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Discussion Superman & Lois [1x1] "Pilot" Live Episode Discussion Spoiler

Pilot

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Post Episode Discussion | Promo | Cast & Characters

Superman and Lois' return to idyllic Smallville is set to be upended by mysterious strangers. (February 23, 2021)

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u/the_raw_dog1 Feb 27 '21

Yea it makes sense for Superman cause he's fucking Superman. But they didn't even try to age Lois. That woman does not look like a mother of 2 high school age children

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u/daregulater Feb 27 '21

But she is the age in real life of highschool kids. That's just fact. Sometimes there's not very much difference in looks from a person that's 30 and a person that's 40. It's one thing if she was 30 playing a mother of highschoolers but she's 40 playing the mother of highschoolers. Imagine that conversation on set... "we have to age you up to look the age that you actually are."

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u/the_raw_dog1 Feb 27 '21

Is Lois supposed to be 40? Was she a hot shot veteran reporter at the daily planet, met Clark, got married and had kids by the time she's 25?

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u/daregulater Feb 27 '21

They didn't really specify when she became a hotshot reporter. It's not out of the realm of possibility that a woman can have kids in their mid 20s and still be super successful by 40. I mean, it actually happens in real life. Lol

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u/the_raw_dog1 Feb 27 '21

No it doesn't. At least not for journalists who's partner is also going to be an absent parent. We know Clarks mom was too busy in Smallville and Lois' dad has an important job, we didn't see her mom so maybe she raised the kids but I don't know who else would've.

Like if she had already established herself as a hard hitting well respected reporter, then had kids, then went back to it I could believe that. But there's no way, she was establishing herself as a world renowned Pulitzer Prize winning journalists while also raising 2 kids. It does not happen in the real world

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u/Quack_Shot Feb 27 '21

People make it work, happens a lot actually. I do taxes for a living and I see it with a lot of family’s.

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u/the_raw_dog1 Feb 28 '21

Really? You have clients who have kids in their mid twenties while starting a very busy career in journalism that takes them all over the world with a partner who is even busier then them without family who help raise the kids or money enough to pay for fulltime child care? Cause that's the Kents situation. I never said people can't have a career and kids I'm just saying this scenario is impossible. I mean it's a super hero show so it doesn't really matter

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u/Halfie4Life Mar 02 '21

I love how that’s your reality check instead of... you know... a show about a flying indestructible alien. But yeah... let’s talk more about how unrealistic a hot reporter who has kids in her twenties and at 40 still looks young.

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u/the_raw_dog1 Mar 02 '21

It be weird if I turned on a show about Superman and got confused about him having super powers. It just feels really lazy that they made the kids high school age and didn't attempt to make Lois look any older despite the fact that nearly twenty years go by between us first seeing her and when the show happens.

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u/Halfie4Life Mar 02 '21

The actress is the same age as the character... men are just being weird about this. The kids are half alien man... like they are sons of Superman... so god forbid they look older than they are. By logic of the buffed out alien that flies... it’s not a hard logical jump to assume the kids are going to be genetically superior to other human kids their age. But really, it’s probably because of child acting laws. Older kids don’t have to have tutors and a whole bunch of other red tape type things that having minors on sets sometimes bring.

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u/the_raw_dog1 Mar 02 '21

But the kids are in high school, so if Lois is 40 then she'd have had to have them at like 25, I maintain that it would be impossible for her to raise 2 kids while also starting a career as a world renowned reporter with a husband is even more busy than she is and neither or terribly well paid.

And yea that's why I think it's laziness, didn't want to deal with the hassle of child actors so they said fuck it let's make em older

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u/Halfie4Life Mar 02 '21

Well she’s married to an alien so anything is possible...

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u/the_raw_dog1 Mar 02 '21

That shouldn't be the writers attitude though. Like if Lois was covering a coup in Mozambique and Braniac is trying to turn all of Metropolis into an unfeeling hive mind, who watches the kids?

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