a sort of gadfly,

An early fiction writing class once taught me the difference between sentiment and sentimentality was that sentimentality means like. dead dogs. too many dog/child-based emotional beats. and killing malik also a cheap bit

smallville/kansas parents dialogue was extremely mid tbh

do love a “lex luthor is pathologically jealous of superman and constructs elaborate conspiracies to take him down” plot. wish it wasn’t explicitly explained in the movie like i am 5

didn’t love the clois but eh. liked lois as an intense reporter.

mr terrific rules and guy gardner is indeed a dick so that was pretty good. not enough hawk girl

not enough comedic material for skylar jimmy olson

the nanites in the lungs thing is cool but the “mechs able to physically overpower superman” in like the first 30 minutes kind of undermined it

didn’t need that many acts/fights. hammer of boravia + kaiju + pocket universe + lextopia + metropolis rift + boravia + ultraman + engineer is pretty over the top imo.

really feel like i’m being spoonfed the themes and plots. the “i am human” and “envy consumes me” and papa kent “im so proud of you” and lois lane interview and “he is the hero we all thought he was, we’re all so sorry”…no no i get it, i saw man of steel and bvs already

“get his bald ass to belle reve” is rly funny ok good

Supergirl existing kind of undermines the surprise of the restored message? like wouldn’t she already know? but i do love her

also the video at the end of the kents is cute. wish it didn’t take him 30+ years to realize his parents are the kents but whatever

“kindness is punk rock” is just as bad as “maybe that’s the true punk rock” smh