Men of Steel: My Adventures with Superman with Red and Blue from Overly Sarcastic Productions 

The secret third Superman Detail Diatribe.

I don't think that Clark has a giant appetite, he just doesn't know that he is supposed to have a limit. He just keeps eating food/doughnuts because he likes the taste.

"this is the face of a man whos about to be aggressively divorced" my sides.

I gotta point out how much I love the new Lex. Instead of being a charming, ruthless businessman playboy. He's so fittingly different. What type of character embodies none of the earnest morals of a simple and peaceful rural life that Clark had. Which type of character embodies the opposite of Clark's hope in humanity and only cynicism in humanity, which type is constantly smug, stubborn and likes to show their superiority complex. They made Lex a chronic Redditor/Channer, which in todays age, being a foil to Superman is the most fitting thing ever lmao

I didn't know I was so starved of a GOOD Superman show that is PROUD of Superman being a hero, until I saw this show. Seeing Clark just being the best person ever, I was like "Ahh Clark, it is so nice seeing you again buddy! I've missed you so much". I teared up a little not gonna lie.

1:02:00 I still headcanon that Martha saw the suit being particularly flattering around the crotch and being like "NOPE. None of that. My baby boy is not flying around with everyone able to see his dingdong."

From the very first scene they showed that they 'get' superman. I like the fakeout where it seems like he's going to first unlock his powers to get his kite back, but then subverts it with the car that almost crashes and him jumping in to help.

Im a big superman fan, i hate grimedark superman. I got to say i was skeptical about this show, but was willing to give it a chance. So sat down with my wife and before we started it she asked me "what do you want superman to do". My legit response is "i want clark to be a good guy who just happens to have to the power to help as many people as he can, and as dumb as it sounds i want him to save a cat from a tree and help an old lady across a street". First episode i was sold. He does both and its amazing. This is Superman.

This show was an absolute blast!! The creators definitely had fun making this show and it's so refreshing to just have a kind, loving, compassionate superman be the focus. Plus having a young and upcoming superman where he isn't super powerful which gives great tension to the fights

I was already missing that 90s DCAU style of superman show, but I hadn't realized how intensely I was missing a Superman show that was *unapologetically kind* until this show came out. Also, tomboy Lois Lane is now the definitive Lois Lane, I will not be taking questions.

"They always turn the Ginger's black" .... Me realizing I went from always maining a red haired FemShep to a Black FemShep in Mass Effect. .... My Gods.....

Another tiny thing I love is young Clark has the cool 2000’s S on his shirt, as a prelude to the S on his future costume

Making Slade's origin working for task force X under Waller is just so perfect.

I’m so glad I happened to get recommended this since I’ve wanted to hear Red and Blue talk about this show since it came out.

A thing i havent seen anyone talk about when Superman is fight everyone in the 'super hearing' epsidoe. Its overcast the whole time. There is no real sunlight for that whole episode really so not only is he sleep deprived hes also solar energy deprived.

There was exposition of Lois’ personal issue with secrets before the reveal in ep 4 when she opens up about her dad to Clark, that her dad kept so many secrets her entire life including the worst one of all which was her dead mom’s sickness.

i actually think the seemingly electric powers with the glowy stuff clark gets is a reference to superman blue. that one thing from the early 2000s

According to TV Tropes, the Electric Black Guy trope (and yes, that is the actual name of the trope) was started by DC Comics' first headlining African-American superhero: Black Lightning. Basically the first main stream solo black superhero had electric powers, so a lot of heroes of color that came later wound up paying homage to the original to one degree or another. See: Static/Shock and Miles Morales to name just two.

I agree with you guys that this is a clear and iconic and definitive Superman as any artists or generation could produce. It's as representative of the core of Superman as Christopher Reeve and new.

"I wonder who that could be" *starts laughing as someone who looked at the leaked concept art*

Who really is enjoying the idea that in season 2 Jimmy is technically the head of the paper! I am, I mean we all know that Perry when he 'bought' flamebird he's also technically bought the actual RU-vidr! Also the first one to get promoted from intern to actual reporter is Jimmy this time usually he's the last one on the list of giving promoted to reporter not the first!

1:55:00 On the surface this show and Ouran HHS are pretty dissimilar, but I honestly think they've got the same vibe. The fundamental core of each show is the emotional inner lives of each character, and how they each express out into the world. Like, Clark is not Superman because he wants to be a larger than life figure, he's Superman because Superman is how he manages the conflict between wanting to be normal and wanting to do deeds that happen to be larger than life. General Lane is villainous not because he's malevolent, but because he's scared and his fears blind him to to any interpretation of Kryptonian action that isn't malicious. Both shows have that fundamental trait that even when the plot goes off into crazy town, you can still consistently predict roughly what will happen next if you already know what's going on inside the heads of all the characters (including the supposedly unimportant ones).

I just realized that the Crystal powered robots is probably setup for Metallo.

This is not a new concept, more it is an expansion. Lois and Clark : The New Adventures of Superman did it first and Dean Cain's Clark even said "Superman is not who I am, it's what I can do." The show centered on Clark and Lois's relationship as well as Clark's trials and tribulations of being an Earth raise Alien. This show just added the anime influence that mad Teen Titans good before Go!.

Ah, so this is where the next Superman Detail Diatribe went to hide. Oh, I missed the Alex thing! That's good! Just have them lay the groundwork throughout season 2 then pull a Deus Ex Batman in the grand finale.

There's a line Amanda Waller says to General Lane (right after he realizes Superman is innocent), "Are you having doubts because of something real? Or is it because Superman reminds you of HER?" When i first heard that line, i automatically assumed she was talking about Lois. But why would Superman remind the general of his daugher? Because they're roughly the same age? How would he even know that? Listening to your video today is when I realised- Waller's taking about KARA. Last Daughter of Krypton Kara. General Lane must've met her, a lone traumatized Kryptonian child who couldn't possibly have played a role in anything so... he let her go? Escape to the stars? Presumed dead? Living on Mars? Teamed up with Zod and Braniac??? Is Kara Zod???

I can’t believe I didn’t catch the Luthor reveal on my watch through, I feel so dumb. Also, I love how the captions having a different interpretation of Mxy every time his name comes up

I’ve been a Superman fan for so long. I’ve just started the series and it’s everything a Superman show should be! I’m also can’t wait to watch this video after I catch up

At 52:45 when Blue is talking about how the DCU live action is floundering and the DCU animated is this good, that is so true and has been for years. All the best iterations of these characters are always animated. All-Star Superman, the Dark Knight Returns, etc. Probably one of my favorite comic book adaptations rn is Young Justice, which has gotten NO press for all four seasons but is still fantastic

Superman the animated series gave us classic gigachad Superman and now we have a wholesome Superman. We got sassy bosswoman Lois Lane before and now we got Tomboy Lois Lane. They know what they're doing.

My theory with how Clark's powers activate is similar to how humans can gain incredible amounts of strength though adrenaline, Like that old story of the mother who was able to lift a car to save her child. Only Clark gets to keep that boost after the adrenaline fades.

id like to thank the ospod for referencing this because i had no idea the secret third superman detail diatribe existed

Superman is my friend's single favorite superhero, and he refuses to watch this show because he's so burnt out on Superman being fucked over in adaptation. I'm trying so hard to convince him.

"Kiss kiss fall in portal" name's host club reference i feel could reference how "our" Lois is an imposter in the middle of a big club of "real" and "accomplished" Lois'

While I appreciate the effort to make subtitles for essentially a podcast, some of them need proofreading. At one point, Ivo was subtitled as "Ivanhoe".

Apparently the voice actor for the unknown Kryptonian at the end...is female with a voice changer. My headcanon is that Nemesis Omega was General Zod.

The only Kryptonite they have came from another dimension. What if what they're going for in this universe is Krypton didn't explode. I'm thinking the core turned toxic and poisoned the planet, maybe the braniac machines were created to try to restore it then in the turmoil of people dying while trying to leave Zod took over in a military coup, converted braniac for military purposes and Zor sent Kal through the portal to escape the military dictatorship that Zod implemented. What if instead of just a ship full of Kryptonians that Zod usually has, this ends up as a full Kryptonian empire for supes to fight off and feel angsty about (continuing his current oh no my people are so violent and bad angst).

Oh no. A batman cameo would be a Jimmy episode in this show. He would end up in the batcave while Steve is captured by the riddler, while clark and lois are off in space or something.

Hope you and OSP get together for S2

love listening to this! very in depth discussion

I wonder if Lex and Jimmy are distantly related in this version like in the mainline comics.

I'm so glad this show exists, I'm sick and tired of the evil Superman cliche. Doesn't hurt that this Clark is _such_ a precious cinnamon roll!

When you think 3hrs is a long time. And your talking to a member of EFAP.

huge fan of the dilf-ification of Jor El in this series

Really enjoying the series, but I do feel that it would have benefited a lot from being a 13 episode season instead of a 10 episode one. Just having a few breather episodes between major shakeups in the status quo would help a lot, and could be used to expand the world, say by getting to better know the staff of the Planet.

With the next season right around the corner my wishlist is either a Batman or The Flash cameo or reference

Really looking forward to how this show handles other Kryptonian villains. Wouldn’t be surprised if those Kryptonian soldiers were seeing are really Eradicator units like the ones from DC Rebirth, and the crystals growing from Kryptonite exposure are absolutely going to be used to explain Doomsday’s physical appearance. Dude’s basically a Kryptonian caveman and there’s no way they’re not going to *try* to use kryptonite on him to give Clark a fighting chance.

Thank you, RU-vid algorithm.

I can't wait till we get to this worlds version of Doomsday and the death of Superman. Not just because I am an edge lord but because I feel this version of Superman can twist the knife of a world without Superman harder than version to date. Also because I wanna see this version of Clark with the 90s mullet

Can’t wait for season 2

The whole "Jimmy makes the plot advance" thing becomes even FUNNIER with Season 2.

When you guys started talking about superman cleaning up it made me think that smallville probably has no potholes.

I can't belive they reacted to this show before shaddydorags did.

augh you talking about this show makes me want to watch it all again

the way I need the sequel to this with the second season

I am desperately hoping that James Gunn’s Superman movie is good.

Waited for this to end with a big group "Uuuuh, BYE!"

1:35:40 Uhm, Chimchar is from Gen 4, the DS era, not GBA. Yeah thats the only thing i can comment on. I have no idea how i got here, but still watched the video.

1:01:59 Thinking about Nicepool from Deadpool & Wolverine.

Y'all need to do this with the second season

Clark Kent, Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen = Kermit the frog, Miss Piggy, Gonzo I'm putting that out there, do with these facts what you will.

41:33 I can never escape Star Fox 64

Not even ten minutes in and already love this, will there be an episode about season 2

The thing with Jimmy Olsen's design change is that he's part of this overall trend, this "Profitable Calculus of Representation" you see in modern stories (and particularly adaptations like superhero ones). Since representation is more applauded and accepted these days, but company boards are still scared of internet backlash when it's applied to major (particularly preexisting) characters (combined with likely their own internal biases), you therefore get these creators caught between their own creativity and their corporation limits, and making the same choice in character design. A lot. To the point where, over time, it almost feels like a compromise. Maybe it's just recency bias, but with Jimmy here, alongside other recent animated characters like Gus from The Owl House and Bow from She-Ra, all very modern animated series with a black character as the protagonist trio's third wheel, you do start to see a 'code in the Matrix', as Blue put it. Not of one company, but of a general mindset between creators. You can start to guess which character is likely to be changed to non-white (and it's not often the protagonist), or which character will be retconned into being bi or queer (especially in superhero comics). I don't think I'd call it an outright negative trend, but it still does feel like creators are getting really comfortable with a template and often feel unwilling to just boldly go out there with an adaptation. Something along the lines of "The last member of an alien species, adopted son of Earth, doesn't have to be white", or "This main character, with some homoerotic subtext but also iconic romantic storylines with the opposite gender, can be gay this time"; these stories seem like the kind of thing shot down by a higher up for being "too risky". It feels like these modern stories have found a "safe" point, and therefore feel comfortable with not stepping outside it. (Is this saying anything? I've just been noticing these patterns a lot, that's all.)

"ahh they said kneel I wonder who that will be" and then season 2 happened

Oh, the blue power-up thing is from the 90s. I know everyone thinks it's super sayian blue, but Superman did it first.

26:35 "220 pounds of Kentucky Beef" RED, NO!!!!!!

This is a 8 years old channel how is still so small and still exist?

14:08 ginger 20:32 episode 1 pilot part 1 53:30 episode 2 pilot part 2 1:04:20 cleaning up 1:10:54 episode 3 1:20:40 episode 4 1:23:25 alex 1:34:28 episode 5 1:44:32 episode 6 1:51:15 Jimmy knew 1:55:00 episode 7 2:20:20 citizens 2:23:00 episode 8

Re watching this after seeing arch's take. I like this better.

Hope you'll have a good day

I want to see IF Red & Blue would come back for the season 2, i wamt to see their opinion of "kara cosplaying as Android 18"

Please PLEASE do another episode where you cover season 2, I need MORE

How the hell does this have less than 100 views???

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I am going be contrarian and say that I HATE most of the designs in this show. Every villain is just a mercenary wearing boring bulky power armor. What this show does right is the core characters but all the lore bits are just.. off.