Well, Natalie's first meeting with the Kent Family went about as well as I expected...with Lois.exe basically shutting down and John Henry having to desperately explain to her why she can't hug her mom. It only gets worse from there.
Nothing good ever happens when a love interest is away at camp for a few months. Sarah is definitely acting weird. Did she cheat on Jordan? Or does she feel like she outgrew him in three months? She's sending mixed signals.
Poor Jon. Even when Jordan is seemingly not on the team anymore, he's still not getting used.
Jon and Candice are now officially dating, and poor Clark felt it was okay to leave two horny teenagers alone while he went off to save a bunch of people as Superman. Superhero parent problems, amirite?
Superman saving that sub was a movie-level feat. Seeing all those people cheering for Superman saving me is something we should've seen more with Cavill, not dramatic visuals of people grabbing onto him as a godlike figure while he looked stonefaced and sad.
Lt. Anderson seems like a Superman fanboy who would ordinarily revel in working with Superman as the new head of the DoD, but unfortunately he wants Dark Knight Returns Superman, not the real Superman who isn't just an arm of the American government and fights all, not just American interests. Anderson is your typical "America first, no matter the cost" kind of character and that immediately clashes with Superman, which is before we find out they've used X-Kryptonite to make their own Superman soldiers and appropriated his symbol and family crest for their own use. I don't see this ending well.
Just subtle confirmations of the different kind of childhoods and experience Lois and Clark had growing up. Clark was a pretty pure, innocent, kid but Lois definitely fooled around, which is why she knows how normal teenagers act.
John Henry was overjoyed to have his daughter back, but now the reality is setting in for them, and for Natalie most especially, that this isn't their world and they don't really have a firm place there. Especially when her mom isn't her mom and all her friends don't even know her.
Kyle may be jealous of his wife spending so much time helping someone else's campaign (and seemingly being the heart and soul of said campaign), but at least he's being a better dad for Sarah. And also the amount of time Sarah has walked in on her parents making out makes me think she probably likely walked in on them having sex, at least once.
Jordan seems to have mastered super-hearing and Heat Vision. I wonder if he's gotten any other powers in the three months?
So the real heart of Lois' issue with Natalie is she didn't feel any kind of maternal feelings upon seeing her and that makes her think she's just like her own mom who abandoned her and Lucy. And Lois finally mentions Lucy for the first time in the entire series, which makes me wonder if she doesn't bring up Lucy because she brings up some childhood trauma or from Lois' failure to help take care of/raise Lucy once their mom left. But Lois still tries to get to know Natalie, not because she's her mother from an alternate universe, but because Lois is a good person.
Feels kind of full-circle that John Henry (and daughter) are now living with the Kents, given Clark wanted that at the end of the 1st season finale.
The visions...when we saw that figure beneath all the rubble, I thought it might be Doomsday sealed away, but the arm looked robotic. I mean, it would be pretty random if it were, like, Metallo but could it be Braniac and he's projecting his thoughts into Clark somehow?