I haven't seen it since the 80s, someone else was showing it, and the only reason I had the slightest interest to watch to the end was the villains.
I think the biggest reason I avoided that series is because the woman that played Lois gave me the creeps.
Margot Kidder. She had the spunky attitude needed to play Lois Lane, but her own personal demons of mental illness got the best of her, culminating in a highly publicized mental breakdown in 1996, where she flipped out and wound up living in cardboard boxes and under overpasses because she was convinced that her ex-husband was the head of the CIA and was trying to kill her. She managed to get the help she needed and got her life and career back on track, but her fame will be forever tarnished by what happened.
While Teri Hatcher was a very sexy Lois Lane, she lacked that toughness that defines Lois, always coming across as more subdued.
Erica Durance's turn as Lois on Smallville was a welcome return to the spunkiness we all love, with the addition of showing her going into journalism and seeing just how this general's daughter became one of the best investigative journalists in the world. She immediately suspected Clark of hiding a secret and came close to discovering it numerous times, until finally Clark told her. Her response was simply "I knew it."
We won't even discuss the travesty of miscasting that was Kate Bosworth...
One of the only redeeming things about Man of Steel was the introduction of Amy Adams playing Lois. Taking the Smallcille approach of actually showing Lois to be a damned good reporter, they amped it up by having her discover Clark's secret
before they even met. She followed clues around the world, tracked his path backwards, and actually met him for the first time at the Kent Farm. It was a bold move on Snyder's part, and it was executed brilliantly.
