You know what. If it isn't set on Supergirl's Earth where Supes is already established...good.
Let's do this. Let's do this show entirely from the Lois and Lex perspective for a season and a half, eventually coming to a massive rift between them as Lex just goes full fucking I'm gonna achieve my personal goals no matter what. Meanwhile Lois uses intern photographer, Jimmy Olsen to be to person she usually winds up talking to so she can explain what she solved about the mystery.
At the start of Season 2, The Planet gets a handful of new hires, including a kind of bumbling country guy whom Lois doesn't pay much mind but has a few scenes with. By the middle of that Season, it begins.
He shows up. Rumors about this guy have been happening since the second episode of this season, because the first episode of that season ends with that bumbling country boy walking home through Suicide Slums and witnesses a mugging in progress, where upon he takes off his glasses and starts to undo his top button. Throughout the first half of the second season from then on, rumors and urban myth of an impossible good samaritan, who always flees the scene. Averting violence, rescuing people, or generally doing good. Lois follows up at one point with someone who claims to have been talked down from jumping off a roof by a man who leapt up onto the roof. They sat and talked to them.
Let's say, for the sake of several modern adaptations, the mid season finale of season two has one of Luthor's own experiments that they've been alluding too over time, the Parasite, is loose.
He's big. He's mean. He can kill or severely disable with a touch and he's barreling toward Lois and Jimmy.
A car hits him in the face.
A car is not driven into his face.
A car hits him in the face, and then with a thunderous crash a figure lands off the arc of an amazing long jump between Lois, Jimmy, and the recovering monster.
Cape, T-shirt, jeans (the best part of the Nu52 relaunch, aesthetically) Superman
