User Reviews

SPOILERS: This is the first episode I have seen of series to actually look and feel like a comic book. Like Watchmen, It jumps from time period to time period and perspective to perspective. There are a few little jokes here and there (the president and the pet on the counter, but this Bizarro world is more serious, and it does not linger romantically on feelings and understanding. It is a nightmare on a frenzied roller coaster ride that keeps getting worse and worse. Kudos especially goes to the detail that Bizarro world is made for the small screen. Not only is Bizarro world a cube, it also has a cubed atmosphere and a cubed sun. Like a comic book it has a color palette like X-men's Cyclop's POV. The Kent Farmhouse is drawn with painstaking detail to be the opposite of it's real world counterpart. The house is filthy, dishes aren't done, cupboards are in disrepair, mail is piled up and it needs a ton of painting outside. This episode is full of Easter eggs. If it were a real comic it would be one of the best Bizarro issues ever.

OMG this episode was the best in the entire series I loved it, there was lot of action. I think this is the best show in the CW so far let's see if Flash can compete with it.

It's like those Star Trek episodes where they end up in the mirror universe. The characters are slightly different and some of them are just evil.

This channels the same groove. It looks at Superman going through the portal and arriving in Bizzaro's world. Told in chapters, each one focuses on different characters.

Bizarro here is addicted to saving the world, being a celebrity and hooked on Kryptonite. Bizarro Jonathan Kent has superpowers but has his head turned by Bizarro Ally Allston.

To stop both Ally Allstons, Superman finds an unexpected ally in Lt Mitch Anderson.

Some of the story arcs felt rushed such as Anderson's redemption story which I could not really buy into.

There were a few nice touches in Bizarro World. It was a bit low tech, like the Reliant Robin supplied by Trotters Independent Trading.

Okay Anderson gets way too much hate to begin with. A lot of that is either explained, excused, undone or repaired in this episode. Which is one of three reasons I freaking love it. One: it's inventive. Two it's probably as amazing for fans of the comics who know there are two backstories to Bizzaro in the first place as it is to fans of life-action Superman stories, who don't know the rest of the stuff too well. People probably found the going back and forth in the episode a little confusing but I loved it. Anderson had a hard time seeing Superman as anything but Superman and had gone over the edge a couple episodes earlier. Here he learned the truth about literally who he was fighting, that the multiverse even existed or at least that Bizzaro wasn't a clone of Superman but had a life and people he was fighting for. And his jaw was probably to the floor when he saw an Alice in Wonderland version of people he knew. We as the audience knew this was coming, knew what was going on had more of the story than Superman and were pretty blown away. Which is almost always a crowning achievement unto itself.

But also in one completely crushing moment Anderson saw that the solider he killed at Tal's fortress wasn't a monster, he was a family man. And that Superman himself, the Superman he knew and had mistrusted since day one, had a family and had a reason to play things so close to the vest, to put it mildly. He made things right with Superman and instead of getting home like Superman suggested/wanted he fought literally to the death, however out-matched he was. Personally I think a big part of why Superman could forgive him so easily is he realized that even if it was for a good reason, keeping Anderson in the dark about so many things could not have helped the man trust him. That maybe he should have extended some trust to the man...or at least let him know more of what was going on so the guy could make reasonable decisions.

Tal Rho was awesome. Seeing Bizzaro Tal Rho so close to his brother. Bizzaro had said he and his Tal Rho were the closest of brothers and we actually saw that relationship. Superman, obviously didn't. But He saw and experienced what Tal Rho was willing to do to make it right. Whatever 'it' was.

Villains want a pendant. Superman, instead of hiding the pendant on his person or somewhere else, instead comes out of the building with it in his hand and keeps on fighting multiple super powered opponents while holding the pendant in his hands openly. No surprise that the multiple villains succeed in wresting the pendant from him. One of the worst story writing that i have ever seen.