Doomsday Goes For The Kill In ‘Superman & Lois' Final Season First Look
Sometimes the battle doesn’t always work out for the heroes
Well, The CW already released the actual trailer, so it’s not like the Superman & Lois panel at San Diego Comic-Con Saturday it was promised for was going to re-release it. So instead, the Superman-less trailer is complemented by the fatal all-out brawl that no longer has to be left to the viewer’s imagination by virtue of this fourth and final season’s existence.
The epic battle with Doomsday (nee Bizarro) defies gravity and puts the CG budget to good use, even for how reduced it is this season, might as well make it look as good as possible. The brawl is everything one hoped it would be. But it wears on Supes, and as Doomsday is so indestructible, it’s clearly wearing on him. So much that he resigns himself to the charging behemoth in the depths of space, but not before going out with some strong heat vision laser eyes.
“I was there for like a week, I was in Vancouver for a week,” joked Tyler Hoechlin, who plays Superman, at the convention, adding that “there are always many tools and flashbacks and whatnot” that his character will be part of while the character stays dead. He also said that the show’s take on the Death of Superman storyline will befit the show’s tone. “You’ll be seeing him team up with a lot of people in ways that maybe we haven’t seen him team up before,” Hoechlin continued. “He’s going to need a lot of help from everybody, so everybody’s trying to find a way to do their part and fill his shoes.”
Hoechlin also touched on Clark’s son Jordan (played by Alex Garfin) and his feeling of needing to step up, with his veering into vigilantism a visible part of the season trailer. He “still has some things to learn about superhero-ing. We’ve not reached that point in his journey where he’s really found who he is… We’re still going to see the evolution of him figuring out how do to the things he needs to do.”
For a season that had to undergo such massive cuts that only five total series regulars remain, the others being Bitsie Tulloch’s Lois Lane, Michael Bishop’s Jonathan Kent, and Michael Cudlitz’s Lex Luthor, it’s good to have an idea of how exactly the supporting cast would be utilized, and for the first time, executive producers Brent Fletcher and Todd Helbing are confirming that all series regulars shed by the budget cuts (likely bar Chad L. Coleman’s Bruno Mannheim) have returned in a substantial capacity of some fashion, with Fletcher saying “They all came back, and we made sure to give everyone who had been a regular on the series a closing out to their character arcs. They all get a real story… and you kind of know where they are into the future.” Helbing even says the town of Smallville comes even more alive this season, truly becoming its own character “in a way it hadn’t been in the first three. All of the other townsfolk that you’ve gotten to know, you get to know a little bit more.” So that’s not only the Dylan Walsh, Wole Parks, and Tayler Buck the trailer already showed, the reported Erik Valdez, and the hinted Emmanuelle Chriqui and Inde Navarrette, but Sofia Hasmik’s Chrissy Beppo, who was last seen learning she’s pregnant with Kyle Cushing’s baby.
On top of all that, there’s their approach to Jimmy Olsen, played by Douglas Smith, who is the one Daily Planet colleague that’s been revealed so far, on a Smallville-set show that hasn’t headed back to Metropolis. Instead of being the “super quirky, dorky photographer guy” he is in most adaptations, Helbing says this series’s version is “the life of the party. He’s the guy hat everybody at the office loves” while Fletcher remarks “Everybody wants to be Jimmy Olsen’s friend, especially Clark Kent. So we have a story developed around that dynamic.”
Superman & Lois’s final season airs Thursdays on The CW, premiering on October 17 with 2 episodes. With weekly releases thereafter, the series finale should air December 12 unless they decide to bookend the season with another full-night event, which would land it on December 5 instead. The full panel is already online, back linked so videos aren't stacking in favor of the first look being posted below.
