Really good pilot but I have reservations. I do not trust the CW given how woke the rest of the arrowverse is. The teenage boys being in a central role concerns me becuase I fear there will be too much teenage angst and drama and not enough superman supermaning. Also, hugely displeased with what looks to be a race swapped Lex Luthor. If they wanted a black villain there are plenty they could have chosen from, if this is Lex its disrespectful to the source material, and insulting to blacks who apparently aren't allowed to have their own characters, just race swapped hand me downs of existing ones.
Positive points though, they did a surprisingly good job not outright demonizing small-town America. They actually did voice some of the problems we face and issues we have with city America, albeit with a bit of a confrontational approach. But even that is fair because at this point we've become fed up and justly confrontational. The moments of family relations were good ones. Showing a 2 parent household with a father who may not know what he's doing but cares and tries to be present is sadly a rarity in media these days. There wasn't a forced injection of "girl power" right into your face too. The strong women in the series don't feel like they have to remind you that they're strong women. They just are, they do their thing and it shows in its own in their attitude and actions.
Review by KaleighBlockedParentSpoilers2021-03-03T19:11:30Z
Really good pilot but I have reservations.
I do not trust the CW given how woke the rest of the arrowverse is. The teenage boys being in a central role concerns me becuase I fear there will be too much teenage angst and drama and not enough superman supermaning. Also, hugely displeased with what looks to be a race swapped Lex Luthor. If they wanted a black villain there are plenty they could have chosen from, if this is Lex its disrespectful to the source material, and insulting to blacks who apparently aren't allowed to have their own characters, just race swapped hand me downs of existing ones.
Positive points though, they did a surprisingly good job not outright demonizing small-town America. They actually did voice some of the problems we face and issues we have with city America, albeit with a bit of a confrontational approach. But even that is fair because at this point we've become fed up and justly confrontational.
The moments of family relations were good ones. Showing a 2 parent household with a father who may not know what he's doing but cares and tries to be present is sadly a rarity in media these days. There wasn't a forced injection of "girl power" right into your face too. The strong women in the series don't feel like they have to remind you that they're strong women. They just are, they do their thing and it shows in its own in their attitude and actions.