The following contains spoilers for Superman & Lois,Season 2, Episode 10, "Bizarros in a Bizarro World," which aired Tuesday, April 26, on The CW.
Many Superman & Lois fans were eager for insight into the Bizarro World once Season 2 revealed Ally Allston had taken over the alternate reality. It became a more intriguing prospect once viewers learned Bizarro wasn't a villain and was trying to save his world by coming over to the main Arrowverse to kill its Ally. Audiences wanted to know how Bizarro's home was broken so badly and why he hadn't been able to stop it.
The curtain was dropped after Tyler Hoechlin's Man of Steel traveled to Bizarro World. He soon found out Ally's army was stronger than expected and a much greater threat. However, while it was great for fans to see the foundations of this dark movement that threatened the main Earth, Bizarro World's character development and its characters' motivations created a major problem for the overall story.
A lot of the issue has to do with Ally herself. All season long, she's been called a "dark god," especially by Bizarro. Her aim was to unite her two halves in what's been deemed the "Ascension." Yet it's never revealed what this will do. Fans posited it'd make her the New God known as Granny Goodness, while others thought it was a way of finding the Anti-Life Equation. No part of this was explained in the Bizarro World, even though Anderson tried to merge and Ally sent Evil Jonathan to Earth-Prime to merge with himself. To be this far into Season 2 and not have clarity is bad storytelling.
On top of that, there's no evidence to show why the Bizarro halves are the better halves, which they've all been saying throughout. Are they more powerful? If so, then why would they need their Earth-Prime counterparts? Some backstories in Bizarro World were way too vague to create any connection to their Prime halves. For example, it's never revealed who raised Inverse Clark, since he didn't land in Smallville and didn't meet the Kents. Superman & Lois should have mentioned that, especially because he still turned out good and wanted to move to the farm town. It's also never explained how Tal-Rho ended up on Bizarro Earth and why he was a hero, helping Kal-El fight crime. This would have provided context for Tal originally siding with Ally, then betraying her when he realized he had to help Prime Kal out.
There's also no rationale for how Inverse Lana joined Ally's cult. What was the selling point? What inspired her to use X-Kryptonite to become a super-soldier? She was a bartender before she married Tal-Rho, so that's quite a character leap. To make it worse, Tal becoming good again angered Lana, so there has to be some reason she hated all Supermen and wanted her husband to kill them. Superman & Lois threw marital turmoil in without any insight to the characters' previous domestic life. That's a travesty because with Lana and Clark being so close in Earth-Prime, fans would want to know what forced them apart in Bizarro World, and it would've also added more color to Tal-Rho's story.
Lastly, the show omitted how Inverse Ally got wind of the other Earth, found her Prime self and began the mission to unite the Oblivion Stone pendants. "Bizarros in a Bizarro World" threw random occurrences together and had characters making uncharacteristic decisions instead of giving wanted explanation and bringing plot points together. With Superman & Lois prequel comics detailing the Kents' past and how Clark evolved as Superman, there could be an opportunity to expand on the Bizarro World in print. But Superman & Lois the TV series is awfully lacking when it comes to explaining the dimension's key players, why they're doing what they're doing and what the impact will be on Earth-Prime.
Superman & Lois airs Tuesdays at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT on The CW.