Superman & Lois "A Regular Guy " 4x7 Reaction (Steven)

Nah it's not just that. It wasn't cutting down the season - they cut their production budget harsh, something like 50%. Something you don't notice because - the production pulled out all the stops and so what you're seeing is really good production on a pennies budget. For example, those normally side-characters were guest actors that were only able to appear in certain episodes. And they actually demolished the barn at the end of S3 production. Thus their strategy was to have strong plot centric episodes.. because with all these circumstances (especially actors only being signed on for key episodes) they were stuck with standalone-epsiodes rather than anything serial enough for an arc. The alternative of a "regular season" was just not possible. And pre-planned because they knew of these circumstances before production (credit to CW for telling them they would be canceled before production so that they could organize things properly).