>>22924
>Lana
I told you she was the worst character. And Season 4 is the dumbest season arc by a wide margin. That said, though I don't think the overall arc is bad in Season 5, it still has its share of bad episodes. A few cool things with Brainiac and stuff, but mostly meh. I stopped watching after the 100th episode because it pissed me off so bad. But then I saw ads for Season 9 and it looked really cool so I caught up. And it was cool. The 100th episode is basically the low point, and you'll know when you get to it because it will piss you off too. You're really close. And from the sounds of things, you're gonna be at least as pissed as I was when it was originally airing. But it doesn't get worse from that point. Seasons 6 and 7 are on an upward trend, and the end of Season 7 is really cool.
>Only this emboldened them to make Lois this but without any interest in journalism.
Try to think of it as being her origin story as well. It eventually pays off. I do think she is a good Lois Lane overall. But yeah, when she's first introduced, the only real quality of the character that she has is that she's a bit of a cunt. But they do build on it over the years. Takes a while though. There are ten seasons.
>Wanna write a political storyline? Then read one goddamn book about politics you fucking hack.
I don't think they wanted to get very political in terms of party lines and all that. They just wanted to touch on Lex's political stuff from the comics. It would be a lot worse if they started getting into who is for what party and what their actual politics are. They wouldn't use the cartoon politics from the comics, where Lex runs based on the platform of "I personally rebuilt Gotham City after an earthquake destroyed it and the government abandoned it to be taken over by supervillains." They would just make Lex Luthor a strawman republican, probably.
>1 was cool 2 was bareable but boring 3 was a goddam slog
I thought 2 was a lot better than 1 and 3 was a lot better than 2. The standalone episodes were still the majority and most of them were at least as good as Season 1, with the advantage of more Lionel and more character development. Also I did like the arcs and lore they dealt with, even if some of it was weird stuff involving ancient indian legends for some reason.
>Aquaman. Cool, obviously played by a gay, but yeah cool whatever.
Isn't that guy Jack Reacher now?
>Flash
Yeah I agree he's meh. They also kind of got fucked because that episode came out during the one year when Bart Allen was Flash in the comics, so they used him instead of Barry or Wally. Of course Bart isn't the popular Flash, which is why they killed him within a year of his becoming The Flash in the comics. But at least I can pretend Bart is a nickname for a young Barry.
A lot more DC characters are introduced relatively soon. The rate at which they're introduced increases and continues increasing until the end of the series. Next season in particular they start doing a lot more with it.
>Idk. I was holding in for the show to move to metropolis and Clark getting into journalism or going to college.
I'll let you know right now, college isn't that important. Lois becomes much more important, and slowly becomes more and more like the comics version, until by the end it's pretty much fully accurate. But college pretty much just fades into the background.
In fact, thinking about it now, I think maybe Clark just kind of drops out, or just stops going. His professor turning out to be Brainiac I guess killed his enthusiasm for higher learning. Anyway, Perry White doesn't hire Clark to work at the Planet because of his degree anyway.
>But seasons like 8-10 are super awesome? This will all go somewhere? And that place is gonna be cool?
Seasons 9 and 10 are super awesome. Well for a tv show. It's not like they can do movie level action scenes. But the characters and plots are good by then, and they do their best with the budgets and the action. Season 8 has cool parts and really dumb parts, but it's a lot better than 4 and 5. It's like a transition year. The last five or so episodes of Season 7 are awesome though because they seemed to think the show was ending and wrapped up most of the plotlines from all the previous seasons, and it was done quite well. Season 6 and 7 are weird because they do introduce a lot more Superman lore and DC sci fi stuff, but they are still relatively heavy on the teen drama as well. Then after the end of Season 7, it goes back to that type of thing with Season 8. But there is still a very significant reason 8 is a lot better than 7, and when you get there, you'll see. But basically, 9 and 10 are cool because they
drop most of the pretense of being a prequel and are pretty much just a regular Superman show only he doesn't wear the suit. That's what I like.
>>22926
Yeah, that's precisely why I stopped watching the show when it was originally airing. I only caught up because Season 9 was really cool. And yes, the Richard Donner movies are a lot better than most of this series.
>>22927
The first Superman movie is the film that spawned all the superhero movies we have today, and people forget it and credit X-Men. But Donner was the producer of that movie and brought the same philosophies he used on Superman to those movies. Then Spider-Man and the rest all copied X-Men.
God help me, when people think Iron Man started the current trend, I want to lose my mind. Iron Man was just another generic 2000s superhero movie, which had already been saturating that entire decade.
Anyway, you should have known what you were in for when you signed up for a ten season, 220 episode long prequel. Yeah, most movies skip the origin entirely. But here? They're stretching it out way longer than they should have. But at least that means that over time they're forced to introduce more and more DCU elements.