O/T: The Teen of Steel has a fall timeslot...

[Anthonynotes]

The WB's announced their fall prime-time schedule, complete with "Smallville"'s announced timeslot of 9 PM EST Tuesdays (against, um, whatever airs that night on other networks, I guess...but apparently not against "Buffy" as I feared):

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/2001...sion-wb_2.html

Also read that they've apparently finished filming the pilot to this series; another change from the comics: along with an Asian Lana Lang (vs. the redhead of the comics), Clark's friend Pete Ross (some blond-haired kid in the comics) is African-American here (played by some guy who's supposed to costar with Wesley Snipes in some upcoming movie). The other cast members (a new character/friend of Lana and Clark's, Ma and Pa Kent, and a twentysomething bald Lex Luthor) have also been cast by this point (all unknowns/little-knowns, apparently)...

-B.
No reports of a large-headed laboratory mouse with an Etch-a-Sketch-based tracking device being included, but the series *is* young... ;-)

[The Mad Hatter]

Looks like it's really happening. Huh. I'll have to check it out. An Asian Lana Lang, eh? Well, the name certainly works. The diversity is nice, but then again, tiny midwestern towns tend to be devoid of Asians. Mine was, anyway. But hey, this is TV... this Smallville will probably have a Starbucks and everything.

[Anthonynotes]

Originally posted by The Mad Hatter
Looks like it's really happening. Huh. I'll have to check it out. An Asian Lana Lang, eh? Well, the name certainly works. The diversity is nice, but then again, tiny midwestern towns tend to be devoid of Asians. Mine was, anyway. But hey, this is TV... this Smallville will probably have a Starbucks and everything.

In *real life*, it'd probably have a Starbucks as well, I'd suspect, with the way they're popping up these days (they opened another one downtown, despite one located a half-block away)... besides, if Smallville (in the old "Superboy" comics) had all those alien invasions/escaped Phantom Zone crooks popping up, I guess coffee-invasions couldn't be any odder :-)

-B.

[Inque]

Wasn't there some part of one of those Superman movies involving Clark Kent and coffee? That was a long time ago and I forget what coffee had to do with Clark Kent/Superman.

[Nftnat]

Originally posted by Inque


Wasn't there some part of one of those Superman movies involving Clark Kent and coffee? That was a long time ago and I forget what coffee had to do with Clark Kent/Superman.

Well, in the Lois & Clark series, there was this ep re. the usual no-women-allowed-org.-to-which-certain-male-cast-members-belong thingy. Of course Lois was taking it hard. She had this daydream (daynightmare?) wherein there was some sort of staff meeting & she was asked to get the coffee. Things went as they do in dreams, & she regained consciousness just as Clark was offering her some coffee. She only heard the last word tho --- "coffee?" & erupted "Get your own d**n coffee!". Prolly not what you're talking about; fact, I'm sure of it.

[Inque]

it was in one of the 80s-90s superman movies.....i still forget which one......i think superman's being held captive and then there's something with superman and coffee and energey i think.

[Anthonynotes]

Originally posted by Inque
it was in one of the 80s-90s superman movies.....i still forget which one......i think superman's being held captive and then there's something with superman and coffee and energey i think.

My guess is Superman IV; there's a scene where Luthor (after creating the Nuclear Man via an atomic reaction from one of the nuclear missiles Supes has hurled into the sun) is demonstrating NM's atomic/solar-based powers by having him heat up a cup of coffee for him, IIRC. Of course, this film (despite its premise having had some potential) was horrendously bad (I recall trying to watch one scene at the theataer closely, having heard that you could see the ropes pulling NM into the air in one scene :-)

Re: the Mightiest Teen On Earth: I guess I could imagine some bit with Clark using his heat vision at Starbucks�©® to secretly re-heat up Lana's coffee...and all while the latest pop/rock music plays in the background or something.... :-)


-B.

[Inque]

i think that's the one

[watsonlives]

iv'e been looking at as much stuff as i can find on this new show and i'm afraid that it will suck eggs. it looks like dawsons creek with super powers.

[Anthonynotes]

Originally posted by watsonlives
iv'e been looking at as much stuff as i can find on this new show and i'm afraid that it will suck eggs. it looks like dawsons creek with super powers.

Kind of my fear as well (or that it'll be a teeanged version of "Lois and Clark", a show that didn't win me over much at all...Dean Cain and Terri Hatcher never made a convincing Superman/Lois for me)...

I'm guessing they might not even show Clark in costume, given the show's setup....the lack of any of the press regarding the show referring to him as Superboy (it's been "teen Superman"/"young Superman"/etc.) would support this notion. Either they're keeping with the current comics' "Clark-became-a-hero-as-an-adult" backstory, figure they've already done the Superboy thing with the late 80's/early 90's TV show, could milk more teen-angst off of him "dealing with his growing powers", and/or have some rights issue to grapple with the name "Superboy". (Shrug)

-B.

[watsonlives]

there also using this teen Lex Luthor idea. which comes from superboy and the 70s superman comics. though good things have been done with the teen superman idea, the first issue of for all saesons, the "new kids in town" episode of superman animated, and the teenage portral in the first superman movie, i don't think this will live up to those.

[Anthonynotes]

>>there also using this teen Lex Luthor idea. which comes from superboy and the 70s superman comics.

Yep...for those not in the know re: the "old" (mad-scientist) Lex Luthor's origins:

Luthor was a teenager who grew up in/moved to Smallville, and befriended Clark (and Superboy). Eventually, noting Lex's love of science (apparently even as a kid, he was pretty egoistical) Supes built Lex a laboratory for him to conduct his own research in (being a genius even back then), in which Lex locked himself away and spent weeks working on an experiment: creating an artificial form of life. After succeeding, he inadvertently knocks over some chemicals, sparking a fire that engulfs the lab. Superboy arrives, and (foolishly) uses his super-breath to blow out the fire, but also blows about said volatile chemicals and destroys the lab. Luthor emerges unscathed, but is rendered permanently bald by the chemicals being blown about. His lifeform, his greatest achievement of his life, is also destroyed. Luthor, enraged by this, tells an apologetic Superboy that no one who has such powers like his, and uses said powers so irresponsibly deserves to be a hero. He also believes that Superboy was really jealous of Lex this whole time, and figures he was trying to destroy his experiment on purpose. Lex then swears revenge against the Boy (and later Man) of Steel...

The "Smallville" series seems to be combining aspects of this origin with that of the current Lex-as-businessman one...

>>> though good things have been done with the teen superman idea,

Or Superboy :-)

>> the first issue of for all saesons, the "new kids in town" episode of superman animated, and the teenage portral in the first superman movie, i don't think this will live up to those.

-B.