1. Cat Grant needed to stay.
2. Clark should've given Lois a silent alarm or something. That hussy gets killed almost EVERY EPISODE.
3. Perry was made into a desperate, pathetic divorcee. A big change from a confident editor.
4. Jimmy should've gotten action or given chances to write important articles.
5. Lucy should've been in a lot more episodes.
6. LEX SHOULD HAVE BEEN IN ALL 4 SEASONS.
I concur.
shareJohn Shea was a good Lex Luther. I had forgotten about him. He is in my top three. Rosenbaum (in the early seasons) and Hackman (because he was so darn funny). Lyle Talbot as a distant fourth.
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Good points, but Perry was a good character.
shareJimmy was a photographer. He wouldn't be writing articles.
sharePerry wasn't a divorcee; I specifically remember him having a wife named Lucille (never seen on screen however), to whom he was still married, and who chucked him out a couple of time over misunderstandings, but they always got back together.
I also think they should never have replaced Michael Landes with Justin Whalin as Jimmy Olsen. I've read it was done because the producers thought he looked too much like Dean Cain. I think that's balderdash, and the real reason is they wanted an actor who looked somewhat like Jonathan Brandis, who was a the hot teen heartthrob of the day, over on SeaQuest DSV. Kid of the same reason they brought Walter Koenig on as Chekov on Star Trek TOS -- the stated reason was to acknowledge Russian contributions to space exploration, but the real reason was to introduce someone who looked like Davy Jones, who was the hot teen heartthrob of his day over on The Monkees. Copycatting is never a good idea, and it almost never works, sure enough, neither Koenig nor Whalin ever achieved that heartthrob status and lured in the desired legions of teenage girls as viewers.
I agree about John Shea, if they had made him a recurring villain who appeared no more than five or six times a season. You don't want to overuse a single villain, and if he was in the majority of episodes and Superman was never able to bring him down, it risks making Superman look inept.
I agree about the rest.