Post by Seeya'round Smallville on Oct 17, 2006 19:12:03 GMT -5
#laugh# These "fans" don't even seem to have the capacity to think coherently. I mean think about it. Back in 2000/2001 whenever it was, Smallville holds auditions and aside from canon characters they have two non-canon characters - Chloe Sullivan and Lionel Luthor. John G. gets Lionel. Allison gets Chloe. Now this is in no way meant to be disrespectful but just pointing out the obvious. Exactly how much fan-fare, how much pressure, how much mainstream media attention, how much in the way of expectations based on previous portrayals was there for the part of Chloe Sullivan? ZERO! I'm not saying it's easy to play any role in a new series which at the time it was, but the facts in the previous sentences are just that, facts.
They initially wanted to do a young Lois Lane series if I recall, but DC wouldn't allow it, and when they started Smallville they wouldn't allow Lois on it at the beginning either. Prior to Season 4, when they finally got the approval from DC Comics to bring in the character of Lois Lane, they held a huge search. Proclaimed by themselves and others as the biggest role to cast since Clark. Erica won the audition and was selected as Lois Lane. Got the role on a Friday, started on that following Monday. Coming into the middle of a highly successful and now established series, a large group of "hardcore fans ie. net fans" who had already made up their minds to hate whomever got the role from the word go. Fan-fare galore, mainstream media attention, 66 years of history in the role, having movie Lois Margot Kidder guest star in the same episode Erica debuted in. All with no guarantee of a full-time show contract and slated for only the first four episodes of season 4. After being asked back for a total of 13 episodes (even uncredited in "Pariah") for season 4, Erica's now in her third season on the show, second as a full-fledged cast member, an integral part of the season 5 ratings resurgence with a Lois-centric ep "Aqua" breaking records not seen since season 1, and has done more promotion for the show in her three years than the rest of the cast combined during that time.
Yet these "fans" have some twisted sense that Allison being on the show since the beginning somehow entitles her to be "Lois Lane" despite all of my afore-mentioned examples that Erica earned the role and has been the one to deal with everything that comes along with it where as Allison has dealt with none of that simply because it is not, was not, and never will be her role. Erica has dealt with everything good and bad that comes along with portraying Lois Lane and she has done it with class.
They initially wanted to do a young Lois Lane series if I recall, but DC wouldn't allow it, and when they started Smallville they wouldn't allow Lois on it at the beginning either. Prior to Season 4, when they finally got the approval from DC Comics to bring in the character of Lois Lane, they held a huge search. Proclaimed by themselves and others as the biggest role to cast since Clark. Erica won the audition and was selected as Lois Lane. Got the role on a Friday, started on that following Monday. Coming into the middle of a highly successful and now established series, a large group of "hardcore fans ie. net fans" who had already made up their minds to hate whomever got the role from the word go. Fan-fare galore, mainstream media attention, 66 years of history in the role, having movie Lois Margot Kidder guest star in the same episode Erica debuted in. All with no guarantee of a full-time show contract and slated for only the first four episodes of season 4. After being asked back for a total of 13 episodes (even uncredited in "Pariah") for season 4, Erica's now in her third season on the show, second as a full-fledged cast member, an integral part of the season 5 ratings resurgence with a Lois-centric ep "Aqua" breaking records not seen since season 1, and has done more promotion for the show in her three years than the rest of the cast combined during that time.
Yet these "fans" have some twisted sense that Allison being on the show since the beginning somehow entitles her to be "Lois Lane" despite all of my afore-mentioned examples that Erica earned the role and has been the one to deal with everything that comes along with it where as Allison has dealt with none of that simply because it is not, was not, and never will be her role. Erica has dealt with everything good and bad that comes along with portraying Lois Lane and she has done it with class.