I had to do it. There are just certain things a person needs do before Christmas, or, as the cliche goes, "it just wouldn't be Christmas." The tree was decorated, carols were sung, the Christmas Eve service attended, Peacock Lane driven down, and holiday beverages consumed. But there was one thing I still needed...
Lois & Clark, duh!On Christmas Eve, I decided to download Season's Greedings (season 2, episode 9) from Amazon for $1.99. Not that I don't own eighteen copies of it. I probably do. I just thought "hey, I'd like to watch it on my Kindle." So I began watching it and I started to feel giddy and nostalgic. Shoot, I was FOURTEEN YEARS OLD when that ep first aired! I loved it then and I love it now.
But there was one little snag in the plan. My friend had warned me (but I'd forgotten) about this one thing. The streaming version of this episode has different music than the original version. Instead of The Twist, when Perry is dancing, you've got some generic rock and roll music; instead of The Pretenders' Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas towards the end, you've got instrumental music. And while the later is really pretty -- it's just not RIGHT.
Meh.
BUT! It's still a wonderful episode and 98% of it totally made my night.
Some thoughts:
*Lois is so pretty in this episode and I love all her outfits.
*Every time I watch the scene where Superman flies down to save the snowball girl, I can't help thinking of the behind-the-scenes thing I saw where he actually fell during one take. D'oh. (Proof that mayyyybe I shouldn't watch behind-the-scenes things if I want to keep the magic alive.)
*Mr. Schott is kind of hard to understand. It has taken me MANY viewings to catch most of his dialogue, and there are still a few lines I'm not sure about.
*Season 4 had a lot of dopey moments, and the latter half of season 3 was full of them too (shrinking shampoo, anyone?) but season 1 and 2 don't have very many. At least not to me. But the part where Clark indicates that the star ornament is an ACTUAL STAR, and Lois seems to be impressed, is a BIT MUCH. (Oh well, it's the sentiment, right?)
*Denise Richards was so pretty back then! It makes me sad that she had to grow up and marry Charlie Sheen for a while. And that she didn't come back for any more episodes. And that Jimmy never seemed to find true love. :(
*When the HECK did Lois have time to cook all that food? No. I think she ordered it all. Lois, you little devil.
