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Mark Wood

No the producers never thought they were getting 15 episodes, that was season three that they were supposed by the cut down to 13. During production of season 3 (and this is for the CW as a whole), they would have been well aware of how little Nextstar was paying for licensing of the various shows, making the entire line up take very significant budget or the actually production studio (in this case Warners) take a bigger hit and produce at a larger budget deficit. Nexstar was willing to pay 500,000 an episode on average for the shows the CW was producing through VBS and/or Warner Brothers, that was a third of what the CW had run off of the year before. Now Superman and Lois was their most expensive show budgeting between 3 - 5 million an episode, so produced at a loss every year, but that loss for its last two seasons was massive. So no production as expecting 15 episode, they had hoped they might keep 13 and their primary cast, but that wasn't going to happen and they discovered that at least on the casting side by May that Warners was negotiating limited roles for all the actors outside of the 4 family members. So they clearly knew that the budget was going to be down quite a bit for season 4. They got the episode count by the end of May, and found out what cast they could work with by very early June. Now they did initially plot this season (exceedingly rough draft concept for the season by the end of the Christmas break of season three). But they did have plenty of time to decide what aspects of the rough plot would continue, when they got down to real staging of what the season scripts should entail before script assignments went out.

Mark Wood

For the grieving, there are three points, but in general I agree and its a weakness of tv shows in general, that you do know that the characters are not going to die and stay dead. Its so very rare for tv shows to really handle grief or one of the two primary characters. But we aren't really there yet (Not saying if we ever get there) to the point we should see that grief. Now the question is what would be preventing characters at this point from actually getting to the point that the grief breaks through like a dam that just collapses. 1. Lois not only does she have the typical issue of a Mom, needing to be strong and hold it together for her kids sake. But she is also having to deal with a continuing mortal threat, to destroy her. And how do you destroy her. You keep taking things away from her. Top of those three would be her kids, her friends, and her career. She really doesn't have time right now to really feel that gut wrenching grief. 2. The kids are also aware of the threats to them (though aren't aware of how very serious the threat actually is), and near adults would also but to a lesser degree not want to burden each other. Most people take a bit of time. 3. And the final the real kicker, that unlike real life situations, they have for a good chunk of this episode the hope that there is a sliver of hope that advanced alien technology might help. Jordan is the only one who really witnesses Lara's expression that point that she doesn't have a way. And his telling to his Mom and Jon are softer than how Lara expressed it to him. And we see why directly in the episode as he sees regaining the heart as the means to save his Dad. That is a huge thing that we normal humans don't ever get to cling to lesson the threaten wave of grief that would usually eventually drown us. So realistically you shouldn't see any of the Kent's drowning in grief as there would still be embers of possibility that they would be clinging to. This is actually examples of realistic writing for the extraordinary situations that these three characters would be experiencing. It reminds me of a scene in Vampire Diaries where Damon kills Jeremy right in front of Elena. Now Jeremy quickly comes back, I mean quickly. But Elena's brother is killed right before her eyes (one of the last of her family) and what does she do, she pleads with her friends to not kill Damon later in that same episode. Thats how should I put it, garbage writing. Even if your someone who wouldn't actively kill, there is almost no one on earth who would actively try and prevent the death of a mass murderer who just killed hours earlier one of you own family the year after you lost both your parents. Utterly garbage writing. That being said. My issue with this episode isn't that we don't get to the real grief (we actually shouldn't yet), but I do wish we had more individual private moments with Lois, Jordan, and Jon to show the building tension on the dread of what if a miracle doesn't happen. We get small brief moments, but the episode needed more.

Leonard Atkins jr

I felt like it wasn’t the real grief yet because until the heart was destroyed they thought he’d be back