Superman & Lois: The Best of Smallville Round Table Review
We are back again with our Superman & Lois: The Best of Smallville round table, which will be our last review for a little while. The CW is taking off Superman and Lois for about 7 weeks to put on the last 6th and final season of Supergirl. Sad, I know I am gonna miss Tyler too.
Superman & Lois: The Best of Smallville Synopsis
As Smallville celebrates its first Harvest Festival since Martha’s passing, Clark (Tyler Hoechlin) is reminded what his mother meant to him; Lois (Elizabeth Tulloch) makes a breakthrough in the investigation of Morgan Edge; Kyle (Erik Valdez) tries to reconnect with Lana (Emmanuelle Chriqui).
Enough about me and my love for Tyler in the super suit, let’s talk about this episode. What did you guys think over all?
C: It was a little bit blah, I was hoping for a lot more of the stuff with Derek (Clayton James), especially since this is our last episode for 7 weeks (ugh). It really seemed like a waste to bring him back, show this relationship with Leslie Larr (Stacey Farber) and then have him disintegrate. I guess it sets Clark on a trail to investigate Edge along with Lois but still. The Luthor/Lois reveal was interesting though.
R: Am I the only one who really did enjoy this episode? The whole atmosphere with the Harvest Festival going on, some more whiny teen drama (which I don’t dislike that much – even though sometimes they’re going nuts… but guess it’s all about the drama, right?) and Clark having some soft moments. What else do you need for some good late night entertainment?
D: I agree with Clare – the pacing just felt too strange for me. The only part I enjoyed was the Luthor/Lois reveal. The rest was just… blah. It was a non-episode. It felt like it didn’t do much in the 40 minutes to further the plot, so a little filler-ish.
PB: I was kinda hating it until the end. It really picked up for me then. I was worried I wasn’t gonna get to see Tyler in the super suit but he didn’t disappoint. It was a good one but I am still kinda hating the teen drama.
Arrowverses merged or not?
PB: So I am a little confused, cause I thought when Arrow died, all the over dimensions merged into one. So how is this new bad guy in love with Lois? Like how does he know her but it isn’t her? Or am I wrong?
C: Yeah I thought the same after Crisis, I thought all the Arrowverse shows had come together one one Earth and all the others had been destroyed so I am a little puzzled by this guy. Unless he got to Earth Prime during Crisis before his Earth was totalled and remembers somehow?
R: I don’t know shit about the Arrowverse (sorry about the language), so I’ll keep my mouth shut for this one. Go on you all! Maybe one day I’ll catch up with everything.
D: I am incredibly confused by this. The universes did all merge – so General Lane whinging about Superman and his responsibilities needs a casual reminder that Supergirl exists and works for the government too. It’s just super confusing, and needlessly so.
C : I volunteer to deliver that reminder. Attached to a chair…
Clark doing Superman things as Clark, How do we feel about this?
D: He really did have time to change though, right. He’s super fast… It could come back to hurt him in the future. It just seems so careless from a character that has previously been shown to be very cautious.
R: Probably not his best idea I guess. Maybe they didn’t finish the laundry yet and he was out of Superman suits? Otherwise I don’t know what made him act like that. Clare is right, if Kyle stays suspicious this could become a big problem sooner or later. Let’s see…
PB: I was a little shocked by this. Like why not change. I mean he is Superman, He has the time to change. It kinda bugged me he didn’t.
C: I think this could potentially bite him in the ass. Especially since he was seen at the fire and now Kyle is suspicious of the frost that was left behind. Well, assuming Kyle sobers up enough to remember.
Flashback scenes of a young Clark trying to find his way. Do you think they are similar to what his own son is going through or is his son a whiny teenager?
PB: I vote whiny teenager, I mean Clark was dealing with the death of his father as well as having powers and not knowing who he really is. Jonathan (Jordan Elsass) on the other hand is upset over a break up and not being in the football spotlight anymore. I think it is a huge difference. And for Clark to compare the two…. Just felt wrong to me.
C: I enjoyed the flashback scenes, especially seeing Clark with Martha. I get that he was having a bad day but Jonathan was being a dick this week. I was right with Lois when she called Clark a softie at the end for not punishing him for drinking.
D: His kids are both whiny teenagers. Clark had legitimate reasons for the way he acted (and the flashbacks were awesome), and levels of responsibility that he held within himself. These kids don’t. They whinge for the sake of whinging. And it’s annoying. At this point it seems like the show is more about them than Superman & Lois – and that isn’t what I chose to watch every week.
R: Those flashback scenes were SUPER adorable in my opinion. Learning some more stuff about his past. Love that. But I think you can’t compare Clark’s and Jonathan’s past. Those are two different pairs of shoes – at least that’s what I think. At least Jonathan isn’t bottling it all up, even though sometimes his words might sound a bit harsh and too much. But at least in the end he always realized that what he said was over the top.
Harvest Festival super cool or super lame?
D: As a concept, really cool. Reminders of Smallville at its best. The execution – unusual. Felt a little too forced. We put it on to destroy it, to use it as a casual plotpoint that everyone will forget by the time the next episode airs. Very bizarre.
R: Pretty cool! Especially in times like these with this whole pandemic stuff going on it’s nice to see some stuff like that. Would love to experience it myself. 100%. Those little village festivals are always fun. I can tell you that.
C: I did really like that. It was quintessential Smallville, small town Kansas stuff for me.
PB: Super cool, I would love to attend something like that. I love that kinda stuff.
Morgan Edge tries to be the good guy this episode. So tell me is he working for or with Lex or do you think he is just a new bad guy we need to watch out for?
R: Edge is everything but not the good guy of this story. We should keep an eye on him. And like Clare already said, I do believe he’s kind of his own boss with some plans in his mind.
C: Pretty sure Edge is just doing his own thing unrelated to Lex Luthor.
PB: I think Lex is behind all bad guys when he comes to Superman and Supergirl. He knows about kryptonite and not many humans on earth know what that is. My gut tells me Lex is behind Morgan Edge.
D: I think Edge is just being Edge. If Luthor was working with him, we’d know already. We may end up seeing them working together, though.
Superman & Lois: The Best of Smallville rating:
PB: 7 cause Tyler in the supersuit and I liked the cliffhanger ending
C:6 for me this week, pretty meh episode.
R: 8.5 – this little 0.5 as a cherry on top because of Clark being super adorable.
D: 5.5 – being generous. Because it’s filleeeeer, filleeeeeer time…
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