I don’t know whether I like Season 1 or Season 2 better. Apples and oranges.
See below for thoughts about the show and the making of the show.
About the show
In this season of Lois and Clark, there isn’t as much of a central villain as there was in Season 1. I vaguely thought Season 2 was going to be about Intergang, but the episodes include a wide variety of antagonists. Science fiction plot elements include cloning, a cyborg, resurrection, time travel, and red kryptonite.
Despite all the newsworthy events in Metropolis keeping them busy, Lois and Clark eventually manage to go on a first date! However, rivals for their attention hover nearby: DA Mayson Drake is pursuing Clark, and a DEA agent named Dan Scardino is after Lois.
About the making of the show
The Season 1 character Cat Stevens, Daily Planet gossip columnist, was dropped. (I’m not sorry, tbh.)
The actor playing Jimmy was replaced. (I prefer the new Jimmy.)
James Hong, who (for example) voiced Po’s goose father Ping in the Kung Fu Panda movies, appeared in the Chinese martial arts episode.
One episode features actress Raquel Welch—you know, the woman in the poster in The Shawshank Redemption!—as a television news reporter.
Dean Cain, who was an aspiring writer before being cast as Clark Kent, wrote the Christmas episode. (I dunno about you, but I’m glad he wound up being an actor rather than a writer.)
About the time travel episode
I quite liked Episode 40, “Tempus Fugitive,” the time travel episode.
I definitely remembered Tempus, the strangely dressed, loud, and shamelessly villainous visitor brought from the future to contemporary Metropolis by H.G. Welles in a quaint-looking time machine. Other villains are annoying or predictable (or both) in how they threaten Lois or Metropolis (or both); Tempus, on the other hand, torments Lois in a way that no one else can.
The episode has some flaws:
- Superman builds a time machine from a one-page diagram in a couple of hours.
- It’s not clear why people sometimes retain their memories when time traveling and sometimes do not.
- It’s not clear where Clark gets gold to fuel the time machine (in Metropolis, in Smallville 1866, or in Smallville in 1966).
- It’s not clear where Clark gets cash to rent a car in Smallville in 1966.
- The time machine also moves in space.
But if you ask me, no time travel story can be expected to make sense!
