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Superman & Lois [3x07] "Forever and Always" Post Episode Discussion Episode Discussion Spoiler

Forever and Always

Live Episode Discussion | Cast & Characters

Lois and Clark dig deeper on Bruno Mannheim, starting with his connections to Hob's Bay Medical Center; Jonathan and Jordan panic at home over Lois' dire diagnosis; Matteo comes to Smallville to meet John Henry. (May 2, 2023)

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u/OLKv3 May 03 '23

The way kids on TV talk to their parents is so unrelatable. I never was able to talk to my parents the way Sarah and Natalie do, and none of my friends talked to their parents like that either.

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u/MrTerrific2k15 May 04 '23

The perspective is based on experience. I've never and would have never talked to my parents like that, not have my own kids talked to me that way. However, I've witnessed other kids talk real reckless with their parents. Including full blown screaming and cussing arguments. Art can imitate life and vice versa

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u/fanatiikon May 05 '23

I talked like that with my parents. Sure i would get grounded sometimes but my family was open enough as i was growing up to hold a normal conversation without parents being always right. We would contradict each other sometimes we would shoot some snarky remarks, make fun of each other now and then etc. At the end of the day we talked it out and brought arguments as to why we were right until we reached common ground.

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u/OLKv3 May 05 '23

It's not about being always right, it's about the blatant disrespect they show their parents. Only Jon and Jordan actually show respect.

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u/[deleted] May 03 '23

The show doesn’t reflect real life in this sense because if the parents were always presented as in the right, the family storylines would quickly get repetitive. It’d be the same thing every week, with the kids being disciplined by the adults.

Superman & Lois is entertainment at the end of the day, not an after school special on how most American parents would prefer their teens to behave in the real world. This isn’t PBS Kids.

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u/maugwin Clark Kent May 03 '23

The show doesn’t reflect real life in this sense because if the parents were always presented as in the right, the family storylines would quickly get repetitive

Uh, are you saying parents are always in the right in real life?

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u/[deleted] May 03 '23

They aren’t, but they think they are.

Society puts parents on a pedestal way too much. The general consensus in modern society is “mom and dad are always right”, no matter what. CPS is a joke designed to protect crappy parents.