Two Very Good Superhero Shows on Now

I started it. It consists of four "stories." I've watched only one so far, but it's looking good.

 

I felt slightly nervous about last week's episode of S&L, so I never finished it. But the new episode is out, and it seems headed in the right direction (based on viewers responses I probably shouldn't be listening to), so I will watch both episodes back to back tonight.

Spoiler: Official Blurb

Jon-El catches sight of his doppelganger Jonathan; Jon-El lunges at him and Jordan tries to intervene, but Jon-El appears to be stronger and faster than him.

 

I haven't been watching Picard as I am not a fan of any current or future Star Trek. But I got a kick out of this excerpt from a review of the most recent episode. (Translated from French, btw.)

"Question of the moment: is it possible to do even worse? And every week, the production of Star Trek Picard responds with a big smile: YES... My arm is swollen from self-mutilation by pinching myself. I couldn't believe the sad spectacle of this episode as there are so many absurd things this week."

Yes, it's safer to allow a series to first run it's course. But there's a human impulse to be optimistic.

 

Well, I watched them both. The first is not bad at all in conjunction with the second, which itself is very good.
Turning point in the series at the end of the new episode.

Spoiler

Clark reveals that he is Superman to Lana. (She eventually found out in Smallville, and in the animated series, knew all along.)

Bad news: The next episode will not air until the end of the month.

 

There might never be another 10 season superhero series.

 

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.

 

Well, it took a while, but I just watched the first episode of Pennyworth. Very impressive so far. High production values; gorgeous atmosphere filmed on location in the UK. It's part conspiracy thriller, part drama, with decent character development. I was taken aback by how young the lead actor looks, but he was 27 or 28 when the first season was shot.

An excellent addition to the Batman franchise, though obviously the connection is purely anticipatory. But Alfred as well as Thomas Wayne obviously had lives before Bruce was born, so here they are.