Amac Productions

This series feels like a love letter to Superman. Doesn’t it?

It takes everything the character is supposed to be and makes it sing. Everything the supporting characters are supposed to be, and just flings itself into the series.

Who voices Clark? I’ve heard them before. Is it Bolin from Legend of Korra?

Someone please tell me if I’m right.

Thank you.

Okay, onto the episode itself.

While I’m not sure I needed another origin story in my life, this show doesn’t linger too long on any one thing.

It skips through Clark’s childhood and his discovery of his powers.

I love how Clark is all, welp, stopped the car, getting my kite back ought to be the easy part now.

The baby’s delight over not hitting the tree. Even the exhausted mother was a nice touch.

Then we jump to Clark’s first day with Jimmy Olsen at the Daily Planet. All the wonderfully familiar names with just the right amount of silly.

Clark smashing his alarm clock, breaking the sink, and Jimmy somehow not finding it weird the alarm clock self-destructs every morning is hilarious.

There’s something really jovial about the lack of awareness.

Jimmy doesn’t even notice when he’s almost run over and Clark saves him. It’s an excellent play on how people see what they want to.

Ask Jimmy, who spent the entire episode going on and on about aliens, never noticing his best friend and roommate isn’t normal at all.

As for Clark, well, he’s a loveable doof. And I love that!

Clark is supposed to be light-hearted and sweet. He absolutely should be the guy the local grandmothers love to spoil.

I also want to know, did he break the back door in the first place? Hm? He seems a wee bit accident prone.

Oh, and Clark, if you go there all the time like you seem to since ya know, the owners know you – shouldn’t you know which way the door opens?

Just saying.

I simply adored his first meeting with Lois.

The little meet cute at the door, followed quickly by Clark being put in a bib, and embarrassed was amazing. I especially loved that Lois loved it too.

Instead of looking down on the farmboy with manners, she’s smitten by him.

Not the man with powers who swoops in and saves her.

Clark – who opened the door for her. Who was kind to her. Sweet to his new boss and makes friends with local small business owners. In a lot of versions of Superman, we get Lois smitten with Superman first.

For me, I’ve never understood the fascination with the ‘hero.’ Superman is unattainable. An ideal we strive for but doesn’t really exist. Even when Superman is the real persona.

He can’t be super all the time.

I much prefer when Clark is the persona and Superman the ‘mask.’

Here, we have another example.

Clark is who he is.

He wants a job, a girlfriend, friends, and to be a good person. Clark is real. He struggles like everyone.

I love that.

As for the story, I didn’t really care for the villain or the generic robots, but the characters sold the story for me.

From Jimmy to Perry to the little kids delivering newspapers. To Lois and Clark smitten from word one and Jimmy knowing it. Clark caring about people even from a young age when he tries to warn the speeding car. The goofiness and the art.

Gah, even if the villain was forgettable, it doesn’t matter because the characters aren’t.

Like Jimmy not getting the perfect shot.

Who would? Honestly, I’m being chased by killer robots I’m out.

Lois and Clark unknowingly working together to beat the robots.

Lois and Jimmy rushing to find Clark. The hugging. The door slamming by Perry. His warnings.

Everything about this series is what Superman is. He’s a light-hearted good character who wants to do the right thing and have a normal life.

But he’s never going to be truly normal. He knows it. He’s coming to terms with it. And that he can still have what he wants anyway.

I simply love it and cannot wait to see what happens next.

One last note though, anyone else getting some serious She-Ra vibes here from these three?

Clark is She-Ra/Adora. Lois is Glimmer. Jimmy is Bow. Anyone else get this?

Let me know!

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