[NAS] Resurrection

TV Programme: The New Adventures Of Superman
Season: 2
Episode: 17
Date I watched this episode: 30/08/2009
Time since I last watched this programme: 14 days.

This episode was like the second part of the last. However far from being full of tragedy and misery, it served to introduce the excellent character of Dan Scardino, who we certainly haven't seen the last of. Dan was the proverbial spanner in the Lois/Clark "works" and as mentioned in the final line of the episode, Lois certainly does have some choices to make. If only Lois and Clark could be upfront about their feelings rather than sidestepping the issues all the time, they wouldn't be in this mess.

Scardino is almost like an opposite of Clark. He's the really smooth character who does everything right - like complimenting Lois on her home-baked cookies, while Clark shows himself up by looking like he's going to be sick. He is similar to Lois in her approach of just blazing into things without a care, and for that he holds some respect for her, and she for him. But ironically it's because of all this that it will never work. Lois needs someone who complements her, and Scardino will just eventually get on her nerves.

Obviously the main story of the episode was with this "Resurrection" thing and despite the fact that the word "resurrect" was in inverted commas in the synopsis I read, for some reason I just didn't cotton on to the twist that the criminals were just in suspended animation. Nevertheless, even if you did see the twist coming I think it would have been an enjoyable episode in the way it played out. There were a lot of key players and names flying around, which served to confuse the viewer, but was not gratutituous due to the nature of the story, and did help the story to naturally unravel.

I suppose my main criticism of this and recent episodes, and the programme as a whole, is that it doesn't often feel very "mythology" based. Last season we had Lex Luthor who is very closely tied in to DC mythology, but a lot of these episodes just feature the core characters of Lois, Clark, Jimmy and Perry, with very little extra connection to DC mythology or any real feeling that there even is a mythology. This is in contrast to Smallville, which definitely does push the mythology in every episode. Now, I know this is a very different show, and it's focussing more on the relationship between Lois and Clark, but sometimes I just feel that these four characters could just as easily have different names and it wouldn't make a difference.

That aside, this was a pretty fun episode to watch, and I'll look forward to seeing Dan Scardino and his catburgling techniques in future episodes.