This! Previous eps showed how good of a reporter he is and I'd like to see more of that.

I thought it should have been Jonathan. The twin bond should have been what they counted on to get through to him. We’ve certainly seen more of their bond this season than either boy’s bond with Lois.

When they came back from commercial and Clark’s voiceover started, I thought he had gone back to being a journalist and this was an article he had written. I was surprisingly happy about that, and about the show remembering that he’s a talented writer. Then they showed the interview and it was sad trombone time. I…

I feel weird saying the season finale wasn’t a home run for me, because objectively it really was - this was a great ending to a fantastic first year, touching on all the character arcs and a ton of great effects work. And yet...

Two former big-city reporters with a huge mortgageable farm could certainly afford to buy a little, small town paper, if that’s something they wanted to do.

I liked the gimmick of showing us the flashback sequences while also moving the plot forward, That was neat.

As to Earth Prime’s John, its interesting it was six years ago which was also when Edge found that other Kryptonite ship. Which is what I think was behind that machine that they were trying to fix Derek in, so I sense that this is not exactly what happened on John’s Earth. Rather than just letting Kryptons take over…

Also, SG season 1 was full of Kryptonians doing exactly what JHI was afraid of. 

My theory is they were pulled through when John came to this earth.  John inadvertently created the crisis in this universe.

The cinematography definitely helps, as does the extra care given to the scripts. The Arrowverse itself was a step above Smallville so it’s nice to see an ongoing evolution of the format. 

CW should campaign hard for an emmy with this ep. Also Snyder, THIS is how you do it.

Bitsie Tulloch is excellent. It’s the type of performance that’d be up for an Emmy if it wasn’t on a superhero show.

Yeah after Nadria Tucker's comments, I am looking at all the Capt. luthor's scenes with stronger scrutiny. I hope it doesn't fall into this trap.

I just worry they’re going to go into this “you were my wife in an alternate timeline, you belong to me” thing.  Right now it’s on the edge of this being that tired trope where Lois only seen as an object to possess, and it won’t take much to push the story into that direction.  

Lois and Lana continue to have perhaps the show’s most interesting relationship, mercifully free (I think?) of jealousy or rivalry, but instead with obvious mutual respect.

Why do you feel it is necessary to state this?

Honestly here now for these fanboys clamouring for way longer director’s cuts to painfully re-discover that there’s an important thing in cinema called pace

I also really loved how, when they addressed Clark previously listening in to Lois, that they didn’t treat it like a rom-com trope. She was legitimately (and understandably) POed. A lesser show would have romanticized his behavior.

Everyone on this show is working through their problems by communicating with each other and acting maturely! Amazing. I’m really liking this so far.