First off, there's things I do like about this series - Superman is portrayed nearly perfectly portrayed (sometimes he's a bit too passive, but he is learning on the go), this Lois is a treat and portrayed as damn smart; her dopplegängers, though, not so much. Jimmy takes all of the hyper, hustling parts of the original and rolls them into a funny sidekick, though he's more lightweight than I like. I loved the way M. Mallah and the Brain were handled.
But then we have the rest. The frankly tedious Task Force X stuff that we've seen over and over and here turns into kid-size torture porn. A Slade Wilson who's an unremitting psycho. The awful portrayal of Sam Lane as a slow-talking thug who seems short of brainpower. The whole "hated and feared by a world he's sworn to protect" stuff that was old hat in 1969. The plan to save the world that's more dangerous than the situation it supposedly tackles. Yet another Dire Cosmic Threat - Brainiac? Zod? Both? Who cares?
And another godsdamned Mystery Box. Jor-El can't make himself understood! What's the connection to the attempted invasion? Why has no-one ever investigated the giant spaceship buried in a Kansas cornfield? It's okay, we'll answer that in season 2. Or we won't. What's behind all of those murderous multiversal Supermen? How is the League Of Lois Lanes able to traverse the multiverse? Season 2! Or not.
So...disappointed.
But then we have the rest. The frankly tedious Task Force X stuff that we've seen over and over and here turns into kid-size torture porn. A Slade Wilson who's an unremitting psycho. The awful portrayal of Sam Lane as a slow-talking thug who seems short of brainpower. The whole "hated and feared by a world he's sworn to protect" stuff that was old hat in 1969. The plan to save the world that's more dangerous than the situation it supposedly tackles. Yet another Dire Cosmic Threat - Brainiac? Zod? Both? Who cares?
And another godsdamned Mystery Box. Jor-El can't make himself understood! What's the connection to the attempted invasion? Why has no-one ever investigated the giant spaceship buried in a Kansas cornfield? It's okay, we'll answer that in season 2. Or we won't. What's behind all of those murderous multiversal Supermen? How is the League Of Lois Lanes able to traverse the multiverse? Season 2! Or not.
So...disappointed.