Shark Bytes

I note a lot of envy re the stunning Teri Hatcher from the girls! Jealousy !

This show was bad from the beginning. It tried to be a romantic drama/comedy about two journalists instead of focusing on the adventures of Superman. In the early episodes we've seen Superman for 1 or 2 minutes from the total 45. Later it got more action/adventure-like (as Superman should be) but never came close to the true spirit and form of the source material. Perry White was great, but Hatcher was just an overacting spoiled b.tch and not the true Lois, while Dean Cain never even looked or acted like Superman ever.

I really hated the fact that they cut her hair in the second season. I mean in the alien abduction episode, she looked 50!!

I also didn't approve of same character different actor: Jimmy The first one was adorable and played the part of a cub photojournalist being treated like a gofer by Perry brilliantly. The second one just looked like wesley crusher...

This show started out good and got really good at the start of Season 3. Lois knowing Clark's secret brought interesting new dynamics to the proceedings.
This could've been the golden exception to the Moonlighting curse of having the 2 leads get together. Alas, the dumb network got the oh so brilliant idea to $crew the loyal fans over by promising us a wedding but instead giving us a Melrose Place-arc involving frogs, clones, and amnesia.
When Luthor learned Clark's secret halfway through that dumb arc, my first thought was "Well, look who just earned himself an arbitrary death sentence."
A shame that a show jumped the shark because TPTB just wanted to jerk its fans off.

I don't think it's fair to compare "Lois & Clark" with the George Reeves "The Adventures of Superman," the Superman movies, "Smallville," or the DC Comics. Each of those has a different interpretation of the Superman mythology; for example, on "Lois & Clark" Jonathan and Martha Kent are alive and well and major characters; in the movies Jonathan died when Clark became a teenager, and in some of the older DC Comics, both Jonathan and Martha had died by the time Clark grew up. Also, a plotline involving Superman saving the world from an archenemy would make a good story in a comic book but a lousy one on "Lois & Clark," whuch is basically a romantic comedy.

Lois & Clark JTS because it was not faithful to the 1950s Superman TV series. It tried too hard to be an altogether different version, which may explain why it only lasted four seasons. I miss the cheap special effects, the music score and even the clips of Clark changing into the Man of Steel in the janitor's closet and flying around in costume from the old series. Adventures of Superman lasted as long as it did because it demonstrated that, in terms of technological know-how, sometimes primitive is better. That was also the redeeming quality of Star Trek: The Original Series. The special effects that have been used in every sci-fi production since 1977 are way too extraordinary and cheesy. Bring back comfort food television we can live with--hopefully, an "Old Fashioned Adventures of Superman" in the 2010s that will be faithful to George Reeves--God rest his merry soul.

Choctaw American-Indian 1/16, according to both wikipedia & imdb. The Choctaw were from the SE US, originally. You might recall the 'Trail Of Tears' from school history.

Teri Hatcher is part Native American. She is also Lebanese, French, Welsh, and German.

Anyway, I always liked and watched the show, but I do think it lost some of its appeal towards the end.

Teri always had an attitude on that show. She thought it was her show, and was jelous that Dean got more attention. She got pregnant and annonced that she did so to get of the show & that there was NO WAY IN HELL that she was coming back for 5S.

That's the real reason why she was the biggest has-been. She's got a reputation in LA.

Also, she's part Syrian, NOT Indian or Philopino.

I think Teri is related to one of the SW US Nations, but I'm not sure

It´s even dificult to say something about a series that ended in such a disrespectful way. Season 4 ended in a an open episode (the baby coming from nowhere) and then there was no season 5. They could have given the show an decent end. And it was a good show, don´t think it really jumped, almost did sometimes but it always got the better from the shark!

PS : I have 1 further question : is Teri Hatcher part Indian ? I ask because I remember something in the newspapers re Teri Hatcher & her ancestry . Whether it was a passing reference or an interview I can ' t recall at present . ( By Indian I mean American Indian , not East Indian . ) That is my only question other than the query re the episode's title re Lois ' proposal to Clark . Thank you . -- Just Joe Again

Teri Hatcher as Lois Lane was 1 of the great delights of the 1990s ! As I posted somewhere else , Teri was part of the gamine , slender , sexy , girls which briefly ( like 1990 - 1997 ) held sway even in reactionary Hollywood . She represented a new generation which swept away a quarter - century ( 25 years ) of cob - webs which had accumulated in the old Hollywood look . Particularly , in Season 3 with her short , sexy , youthful hair . Short hair girls are sexy ! ( Is it hair or haired in English ? Short haired girls are sexy ! ) She was part of a wonderful decade for stunning girls which is on level with the 1920s , The Golden Twenties , The Roaring Twenties , The Jazz Age , &c . & television may very well have reached her peak in the early & mid 1990s up to 1997 . After that , the increasingly powerful FCC , the continued fragmentation of the audience ( cable , &c ) , the advent of the www dot world , &c : all these seemed to close what I consider a Golden Age , if you will forgive me for sounding melodramatic . I remember with fondness an episode called Ultra Woman ( I think ) from L & C , wherein Lois got to be the rescuer for once . Was this the same episode wherein Lois proposed marriage to Clark ? ( I last saw the show in the 1990s, so please be lenient with me . ) It must have been at about that time : it was the most beautiful gesture of love which I have ever seen on television . It was at about this time ( Season 3 ) that Teri Hatcher became the most - downloaded girl on computers in the entire world ! You can look at her to your heart ' s content at a wonderful photo place called www dot loisandclarkarchive dot com . I particularly love her look in the Season 3 photographs --- every photo she is in she ' s like a fire of sexiness & beauty ! Ah , I miss the 1990s ! Apologies for the length of this post . -- Joe , Writing Early In The Morning , From The City

3S starting losing steam, when the producers presured Teri to lose weight & cut her hair, then they get married which completely killed the fun, teasing, relationship that L&C had.

Sometimes there comes a point in a series where the stories aren't deserving of the chracters. What kept Lois and Clark watchable for me is the fact that the core actors always did the absolute best they could with what they were given. In all truth I blame the writers for burning out the series in 4 seasons. To put it bluntly, they had no grasp of arc storytelling and quickly got impatient with their own series Those of us who remember when this show first aired know that there was an immense amout of excitement around it. It sort of begs the question as to how someone can make their product stale so early in a show's run. Not to sound too confident, but had they plotted the show better, they could have gone 6 or 7 seasons and called it a day. Instead they gave the whole thing away far too quickly and once you get to the middle of season 4, you can see the writing on the wall and that there's no meaningful direction to go in. Those who say it ended to early were right, but that's also because the whole series just moved to fast.