Control: Superman and Lois Lane…

I, Dalton Lewis, want to see the new Arrowverse show about Superman and Lois Lane. I know that a lot of people hate Superman because he’s way overpowered and boring, but I don’t think so. He and Lois Lane are two of my favorite characters. Superman is, well, the Man of Steel: a quiet geek who is good at combat and saving lives. He is every geek’s greatest fantasy: to secretly be great no matter how mundane and normal one’s real life is. Superman is that guy. He will always be a nice, kind man who loves people and tries to save them. Richie said that the Arrowverse Superman is one of the best incarnations of the character, and he is dead right: Superman is kind and giving and good and a nice guy and a geek who uses ridiculous powers to save as many people as possible.

Lois Lane? She is a smart, independent woman who wants a nice guy. She’s not defined by her looks — she isn’t a babe pretending to know rocket science. She’s a genuinely brilliant person who’s a good foil for Superman. She’s smart. She’s a capable reporter and not simply a pretty face. She fights to make it in a man’s world. She doesn’t flinch from anything. She’s a woman that any guy wants on his side. We want her, not a babe: we don’t want someone who is just a pretty face. We want Lois Lane and not Lana Lang. Lana Lang is a pretty face who loves Lex Luthor and his money and connections.

I think the Superman allegory is especially important because we need someone bright and shining in this difficult time. I mean, things are so bad that we can’t even leave the house without wearing a mask. 225,000 Americans are dead from the super psycho death virus. This is an unconscionable number of dead people. This is unacceptable on any level and must be answered for. In this type of situation we need myths and legends to distract us during this terrible time.

Enter superheroes. They can alleviate a little bit of the pain of failing to go out of one’s house, the pain of many people getting fired, and the pain of not succeeding in life. I could secretly be a superhero, right? I think that everyone can think that.

Some days I talk on this blog about how bad things are, how reality sucks, how people are dying, and how sports and movies are meant to distract us from a terrible reality. I don’t think that today. I think today that people are finally finding that art can elevate us beyond a normal, mundane life and give us a greater existence.

Let’s dream: dream of something better, something brighter, something more real than the bills and the work and the responsibilities. That dream — that’s the idea that our lives can mean something more than just paying the bills and working out and trying to make it as a writer.

Superman is that dream. Lois Lane is that dream.

Thanks, and take care, friends.