When I heard that Rachel Brosnahan had been cast as Lois, that was the first moment I started feeling cautiously optimistic.

I’m still thinking about some of the structural/franchise-movie-starter choices, but what mattered most to me was having a good Superman characterization, and I got that.

The new movie is the first live action Superman movie to come out in my lifetime that seems to have been made by people who understand this.

A key power fantasy of Superman is the idea that we can be arbitrarily powerful and still be guided by the better angels of our nature. That power need not corrupt. What makes him Superman is not that he’s the most powerful, it’s that despite being the most powerful he’s Superman anyway.

I’ll be interested to hear what you think!

ON GOLDUNE POND

(For the record: I’m on here.)

I can’t believe I missed this. All my alerts failed me. Or I failed them, or something

I loved that book. And what a way to nail the ending.

How many times in my life am I going to see the Lakers start to slip in relevance, only to get to trade for a top-tier talent that none of the other teams in the league even knew was available?

I think it has more to do with Texans not knowing how to drive in cold weather, and school districts not wanting to be responsible for road accidents. But even when justified, last minute school closures are a hassle for working parents of young children, such as myself.