Hey guys! How's it going? Happy Friday! So yesterday Warner Bros. dropped the season 1 trailer for the new CW/DC Comics series, Superman & Lois, starring Tyler Hoechlin as Clark Kent/Superman and Elizabeth Tulloch as Lois Lane. I talked about this series a little bit in my post about the things that I am looking forward to in 2021 that I did a while back, and in that post I said that I was incredibly skeptical about this series because the quality has dropped considerably on most of the CW/DC/Arrowverse shows since the second season of The Flash. The reason being is that this show, just like all the others is produced by Berlanti Productions, the production company founded by Greg Berlanti and I find that between the company producing so many shows and movies, the quality just isn't what it could be and what it was back in 2014 when it was just Arrow and The Flash they were producing. But then this trailer dropped and I was immediately blown away. So let's get into it.
The first thing that I noticed in this trailer is that it looks and feels different from the Arrowverse shows, even though it's technically a spin-off of Supergirl. It doesn't feel like it though. I don't know if this is just for the first couple of episodes or not, but they seem to be using the same kind of filter on the camera lens that Zack Snyder seems to like using. I don't know if they want to make this show separate from the Arrowverse and have it be it's own thing because apparently there was originally supposed to be a crossover between Superman & Lois and Batwoman this season, introducing the new Batwoman into the rest of the Arrowverse, and David Ramsey is reprising his role as John Diggle from Arrow on all of the Arrowverse shows this season, including Legends of Tomorrow. So I don't know what exactly they want this show to be. From what I can gather it is going to be part of the Arrowverse, with that shared continuity and legacy behind it, but it's going to be even more of it's own thing than the other shows have been. So like Barry isn't just going to zip in and out at random like he did on Arrow.
One thing that I mentioned back in the last post I made about this show, which you can read here, is that the premise of Superman & Lois felt like a more modern version of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. But looking at this trailer, it actually doesn't. It actually feels more like what we've been getting from Bendis in the comics, mixed with Smallville. From what I can gather in the trailer, both Lois and Clark get fired from The Daily Planet at some point, which actually explains why they were able to relocate to Argo City at the end of Supergirl season 4, where we found them at the beginning of Crisis On Infinite Earths, and not be missed on Earth at all. Though we're still not really sure if they were fired before or after Crisis. So, once they're fired, Lois and Clark move to Smallville with their two sons, Jonathan and Jordan. I don't know where Jordan came from, but I know that Jonathan Kent is supposed to be Jonathan from the comics though not exactly the same as the comic book version.
One thing they're doing which is a continuation of previous incarnations is having a dark haired Lana Lang rather than the traditionally ginger Lana from the comics. Personally, I don't have a problem with it since I went through high school with Kristin Kreuk playing a dark haired Lana on Smallville. They also had a blond Lana on Lois & Clark, and a blond (possibly since it's in black and white) Lana in the failed TV pilot, The Adventures of Superboy back in 1961. So Stacy Haiduk, who played Lana on Superboy which ran from 1988 until 1992, is the only actress to portray the character with red hair in a live action TV series. Again, I don't have a problem with that.
Alright, so now I want to talk about the cast for Superman & Lois. There are three cast members that I am familiar with going into this show. Tyler Hoechlin, who is reprising his role as Clark Kent/Superman from Supergirl, is someone I've seen in the past. He was on Teen Wolf for at least three of the show's six seasons, though I never saw him in the show, but I remember him from the last few seasons of 7th Heaven where he played Ruthie's boyfriend, Martin. The other two I'm less familiar with, but I've still seen them in other things. The first is Emmanuelle Chriqui, who is going to be a series regular on this show as the aforementioned Lana Lang. It's been about 20 years since I saw her in anything but she played Mark Webber's crush, Claire Bonner, in the 2000 Nickelodeon film, Snow Day, which my parents rented for me on VHS, and I saw it on TV once too.
The third person I'm familiar with, who is going to be a recurring character, is Stacey Farber. I'm not familiar with the character she's going to be playing on Superman & Lois, so I'm going to assume she's original to this show rather than someone the writers pulled from the comics, but Stacey Farber played Ellie Nash in seasons 2 through 8 of Degrassi: The Next Generation, which is around the time I was watching the show in the early to mid 2000s. I haven't seen her in anything since she left Degrassi in 2009, so I thought that was cool that they cast her in this show. Everyone else in the cast is unknown to me, with the exception of Elizabeth Tulloch of course, but that's just because she's been playing Lois Lane since the 2018 Arrowverse crossover, Elseworlds
There is so much more I could talk about like Superman's costume which looks even better in action than it did in that still image that WB released either last month or in November, whenever that was, and the choice to replace Adrian Pasdar as Morgan Edge. But I'll save that for when the show premieres. Or whenever I get to watch it because I have no idea where it's going to air here in Canada yet. If it's on Netflix or Showcase then I'll be able to buy the season on iTunes and then watch it as each episode drops. But if it's on CTV Sci-Fi Channel then I'll get to watch it as it airs. Right now though I don't know where it'll be airing here.
Alrighty that is going to be it for me for today. I've got one chapter left in Animorphs: The Invasion so I will be back tomorrow to review that book. And then I'll have another movie review for you on Sunday as I'll be reviewing Bruno & Boots: The Wizzle War, based on the book by Gordon Korman because YTV is playing it on Saturday night so that's exciting. Other than that have a wonderful weekend and I will talk to you all later. Take care.
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