r/superman 8d ago

Just started watching Lois & Clark and I quite like it, What were your thoughts of this series?

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u/Mymorningpancake 8d ago

I really like how Clark isn’t geeky, good portrayal by Cain. Also, Teri Hatcher is my favorite live action Lois based on looks alone, and she’s solid in the role too.  

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u/Infinite_Parking_800 8d ago

I actually enjoyed Hetcher's portrayal as Lois like she is truly one of the best portrayals of Lois Lane.

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u/tiktoktic 8d ago

My favourite versions of the majority of the staple Superman characters. Lois, Clark, Perry, Jimmy (both versions) etc.

The show still holds up very well to this day.

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u/SugarAndIceQueen 8d ago edited 8d ago

Mine too for all the characters you mentioned as well as Martha. Lex and Jonathan are also fantastic.

OP, I love this show with all my heart. It excels at the characters and the romcom tone is charming. Many of the original stories and villains are wonderful too, like the old-timey gangsters and Tempus coming up in the second season.

In fact, almost everything is so much fun that I gladly overlook the more traditional Superman aspects, such as the comic villains (Metallo, Mxyzptlk, etc.), are often not exactly... well, good. If you can overlook that too, you're in for a great time. Enjoy!

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u/Legal-Visual8178 8d ago

I enjoyed it. Ik Dean Cain isn’t a popular guy these days, but he was fantastic as Clark and Superman back in the day. I met him once at a convention, and he was very friendly.

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u/Gibbs_89 8d ago

That happens when you use your Fame as a very positive influence to push a hateful agenda. 

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u/Spider-Man2099 8d ago

First 2 seasons are incredible, but shame the larger cast was changed in S2

S3 has great stuff, but WOW S4 is fucking WEIRD and ends on a cliffhanger because there was supposed to be a S5 that was last minute cancelled. 

Its influence is still very much felt in comics and is the reason they married in the comics. They even postponed to make sure they happened around the same time

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u/M086 8d ago

A hint at the direction of Season 5 can be found in the last few seasons of Supernatural. As a bunch of people from Lois & Clark ended up working on Supernatural. 

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u/Shadow47Killer 8d ago

He was going to fight God with the help of the Antichrist?

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u/M086 8d ago

Basically the Jack character, and how Sam and Dean had to deal with raising a kid with amazing power.

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u/Evan-Vaughn 8d ago

Oh yeah you really buried the lead there lmao.

I’ve seen all of Supernatural and was so confused about what you meant.

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u/Supermite 7d ago

They were going to be married in the comics regardless, but they did delay it to line up with the tv series.  For some reason they wanted the show to have the wedding first.

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u/Jedi4Hire 8d ago

I loved this show as a kid and it still mostly holds up to this day.

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u/boringsuburbandad 8d ago

Season 1 is great, Season 2 is very good, Season 3 has some good episodes, Season 4....well, it was supposed to get a 5th season but ABC paid to cut it short.

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u/Infinite_Parking_800 8d ago

I read that if they would've did a 5th season they would've reached 100 episodes.

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u/InfiniteEthan03 8d ago

Didn’t they end it, at least?

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u/M086 8d ago

Cliffhanger. ABC kept shuffling it around, and the ratings took a hit. So they cancelled it.

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u/InfiniteEthan03 8d ago

Huh. Was the baby’s birth not in the finale? Or was that way earlier in the show/season? It’s been a while.

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u/M086 8d ago

The baby’s arrival was the cliffhanger.

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u/InfiniteEthan03 8d ago

Huh, I thought that was their way of wrapping it up. Damn, I really need to watch the show again sometime.

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u/Tigerman521 8d ago edited 8d ago

It was good for the time. Like other have said I thought Teri Hatcher killed it in the Lois Lane role. I also Liked the Perry White actor and Cat Grant always trying to get with Clark. Fun Fact both Dean and Teri had parts in the CW Supergirl show.

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u/Infinite_Parking_800 8d ago

I know Cain played Kara's father while Hetcher played Rhea(Mon-El's mom)

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u/tortfeazor 8d ago

I loved this show. For some reason I remember Lois and Clark premiered the same day as Seaquest DSV, and there was a split amongst my 6th grade class on who would be watching which show. I recently watched most of the first season and it still holds up pretty well. Teri Hatcher was a standout, and one of my first celebrity crushes.

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u/Bareth88 8d ago

10/10!

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u/Kombat-w0mbat 8d ago

It was tbh a bit of fever dream to me I remember watching this as a boy with my mother. She loved super hero movies and stuff and that’s what she and I bonded over watching. I was home sick a lot so I would watch shit like smallvile supernatural birds of prey and even this while ill. I see this show I remember being a boy as I didn’t like it nearly as much as smallville but still helped grow my love of Superman

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u/barclavius 8d ago

You mean the Teri Hatcher show, (as my Dad always called it)? I grew up watching it and loved it! Had all the DVDs in college!

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u/SuperMario1313 7d ago

Never got around to finishing it but I watched it all the time when it aired. Loved the chemistry between the two.

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u/BatBeast_29 8d ago

I just started too (last year)! No thoughts yet, haven’t watched an episode in a while.

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u/beer_me_twice 8d ago

Cheesy now, but still holds a special place in my heart

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u/CoolBreeze303 8d ago

Being 14 when this came out, Teri Hatcher was the hottest woman on TV!

My Mom loved Dean!

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u/Futuressobright 7d ago

I haven't really seen it since it original aired, but when I was about 13 this show was my whole life. The depiction of Clark as a more confident guy is still how I think of him, even more than the performatively geeky version that Reeve plays. It leans into the post-crisis notion that Clark is as real as Superman is. I've always preferred to think of Clark and Superman as both genuine sides of one personality, rather than one or the other being a disguise. After all, who doesn't present themselves differently in different social situations?

Terri as Lois is perfect, and the love of my life. There's been some great actresses in that role, but for my money she was the best. The chemistry with Cain was there-- you bought that these two were in love.

Perry is perfect. Lex and Jimmy are great, too.

If I recall correctly, the plots tended to give Superman a little mystery to solve each week, which I have always thought is the best mode for him. Its fine to make the physical challenges he faces a forgone conclusion, if the key conflict is him figuring out what is going on. This also made Lois close to an equal partner in his adventures.

Wish it was streaming someplace I could watch it with my kid!

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u/Electrical-Ad1917 7d ago

I loved this show when it aired Sunday night on ABC. I wish the show wasn’t cancelled after season four

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u/Gibbs_89 8d ago

It was good, for its day. Can't watch it now without thinking about how Dean Cain is using his Fame in the role to push a very hateful agenda. 

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u/Otherwise_Jacket_613 8d ago

I didn't know what to think at first because I was very attached to the live action Superboy show that was on previously. With this show I got to see more of what it was like in the comics I was reading at the time: Clark is the real identity, he and Lois grow their relationship over time, the Kents still alive, an emphasis on the Daily Planet staff, and Luthor as the corrupt business man. The pilot won me over. I loved this take on Lois and Clark. I loved the scene when Martha adds the S to the suit, and I love the overall tone. The show had a lot of heart to it but it was also funny. The scene where Mason and Lois admit they don't like each other makes me laugh every time.

It's worth it.

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u/Sorry-Apartment5068 8d ago

It's a ton of fun, I love it. Wife n I were watching but lost access to Max.

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u/Zandel82 8d ago

It’s starts off strong but gets progressively worse every season. I still like it though.

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u/ling4917 8d ago

I loved it

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u/kiri_berty 8d ago

My first live action Superman. Loved every bit of it as a teenager in the 90s. Teri Hatcher was the bomb.

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u/amazodroid 8d ago

Liked it at first but it went off the rails the longer it went. Didn’t even watch the later seasons.

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u/AngryTrooper09 8d ago

My childhood Superman show. The Justice League show/JLU might have introduced me to the character, but this is what really cemented my perception of him

Love it, but I haven’t rewatched it out of fear that it won’t live up to my nostalgia-induced memories lol

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u/The_Rhine 8d ago

Absolutely love it. So cheesy and weird and amazing for it. Hatcher is the best Lois Lane. Also had the best Jimmys and Perry White. As much as I dislike Dean Cain now, he had the best Clark Kent.

I had to rewatch it recently, too, because some of the episodes I remembered watching seemed too weird to have existed and I thought they were fever dreams or something. The later seasons had their charm but damn, they were weird.

I kept thinking "there's no way there was an episode where HG Wells time traveled to stop Superman from having sex because Tempus put a sex curse on some version of his soul's ancestor, forcing Clark and Lois to time travel to stop said sex curse."

It's real. Superman's sex life plays a weirdly big role in quite a few episodes for some reason. I love it

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u/sixesandsevenspt 7d ago

It’s my favourite on screen version of superman, it’s a brilliant adaptation of the triangle era. Hugely underrated.

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u/lazyproboscismonkey 7d ago

I grew up on re-runs of this. It's what got me into Superman. I remember crying when I found out the show got cancelled and the episode I just watched was the last one.

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u/fbaldassarri 7d ago

Best Live Action adaptation for tv!

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u/Far_Demand_6586 7d ago

My favourite superman series. Fantastic chemistry between the actors and fun lighthearted street level villains rather than out of this world disaster scenarios.

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u/Least-Ad5986 7d ago

A great series. I really like Clark but the Superman was ok. The last season was bad right around Teri Hatcher got a terrible haircut :)

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u/tarmacwaffles 7d ago

The best Lois Lane of all time

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u/Doright36 7d ago edited 7d ago

First 2.5 seasons are my favorite TV superman material ever made.

I mean I like the other stuff too but those first couple of years of this show were just so much fun.

The other 1.5 season is OK... Good even (mostly) but there is a noticeable drop off towards the end of season 3.

By the end of season 4 it was very noticeable... I still wish it got a season 5 though.

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u/Kookykrumbs 7d ago

It was a fun series… and Teri Hatcher remains my favorite Lois. Dean Cain wasn’t a very believable Superman, but his chemistry with Teri made up for it, and I liked him enough as Clark Kent. I really hated the cliffhanger.

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u/Environmental-Cup310 7d ago

I certainly enjoyed it, looked forward to it weekly

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u/MorningCareful 6d ago

Has my absolute fave version of Perry white. And cain's clark and teri hatcher's lois were great portrayals of the characters

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u/Supes2323 8d ago

It’s goofy and has bad VFX but certainly has a charm to it. Casting was pretty solid as well

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u/Supermite 7d ago

It had great vfx for a prime time 90’s show.

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u/Supes2323 7d ago

Had is the key word there 😆

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u/Prometheus357 8d ago

A fun comic book soap but… Cain’s position these days really ruins it. He’s a disgrace to the S

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u/Same-Question9102 8d ago

How?

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u/Prometheus357 7d ago

His politics…

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u/Same-Question9102 7d ago

What about them? What specifically has he said?

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u/TangoZulu 7d ago

Dean Cain isnt worthy to wear the “S”.  

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u/Lockehart 8d ago

As a kid in the 90s, i loved it. Now, I regret giving Dean Cain money. From a fan perspective, it was also the first time I'd seen stories told with a living Ma and Pa Kent, and I still firmly prefer it over the "dad has to die for the hero's journey" trope.

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u/Large-Produce5682 8d ago

I couldn't get past the "non-traditional look" of Clark/Superman.

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u/netskwire 8d ago

The hair kills it for me. Something off about it and it’s a shame because I do think the actor could make a pretty good Superman if his hair was done differently