Superman Anniversary Meme - Day 15
Day 15 - Your favorite Superman related TV Show.
Believe it or not it's a tie.
Justice League/Unlimited was my official introduction to the larger DCU outside of Superman and Batman. I own every fricken episode and have watched them multiple times. It remains not only one of my favorite animated series, but one of my favorite series period. I love the animation, the writing, and I LOVED that the continuity was just nearly perfect. Bruce Timm and his team managed to pull in elements for the pentultimate season from waaaaay back to the Superman animated series. The Cadmus story arc brought back plot points from the Darkseid story arc and the episode where Brainiac kidnapped Lex in S:tAS and did it in a way that was surprising, exciting, and it seriously remains one of my favorite story arcs in any series to this day. Damn, I love this show.
Smallville, with all of its flaws and WTFery, has reemerged in the last two seasons to top my list of favorite tv shows ever. I don't think any other Superman related series has ever portrayed such a relatable Clark Kent, one who is human and flawed, and yet still majestic in a Supermanly way that I look for in any live action version. Even if Buffy and Angel (both in my top ten) were way better written, this is fucking Superman and even though SV has f-ed me over 12 ways from Sunday in certain seasons, Seasons 8 and 9 (especially 9 *hugs tight*) were just so much love that I immediately forgave whatever happened in those past seasons. PSW and the writers gave me a Clark that is not only heroic and smart, but also hopeful, naive, and also sexily aggressive, and they did it in a way that was still in character. And Smallville also holds the distinction of giving me the first Lois Lane that I've completely fallen in love with, thereby changing the way I view the character in the comics wrt her relationship with Clark/Superman, and also making Clark and Lois the first het pairing I've OTP shipped since 2004. So, yes, Smallville's Clark is my Superman, dammit.