Superman and Lois Lane Appreciation 2021

[Nelliebly]

Giving effective agency is always a problem when you have a non-superpowered (or non-superhero) co-star in a superhero series. At the end of the day, the genre is an action-orientated one and if a co-star cannot engage in these scenes they are frequently (and understandably so) sidelined.

Ummm I’m sorry no I’m calling absolute and complete BS on this. This is an excuse for poor writing. And it’s just plain wrong.

For staters, you’ve already been proven wrong by Lois and Clark which was ::extremely good at giving both Lois and Clark Equal POV, equal empathy and equal story focus. And there was PLENTY of action in LnC. There was a lot more action than people even remember was there. The difference was that the show understood what it was about and who it was about and it stayed true to that vision.

A show called SUPERMAN and LOIS should provide Equal POV to both Superman and Lois and “action” has nothing to do with it. That’s a lousy excuse for both bad writing and it excuses the kind of sexism that is still a real problem in a lot of these writer’s rooms, Lois Lane does not have to be able to fly in order the receive equal POV in a show that bears her name. And, again, this isn’t some kind of fantasy as it was quite literally done to great success 20 years ago.

If writers can’t manage to treat Lois Lane as well on this show as writers did over 20 years ago than we have some big problems to address with both the showrunner, the writers and the network. It means they see bad at their jobs.