While I feel Superman works best in animation due to the nature of his powers and the world around him they keep trying to make live-action shows. Next on our list is Lois And Clark: The New Adventures Of Superman. I actually like the performances of the main characters, but not all of them felt close to the existing characters. Oh, we’ll talk about what they did to Perry “Great Shades Of Elvis” White, but that’s not the biggest crime this series did to the characters…or to DC Comics themselves. While arguably a decision made by the showrunners may have led to a great story that story also led to some of the continuing problems in DC after this as well as further proving the media pecking order when it comes to television versus comics.
Not that the show is all bad but given what’s come out recently this is another example of breaking multiversal continuity whenever possible for the sake of their own story. Let’s start at the beginning. Created for ABC, Lois & Clark tries to do something new with the characters and actually focus more on the strange romantic triangle of Clark Kent, Lois Lane, and Kal-El. Sometimes I thought this was actually detrimental to the show and it was not my favorite. Even today it’s only the existence of worse adaptations that this isn’t my least favorite take…because it at least did try.
By this point the post-Crisis DC universe had taken full hold. Lex Luthor was now the evil businessman everyone knows today. Lois was an Army brat and this was to the character’s benefit as she finally had some good sense to go along with her guts…though she was still braver than she was smart. It’s just a Lois flaw. Dean Cain and Terry Hatcher had great chemistry and were really good in their roles. As for the intros, they certainly had their benefits for live-action intros. The show ran for four seasons and we only have four intros (though I end up getting an extra clip), unlike the last show I looked at.
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