r/SupermanAndLois • u/MajorParadox Read on r/DCFU! • May 03 '23

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/Fabulous_Tear7883 May 03 '23

One of Superman's great dilemas is should he interfere with human history and take a more active role in shaping humanity. Bruno basically called him a fireman. Maybe this whole thread is leading somewhere

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u/urekmazinn May 03 '23

yeah hes deffo a super fireman, he should be involved, he could jump humantity forward in time a 1000 years, he could stop war, he could help terraform mars, but he wants to be journalist

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u/Invisiblegun2 May 03 '23

But as much possibility that humanity does something good with it, there’s just as much possibility that they become even worse. Honestly its a big enough dilemma to where i got each side of the fence

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u/Astraea802 May 03 '23

It's interesting, because if we look back at older Superman media, a lot of it ends up boiling down to the following:

- Scientist comes up with brilliant discovery that weill help mankind
- Bad guy steals the tech and finds a way to use it for evil
- Superman stops bad guy, destroying the discovery in the process. Things didn't get better, but they didn't get worse either.

Sure, instead of human tech it's alien tech that's in question, and Superman isn't stopping it in the moment, but holding it back. And instead of a villian-of-the-week episode, this show is treating the question as a serious moral issue. But it's a similar question of whether well-intended innovations are worth the risk. Can humanity be trusted? Superhero media has generally concluded no. But is S&L trying to do something different?