Written by Brent Fletcher And Todd Helbing
Directed by Louis Shaw Milito
Lois: "Why are you here?"
Jon-El (re Jonathan): "For him."
After a month of the air and given that the previous episode was a Superman lite affair, this one had plenty of our favourite Kryptonian, albeit in a bizarro world not of his own. Yup, we finally got to see what this world was like that Ally was so desperate to merge with and some interesting creative choices were made here.
Notably with the boys themselves. It made sense for the Inverse version of events to have Jordan without powers and Jonathan not only having them, but abusing them too. Jonathan definitely had his daddy issues to work out and with his own father dead, he didn't mind taking some of them out on our Superman for good measure.
A big issue being a killer. Jonathan killed his own world's version of Anderson at Ally's behest before doing away with our version too, around the same the latter found a redemption of sorts. Oh and he's now on our world and quite eager to merge with our Jonathan as we got back to that cliff hanger from the previous episode.
Then there was the Inverse of Lois, who enabled her husband's recklessness and fame seeking until it became too much and she took Jordan away from him. She seemed to be as determined to save her family from Ally as ours does but wasn't really able to do anything about Jonathan getting under Ally's control.
As for Anderson, I spent so much of the season actively hating his guts that his deaths actually surprised me in a pleasant way. Twice by Jonathan and also after he finally realised why Superman kept secrets from him. I have to admit, I actually wish he hadn't died now.
Last but not least, the Tal-Rho bits of this episode were great stuff. His excitement at being an uncle, marrying his version of Lana, getting swayed into Ally's cause and then realising he needed to let our Superman stop her. This show has found a brilliant way of utilising the character this season.
- As expected, the opening and closing titles had fun going backwards to emphasis the bizarro nature of this episode.
- I'm surprised we didn't get Inverse versions of Kyle, John, Natalie and Sarah in this one but it might have been for timing or feeling they weren't needed.
- Jonathan got the classic Superboy look (one of them at least) but rejected the name.
- Chronology: From where the previous episode left off from Superman's viewpoint and the cliff hanger from previous episode too.
Bizarros In A Bizarro World understood the assignment and had fun with the results. A part of me wished the episode had been a little longer as I was enjoying watching the differences on display but there's a mission to stop Ally and somehow redeem Jon-El. I guess we should get on with both of those to be fair.
Rating: 8 out of 10
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