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icepixieOn a whim, I decided to get the first disc of Lois and Clark from Netflix. I wasn't sure what to expect besides baggy 90s clothes, and...wow. This is very much like Nora Ephron got ahold of the Superman franchise, isn't it? With a smidgen of X-Files thrown in, given the whole government conspiracy angle that seems like it will become a running theme?
It's completely ridiculous, the dialogue is often terrible, and the FX are awful even for 1993, but I like all the characters and I've taken a shine to Lois/Clark, because of course I have. I appreciate her "you do the fluffy women's interest stories, I'll do the hard-hitting investigative reporting" angle.
But. Two questions: How long until Lois sees the obvious, and can I skip most of the episodes until she figures it out? Better yet, could I watch them secure in the knowledge that she's known all along (because "not wearing glasses" is not an effective disguise!) and will whip it out at an opportunely awesome moment?
Because much as I like these people, I don't think I can sit through season upon season of her having to carry the idiot ball where Clark = Superman is concerned.
P.S. Your fic recs, I want them.
It's completely ridiculous, the dialogue is often terrible, and the FX are awful even for 1993, but I like all the characters and I've taken a shine to Lois/Clark, because of course I have. I appreciate her "you do the fluffy women's interest stories, I'll do the hard-hitting investigative reporting" angle.
But. Two questions: How long until Lois sees the obvious, and can I skip most of the episodes until she figures it out? Better yet, could I watch them secure in the knowledge that she's known all along (because "not wearing glasses" is not an effective disguise!) and will whip it out at an opportunely awesome moment?
Because much as I like these people, I don't think I can sit through season upon season of her having to carry the idiot ball where Clark = Superman is concerned.
P.S. Your fic recs, I want them.
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Date: 2015-08-01 11:12 pm (UTC)Also, by skipping ahead you will miss John Shea creating the definitive live-action Lex Luthor. Shea is dead flat brilliant in the part, but his primary story arc wraps at the end of the first season, and while he reappears briefly at intervals thereafter, the Season 3 writers totally lose their minds as they forcibly morph his character into an Adam West Bat-villain. Both Michael Rosenbaum and John Glover in Smallville are drawing on parts of what Shea builds in Lois & Clark, but Shea has better overall material to work with -- at least up to the aforementioned Bat-villainizing.
Also, I liked first-season Jimmy Olsen (Michael Landes) far better than later Jimmy (Justin Whalen), and while they didn't do a lot with the Cat Grant character (Tracey Scoggins), it may be informative to look at the Scoggins portrayal in contrast to what we'll see this fall on Supergirl, where the character reappears as a major supporting player.
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Date: 2015-08-02 10:31 pm (UTC)Oh goooodddddd. I'm not sure I can do two seasons. I know there are cute things (like apparently Clark and Lois fake being married multiple times? That is my bulletproof narrative kink), but I don't know if the show is good enough for me to deal with idiocy in service of plot for that long.
Also, by skipping ahead you will miss John Shea creating the definitive live-action Lex Luthor.
While I didn't mind Shea in the first episode, I gotta admit, the Superman angle is not what draws me to this show. I have the vaguest of knowledge of the mythos, and no real urge to increase it. I did enjoy that the universe they're operating in appears to be slightly more technologically advanced than ours, like with the colonists going up to the space station in the pilot. (And then there's "Wear your beepers!" which was LOL-hilarious.) If they do more with that, I could get interested.
Cat Grant is COMPLETELY RIDICULOUS, but I can't deny I enjoyed her character in a popcorny, scenery-chewing way.