If you genuinely thought it was a bird or an airplane up in the air, why on earth would you be so excited that you had to call peoples’ attention to the fact?
And isn’t the ability to leap tall buildings sort of implicit in the whole “can fly” premise?
Okay, and no jokes about Jimmy Olsen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYZMHXVN8PE
Watched it (9 minutes isn’t too much to ask).
Laughed at the opening montage of “Jimmy!” “Jimmmy!” “Jimmy!” — I figured “So that’s why he posted it.”
Liked the shots of Lois Lane. Never saw the Egyptian outfit one.
The attempt to make his overacting seem to be “great timing” fell flat, like trying to make Gilligan — no, a second-tier character like Alice on the Brady Bunch — into an acting tour de force was a bit much.
Started watching Superman when I was 5 (1956). Even at that age, Jimmy Olsen’s character made me cringe. He was always simplistic and naive – a grown-up, little boy in a man’s body. Was it the writer’s fault? Or Jack Larson’s?
My nick-name was ‘Jimmy’ at the time (which I did not like until much later) and if someone said “Here comes Superman’s little side kick, Jimmyyyyyy!” they were closer to death than they knew.
Also, Phyllis Coates was a better Lois Lane than Noel Neill. But Coates only acted in the series for the first season. Neill didn’t portray being a woman very well. She was like a Catholic nun – without the habit. Maybe it was a ’50’s thing.
… and even as a small kid, I sensed that Superman and Batman on TV were pudgier and less buff than their comic book equivalents.
Heh. There’s an image in the above Youtube were Reeves is wearing a spare tire (love handles, ladies?). It was always kind of hard to spot his muscles. 😅
Getting back to Lois Lane(s) . . . mmmm . . . X-ray vision . . .
I can’t really fault them, I thought it was the elephant in the room.