I finally watched both of them back to back, overall it was good, a few hiccups and a couple wtf moments lol, but good...I liked the reveal to Lana, long overdue, but also superman floated there a bit too long, I'm thinking to myself, okay Clark, time to come down, lol...
Bizarro's kids were a bit bizarre too, especially the emo-goth look, I don't understand the need for writers these days to write the villains as anti-heroes...They sure did paint Bizarro in a different light, not that I minded, I just noticed and found it somewhat bizarre, no pun intended...
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I understand your general point, but regarding Bizarro specifically, S&L's Bizarro is a
straight up hero, not even an anti-hero. He operated as a hero on his home world, though he had some family problems. And his purpose in coming to to this world was heroic, to stop Ally. He did make a mistake in using excessive force and killing a couple of bystanders, but that blemish shouldn't nullify his overall hero status.
I guess you can still object that they made him into a hero, rather than as the villain he is often classified as being. To that I would just say that he has been depicted in a variety of ways, and often when he does bad, it is only because he is so dumb. So yeah, sometime he's depicted as fully aligned with villains. But other times, like in Superman TAS, he's just a dimwit who screws things up.
As I see it, the
truly unique character of this Bizarro is that that he is
fully as intelligent as "our" Superman. Traditional Bizarro has poor language skills. By contrast, this Bizarro merely speaks in reverse relative to our ears.
And that extends to their entire world. As I remember it, in the 60s and 70s comics, the Bizarro world was pretty much a goofball world. But aside from the cubic shape, the S&L Bizarro world is just a variant of how things are in this world.
I don't think I can recall another fully intelligent Bizarro.