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Five Thoughts on Adventures of Superman‘s “The Man Who Made Dreams Come True” and “Disappearing Lois”

By | October 20th, 2020
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This week’s two show of Adventures of Superman is all about deception, both in criminal enterprises and also inter-Daily Planet relationships. Up, up, and away!

1. King of Slumberland

I’m not sure if it is so they don’t besmirch a real nation, but this show loves inventing new countries, almost all of whom are European and have vaguely British accents. In “The Man Who Made Dreams Come True,” we meet the King of Sartania, who trusts in his subconscious so fervently that he makes all of his decisions by dreaming. This leads a con man to play himself off as an interpreter of and manifestation agent of dreams. He tries various tricks to get the King to die, because he convinced him to sign over the rights to his country to him. That’s how it works, right?

2. Clark is bad at this (this being everything)

There’s a very complicated trick to getting the king to visit ‘the Dreamer,’ which involves getting a teenager to wish to meet Superman, then having the Dreamer, not in his get up, go to Clark Kent and request that Superman go meet this girl, and then the girl go to the King of Sartania to tell him that the Dreamer was able to make her dream come true. Follow that? No? Ok, whatever. But anyway, so Clark gets visited by this random dude saying “Hey friend of Superman, there’s a girl at the Ice Cream Parlor who wants to meet Superman. Can you make that happen?”

Now, on one hand, Clark should not do this. Superman isn’t a dancing bear, and shouldn’t be forced to do tricks and shit for kids. On the other, Clark clearly isn’t working very hard, and can make a young girl happy. Somehow, he manages to do both at the same time. He hems and haws about it before deciding to go, and then when he gets there, basically says out loud, “I hear you’re quite unpopular” to the girl. Learn some manners, alien.

3. What shitty friends

In “Disappearing Lois,” Perry White offers an extra month’s salary to anyone who can get an interview with a newly out of prison criminal. It’s a fun incentive for Clark, Lois, and Jimmy, but Lois and Jimmy take it to a new place of dickery. Lois asks Clark for a lift home, and like a gentleman, he walks her to her door. She shows him the new apartment and then he’s on his way. When Clark has to return her purse, he rings her bell, and Lois isn’t there. In fact, it is all different furniture and a different person lives there.

This leads Clark to think he’s going crazy, which was Lois’s whole idea. This way, she gets an easier path to the extra money. I know that the extra salary is a huge incentive, but is it enough of an incentive to drive your friend to contemplate that he’s got a brain tumor or developed a cognitive condition? What a nice lady.

4. What am I hearing?

Clark, trying to find some reason in his life, goes to talk to Inspector Henderson, and explain the situation with Lois to him. Clark and Bill have a conversation and…well, just listen to this:

Doesn’t it sound like Clark is about to say “oh, fuck you,” but realizes what he’s saying midway through ‘fuck’ and sort of trails off? Go ahead, listen again. That has to be it, right? George Reeves was getting a little too into character, methinks.

5. Hey, that’s our old friend again!

We’ve seen a lot of Ben Welden lately on this show. He was the ex-boyfriend ex-con who flew to Alaska to steal some pie, and was also a guy who worked with a scientist to throw off people’s inner ear balance. He was also in three season one and two episodes, and will be in two more before the show is over.

Well this week, he plays Lefty, the dumb stooge to the recently released criminal. He’s tricked into thinking that Lois Lane will be his gun moll, and is basically presented as the dumbest possible person in at least two scenes. Of course, he’s played with panache by Welden, and I legitimately smiled when he walked on screen.


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