You do know DC *created* the whole comic book multiverse trope, right?

THE FLASH OF TWO WORLDS in FLASH #123 in September 1961 introduced Earth 2 as the world where the original Golden Age stories (1938-56) took place. This was followed by dozens of parallel worlds until CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS destroyed the infinite earth multiverse and created a single new universe to replace it.

(But they kept on doing stories set in other worlds, they just called them Elseworlds. (A concept they use in the movies like JOKER.)

Over the past 40 years they've brought the multiverse of distinct parallel worlds *back*, expanding it with alternate branching timelines through HYPERTIME, bringing in separate multiverses (including the one lost in 1985) and an all encoming OMNIVERSE to contain it all. With one separate baby ELSEWORLD universe.

Most recently, the main DC narrative universe found itself sealed off from the multiverse(s) but entangled with the separate ELSEWORLD, now corrupted by DARKSEID, into a (temporary, like everything in comics) duoverse in a ying/yang relationship. The corrupted baby ELSEWORLD is the new ABSOLUTE UNIVERSE of the ABSOLUTE line of comics, a world where the DC trinity is just getting started but stripped to the characters, metatextual core. Four issues each, so far, but already the new versions have established themselves as must-reads for anybody interested in superhero fiction. A Batman who never had money, a Wonder Woman raised in hell in a world without amazons, a Superman who is alone in a hostile world, hunted by a paramilitary corporate army including one Lieutenant Lois Lane. With great digital art and compelling characters. WONDER WOMAN is the best, but all three are completely different yet at core recognizably the same person underneath

Don't dis the multiverse concept. Done right it allows stories not possible without it.

(Mind you, Marvel has not always done it right. NO WAY HOME, yes. MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS, no.)

Execution matters

The answer to the length problem is that even now, doing a superhero show properly is expensive. In addition, where other genres (cops, doctors, lawyers) can cookie cutter entire seasons with a good formula (See HOUSE, MD for a show that could've run forever. Or the LAW & ORDER franchise.), Superhero shows need variety. Villain of the week gets boring without a unifying plotline to hold a season together. After a while the writing gets harder and harder. As good as they were early on, Supergirl and Flash both outlived their welcome, albeit for different reasons.

Good news is that CGI will continue to get cheaper and producers won't have to cut corners as much. The series may not run longer but the spectacle should grow. Compare Superman and Lois to its precursor, Lois and Clark. The next go around, say in 5-6 years will have big shoes to fill but it will have better tools to work with.

Amusing thought: Jordan married a brunnette and Jon a blonde, almost certainly Candace and they gave Clark and Lois at least nine!!! Grandkids. Six of them blonds, so Jon and Candace (still young, the oldest looked maybe 10) must've been busy. 😎

Or had some twins. 🤔

A well thought out and executed episode, definitely spinning gold out of the Straw Nextstar left them. (Don't think Hebling and co will have trouble landing a new, properly funded, project.

I really wish the released the full cast list with character names to know who the wives and grandkids are. To say nothing of the adult supersons. Jon's adult actor looks like he could play Clark himself. Which makes you wonder about a spinoff of the adult twins. Especially after the scene where Jordan revives Jon, suggesting their powers are linked. Maybe they do have full kryptonian power but manifest it in different ways. There is precedent in the comics, from tactile tk to the flare.

All in all, a great ending that makes me wonder if they drew a bit of inspiration from the best non-Superman Superman story ever; Kurt Busiek's SECRET IDENTITY. (Look it up, folks.)

The show will be missed but they went out on top.

Minor problem is Diana looks tiny and AWW#2 makes it clear she isn't. She's at least 6'8' judging by the soldiers beside her.

(They barely reach her breastbone.)

Her height is a story point, too. And a nice callback to THE FINAL FRONTIER elseworlds where she was taller than both Supes and Bats. Truly "amazonian".

Bats being somewhat taller would fly but not Supes.

Nice art, though.