Over on Superman & Lois, we finally see whazzup with Morgan Edge and his sinister plans for Smallville.
Turns out Edge is Tal-Roh, son of Zeta-Roh and Lara Lor-Van, making him Kal-El's half-brother. Oh hell no!
Lara later marries Jor-El.
In advance of Krypton's destruction, Zeta-Roh sent his son to Earth with the Eradicator, a device created by Lara.
Lara never intended for it to be used for the evulz. So why was it called an "Eradicator"?
Tal-Roh lands in England and goes all "Brightburn" on the people who found him. Well, to be fair they were shooting at him.
Tal-Roh is looking to resurrect Krypton using the Eradicator to supplant human "subjekts" with Kryptonian minds and DNA. Thanks to chunks of "x-Kryptonite" embedded around Smallville, the residents of the small community are perfect vessels for Tal-Roh's revived Kryptonians.
Tal-Roh is raising up a super army.
Superman gets his hands on the Eradicator and Lana Lang volunteers to channel Lara to help figure out how to reverse the effect on the subjekts.
Superman and Lara have a touching reunion of sorts although Lara never offers up wanting to speak to other son, Tal-Roh, as a potentially non-violent way to stand down his Kryptonian army.
Maybe she understands all to well that Tal-Roh is a lost cause?
Anyway, Lara is able to reverse the polarity on the Eradicator to reverse the effects on Tal-Roh's subjekts. But it will take an enormous source of energy to do that.
Superman says he can take care of that by generating a solar flare.
The solar flare power is a recent addition to Superman's power set in the comics and this is the first time I've seen it outside the comics. All that solar energy that goes to power Superman's physiology can be channeled into an energy burst but it leaves Superman drained of all his powers until his cells can recharge.
Superman's got the Eradicator but is the target of a mid-air major heat vision beat down from Tal-Roh's army. Superman unleashes his energy burst, powering up the Eradicator in reverse and the Kryptonians are expelled from their human hosts who now bereft of their powers plummet to their deaths.
Well, no they don't. They all just suddenly reappear on the streets of Smallville, dazed and confused.
OK, that's convenient.
Morgan Edge aka Tal-Roh and his super powered henchwoman Larr escape to plot for another day while Superman lands with a thud just outside the Fortress of Solitude with zilch by way of super powers.
I guess with Edge's current big scheme brought low, we'll be back to weekly teen angst with the Kent Bros, Jonathan and Jordan, next week.
Andrea and I have caught up to Batwoman through the May episodes and there is so much shit going on.
Alice has found Kate Kane who thinks she's Circe, Black Mask's daughter.
Alice detects Enigma's handiwork in this mess and abducts her to force her to restore Kate Kane. Ocean shows up and has other plans. Every single damn time it seems like Alice might have some smidgen of hope of possibly being maybe a little bit redeemable, some shit happens to pull her back towards super psycho kill bitch.
Meanwhile, Ryan Wilder, Luke Fox and Sophie Moore are arrested for being black.
Straight up racism, Gotham style, y'all.
Damn!
Meanwhile, a new form of Snakebite is turning addicted Gothamites into fricking zombies. Zombies, man!
Ryan, Luke and Sophie get bailed out and Batwoman has to go to work. Mary Hamilton's come up with a zombie cure but each person has to be injected with it. While Batwoman is busting her butt to save zombies from themselves, Crows agent Tavaroff (who has been a total dick all season) straight up massacres the zombie victims.
And when Luke tries to stop a car theft, Tavaroff assumes he's the robber, his cell phone is a gun and shoots him.
Damn!
I hate when a TV show makes me care.
But better to care than indifference.
Which brings us to iCarly.
The family used to gather to watch the original series on Nickelodeon back when daughter Randie was right in the middle of the demographic for this show. It was dumb fun with broad humor and mugging for the camera but it was good for it was, an inoffensive family show targeting pre-teens and early teens.
So this new iCarly lauching on Paramount+. Who is this show for?
Miranda Cosgrove as Carly and Jerry Trainor as her brother Spenser have refused to age much which I find is quite rude of them. Nathan Kress as Freddie looks the most different but he's still the butt monkey of the show.
Jeanette McCurdy's absence is addressed. Sam is following a biker gang. Freddie's worried about Sam. Carly's worried about the biker gang.
We get new characters, Harper, Carly's roommate, and Millicent, Freddie's adopted daughter from one of his two failed marriages.
While the new show has the feel of the old show with groan worthy jokes and goofy antics, there are concessions that these characters are older and so is their audience.
Harper's bi-sexuality is front and center.
Spencer says damn it. Twice!
Randie wasn't interested in watching this but my curiousity got the better of me and I gave the first episode a go.
The new grown up iCarly is not a train wreck, it's entertaining enough I suppose.
Then I wound up watching it a 2nd time because Randie was interested in watching after all. She may deny it but I heard her laughing.
Andrea and I are within 2 episodes of finishing season 1 of The Flight Attendant. I will post about that when we finish the season.
Until next time, remember to be good to one another and try to keep it down in there, would ya? I'm trying to watch TV over here.
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