Smallville and Supernatural Renewed- Warning (Spoilers from season finale episodes)

[Dire Bare]

I really like Chloe, I really can't stand Lois. I wouldn't mind if this lois died and chloe assumed her place or maybe everyone saw chloe as lois or something, I don't know, but that old woman impersonating a 20 year old must go. She has crow's feet for pete sakes.

Really? Old? Are you indulging in internet hyperbole or are you being dead serious?

I feel the actress playing Lois (Erica Durance) is not only amazingly gorgeous, not only perfectly cast, but the best Lois that has ever been cast. Durance's chemistry with Welling is just spot on. Love it. Love. It.

To each his own I guess.

 

[Sir Brennen]

She's actually a year younger than Tom Welling aka Clark, who's suppose to be younger than Lois. Smallville's Lois cracks my wife and I up. I think she's just fine.

 

[Taelorn76]

Tom is actually 30 years old and Erica is only 28.

She's actually a year younger than Tom Welling aka Clark, who's suppose to be younger than Lois. Smallville's Lois cracks my wife and I up. I think she's just fine.

You beat me to it

 

[DonTadow]

Really? Old? Are you indulging in internet hyperbole or are you being dead serious?

I feel the actress playing Lois (Erica Durance) is not only amazingly gorgeous, not only perfectly cast, but the best Lois that has ever been cast. Durance's chemistry with Welling is just spot on. Love it. Love. It.

To each his own I guess.

I just can't watch her without stairing at those wrinkles around her eyes and those crows feet, my fiance began pointing it out to me last season and the more i look at her the older she seems.

I"m dead serious. Maybe its because Chloe and Lana are so young and vibrant looking.

 

[Donovan Morningfire]

Now that I've seen it,

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IF THEY'VE ACTUALLY KILLED OFF CHLOE, I WILL NOT WATCH THE SHOW.

Yes, I like many other aspects of the show, but that is one thing I won't put up with.

You didn't worry overmuch. According to a CW press release regarding Smallville being picked up for a 7th season,

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Allison Mack is listed as part of the main cast, as is the guy that plays Jimmy Olsen, so I doubt she's well and truly dead; just resting a bit is all

 

[Donovan Morningfire]

Really? Old? Are you indulging in internet hyperbole or are you being dead serious?

I feel the actress playing Lois (Erica Durance) is not only amazingly gorgeous, not only perfectly cast, but the best Lois that has ever been cast. Durance's chemistry with Welling is just spot on. Love it. Love. It.

I agree with Erica being a knock-out (she could stand to lay off the face make-up a little), but for me a lot of that is less to do with looks and more with her personality. Caustic as she may be, especially to Tom's Clark Kent (and results in some of the best scenes outside of earlier seasons' Lex and Clark exchanges), there's no denying she's got spunk, something that Kristen Kreuk has been woefully lacking since the very first episode (including having minimal chemistry with Tom).

Lois Lane has never been a "fashion model gorgeous" character; pretty, but not overly so. And I think Erica fits the role perfectly.

 

[Fast Learner]

Whew, thanks Donovan! My utterly senseless (because I'm twice her age, probably)

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Alison Mack crush

apparently rules my life.

Well, twice her age, out of shape, geeky, and not rich, among other things, but hey, a man can dream.

 

[warlord]

Nobody really cares that Tom's 30 he's like 12 kinds of man beautiful.

 

[drothgery]

Lois Lane has never been a "fashion model gorgeous" character; pretty, but not overly so. And I think Erica fits the role perfectly.

And if she'd first appeared as Lois as a grad student or working reporter to Tom Welling's college senior Clark (and for that matter, if the show had started with Tom as college freshman Clark instead of high school freshman Clark), I'd agree completely. As-is though, she looks too old for her part, even if she does have great on-screen chemistry with Welling.

Heck, if I were writing the show, after I saw how well they hit it off in the first few episodes Lois was in, I'd've given the season a non-cliffhanger ending, and opened the next season with 'Four years later'.

 

[TwistedBishop]

Seemed like the same basic formula to me. What are you referring to?

The change to Veronica's social status over the years. She went from being ostracized (which worked quite well) to being in the clique (season 2) to being a random student (season 3). Neither of those last two added anything to the show, and the loss of one of the most potent elements of the first season was crippling to the dynamic it has established.

On the other hand, an element they should have changed as far back as season 2 was the season-long metaplot. I recall Rob Thomas gave interviews where he admitted what a mistake that was, and his disappointment at the general lackluster nature of the bus crash. If he's saying now that the college season isn't working (which I doubt has much to do with the new mini-metaplot arcs, and more to do with the general environment), it sounds like even the show creators know the blame rests with them.