Superman and Lois – Waiting for Superman review S2 E15

I’m finally getting around to this season finale and in the wake of the bizarreness going on with DCU movies, I figured this couldn’t make me more frustrated despite my ongoing issues with the choices of direction. Hopefully I’m right.

I’m not typically into opening song montages but how no one thought to have Spice Girls’ Two Becomes One here feels like a blown opportunity.

Chrissy makes this big important recording to warn everyone that the Earth has been invaded. Clearly Chrissy has too much faith in humanity or insurrections only happened on Bizarro Earth, which would actually explain so much like Elon Musk, Ye and the DCU…

Kyle is missing and Lana and the girls go out to find him.

Clark, Lois and the kids are on Bizarro Earth. And naturally when anything significant happens Tal-Rho pops up. Good thing the series had a spare lying around after killing the Bizarro version. And now I’m kicking myself for missing the opportunity to call him Tal-Bro all season…

Nat is still acting like a brat. Has she had more than four likable scenes all season? But John is able to connect with her after all. Finally getting into a workable WiFi always feels like a big win so I can relate, John.

He needs his escape pod, but since Nat uses T-Mobile she missed the part of the memo to bring the X-Kryptonite. Fortunately she’s got another plan. Could Nat actually not always have a solution for a problem?

Tal-Rho is a fan of Lois’/Margot Kidder look. Me too bro. He’s going after Ally, an objectively terrible villain who is just ridiculously overpowered. Now the writers have to come up with some equally ridiculous means to stop her.

Only problem now is Lois stayed while the others blipped back to regular Earth. Also how lazy is it to use the MCU’s already test market approved happy name for The Snap? Actually, how lame is it to heavily borrow from the plot point of the MCU’s two biggest films???

Kyle is once again metaphorically killing himself over ruining his family over on Bizarro Earth. He runs into Lois and gets ported back just in time for a joyous reunion.

Clark tells Tal-Rho to send him into the sun for a power boost. This should work no problem since Superman is a giant solar battery.

Ally comes after Nat and John after they port back but Superman stops her by overdosing her on solar energy and splitting the Ally’s. Splitting Ally’s sounds like a killer band name. Then Superman reversed the polarities (?) to separate the two Earths from merging.

At the big Smallville celebration for Superman where he decides to do a fly-over instead of an actual visit Lana utters the Truth, Justice and a Better Tomorrow catchphrase. That slogan is an effort to be more global and modern, but I’ve always read ‘The American Way’ as the idealized version of America’s values, which Superman — a character of immense hope — would most embody.

Anyway, Lois tells Chrissy that Clark is Superman. The writers seem to be signaling they’re going the Brian Michael Bendis route with Superman.

This worked with Iron Man because the MCU Tony Stark was enough of a glory hound that there was no way he was gonna keep his heroic efforts low key. And Tony had zero to lose as a billionaire single playboy with no family.

It has the opposite impact on Superman who comes off as a guy with no journalistic ethics, putting his wife and kids in constant danger and is clueless about the real impact of his decisions.

Kyle still needs to apologize to Lana again despite her very mixed signals. For Kyle’s sake he should have just died on Bizarro Earth.

Extended epilogue:

The DEO did an awful job of keeping the Allies apart. Lois kinda does a taunt that they’ll never be alone again.

Uncle Thao-El got trucks for the boys and heads to Bizarro Earth to find Bizarro Lois.

Diggle talks with John Henry about Bruno Manheim, head of Intergang, who killed John Henry on this Earth. That could prove an interesting subplot.

Gen. Lane takes Lucy back to Metropolis. Clark takes the family out to the ocean to create a new Fortress of Familytude. Is this when Jason Momoa shows up and tells them to stay out of his ocean?

A ton happened here. Superman’s identity seems to have the value of outdated NFTs now. Both big villains from the previous seasons are still alive. We’re on the verge of a Diggle Irons spin-off…wait I just learned that’s been cancelled.

And on a far more serious note, we say farewell to Jordan Elsass, who hopefully will be alright after leaving the show for his mental health.

It’s been a wild ride this season and as the likely final season gets underway hopefully the series can go out on a high note.

Rating: 7.5 out of 10

Photo Credit: The CW

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