{"id":13093,"date":"2021-05-27T10:00:44","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T15:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=13093"},"modified":"2021-05-27T02:30:09","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T07:30:09","slug":"the-unbelievable-part-of-superman-and-lois","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2021\/05\/the-unbelievable-part-of-superman-and-lois\/","title":{"rendered":"The unbelievable part of &#8216;Superman and Lois&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The whole super powers thing? I&#8217;m basically a Superman apologist (Synderverse excepted). Clark Kent at his gosh-darn-shucks-iest moving back to the family farm and town he loves? I will eat that up.\u00a0Star reporter quitting in statement fashion in light of corporate actions? Lois Lane <a href=\"https:\/\/www.syfy.com\/syfywire\/how-lois-lane-has-reflected-our-view-of-empowered-women-over-the-years\">hasn&#8217;t been one<\/a> to retreat from a challenge for <a href=\"https:\/\/bookriot.com\/lois-lane-and-sexism\/\">a few decades now<\/a> (post-Comics Code Authority era, and even then, she still got crafty).\u00a0A small-town newspaper with only one person on staff until Lois shows up? Extremely accurate nowadays, and wait until she finds out about Substack.<\/p>\n<p>But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbr.com\/superman-lois-recap-spoilers-season-1-episode-6\/\">Smallville&#8217;s football team playing Metropolis<\/a>? Public Metropolis? Not, say, <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2016\/01\/north-tama-to-play-football-in-des-moines-metro-area\/\">Metropolis Christian<\/a> or\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/08\/mason-city-newman-again\/\">Metropolis Newman<\/a>? Location issues aside \u2014 and not to mention it being a day game \u2014\u00a0<em>that<\/em> is a bridge too far.<\/p>\n<p>Besides, given other scenes in the episode, Metropolis is WAY too big to be a one-high-school city, anyway. \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The whole super powers thing? I&#8217;m basically a Superman apologist (Synderverse excepted). Clark Kent at his gosh-darn-shucks-iest moving back to the family farm and town he loves? I will eat that up.\u00a0Star reporter quitting in statement fashion in light of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2021\/05\/the-unbelievable-part-of-superman-and-lois\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13093"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13108,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13093\/revisions\/13108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}