Wednesday, March 30, 2022

My Review of Superman And Lois 2x09: "30 Days And 30 Nights"

 


Written by Katie Aldrin And Jai Jamison
Directed by Ian Samoil

Lois (to Jordan): "That's not our Jonathan."

This episode certainly changed up the format, didn't it? You had an opening scene that felt like the cliff-hanger to a mid season finale and then the title of the episode really did become appropriate. Is Superman really gone for good?

The smart answer would be not very likely but whatever has happened in Bizarro World certainly seems to be dealing him from coming back to our one and as a result, it's taken both John Henry Irons as Steel and a vigilante Jordan to fill the Superman shaped void. So far, both are doing an excellent job, evening there's been some personal fallout for both.

For Jordan, playing hero naturally brought conflict between himself and Lois with Sam trying to remind the latter of her son being capable of handling himself. Lois's concerns for Jordan do make sense but at the same time, if it wasn't for Jordan's intervention, both her and Sam would've been killed this week as well. Another plus side also seems to be the possible end of the X-Kryptonite plot as well for.

However while Jordan managed to get Lois on side, he wasn't as fortunate with Sarah. I've bee expecting the pair to break up and I thought it would be Jordan doing the dumping but Sarah did it instead. The relationship was doomed the moment they added the Aubrey story into the mix, so this seemed very inevitable nonetheless.

Anyways breaks up to one side, let's talk about Jonathan. He suffered from public fallout over getting the football season cancelled but he did get Candice to help Lois and Sam deal with the X-Kryptonite problem. However the arrival of his Bizarro world counterpart at the end definitely meant the we are finally going to get some proper Bizarro world action in the next episode.

Meanwhile and getting back to the personal consequences bit, we did have conflict between John and Natalie over the former forgetting about the anniversary of other Lois's death but we did have some nice scenes where they watched an old scene as well as Natalie and Sarah hanging out again. 

As for the Cushings segment of the episode, when Sarah wasn't breaking up with Jordan, she was quite harsh in telling Kyle that he might not get back with Lana so easily. Speaking of Lana, she won the election and now has become the Mayor of Smallville. I wonder how long that will last.

- I didn't really see John and Lana flirting as such but if the latter doesn't get back with Kyle, I could see the show pairing up the characters.
- Ally Allston sprung out of the DOD and went through that portal rather effortlessly. It'll be interesting to see how she gets on with her other self.
- While we had Steel and Jordan stepping into Superman's shoes, it does make you wonder why the show doesn't mention another Kryptonian.
- Chronology: Exactly as the title says lol. The show will be back on April 26th.

30 Days And 30 Nights certainly mixed things up in an interesting way. The lack of Superman definitely isn't something I want to see often with this show for obvious reasons but it did work here, considering the strength of the storylines we got this week. It's gonna be a long month waiting for the next episode.

Rating: 9 out of 10

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