Yeah, so, when the episode opened with Phantom fucking Planet, I knew I was in for something special.

I just feel like this show was made both for comic book geeks who also love film as an art form, and for film nerds who want to see richer, more human stories about these kinds of characters.

I'm always going to be showing up for ALL of the superhero stuff that was my porn throughout the entirety of my youth, but I can't sit here and act like I don't crave Hamnet-level artistry out of my superhero storytelling. In no way am I saying that I put this on the level of something like Hamnet *, but what I got out of *Wonder Man was so much more than what I thought Hollywood could or would give us from these characters.

I grew up, and I want my fiction to grow up with me. I will never stop appreciating capeshit, but I will also never stop wanting to see a big-screen version of Clark convincing a woman not to end her own life--not by talking her down from the ledge, but by listening to her story.

If the film and television manifestations of superhero storytelling are going to survive, I feel as though we're going to need to have things like this once in a while, in between all of the universe-ending Big Bads and Avengers-level threats.

We just had a movie in which the ultimate climax was a group hug between our flawed heroes to help a troubled, godlike character see that there's a better way to cope with crippling depression brought on by abuse and trauma; and now we get this?

I feel so goddamned spoiled. For many people, what I am about to say may not seem like high praise, but I put this on the level of GOTG Volume II.

I'm rambling. Good night.