Ya Know, It's A Good Thing Jon-El Was So Eager To Watch His Television Appearance Because He Would Not

Ya know, it's a good thing Jon-El was so eager to watch his television appearance because he would not have fit on that couch otherwise.

WHAT FAMILY OF FOUR HAS A THREE SEATER LOUNGE IN FRONT OF THE TV??

Whhhyyyyy

New death laser just dropped

I can't believe they found a third alternate universe!

No idea what "Banana Republic" is but I trust your judgement and it is a great insult even with no context.

Also yes, the Jons so need to just insult each other's because they both deserve it. "A brief roast battle between cataclysmic events" anyone? It's the right episode number.

If at any point this season Jonathan Kent makes a comment on how Jon-El dresses, I think we, as a collective all need to remember that this is the outfit he decided to wear for his first day at a new school and that he has no room to talk.

Whatsoever.

Why am I being blamed for this?

This is slander.

You came up with this all on your own.

I have been lurking for some amount of time now and i shall wait no longer. It seems the people have ignored and been deprived of the wonderful ship that is: Jon and Timmy. I mean why else would you stare at a mans thirst traps trying to figure out his muscles other than to satiate your inner homosexual desires?? and why would you post thirst traps if not to indulge the broskis from the football team, hmm?

Merge Jon should have one eye heat vision and one eye ice vision. It's be super impractical but gosh darn it, it would look cool!

The show doesn't really expand on Ally's recruitment tactics other than 'drug em during the first meeting' but it really does seem like she tries to work herself into a parental role to her followers.

Like with Lucy. Her mum left when she was young, her dad was absent and work obsessed for her entire childhood and she hard core resents her sister who tried to raise her because she believes that she's the reason their mum left. Ally then came in and filled that motherly role that she was missing and then it builds on the abandonment issues so if anyone tries to get Lucy away from Ally it automatically places them as the enemy in her mind because she finally got the parental figure she wanted. This works especially in Lucy's case because the person who's trying to separate them is Lois, the person who she already blames for the loss of a mum.

It's a similar case with Jon-El. His father seemed like an absent and just generally useless parent. It also comes across that his mother didn't really make many strong stands against his father until she finally hits her breaking point when she and Jordan leave him. This is after Jon has already left, though, and his leaving is one of the prime reasons for her to speak up against Kal so it really seems like she didn't do it before. He and his brother were shunted to the side for fame and media attention and were kinda just told to suck it up.

Ally Alston preys on the emotionally neglected and uses their abandonment issues and resentment of their families to her advantage. It's actually a quite interesting portrayal of cults and emotional abuse and I wish it didn't get quite so sidelined for the weekly showing of aliens and people on space drugs throwing hands and yeeting each other into the sky.