Superman fans the man of steel has been the star of many TV shows and films both animated and live action and he'll most likely be the star in many more TV shows and films both live action animated in the future. Well the latest live action TV show to star the man of steel has just premiered and so I thought that i'd give you my first impressions of the show and so join me as I give you my first impressions of the show that is called simply "Superman & Lois" enjoy.
The plot of this show is after a family tragedy Clark Kent , Lois land and their twin sons Jonathon and Jordon move from Metropolis to the small town of Smallville where Clark must learn to be a father and that one or even both of his sons might have powers of there own. I admit that I like the idea behind the show however this actual first episode really doesn't have much in terms of plot which to me is a bad thing since if you don't have a plot then your film , TV show or TV show episode have no reason to exist in my opinion.
Starring in this episode are Tyler Hoechlin as Clark Kent / Superman and Elizabeth Tulloch as Lois Lane. Also starring in this episode are Jordan Elsass as Jonathan Kent , Alex Garfin as Jordan Kent , Erik Valdez as Kyle Cushing , Inde Navarrette as Sarah Cushing , Wolé Parks as Captain Luthor , Dylan Walsh as General Sam Lane , Emmanuelle Chriqui as Lana Lang Cushing and Michele Scarabelli as Martha Kent.
As for what I thought about the acting in this episode in all honesty the acting in this episode was really good for the first episode of a new show. That doesn't mean that I thought that the acting in this first episode was bad because it honestly wasn't but it's clearly not going to be as good as acting in say episode ten or episode fifteen of this show but to me I do feel that all of the actors in this episode did a really good job even if some of the actors feel wasted in this episode in my opinion.
Now I cannot find out who is doing the CGI for this show which is honestly a freaking shame due to what i'm going to say next. Since I really liked the CGI in this episode all of the shows set in the Arrowverse have good CGI in them and the same is true for this show at least based on this first episode since every CGI effect in this episode looks so good and I hope to god that this show keeps on having good CGI effects since any thing to do with Superman in live be it a TV show a movie is going to be an effects heavy production and and as such the CGI effects in this show should always be good in my opinion.
SPOILER ALERT FOR TWO THINGS IN THIS EPISODE OF SUPERMAN & LOIS RIGHT HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now as some one who has watched alot of if not all of the shows in the Arrowverse (yes i'm including the animated web shows in there as well) I was honestly shocked that the first episode chose to include a reference to the 1940's Max Fleischer Superman cartoons. I was shocked because no Superman media has made a reference to the 1940's Max Fleischer Superman cartoons and so it was good to see those cartoons get some love in this show in my humble and honest opinion.
Now there is one thing that might disappoint you guys and that's the fact not only does Melissa Benoist not appear as Supergirl but in this episodes opening narration Clark Kent / Superman makes no reference to Supergirl. Usually when a show doesn't make a reference to other more well known characters its because that they want the show to stand on it's own but here since Superman and Lis Lane ae already well known characters it would have made sense for this episode to at least mention Supergirl or at least include a line but why she's not in this episode since there's no reason whatsoever why Supergirl couldn't be the one to handle the attack at the Metropolis Power Plant at the start of this episode in my opinion.
THE TWO SPOILERS FOR THE FIRST EPISODE OF SUPERMAN & LOIS END RIGHT HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I will say that so far this show does seem to be lot better then Batwoman (I never even made to half way thought the first season of Batwoman that's bad the Batwoman TV series is in my opinion) simply because not only does this show have better writing and acting that Batwoman but it also respects the Superman lore which is something that Batwoman doesn't do. All of these reasons and more so far point to Superman & Los being a much better show that Batwoman because the acting on Batwoman was at best passable , the writing on Batwoman was bad and the Batwoman TV show doesn't respect the Batman lore like how this show respects the Superman lore which for a comic adaptation no matter if it's a film adaptation or a TV adaptation or whatever kind of adaptation you need to respect the lore of what ever it is that your adapting in my opinion and apart from Batwoman the Arrowverse shows are usually very good at respecting the lore of whatever hero or heroes that there adapting in my honest opinion.
This episode has a total running time of fifty one minuets and twenty six seconds which I personally thought was a bit on the long side. Simply because not alot actually happens in this episode since this episode is just setting up the rest of the show plus like I said near the start of the review this episode doesn't really have much of a story as such it seems pointless that this first episode of this new show would be almost an hour long when you very easily could have had the this episode come in at forty five minuets long and nothing of importance would have had to have been lost in my humble and honest opinion.
Now i'm not going to say why this is the case because it could be seen as a spoiler but it's also pretty given the plot the show but there's very little to no action in this opening episode. Which I personally found to be both refreshing and confusing at the time it's refreshing because it means that alot more time can spent with these characters and fully developing these characters especially the newer characters but at the same time it was confusing because this is a superhero show and you expect there to be action in a superhero show and so while not having much action in this first episode oddly made sense for the characters it was still a pretty strange thing for the makers of this show to do in my humble and honest opinion.
Overall this first episode really did get alot of things right and i hope that this show does continue to be as good as this episode. Yes this episode isn't perfect since i've talked about alot of the good things and the bad things that are in this episode in this review (the reason why i've not talked about the characters in this episode is because it didn't really make sense to talk about the characters un the first episode of a new show but if I do review this show at the episode fifteen if im still watching the show by then then i'll most likely talk about the characters then in that review.) and since this is only my first impressions of the show I won't be giving this show a rating just because I don't think it's fair to judge a new show just based of the first episode since every show can have good or bad episodes but I will say that this show is worth watching in my personal opinion.
As for where I got the images that I used in this review well I got the images that I used in this review from the official Arrowverse fandom wiki page , Google Images and the official Superman fandom wiki page. Honestly I feel that the best website to use for images from this particular episode (this episode has the totally original name of Pilot by the way) then i'd say use Google Images since Google Images have alot of verity of images but be warned not all of the images on Google Images are high quality or high definition so you've been warned.