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This season of Superman & Lois is top notch!

My goodness!

I love the care and attention being put into the story line with Lois’ cancer.

In a superhero show!

911: Lone Star and Station 19 have both had cancer storylines in shows I’ve recently watched. These are fresh on my mind for comparison.

And it shouldn’t be a fair one!

911: Lone Star and Station 19 are both set in the real world. They have no supervillain to contend with. A cancer storyline is a very real choice to make. Especially with firefighters. In Station 19 they mention cancer and suicide kill more firefighters than fire itself.

Telling these storylines should involve care and attention to detail.

Ones they didn’t bother with!

In both shows, the character with lung cancer chooses to hide it until they no longer can from their families and their teams.

In Superman & Lois, she’s upfront. She tells her family, her friends. Yes, she hide it for about ten seconds while she tried to process it. And while she was hiding, Clark knew something was wrong. He didn’t know what. But he waited for Lois to tell him.

He knew she would get there.

Unlike the other shows where it’s not noticeable until someone collapses.

It’s not talked about.

It’s not dealt with. Not really.

The ramifications.

How hard it is to keep going every single day. How much it makes you sick.

In a superhero, I expected Lois would continue to appear totally fine. In Station 19 and 911: Lone Star, both characters were fine. One kept his job as Captain and continued to fight fires. The other never took a break or rested after chemo.

But I know how shitty chemo looks.

I sat beside people getting their treatments.

I have a friend who went through it just before we met. I’ve heard her stories about how tired she got. How she had more bad days than good.

I commend this show for showing how sucky it is. Because it does suck.

Chemo kills you.

It kills the cancer. But it also kills you. The doctors just hope it kills the cancer first.

It doesn’t always.

Pretending like it can’t, doesn’t do anyone any favors.

I know Clark said he thinks he could never tell Lois to let go, but I think he would. If her suffering, her life, everything was taken, and she wasn’t living anymore. If she was in pain, every moment, of every day. I think he would.

I don’t think they’re there yet.

I don’t think Lois would ever listen, because she never does.

But I don’t think Clark would want his wife in pain.

And that’s what the woman was talking about. It got so bad, that her husband wasn’t living. He was here, but not enjoying life. His life was over and he wasn’t getting it back. So, she let him go so he could find peace.

Yes, it’s awful.

The whole thing is awful.

There are no good choices to be made.

Cancer is awful.

Lois is sick constantly. Tired. Not hungry. Imagine, everything that once made life enjoyable was ripped away from you.

You’re alive, but you can’t do the things that make it worthwhile.

It sucks, doesn’t it?

Welcome to a cancer patient’s life.

On the flip side, I loved that we got to see Clark go through his own journey this week.

Because while this is happening to Lois, it’s happening to the entire family as well. Two children are in danger of losing their mom. A man is seeing a future without his wife.

Made all the worse by his unimaginable power.

He can shoot heat from his eyes.

See through objects.

Lift planes, trains, and stop speeding bullets.

But he can’t punch cancer.

He can’t do anything.

Lois said she could get killed everyday, by a bus or a mugger. But he can stop those things.

This? This is something he cannot fight. He cannot beat it for her. He can’t give her his strength or invulnerability.

In the pilot, Lois said that when you imagine life, a happy ending, you don’t think about the bad parts that come with it.

Parents gone too soon.

Teenagers feeling neglected.

Moms getting cancer.

Clark has never imagined his life without Lois. He’s always been able to save her.

Now, he’s powerless. Watching helplessly.

I adore this storyline! It’s amazing.

And so well written and done by Tyler and Bitsie! They’re amazing! The scene on the couch at the end where Clark comes clean about how he’s been feeling was so good. The chemistry between them was palpable. The strength and love they draw from one another makes them better.

It’s a give and take.

Even now.

He could still lean on her for emotional support. Just like she could be honest with him and tell him that he’s not helping her by pretending everything will work out.

As for the boys!

I love that Lois made the choice to let Jordan go both times.

Clark wasn’t in the right mindset to make the choice. And while I do think the fight was more than Jordan could handle yet, he helped his father enough.

Jordan isn’t ready to take on villains who have no qualms about killing him.

Not in that type of situation.

However, he could take down the kryptonite toting baddies and give his father enough of a breather to fight back.

Was he ready for that alone? Nope.

But Superman was there.

And he loves his family too much to die when they need him most. It’s why he’s so damn hard to beat. Clark has something to fight for. A reason to get up. His heart is too big to let him give in.

Just like his wife.

I so want to know if Jordan isn’t affected by kryptonite like his father. Do the affects wear off sooner? Does it not hurt him?

He looked hurt.

What does it do to him??

Ah, Jonathan.

Lil’ Kent! He got his own shirt. He has his own storyline! And I love that the writers are acknowledging that he’s been pushed to the side in favor of his brother.

I know people have been annoyed by that. But I honestly didn’t mind.

For one major reason – it happens!

Sometimes, a sibling takes all the oxygen in the room and there’s nothing left for the other. It happens.

It doesn’t make Lois and Clark completely awful parents. It makes them parents.

They’re not going to get it right all the time.

What matters is that they keep trying. What matters is how Jon reacts. If he tells them. And sometimes, kids don’t. They don’t know how or want to make things worse.

But they love their son.

It’s why they went to the mat when someone punched him in the face. Why they believed him over the adult.

They’re not perfect parents.

They make mistakes.

I love that.

It’s part of life. And this show does a good job of showing how families can get pulled in a million directions and make mistakes.

Like the Cushings.

Another acknowledgement by the writers that Sophie gets pushed aside a lot. Things happen. Life happens.

The moment between her and Jon was adorable and everything a firefighter needs to be. Keeping calm and talking someone down are parts of the job. Jon is a hero.

Maybe even more so than his brother.

Like his mom.

They don’t use powers to save people or help people. They use brains and their words.

It’s amazing to see.

I look forward to more of Jon’s storyline as he embarks on this journey.

Um, Chrissy and Kyle still weird me out. Just a little.

Oh and vagina face is married to Manheim. That makes sense. And she’s the lady from the clinic who seemed too friendly before and now I know why.

I do have to say, it’s an awesome way to keep an eye on Lois.

Who would suspect her?

Probably Lois.

But it’s going to take a minute.

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