Originally posted by Tzigone:
I agree. With a strong caveat that I do [b]not like dweeb!Jimmy. He shouldn't be the butt of all the jokes, etc. He was pretty awesome in the radio show that introduced him (albeit a big part of that may be because, as a 14-year-old boy, he was an audience-identification figure).
That said, there's only so much time in a movie and I don't really want Lois or Perry shortchanged, either. [/b]
I don't mind shortchanging Perry. He has a major role in Lois and Clark, but in a lot of portrayals he isn't as much a main character. He should be there, of course, but I don't mind if he doesn't get much screen time.
John Lambert said:
On some of my thoughts above, when Lois first sees Clark, it is while the Pultizer-prize winner is taking photos of the unidentified ice-encased object (UIO). Lois takes pictures, thus she does not need a photographer.
Jimmy hasn't always been a photographer. For a long time he was a "cub reporter", which seemed to mean intern or junior reporter. He did a lot of undercover work (it's amazing how often he ended up in drag in the 50s and 60s), and he wrote regular articles. He did a lot of the same stuff as Lois and Clark, but since he was a teenager, he didn't get the same status as a normal staff reporter.
I'd like to see Jimmy portrayed as a reporter, maybe who specializes in going undercover. He could dabble in photography as a hobby or in addition to his regular reporting work. I think he was really short-changed on Lois and Clark when they made him a gofer. He worked a little better as a computer specialist and researcher, but a lot of the computer babble made me cringe. (Or if it didn't make me cringe back in the mid-90's, it makes me cringe now.)
