| Alternate Superboy - Fun WB Series |
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| written by hamano |
September 11, 2003 - 12:52 AM PDT |
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Right off, let me admit to you that I'm a fan of the following shows, which I would categorize as ranging between "cult" and "guilty pleasure". The first season of Dawson's Creek, Alias, Buffy, Angel, Roswell, X-Files, Millenium, Xena and Hercules. So now you know where I'm coming from.
Superboy Tom Welling IS quite the WB Network pretty boy - sensitive and decent. However, I really like the Lex Luthor character - a smart but troubled boy who is sinister but not yet evil. Maybe he's pushed over the edge when he finds out Kryptonite is responsible for his hair loss! Chloe is the doe-eyed girl next door that reminds me a bit of the characters Yasuomi Umetsu draws for his anime works like Kite and Mezzo Forte - frowny but curvy. She's the annoyingly ambitious reporter/editor of the school paper (my guess is that she moves to Metropolis and gets a pseudonym...Let's see...Chloe, ChLOE, LOIS??) . Then there's Lana Lang....Ahhhh she's quite the Canadian Beauty. I wonder if actress and Neutrogena CM model Kristin Kreuk has a drop of Asian or Native American blood. She's a tiny thing, but she'd be welcome in MY fortress of solitude anytime!
What I really love about the show is that Annette O'Toole is Mrs. Kent. O'Toole's pretty old now, but I've had a thing for her ever since she got scared into the swimming pool in Paul Schrader's Cat People.
The show itself has a "monster/crisis of the week" format, with 2 series-long arcs dealing with the Clark Kent/ Chloe/Lana love triangle, and Lex's curiosity about Clark's secret powers (even as Clark himself learns more about the mysteries of his origins). The setting is updated as if the spaceship bearing the baby Superman crashed to the Earth in the mid-1980's.
Besides Annette O'Toole the best things about the series are all the little inside jokes and references scattered throughout the show referring to the original comics/TV/movie franchise. In one of the first episodes, Clark goes through some kind of hazing and is tied up in a cornfield with a red letter S (for the Smallville High football team) scrawled in paint across his naked torso! Hah! Ha ha! The OP song is also hilarious. "Somebody saaaaaaaaaaave me!"
When this show started, I was prepared for it to be a disaster like Birds of Prey or the charmless Dark Angel. It turned out to be a fun, smartly written series with a gung-ho momentum. Rent it! |
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