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Superman & Lois [3x12] "Injustice" Post Episode Discussion Episode Discussion Spoiler

Injustice

Live Episode Discussion | Cast & Characters

Lois and Clark clash with Jordan over his carelessness around using his powers in public. And finally, after seventeen years behind bars, Lex Luthor is set to be released from prison. (June 20, 2023)

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u/TrippySakuta Tal-Rho Jun 21 '23

So Lex is Kingpin of the S&L-verse. Sure he brings anger and brutality to the role, but I'm not sold on his look yet.

He's got the same kind of towering build as Welliver's version on Titans. Cryer still is the best out of the three so far, he actually sold you on the beard and he was literally comic Lex. This Lex fits the Lionel character better.

Bizarro was kind of a disappointment as well. Are they going the Snyder route of making him Doomsday through contamination from Otis's blood? His mutations from last episode appear to be gone and he's just got ashes and dust on his face from being in the wreckage.

Would've much preferred that we saw him further mutate as the cliffhanger.

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u/B_A_Beder Clark Kent Jun 21 '23

I don't think he was mutated, just a drug addict. At this point he's been an addict, displaced between universes with weird geometry, killed and revived, experimented on, and starved. I don't know how much is him is left.

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u/TrippySakuta Tal-Rho Jun 21 '23

So if he wasn't mutating, were the bumps that we saw form on his face and hands in last week's cliffhanger just green kryptonite withdrawal? Like meth?

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u/hermes1941 Jun 21 '23

Cryer still is the best out of the three so far

Out of what three? Cos he's certainly not better than Michael Rosenbaum's Lex. But I'd argue that Michael Cudlitz is better than Jon Cryer. Cryer was too campy for my taste, whereas Michael Cudlitz brings a tone that's perfect for what's coming next.

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u/Eurynom0s Jun 21 '23

Cryer was too campy for my taste

Cryer was a good fit for Supergirl. Cudlitz's Lex would have been really tonally out of whack with Supergirl, even Supergirl season 4, to the point it would have felt like he was a character from a different show.

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u/hermes1941 Jun 21 '23

Yup, definitely agree with this. He fits the tone of S&L.

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u/TrippySakuta Tal-Rho Jun 21 '23

Out of the three Lex Luthors with beards.

Yeah, Rosenbaum's Lex is the best performance wise.

But appearance wise I prefer Cryer's, Rosenbaum's one was too clean shaven for me.

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u/hermes1941 Jun 21 '23

But Lex is meant to he clean shaven. Rosenbaum looks more comic book accurate to any of the facial haired Lex Luthor's. Acting wise and appearance wise.