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That’s why it’s so refreshing to watch My Adventures With Superman, a.k.a. “the Superman anime.” Starring Jack Quaid, the show writes Clark Kent as perhaps the most earnest, sweetie pie-coded herb he’s ever been. This is a Clark that sees the ugliness in the world and chooses to be a good guy. He’s constantly saving cats in trees — like, all the time — and it’s infinitely more compelling than the sad-sack supers we’ve had for the past half-century.
Review: ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Shakes It Up In “We’ll Always Have Tom Paris”
Another solid season two episode shows that the team behind Lower Decks knows what already works on the show and where they can find some new areas to explore. The series also shows confidence in moving beyond simple Star Trek gags to add a bit of loving commentary on the franchise itself. Like Brad, we know that they love it, even when it punches you in the face.
'She-Ra' rewrote the script for TV's queer love stories. Here's why it matters
Throughout its run, “She-Ra” has not hesitated to depict how feelings can be scary because they can make you vulnerable. This moment between Catra and Adora shows that being honest with yourself and others about your feelings can also be powerful and heroic. It’s significant that this message is conveyed through a queer love story because there are still so many forces in the real world that want you to believe that love is wrong.
Inside the Groundbreaking Queer Reboot of ‘She-Ra’
In addition to embracing a diversity of races, genders, and body types, the She-Ra reboot fleshes out the characters and their backstories, giving them fully-fledged arcs and complicating the good/evil binary of the original. The princesses of the rebellion aren’t simply heroic, and the soldiers of the Horde aren’t simply villains; everyone’s just a human being (or scorpion person or alien clone or flying horse, as the case may be) trying to make their way in a world that doesn’t offer easy solutions. It’s also, incidentally, really funny.
INTERVIEWS
The creative team behind Star Trek: Lower Decks did a Q&A today with ReedPop’s Metaverse. Creator Mike McMahan was joined by supervising director Barry Kelly, writer M. Willis, and character designer Marisa Livingston.