Where does this fit in?

[Black Eye Guy]

I saw my first full episode of this tonight, and I quite liked it. But I was just wondering is the series like in a universe of it's own, like it isn't supposed to be a prequel to the other series, I think it was Lois and Clark? The one with Terri Hatcher in it. Or is it supposed to be a prequel to the movies?

And a question about the episode I saw, I'm not sure which one it was. But in it Two people dressed in Black who have the same powers as superman came to the town - where they the same bad guys from one of the movies?

And last two questions, What’s up with Lex Luther -does he have powers? Or know of Superman? And why is he bald?

And have the characters Lana or Sophie been in any other Superman things, or are they a creation of the series?

[prydain]

Nah, this show is not related to Lois & Clark and is set in a different little universe.

Lex Luthor doesn't have powers. He starts out as a semi good guy and is friends with Clark but as they go on they start to drift apart, I think part of this is Clark's fault because of his secret keeping. And Lex does not know Clark has powers. In Superman Returns he did not know Superman and Clark Kent are one in the same, at least I don't think he did. He's bald in the show because of the meteor shower - he was trapped in a corn field as a kid when it happened.

I thought Lana was created for the show but it turns out she wasn't, she's in the comics too. Sophie? Do you mean Chloe? I think she was created just for the show.

[Vilandra]

It's not really a prequel - it has it's own canon (though recently the comics were rewritten to match the Smallville version of Clark's early life). Obviously it has some of the same elements (ie Lois Lane) but they don't all fit together nicely into a little box.

I'm not sure if the people in the ep you saw were the same people from the movies - it's definitely the same sort of thing where Kryptonians are imprisoned that way and they were followers of Zod (the main bad guy from the movie).

Lex is bald because the meteor shower when Clark came to Earth caused him to lose all his hair. He has developed powers but we're not sure if he will keep them, and he strongly suspects Clark but I don't think (cause I might have missed it by not watching carefully) he doesn't exactly know what the deal is.

Lana was the girl that Clark had the crush on in high school but nothing ever happened with until Superman 3 or 4 when he goes back to Smallville and finds her divorced with a child.

Chloe is a creation of the series, and is supposed to be Lois Lane's cousin who had a thing with Jimmy Olsen during a summer internship at the daily planet.

(Please anyone correct any errors here - like I said I tended to not be watching the tv that carefully last year lol.)

:)

[prydain]

Well I'm only halfway through season four so I don't know about Lex's powers or anything like that, lol.

[Vilandra]

(We posted at the same time) And well I was trying not to spoil it...so I didn't explain it...exactly ;)

[prydain]

Ah well I'm not upset I was spoiled or anything I was just mentioning that because I had written that I didn't think Lex had any powers.

Does that happen in season four or five?

[Bored of the Dead]

Lana Lang was in Superman 3 and was played by Annette O'Toole who plays Martha Kent in Smallville.

It is not exactly canon with movies that have already been made, however its generally considered that what happens in Smallville cannot exactly contradict what happens in the Comics and Superman 1&2 and Returns.

There are some changes, such as certain characters knowing others before they meet in the Movies, HOWEVER, things like the death of characters and characters gaining and retaining abilities they don't have later are 'no-nos'.

Also, the two beings that are in Arrival that work for 'Zod' are not Ursa and Non(from the Movies)...interestingly the Voice of Jor-El is played by Terrance Stamp, the original Zod.

[Vilandra]

Ah well I'm not upset I was spoiled or anything I was just mentioning that because I had written that I didn't think Lex had any powers.

Does that happen in season four or five?
Five.

But I just meant that for anyone reading it that all is not as it seems... *wink wink* lol, so you aren't really spoiled ;)

[Black Eye Guy]

Ah cool, thanks guys. :) Glad to hear it doesn't have to be set by things in the movies and stuff. I'm watching my second episode now, I really like it! I probably shouldn't start on season 5, But I will watch the others soon, just wanted to see if I'd like it!

I also didn't realise it would be so Sci-fi - I thought it was more Superman saving people from human criminals, but the episode I'm watching has two albinos that create a force field and a guy that can create fire? (Or is it energy?)

[goldenboy]

I don't know DC Comics, but wasn't their comics continuity itself really kind of messed up? Like there are zillions of "alternate universes", with different Superman scenarios...all explained away as the "multiverse" or whatever...

[MentPatient]

Actually, Lex's meteorite powers is a highly elevated white blood cells.

In the last season, he was given a Kryptonian... potion (?) that gives him speedy healing, and probably some other powers. But his body gets taken over by Zod, who then traps Clark in one of those dimensional prison things.
Oh, those two people came in in a spaceship during the second meteor shower.

I'm such a geek. :lame:

[Vilandra]

I intentionally didn't explain what it was all about ;)