[NAS] Metallo

TV Programme: The New Adventures Of Superman
Season: 2
Episode: 10
Date I watched this episode: 29/05/2009
Time since I last watched this programme: 5 months, 3 days.

Metallo isn’t a mythology character I’m particularly familiar with, and so I can’t really comment from that standpoint. However, Lucy Lane was also portrayed in this episode; a character I have previously seen in other adaptations ([SMV] “Lucy”). Lucy’s portrayal here was actually quite good; it was believable that she was Lois’s sister, both the chemistry that existed with Teri Hatcher but also the character itself which was just someone who had taken very different choices in life, and Lois resented her for it.

As for Metallo himself, he was also quite a believable villain, who was almost three-dimensional. It was a cool character in general, and a formidable opponent for Superman, though their battles were not drawn out enough. The interplay between John/Metallo and his creators was suitably comical, as it was intended to be.

Clark perhaps overstepped his bounds a little bit with Lois in this episode; her family situation is something he was quite brave to try to interfere with. But he also used the character of Superman to “matchmake” Clark and Lois at the end. This is perhaps a good strategy for him to win Lois’s heart “as Clark”, and something believable for the writers to put in.

All in all, there didn’t seem like there was much to this episode, but it was fun all the same. It’s been so long since I last watched this show that it was just good for me to see the old faces again.