to rescue her, only to 551 00:50:54,283 --> 00:50:59,227 be led into a trap and attacked by the group. Though he holds his own despite his weakened 552 00:50:59,307 --> 00:51:06,004 state, Superman is eventually knocked out by Ivo, via his upgraded parasite armor and livewire. 553 00:51:06,445 --> 00:51:11,630 The General stops Ivo from killing Superman as he wants to interrogate him, Mr. Egress 554 00:51:11,690 --> 00:51:16,895 luring Superman into the trap as Lois and Jimmy rush to the scene but arrive to see the group 555 00:51:16,935 --> 00:51:22,020 carry Superman away. And this was cool, like this was a way to introduce the Suicide Squad 556 00:51:22,040 --> 00:51:27,605 without actually naming them as such. Just repurposing all of the villains that they showcased throughout 557 00:51:27,645 --> 00:51:31,500 the season. I thought was pretty well done. Yeah, and seeing Superman going up against 558 00:51:31,560 --> 00:51:35,764 all of them was a lot of fun to watch. It's like that video game that's never coming out. 559 00:51:35,924 --> 00:51:41,448 Suicide Squad killed the Justice League. Right, right. The angle they took for this episode 560 00:51:41,508 --> 00:51:47,033 where his super hearing kind of creates this vulnerability in that he struggles with being 561 00:51:47,133 --> 00:51:52,338 everywhere at once and therefore doesn't sleep and therefore is less effective playing upon 562 00:51:52,538 --> 00:51:58,094 people's fears that are being stirred by this new biased reporter. It all works really well 563 00:51:58,134 --> 00:52:02,695 together. The show can be really well written at times. Most times, I would say. Yeah, I 564 00:52:02,755 --> 00:52:09,757 agree. Episode 9 was Zero Day Part 2. In flashbacks to Zero Day, the General, Waller, and their 565 00:52:09,797 --> 00:52:16,299 forces were attacked by an alien army led by a Superman-like figure codenamed Nemesis Omega 566 00:52:16,639 --> 00:52:22,581 before a mysterious event forced the army back into a retreat that left their technology behind. 567 00:52:22,921 --> 00:52:27,491 In the present... The News Kid Legion helps Lois and Jimmy search for Superman, while the 568 00:52:27,552 --> 00:52:33,275 General interrogates him for information on Zero Day. From Superman's anguished reaction, 569 00:52:33,615 --> 00:52:38,918 the General doubts his connection to it, while a displeased Waller secretly helps the prisoners 570 00:52:38,998 --> 00:52:46,482 escape, during which Livewire electrocutes Deathstroke's right eye. A vengeful Ivo attacks Superman, 571 00:52:46,842 --> 00:52:52,890 but inadvertently frees him. Flip from the News Kid Legion eventually finds Superman, and takes 572 00:52:52,930 --> 00:52:59,011 him to safety. Clark believes he was sent to Earth to destroy it, but Lois assures him otherwise. 573 00:52:59,571 --> 00:53:05,053 Upon learning Ivo is siphoning the power grid and going on a Kaiju rampage through the city, 574 00:53:05,513 --> 00:53:10,495 Lois and Jimmy use social media to petition Metropolis's citizens to turn off their power, 575 00:53:10,875 --> 00:53:16,796 weakening Ivo so Superman can use his newly awakened x-ray vision to locate and remove 576 00:53:16,936 --> 00:53:24,516 Ivo from the suit. As Superman and Lois declare their love, Jimmy Fine's File X. On Checkmate's 577 00:53:24,556 --> 00:53:30,780 behalf, Waller demotes the General and gives him Ivo's last invention, the Omega Cannon, 578 00:53:31,020 --> 00:53:38,465 with orders to kill Superman. And again, I didn't love Ivo in this episode. The whole Kaiju parasite 579 00:53:38,505 --> 00:53:44,889 thing was recently done in Superman Man of Tomorrow. So it wasn't like novel to see it done again. 580 00:53:45,354 --> 00:53:50,898 No, it was pretty cool how Superman's newly gained ability of X-ray vision assisted in 581 00:53:51,078 --> 00:53:55,322 Parasite's defeat though. That was cool. Yeah, I agree with that. I actually thought this 582 00:53:55,362 --> 00:54:00,106 was the season finale. I knew that there was 10 episodes, but for some reason I was like, 583 00:54:00,266 --> 00:54:05,150 oh, it must be a mistake. I think there's actually only nine. So I was surprised and pleased to 584 00:54:05,210 --> 00:54:10,474 see that there was episode 10 because I thought episode 10 was great. Episode 10 was called 585 00:54:10,674 --> 00:54:16,470 Hearts of the Fathers. After having nightmares about Zero Day. Clark is promoted, along with 586 00:54:16,570 --> 00:54:22,172 Lois and Jimmy, to full reporters for their article on Ivo's defeat. They have Thanksgiving 587 00:54:22,232 --> 00:54:28,153 dinner with Clark's parents, and Lois invites her father, Sam Lane, revealed to be the General, 588 00:54:28,453 --> 00:54:34,615 though he fails to recognize Clark. In private, Clark finds File X and the Kryptonite Shard, 589 00:54:34,835 --> 00:54:40,397 which hurts him. His space pod reacts to the Kryptonite, and releases a signal that prompts 590 00:54:40,437 --> 00:54:46,689 an invasion similar to Zero Day. Superman and Sam battle the invaders, with Jimmy learning 591 00:54:46,729 --> 00:54:52,574 the kryptonite hurts them as well. Superman takes the kryptonite and, despite being weakened, 592 00:54:53,034 --> 00:54:58,459 uses it to destroy the mothership, halting the invasion. A hologram of his father helps return 593 00:54:58,479 --> 00:55:04,084 him to Earth. Sam prepares to kill him, but Lois pleads for his life and reminds him that 594 00:55:04,104 --> 00:55:09,509 he just saved them, causing him to leave. Jimmy reveals he sold his social media platform, 595 00:55:09,649 --> 00:55:16,265 Flamebird. to the daily planet for over 5 million dollars and is now rich. On a distant world, 596 00:55:16,605 --> 00:55:23,769 a robot seemingly brainiac informs his Kryptonian master about the halted invasion. His master, 597 00:55:24,189 --> 00:55:30,252 seemingly General Zod, says that the rebellious world will soon kneel. I thought this was a 598 00:55:30,313 --> 00:55:37,497 fantastic finale episode. The stakes were incredible. The sacrifice of the hero, I thought, was profound. 599 00:55:37,857 --> 00:55:43,937 Great arc resolution. All around well done. The action of this episode was fantastic. When 600 00:55:43,977 --> 00:55:49,642 he started throwing down in that spaceship corridor with those robots, right, I was like, kick 601 00:55:49,682 --> 00:55:55,387 their asses, Superman. Superman gets his own hallway fight scene. Yeah. I mean, the action 602 00:55:55,487 --> 00:56:00,532 overall is not really comparable to some of the better anime action I've seen. I think 603 00:56:00,552 --> 00:56:05,636 that could have actually been done better in the season. But I did really enjoy seeing Superman 604 00:56:05,676 --> 00:56:09,459 throw down with all these robots. That's what the character is good for. You know, these 605 00:56:09,519 --> 00:56:15,342 larger than life fights. Exactly. Yeah. Superman has battles that no other superhero really 606 00:56:15,442 --> 00:56:21,105 can have. It's top tier for sure. I also loved seeing Jor-El like help his son fight alongside 607 00:56:21,125 --> 00:56:24,827 him in the hallway, just like short circuiting all those robots by zapping through them as 608 00:56:24,867 --> 00:56:31,891 a hologram. I was like, you go, Jor-El, you go. I wasn't quite sure why Jor-El's recognition 609 00:56:31,911 --> 00:56:38,106 of the Kryptonite initiated a Kryptonian invasion, but I am super interested in seeing why all 610 00:56:38,126 --> 00:56:42,610 of that happens the way it happens in season two, when we get reintroduced to characters 611 00:56:42,670 --> 00:56:47,994 like Brainiac and General Zod, and get the whole missing side of the story there. Exactly, yeah, 612 00:56:48,114 --> 00:56:52,918 for sure. It almost seems like the ship woke up in a response to the kryptonite for some 613 00:56:52,958 --> 00:56:58,083 reason, and there wasn't much that Jor-El could do about it. I'm not sure. I did love the final 614 00:56:58,143 --> 00:57:03,627 line of Jimmy Olsen when he was like, oh yeah, I'm rich now. My mouth went open just like 615 00:57:03,667 --> 00:57:08,274 everyone else's around the table, just like what, what? It's definitely a fun angle for 616 00:57:08,314 --> 00:57:12,737 Jimmy Olsen, I think. For sure. Really interested in seeing where that goes. Yeah, I'm interested 617 00:57:12,757 --> 00:57:18,140 in seeing where all of it goes, because this series is just so refreshing as a DC fan and 618 00:57:18,220 --> 00:57:24,123 a Superman fan in particular. It modernizes the character in a way that, again, I didn't 619 00:57:24,143 --> 00:57:30,346 think could ever be done. It was this perfect blend of anime action and romance, and the 620 00:57:30,366 --> 00:57:35,269 show's sleek character designs and charming animation just successfully modernized Superman 621 00:57:35,289 --> 00:57:41,794 and his friends. so well that I'm giving this season four and a half out of five stars a 622 00:57:41,874 --> 00:57:46,778 fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Yeah I have to agree with the four and a half star rating. 623 00:57:47,279 --> 00:57:52,503 I wasn't going that way at the beginning of the season but one of the most impressive things 624 00:57:52,583 --> 00:57:57,928 about the show is how it managed to turn me. My mind on what it was completely changed from 625 00:57:57,988 --> 00:58:02,531 beginning to end. Like at the start I was like oh this is like some kid's show you know. I 626 00:58:02,551 --> 00:58:09,974 thought the characterizations were too and the universe was too unrecognizable. But the characters 627 00:58:10,234 --> 00:58:15,819 really grew throughout the season, and I think the universe that they built here came to be 628 00:58:16,099 --> 00:58:22,585 one of the more compelling iterations of the Superman story ever. I agree. To me, it was 629 00:58:22,705 --> 00:58:26,708 near perfect. I think the worst thing you could say about it is that the show doesn't do the 630 00:58:26,788 --> 00:58:32,593 best job of adapting lesser known Superman villains, but they are lesser known Superman villains. 631 00:58:33,046 --> 00:58:39,531 It's not like they botched Zod or Brainiac or Bizarro or something like that. These are Livewire 632 00:58:39,571 --> 00:58:44,754 and Heatwave. So I didn't mind the creative liberty they took with the characters. And 633 00:58:44,875 --> 00:58:50,519 overall, fantastic show. Yeah, I hope the show does well because I think that this version 634 00:58:50,559 --> 00:58:56,603 of Superman will be to the 2020s that Smallville's Clark Kent was to the early 2000s. I hope so. 635 00:58:57,084 --> 00:59:01,655 I hope so because Smallville was insanely popular. And I hope for all the people who were maybe 636 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 637 00:59:05,298 --> 00:59:10,203 this kiddie show. Take the time to watch this and really find something to admire like we 638 00:59:10,243 --> 00:59:14,787 did. But that does it for this review. Let us know what you thought about season one by writing 639 00:59:14,827 --> 00:59:21,452 to us at dynamicduelpodcast.gmail.com or by visiting us on Instagram or X. You can find 640 00:59:21,532 --> 00:59:27,117 links to all of our accounts by checking out our show notes or visiting our website at dynamicduel.com. 641 00:59:28,046 --> 00:59:31,948 And on our site, you can also find a link to our Patreon page where you could join our Dynamic 642 00:59:31,968 --> 00:59:36,812 Duo tier and chat with us and fellow listeners, our Fantastic Four tier, which gets you bonus 643 00:59:36,832 --> 00:59:41,695 content each month, our X-Force tier that makes you an executive producer of the podcast, or 644 00:59:41,715 --> 00:59:46,858 our newest tier that lets you join our Dynamike Podcast Network. If you can't join Patreon, 645 00:59:46,878 --> 00:59:51,802 you can still support the show by signing up for our e-newsletter also at dynamicduel.com. 646 00:59:52,642 --> 00:59:58,454 Or you could also rate the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Podchaser, and Facebook. or on our 647 00:59:58,554 --> 01:00:04,578 website. Our next episode is going to be a duel episode and lead up to our big team duel event 648 01:00:04,638 --> 01:00:09,180 between Doom Patrol and Guardians of the Galaxy. That'll be in two weeks. But next week, we're 649 01:00:09,200 --> 01:00:14,804 going to find out who'd win in a fight between Dorothy Spinner and Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur. 650 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 651 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 652 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 653 01:00:27,183 --> 01:00:32,125 to our executive producers Ken Johnson, John Sturowski, Zachary Hepburn, Dustin Balcom, 654 01:00:32,285 --> 01:00:37,748 Miggie Matten-Geehan, Brandon Estergard, Nathaniel Wagner, Levi Yeaton, Nick Abonto, Austin Wazilovski, 655 01:00:37,948 --> 01:00:43,531 AJ Dunkerley, Scott Camacho, and Adam Spies for helping make this podcast possible. And 656 01:00:43,551 --> 01:00:48,934 we'll talk to you guys next week. Up up and away, true believers. Save me, Pooper Man.