Larry's TV Reviews

The director and/or screen writers have convoluted the story of Superboy/Superman from its original story line.

I'm 61 years old. I remember the original story line. You have strayed too far away from it for the sake of "sensationalism" for TV.

The original had more creativity than you have revealed, by tampering. The original had a plausable, scientific basis to everything that happend, but your TV script writers have apparently been watching too many idiotic saturday morning cartoons. They've incorporated the absurd.

The original comic book story-line of Superboy/Superman made sense. Even then, we (as readers of the comics) could write to the publishers and ask for explanations as to how certain things could be possible. They would reply (in their next issue) to the questions, and each answer made sense! Plausible explations!

Your episodes have Clark Kent facing Kryptonite constantly! It weakens his character image as Superboy/Superman.

You couldn't have picked anyone who looked more like Superboy/Superman that your current star, Tom Welling. He's a natural for the part. But, please don't continue presenting him as a love-struck weakling and fool. Superboy never was! He was a true hero by virtue of being raised by the Kent's! He was raised by them to be stronger in character than your writers present him now. Your writers may be just too young to remember or realize that there is only one Superboy! He is NOT Hollywood's creation to bastardize for TV ratings!

Get back to the basics. Your TV shows will be better without "artistic interpretation" from a group of young writers who never read the entire series of comics, without having heart and soul to understand who and what Superboy/Superman was. They aren't "bad" writers; they seem to veer too far away from the almost INVINCIBLE POWER and extreme intellect that Kal-El had, naturally.

I don't remember that Superboy/Superman was ever love-struck, baffled, and weak emotionally. Yes, he had feelings! But, he was superior intellectually, and it served him well to serve humanity.

Had he be raised in New York or Hollywood, CA he wouldn't have had the upbringing (by the Kents) that gave him decent, mid-western moral values! Those values imparted to him (by them) saved our planet, time and time again!

By the way... the actor who portrays Lex Luthor is superb!