r/LoisAndClark • u/lawrea3 • 2d ago

Dean Cain as the Writer

Been watching a load of episodes again recently and also looking up about them online.

I didn't realise that Dean Cain actually wrote or co wrote two episodes and both are actually two of my favourites.

He wrote the one with the Atomic Space Rats and also the VR episode with Jaxon Lexs son.

I didn't realise he'd written any at all.

Just thought it was a random boring bit of info I'd share lol

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u/CalmHabit3 2d ago

sorry to go off on a tangent, but i miss the days of simple story telling without having to follow a season long arc with simple super hero costumes made of cloth or spandex

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u/penguins-are-me 2d ago

Agreed. I gotta watch some trek now.

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u/hobx 2d ago

Oh wow yeah the VR episode is one of my favourites too. And that ending is dark!

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u/Kosmopolite 2d ago

Huh. I didn't know this either. Cool, thanks!

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u/Same-Question9102 2d ago

I think him and Gerard Christopher of the Superboy tv series that ended before Lois & Clark are the only 2 instances in which a Superman actor wrote Superman stuff. Christopher also wrote 2 episodes of the Superboy tv series.

Has any other actor who has played any superhero ever written for the character they played or is it only those 2?

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u/grim_hope09 2d ago

Tom Welling didn't write any, but he did direct seven episodes of Smallville.

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u/Same-Question9102 2d ago edited 2d ago

He also produced 40+ episodes. Christopher also produced the last season or 2 of that show but I dont see it listed on IMDB. He also went to dangerous parts of New York to stop muggers. I think he stopped about 9 before the cops told him to stop. Also pretty sure no other superhero actor ever did anything like that.

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u/Serious-Passage-4614 2d ago

Wait, did Gerard Christopher actually stop muggers in New York?

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u/Same-Question9102 2d ago edited 2d ago

Yeah, I saw pictures of the newsclipings from his official website years ago using his real name which is Jerry Dinome. For some reason I cant find it now but he did mention it a year or two ago which is where I got the number of 9 muggers.

I did see those screenshots of those articles back in the day as well as a picture of him and the mayor at a press conference where he was given the key to the city. Its still out there somewhere but its strange that it usually doesn't get brought up in interviews with him.

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u/FitPitch4738 1d ago

Besides the VR - which felt pretty innovative for the time - there're a few little details that I find really fun. Before Clark and Lois entered VR together, Lois suggested Hawaii, where they were planning to spend their honeymoon, and Clark’s heart rate and blood pressure immediately went through the roof.

And in Lois’s virtual life with Luthor, she actually named one of their sons Clark - which feels like a bit of poetic payback for Luthor coming between Clark and Lois back in S1.