Superman is a pop culture icon who has been around since the thirties and has spawned many vagarious TV shows both animated and live action. Well there's one Superman show that alot of people seem to forget about and i'm one of those people however it's that very show that I want to talk about today and so then join me as I review the debut episode of the show that brought Superman firmly into the nineties with the episode is question being called simply just "Pilot" enjoy.
The plot of this episode is when a scientist that correctly predicts a rocket will explode dies it's up to Clark , Jimmy and Lois and to find out who is behind the explosion. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good with this episodes plot being really entertaining and at the same time very cheesy as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least
Starring in this episode is Dean Cain as Clark Kent / Kal-El / Superman , Teri Hatcher as Lois Lane and Lane Smith as Perry White. Also starring in this episode is Michael Landes as Jimmy Olsen , Tracy Scoggins as Catherine "Cat" Grant , K Callan as Martha Kent , Eddie Jones as Jonathan Kent , Shaun Toub as Asabi , Elizabeth Barondes as Lucy Lane , Kim Johnston Ulrich as Dr. Toni Baines , Kenneth Tigar as Dr. Platt , Margaret Blye as Mrs. Platt , Gloria LeRoy as Beatrice , Mel Winkler as Henderson and John Shea as Lex Luthor.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. With this episodes cast doing their best to make this episodes script work for them however the script gives this cast mostly nothing to work with interms of what their characters personalities are as but Lois is given a tone of personalty and her actress performance can turn in a really good performance because of it.
This episode gives us a great representation of everything that Superman should be as the Superman in this episode is a very hopeful character who is always looking for the best in people. This is everything that Superman should because at hos core Superman is a very hopeful person he's somebody who is always looking to say the best in everybody and to see a show that very clearly understands that aspect of he character to me says that this show was made by fans of the character and not by people who haven't read a single Superman comic book issue in their lives.
This show does something new with the characters of Lois Lane and Clark Kent and that's put alot more focus on their love lives then it does their work lives. This is evident from the pretty much the first scene that we have with Lois Lane where alot of the people around her even her friends are complaining about her lack of a love life and on the flip side of that we have Clark Kent somebody who I don't think has been in love in his life as he becomes instantly smitten with Lois which was a little cheesy but given that this episode is choke full to the brim with cheese I do kind of let it slide but it is something that really is pretty laughable when you see it in the actual episode itself.
Lex Luthor in this episode to me just isn't that creepy of a villain as he really isn't given a reason as to why he's evil. As he just comes across as being evil for the sake of being evil which doesn't make him a compelling character which is a shame because the actor playing him John Shea does look like somebody who would be a villain if you met him in real life but because alot of this episodes focus is spent on developing the romance between Clark and Lois it means that we don't get any time fully developing this character and actually making him an actually creepy villain.
This episode doesn't give us an origin story for Clark which does make sense as his origin was very well known even by the early nineties. However at the same time I can't help but wonder just what this world's version of Krypton would like as this show like shows like Xena: Warrior Princess and Hercules: Legendary Journeys looks like it was a cheap show to produce and so seeing things like Krypton or even the The Fortress Of Solitude both of which are key parts in the Superman lore would be pretty interesting to me.
Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and thirty two minuet and thirty one seconds. Which was a it on the long side for this episode as when you can right down to it this episode really doesn't have alot of story to cover that large amount of running time which is odd because this episode was originally aired as a made for TV movie and so you'd have thought that more effort would have gone into giving the episode a storyline that can cover that large amount of a running time but sadly this isn't the case and as a result the episode does also have some pretty average pacing to it as well.
So now then since this is an action show that means that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. Granted we don't get to see that much of action in this episode mostly because of how small this shows budget would have been but what action we do get tom see was really good and impressive for what they could have done on a TV show at the time in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall this was a really solid episode to start of a show that would last all the way until 1997 but with that being said this is still an episode that's very much of the nineties in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that means that this very episode earns itself a grand old score of exactly a 6.5 out of 10 from me.
Now then as or where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Lois & Clark: The New Adventures Of Superman fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website that I personally preferred to use to get the images that I personally used in this very review being the wonderful Google Images since all of the images that are currently up and and featured / presented to us on Google Images are all fairly high in quality and as well as being really fairly freaking high in definition.