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The 2 key flaws in the movie still were not resolved.
1. Batman only pauses from killing Superman because their mothers have the same name. That's one hell of a coincidence that stopped Batman from basically being a cold blooded murderer.
The name issue is a little lame- They have always shared the name, but as a plot device it is kind of trite. I would have rather have had Supes flat out say "they are going to kill my mother".
2. They returned to the scene and no one bothers looking for Lois despite Batman and Superman knowing that she was just there recently with them. Batman is still 100% worthless in this fight so not sure why he just doesn't go looking for her and the spear while Superman and Wonder Women deal with Doomsday. Again, the movie relies on one hell of a coincidence/good fortune that Superman hears Lois in the middle of the battle and that the roof doesn't simply crush her instantly when it collapses rather than just cause her to drown.
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Starting with the coincidence- superman hearing her is not a stretch- they established in the man of steel that he has to conciously block out his senses in order to not be overwhelmed- she was struggling for a bit before it registered to him what it was.
Beyond that- I will say it was stupid of lois to still be hanging around there.
Yes- she was there for the batman superman fight. she arrived in a helicopter. She plays her part, and the story moves on.
Batman takes off and saves Martha Kent.
Superman flies off to get Doomsday.
Batman finishes up, and we see him fly towards the doomsday battle as Martha kent is being led off by police.
Supes and doomsday fly in to space and gets nuked.
Doomsday drops, Batman baits him back to the docks.
Wonder Woman saves Batmans ass.
Lois logically should have left during all of the above. There was nothing at the docks for her to do.
As for sending batman to look for the spear, The time wasn't there.
Batman is the only one to figure out that the spear might kill doomsday.
After his plane goes down and wonder woman saves his ass, they line up and she asks him why he led the creature back there- that is when he tells them he wanted to use the spear.
At that point, Doomsday blasts them, Batman has to duck and cover, supes and wonder woman dick around trying to whoop his ass, and that is when Supes hears lois.
The time just wasnt there for Bats to go after the spear, because Clark broke off and headed that way before Bats had a chance.
In all honesty, in the first watching of the movie, I was absolutely certain that Aquaman was going to emerge from the water with the spear and save lois.