Seg has a plan for getting rid of his annoying hitchhiker, meaning all he and Adam need to do in the meantime is avoid Lobo’s attentions. On Kandor, Lyta makes some demands of her own while on Wegthor, the resistance prepares for a big offensive.

Krypton is still taking its sweet time a little, building foundations and obviously working towards some bigger stuff later on. That said, for all that there isn’t a lot of action here, what there is shows invention.

On Colu, Seg is fighting to stop Brainiac from taking full control of him. He has a plan which he shares with a dubious Adam about how he can rid himself of his pesky passenger for good so that they can attempt to use the Zeta Beam to get back home. The only problems are avoiding the attentions of the now seriously pissed off Lobo and whether or not Adam can trust that his friend still really is his friend and not Braniac intent on one of his schemes.

This is by far the strongest plot ac of the show, with Cuffe getting to really show some range as an actor, particularly with his interactions with Brainiac in the mental landscape as contrasted with his interactions with Adam in the real world. Lobo continues to be a lowest common denominator villain whose appeal largely resides on Emmett J Scanlon’s charm and enthusiasm and the inventiveness of the writers and FX team with regards to his healing factor. Rumour has it that there’s a Lobo spinoff in the pipeline, and if Scanlon isn’t involved in this, I for one will want to know why.

Meanwhile, back on Krypton there’s so many different threads to follow that none of them really gets enough time for us to care. On Kandor, Lyta continues her complex relationship with the man who is at once her unborn son from the future and her head of state. She has plans for a quick and bloodless way to end the war with the resistance, but Dru Zod needs some persuading. Props to Colin Salmon for selling what little he’s given so well. For all that his Zod is clearly not a man to be trusted, there’s still at least a tiny question mark as to how much he’s a self-interested maniac and how much he genuinely is a patriot haunted by having witnessed the death of his home in an alternate reality. If only we got more.

Instead, we have the distraction of two additional plot threads – Nyssa’s infiltration of the resistance and her apparently reluctant complicity in undermining them to save her son, which has potential if only we got more of it, and Jayna’s continued adventures in the wastes which just don’t seem to be really going anywhere. Now she’s met up with Dev, there’s the potential for an interesting story to be told but again, not enough time given to it. It feels like all the Krypton-bound parts are jostling for space with one another with the result that not one gets the attention it deserves, while Adam and Seg get the juicy stuff all to themselves on the other side of the galaxy. For a show that balanced its ensemble cast so well in its maiden season, it can’t help but feel frustrating at times.

Verdict: It’s still very good, but it’s starting to creak at the edges a bit with how many different plot strands it’s trying to squeeze in. Hopefully focus will get tighter soon. 7/10

Greg D. Smith