Board Thread:Supergirl discussions/@comment-31722073-20190318142027/@comment-27700324-20190321034351

While i agree that they shouldn't be perfect, the characters should make mistakes. However even at the beginning, Superman just did choices that no normal human being would make. I wasn't one of those people individually counting the buildings falling. I was however the one looking after the film to find a real aftermath, a scene with him as Clark Kent in BvS that wasn't just to advance the plot. Just something with him being human. Him recognizing those mistakes you mentioned. Henry's Superman was just proving classic Lex Luthor right. In the end, they made Lex less subtle not because they failed to get Lex, but because they purposefully knew we would agree with his point. So they made him someone who just giggled with his jars of piss and his unsubtle plans to kill Superman so that we would see him as the worse person. The DCEU didn't make these characters better towards the end of its run because of some grand plan. They did it because they realized their failings last minute in development and were trying to fix them. You can choose to believe that Superman learned more from being dead after just punching Zod and investigating Batman, or you can accept that they just tried and failed to fix a broken situation they put themselves in from the beginning.

I'm not going to pretend that comparing Jon Cryer and Jesse Eisenberg is fair. It really isn't. Jon is a much more experienced Lex Luthor that has probably fought Superman the most out of every adaptation in live action. Jesse meanwhile has tangled with Superman once as Lex. The proper comparison would be my #2 Lex Luthor on my list Michael Rosenbaum. His Lex Luthor was just as experienced as Jesse's around the 7th season of the series when he officially became Clark's enemy. Plus they both knew his secret at this time. Michael's Lex made mistakes and generally failed to even lesser foes like Green Arrow during his plans. However, he also had the motive and subtle nature of Lex Luthor from the beginning. He slipped up at moments, sure. However Jesse's practically wanted to be caught in how he collected himself. His various motives were slipping together at random and those are core elements you can't just fix later. He was just not a good one.