As tempted as you might be to skip ahead, don't. It takes two seasons out of four for them to get to the reveal, but they have a lot of fun getting there. And there is, in fact, at least a bit of canonical support for the knew-all-along theory.
Also, by skipping ahead you will miss John Shea creating the definitive live-action Lex Luthor. Shea is dead flat brilliant in the part, but his primary story arc wraps at the end of the first season, and while he reappears briefly at intervals thereafter, the Season 3 writers totally lose their minds as they forcibly morph his character into an Adam West Bat-villain. Both Michael Rosenbaum and John Glover in Smallville are drawing on parts of what Shea builds in Lois & Clark, but Shea has better overall material to work with -- at least up to the aforementioned Bat-villainizing.
Also, I liked first-season Jimmy Olsen (Michael Landes) far better than later Jimmy (Justin Whalen), and while they didn't do a lot with the Cat Grant character (Tracey Scoggins), it may be informative to look at the Scoggins portrayal in contrast to what we'll see this fall on Supergirl, where the character reappears as a major supporting player.
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Date: 2015-08-01 11:12 pm (UTC)Also, by skipping ahead you will miss John Shea creating the definitive live-action Lex Luthor. Shea is dead flat brilliant in the part, but his primary story arc wraps at the end of the first season, and while he reappears briefly at intervals thereafter, the Season 3 writers totally lose their minds as they forcibly morph his character into an Adam West Bat-villain. Both Michael Rosenbaum and John Glover in Smallville are drawing on parts of what Shea builds in Lois & Clark, but Shea has better overall material to work with -- at least up to the aforementioned Bat-villainizing.
Also, I liked first-season Jimmy Olsen (Michael Landes) far better than later Jimmy (Justin Whalen), and while they didn't do a lot with the Cat Grant character (Tracey Scoggins), it may be informative to look at the Scoggins portrayal in contrast to what we'll see this fall on Supergirl, where the character reappears as a major supporting player.