My Adventures With Superman Episode 5 | IN DEPTH REVIEW 

I love that I can’t tell which Evil Gorilla kidnapped Jimmy Olsen. There’s like three but with how this show is, there’s no way to tell

Honestly, I’d love to see this creative team do a “My Adventures with Wonder Woman,” a “My Adventures with Aquaman,” or even just a “My Adventures with the Justice League” series. You can tell they love DC’s mythology and its characters, while keeping things new and fresh.

OK here is my theory: the main adversary is Brainiac. In this continuity he destroyed Krypton (we saw some kind of space war in the flashbacks) and he is the source of the super tech weapons. He's providing them to Task Force X (or whoever they are) to trick them into helping him conquer/destroy Earth as well. Possibly Jor-El and/or the Kryptonians badly damaged him even if they couldn't stop him so he's too weak to do it directly. The "Zero Day" that Sam Lane witnessed was pieces of Krypton impacting Earth, which he thought was a deliberate attack which is why he's accepting Brainiac's help. I'm guessing he's going to become Superman's ally in the end when he realizes the truth.

I love how they made Steve relatable here. Kinda humanized him, not just the embodiment of male toxicity. 😊

Amanda Waller’s super power is making everyone around her the voice of reason

Dude, I soon as I saw this episode my first thought was “I can’t wait to hear CJ’s review for this one”! And SUB-DIEGO was awesome. P.S. Another great review.

So, Slade is now Deathstroke the Evanator? Seriously, that suit gave me Evangelion vibes. Also; congrats to the writers on that Sub Diego reference, talk about a deep cut.

This was the best episode yet of my adventures with Superman. It continues the issues that Clark, Lois, and Jimmy are dealing with from the previous episode, while introducing new complications. Clark is completely oblivious about Lois being on to his secret while focusing on how the mysterious tech is endangering lives, while the tech itself seems connected to Krypton, while also dealing with his own developing feelings for Lois, and being introduced to Deathstroke, Amanda Waller, and a general who's most likely Lois' father Sam Lane. Superman's confrontation with task force X is definitely his most difficult battle yet, and implies that Superman's powers are fluctuating, possibly due to not knowing what he's truly capable of. While it's clear that something happened to the general to make him be distrustful of Superman, he at least has enough integrity to not risk civilians to defeat Superman, unlike Amanda Waller who basically behaves as she usually does, doing whatever it takes to stop the threat, even if it's morally questionable. Lois is dealing with trying to expose Clark's secret of being Superman, while also dealing with her issues with secrets and lies. I honestly don't like how Lois exposes Clark by risking her own life, but it is sad and understandable how her relationship with Clark is taking a turn for the worse. In all honesty, I think Clark should be more angry with Lois because him being Superman isn't a secret that Lois needed to know, and I am not sure that the approach Lois took to expose Clark was the right thing to do. Clark even tried to tell Lois the truth in the previous episode, but Lois being frustrated with Superman's secrets made him pull back, and Lois' reaction to Clark exposing himself sort of justified him not telling her his secret.Jimmy deals with being a third wheel, Steve Lombard trolling his posts, and Steve even making a good point about Jimmy's relationship with Lois and Clark, ending with Jimmy being forgotten about due to Lois and Clark dealing with their own issues. Jimmy even gets kidnapped by the end of the episode by something that resembles an ape. I don't think that it's gorilla Grodd because he's a Flash villain. I won't know until the next episode, but it could be Ultra Humanite, an enemy of Superman that resembles an ape. I also don't know what is going to happen with the trio of Lois, Clark, and Jimmy, since things ended on a bad note with them, but the complications between them might make their relationship stronger.

This show really feels like in a lot of ways an “Ultimate Universe” version of Superman. I know earth one is a thing but honestly I feel like even dc has forgotten about that imprint. Really good episode.

I think someone calls Heatwave “Rory” at one point? So this is absolutely this universe’s answer to Mick Rory. I doubt her name is Mick tho.

I think we overlooked the name of the show, the show is about Louis adventures with superman. her learning about it so early makes sense so the show could be named that. I like this show a lot, love to see others are enjoying it.

What's a bit weird about "The General" is that their general characters who are connected to Superman, one who becomes his father in law, and another who hates superhumans so much, he hecomes a big hairless gorilla man. This is like, the third time Debra Wilson has voiced Amanda Waller in something, like in Telltale's Batman and Suicide Sqiad Kills the Justice League. She's slowly ranking enough credits as her like C.C.H. Pounder did.

one of her crew called her rory

oh Deathstroke. Because his mask is of death and has swords for striking? I guess?

Yeah, this show is way more realistic than the comics, on the topic of Lois and supes' double life. A journalist of lois' caliber should have seen through clark from the get-go, rather than decades later like in the comics. It's funny. I and many other pilloried bendis for his decision to write clark renouncing his secret identity. I still think it was not a good move. But watching Clark struggle with his two lives now makes me understand how it was actually a struggle through out his whole career as superman. Clark's normally about the truth--he's a journalist himself--and he had to lie about his whole self, for decades. I can kind of see why he might have decided to throw caution to the wind and own his whole truth.

Place your bets here folks What’s giant gorilla villain is superman going to face next episode because there’s a lot of those in the DC universe

Bagels are delicious and important.

Also at the end of the credits the last photo of the trio is ripped separating the theee

It was leaked weeks ago who the heatwave woman is actually supposed to be, she’s this universes’ version of Volcana

4:20 You know if she’s trying to get out of town, she should go somewhere that takes it’s slow and easy, I hear Keystone and Central City is nice. Also yeah, safe to say the big bad will either be Brainiac or Zod given Sam seems to know what species Clark is or at least recognizes that he has a connection to the tech they use and study.

Great review! I've got shitty hearing, so I watch most shows with the captions on, and as luck would have it, one of Heatwave's team calls her "Rory". Looks like she might be this universe's version of the Flash rogue. I'm loving this series, man. Keep up the coverage!

You miss McGinnis garage. McGinnis as in Terry McGinnis Batman Beyond.

I think the general is going to be Lois' father: Sam Lane working with Waller. Which is a nice call back to the new 52 Superman book called Superman Unchained. I also thought what the funny moment was clark lifting the weights with little effort, basically telling lois that you are Superman. Then the episode makes a reference to Gorllia grodd towards the ending.

As a superman fan this is a good show my only gripe is the villians don't look threatening at all. Slade Wilson looks like he could be an elf in Lord of the rings. Everybody is baby faced in this show. It's a good thing Amanda waller is in this show.

I still don't like Deathstroke design its so ugly and really not that great at least in my opinion.

Nemesis Omega is definitely Darkseid or at least someone from Apokalypse.

Up until the end of this episode I've thought this show was basically flawless, but the ending of this episode is is just bad. It's forced drama for the sake of drama. There is no form of media that does this well because it's not a good way to have drama in your story. This needs to be left behind because this show is great and it's just a huge blemish on anything forced drama is included in

dealing with a guy experienced in actual combat is actually a great way to match up early superman. Why I like how they added Slade into this series.

Is it just me, or is the fact that the Gorilla keeps referring to the brain as "my love" combined with their goal of finding a place where people were more accepting and tolerant some sort of a subtle innuendo?

Actually there is a female Superman villain with fire powers which I think was the actual inspiration for the villain in this show.

They do refer to Heat Wave as Rory at one point This show just gets better and better.

lol, vid goes on for a few minutes longer than it's actual content XD

Death stroke looks like a Raiden wannabe😂

Yes this is a female version of heatwave.

yeah the female Heat Wave is Mick Rory we're one of the members of of her group was kidnapped by Slade they yelled to her "help me Rory"

“At the same time” Yea if was Clark I would Have known Lois was onto me then “Cream cheese” 😂

It seems they're taking a page from Smallville with having Krypton's destruction being a major past event that was widespread enough that it also effected earth and in the present is the source for every villains tech powers so far, sort of like how it was with the meteor freaks in SM.

I know heatwave’s VA. Laila is awesome!

What’s with Lois throwing herself off buildings to prove Clark is Superman?

Anyone else tired of the “you lied to me because you did not want your secret identity exposed” plot point? That’s information you can’t just put back in the bottle and with what we have seen so far, Clark has every right to keep his identity secret or he might end up strapped to a table and ready for vivisection.

I love this episode

Honestly I originally was bothered by how fast she figured out he was Superman. But I also feel like it’s so obvious that I guess it makes more sense how she was able to figure it out so quickly

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The Deathstroke mask kinda reminds me of Bloodsport

Hey Joel, great video! Just so you know the audio cut out in last few minutes for me. Not sure if everyone else is having this issue

Honestly this episode made me feel like they could have gone with Metallo in Deathstroke's place or even Hank Henshaw

This was great! You should do Justice League: Warworld, it just came out Friday.

My theory based on my 60 years of reading Superman comics is that Jimmy has stumbled upon The Cadmus Project.

um Joel your 8:55 seconds are nothing but silence.

I would hate to see…this Superman fight doomsday

one thing i find odd that you did not mention is how the general talks as though superman's faking being a good guy, despite us the audience knowing it is genuine

I didn’t hear heatwave’s name so I assumed she was a reimagining of volcana from superman the animated series

I’m guessing that gorilla at the end is grodd k or ultra humanite and Lois will get her mind wiped at the end outing the genie back in the bottle cuz there the only other telepaths in the dc universe besides Martian manhunter and most recently power girl do to the Lazarus planet event

2:31 damn they really know how to make the plot good in this series.

Am loving this series

My main issue with this episode is that this is nothing new. The whole "I'm angry at the hero because they lied to me" trope has been done so MANY times and this episode does nothing new. How many episodes are we gonna have to put up with Lois being mad at Clark before she forgives him? I just don't wanna put up with that. I'll just wait until I see clips of future episodes for that inevitable "oh I forgive you, Clark."

So, who do you think is gonna be the gorilla? Grood or the Ultra-Humanite?

I thought she was this worlds version of Volcana.

The way Lois reacted gave very bad Amber vibes from the Invincible show. I haven’t been a fan of this version of the character and obviously she will get over it, but the trope of a love interest getting angry at a secret identity reveal stinks.

Teela, Amber and now Lois. Really? What is the big deal about secret identities that earns such overblown "You lied to me!" reactions?

My super unlikely head cannon is that since death stroke is obviously gonna be a reoccurring antagonist, eventually one of the slade episodes will have the promo be the owner of the daily planet being announced to arrive and when the episode arrives we see it's bruce wayne. so the next time deathstroke shows up, superman can't beat him but batman shows up to kick his ass.

In my head cannon this is a prequel to the 2003 Teen Titans animated series ( like Young Slade )