All Is Lost - “I Used To Call It The Kessel Run”

So much to cover on this one! We celebrate Professor Sam's birthday coinciding with Superman day, disliking comic book annuals,  Lana giving Jordan a verbal thrashing, Ally owning Lucy's mind, Clark's new job prospects, Jordan's flight school, Alanis Morsette and Kessel run being the same joke, Batman 66 reference, Nat and John Henry's unnecessary CW conflict, our wish list for finale/cliffhanger and to close it out a long tangent about the state of TV watching. 

 

EPISODE  13 “I Used To Call It The Kessel Run.”

Greetings Super friends! Welcome to Superman & Lois & Pals. I’m Henry Bernstein and alongside me is my favorite super pal, Professor Sam Brody. 

Happy Birthday Sam! Did you know that your birthday is one day before the official “Superman Day?” Officially, June 12 is considered Superman Day. 

Let’s talk about Superman and Lois Season 2 Episode 13

S02E13 - “All Is Lost” 

Directed by:

Elaine Mongeon

Written By:

Kristi Korzec

iTunes recap: Clark and Lois disagree on the best way to figure out if Ally Allston went to the Inverse World. Meanwhile, John Henry makes a surprising discovery and Lois sets out to track Lucy down.

HENRY'S NOTES:

Lois/Chrissy

Is Clark wanting to work at the Smallville Gazette just a backup story or is it for real? It would make sense that Clark wants to start reporting again but he’s never mentioned it.  Lol to Chrissy being the driver. Chrissy looking at Clark’s resume and not wanting to hire him? Why? Wouldn’t you want 2 Lois lanes?

Lane Family

Lane family going down together. I like it. FINALLY we see Lucy in all of her traumatic delusions. Lois bringing back all the things Lucy did to them including fucking DRUGGING HER FATHER. The way Lois sounds when she’s trying to convince Lucy that she loves her is so lectury and factual. Of course Lucy feels the way she does. “I am so sorry I ever made you feel like a burden because the truth is you were my life raft. I wouldn’t have survived my childhood without you and I still need you. You have to mean it, you have to show it. Please give me a chance to prove how much I love you.” Dangerous game Lana is playing, sharing with Kyle that she has “secrets.” Good thing Kyle is a bit of a nice dumb guy and didn’t bother following up. Sam Lane is great, and Lucy is right when she says she doesn’t deserve him. 

Cushing Family

Is “who’s alanis morsette” and “what’s the kessel run?” the same joke?

Relax Lana, it’s not a big deal that Kyle took Sarah to open mic, in fact it’s really sweet. 

I gotta say I was super into Lana lecturing Jordan. “Not even Superman can keep everyone safe.” Get outta here kid. And I also like that she felt bad about it. Really good acting here Emmanuelle. 

Clark and the boys

Boys, relax. The Cushings are annoying. You’ve got a cooler friend/sister in Nat and fucking powers like Superman. Jon feeling guilty about his mess up and his Bizarro’s murderous spree. Good talk between Clark and Jon. “As a parent you care so much about your kids and I want to protect you but I want you to learn to make your own mistakes and that’s really hard but I will always be here when you do.” When Superman says, “it’s gonna be fine” he means it.  “I still love her, dad.” Please. But great timing to take him flying. The flying training was great because traditionally, Clark just flew and that was it. Even if it was shaky at first or he just leapt at first he then seemed to master it. Like in Man of Steel. I like the idea of Clark spending years at the Fortress just practicing flying. Btw, they could’ve picked up Jonathan, a winter coat and given him a job instead of just ditching him. 

Ally Alston

The cold open “5 years ago” was interesting. It still doesn’t give us that much background in her motivations. I like that they actually reference the “LL.” It’s also huge that they make mention of being in Lois’ shadow. That’s gotta be tough. It’s cool that they low-key backdoored their way into making Ally The Parasite. Lois literally called her Parasite. I’m not mad about it, even though we made fun of it last week. I actually kind of like it. On Bizarro world Ally has completely taken over. Ally’s really good at subtly putting a wedge between Lucy and Lois. It’s cool that Ally’s doubled voice is her backwards voice behind her regular voice. 

When Ally demands that she summon Superman, Lois retorts that she doesn't have a red Superman phone to contact him, likely an homage to the red "hotline" Commissioner Gordon used to get in touch with Batman in Batman (1966).

Is it consistent or inconsistent with Lucy’s character that just when she seems to be coming around she goes full super-villain. 

I guess the parasite thing is slightly different because she doesn’t need to touch people. 

Scary seeing Superman turn into Bizarro. How does her Parasite powers let her stop a hammer from hitting her? 

Nat and John Henry Irons

Nat is smart enough to make a fucking secret Iron Man suit but didn’t think. John’s overreaction to Nat’s suit is both realistic but in the context of the show is kind of dumb. She’s clearly an asset and I’m glad that John Henry came to his senses eventually. “I build things, not destroy them.” The conflict was very CW episodey. But it's very cool that Nat’s tech is superior. “Agro dad.” I’m so sick of them over-using that term. Do teenagers really talk like that? Very nice resolution by John Henry and not taking things personally. Nice turn of events that Nat gets to save Superman. I think we called that earlier on. Why didn’t they try throwing Superman into the Sun?

What’s next?

What if the Earths merging isn’t bad? What if it like brings the best out in everyone? 

I would love to see a cliffhanger where Superman loses all of his powers and Jordan, the Ironses and Jonathan suit up to take over. Next season can pick things up 3 months later with Clark having a summer as a regular guy. 

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