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I usually find that there's a specific moment when watching a new TV show when I can say later, 'that's when I fell in love with this show'.

For example, with Buffy it was when I received a tape of another show from someone and they had left the last half of Lover's Walk on the end of the recording. I was immediately fascinated with Spike's speech about the nature of love and that was me, hooked.

With The Young Riders - my big love just before LNC - it was an early episode in which one of the riders, Ike, is targeted by a gang. Ike decides to leave to avoid putting the rest of the riders in danger but finds them saddling up to go with him. He protests that it's not their problem: "They came for me," and Kid says calmly and matter-of-factly, "Then they came for us." That was it. The moment I fell in love with those guys.

With LNC, I think it was 'don't fall for me' conversation in the pilot.

So...when was the moment you realised you were in love?

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Sadly, I can't remember 'the moment' for me and LnC. I know that I had not seen any at all while they were still on (I only started watching after the reruns). But I think I was hooked right away because of the chemistry between LnC and because Dean was so yummy to look at... drool


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For me it was the {Clark} - {Martha & Jonathan} "hero support" conversations right from the first episode.


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I can't say what it was about this show that hooked me, but I watched it from the Pilot episode all the way through to the end and absolutely loved it the entire time (well, most of the time...). I think perhaps I realized I was hooked when I first watched PML.

After the show went off the air, it got replaced by some of my other obsessions (was right about the time I discovered the X-files and the internet and became hopelessly addicted to both). Then, a couple of years ago my fiance bought me season one of LnC on DVD, and I got re-addicted. I think he sometimes wishes he hadn't done that. laugh

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I knew I'd love it even before it started airing. I was so looking forward to it and was really p'ed off when I had to miss the start because of an accounting test. No wonder I hated that subject. razz

But my interest has been life-long. I have a memory of being about 5 and standing in the lounge doorway while my sister and her friend watched Superman on tv. I was too shy to go in and join them, but I’ve had a thing for it ever since. When I was 13ish and I’d sleep over at my best friend’s house, she’d ask what vid I wanted to watch and it was always Superman 2. I love the Lois flinging herself into Niagara Falls bit.

Hell, I even watched Superboy! blush blush


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Holy crap, HawtRat started a post?! wink

Good question. When L&C started airing, I was only in sixth grade, and not only did I have to go to bed before nine, but I was still more of a TGIF girl. Anyway, it caught my attention about halfway through the first season -- "All Shook Up" was the first episode I remember watching -- and I liked it -- and I already was moving toward thinking journalism was the greatest career ever -- and gradually started talking my mom into letting me stay up.

However, that "moment" where I fell for the show came at the end of "House of Luthor" when Perry and Jimmy brought Lois downstairs after her aborted wedding. She looked like she didn't even have the strength to go on, but then she saw Clark standing there and just flew into his arms as if she knew everything was going to be OK, and he held her tight, and it was just so ... enchanting.

And from then on, I never missed an episode.


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Well, that last post was demoralizing. You were in sixth grade? Time flies...

Well, I was in my late twenties and newly married when the show first came on. For some reason we knew we were going to miss the premiere, but my parents watched it, loved it, and taped it for us. My husband and I were both hooked from the first minute. We're really not TV watchers, so that was our ritual weekly show for the first three seasons (in the fourth season you never knew when the heck it was going to be on, so we kind of lapsed).

So, the moment. I loved it from Minute One, but I think the hook was when Clark said, "Got it. You like to be on top." Wow -- a re-imagined Clark Kent, with a spine! I loved that.

I became chronically ill a few years ago, and that was when someone bought me the DVD's, and also when I discovered the fanfic archive site. So I guess L&C and I are back together. Oh, and my husband and I are still together, too. smile


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Oh, how I wish my memory wasn't swiss cheese... because I know I was hooked to the show from the start and I'm mighty certain I was glued to my screen during the pilot, but I don't remember the moment that "made it" for me. (when we moved, I found my old VHS tapes that have every S1 ep, except the pilot, which can only mean one thing: I watched the pilot and recorded all the others so I could keep 'em.)

Most likely, it would have been seeing Clark standing in front of the mirror, in the Superman suit, taking off his glasses -- because when I got the DVDs and watched that scene, it was the one thing that made me go "omg, I so loved that show!"


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I actually didn't see the show until about a year ago when I was struggling to write an English paper that was due the next day. In my effort to delude myself into thinking that I wasn't so screwed, I stumbled across some of the episodes on VEOH. I tried to watch them in relatively chronological order, but there were only a few posted, so I watched GGGOH, then had to skip all the way to ATAI. After that, I was able to watch a handful of S3 and maybe less than half of S4. I think it was about 4am before I actually got around to working on my paper, and even then it was kind of like write a couple paragraphs, and watch an episode as a reward.

Anyway, I guess it was GGGOH that hooked me, because if I didn't like the epi, then I probably would've found another way to waste my time.

(If anyone is interested, I ended up getting an A- on the paper, and when I look back and read it, I still think it's not too bad)

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"All Shook Up" was the first episode I remember watching
Well... that's a coincidence! I think what first caught my eye was that huge asteroid looming over Earth that they keep on showing throughout that episode. I think I missed out a couple of episodes after that... not deliberately, but I sort of forgot that they were airing such a show! (Pathetic excuse! I know wink )

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However, that "moment" where I fell for the show came at the end of "House of Luthor" when Perry and Jimmy brought Lois downstairs after her aborted wedding.
Yup! Coincidence again! lol I think that's about the same time I realized that there was something more to this show... I'm not sure but I think I was flipping through the channels when this scene caught my eye... or... it's all hazy...

I think I really got hooked when Lois had that wedding jitters scene - standing before the mirror - and the wedding (you see, I usually fall for these wedding scenes)
I saw that her mind was on another man while she was walking down the aisle towards another - I didn't even know who Lex was LOL blush - and I prayed and prayed that she won't go through it!

The rest? well... I went to see this friend of mine who was always taunting me to watch the show and we both watched all the episodes she'd copied in a tape in about two days! Sigh!

Happy ending to missed episodes - thanks DT (if you ever see these boards)! Without your tapes I think I'd have missed out on something wonderful!


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Well, that last post was demoralizing. You were in sixth grade? Time flies...
LOL, I can top that. I had to be in fourth grade when it started airing. Has it really been 15 years since it premiered? (My math could be terrible since I just got off work hah.)

I don't remember a specific moment per se, but if I had to guess based on me, GGGoH where Trask almost shoots Clark...I bet that would have cemented my fanship. But I remember to a tee that there was like a three week hiatus in the show before HoM aired, and that was just unacceptable haha. Marked it and starred it and practically taped my calendar to my forehead waiting for that Sunday, so I was clearly hooked before HoM.

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THe hubby and I watched it together curled up on the sofa after the toddler was in bed. It was one of the few shows we both loved. I don't remember a moment when I was hooked I just feel those warm moments with the hubby when I see the opening sequence.

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I think I've topped them all so far, because I was only 6 or 7 when I fell in love with the show. Needless to say, my memory of exactly why and when is a bit fuzzy. I know Clark being an über-hunk had something to do with it. Much better than all the Disney princes combined! goofy

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I think for me it was the pilot episode. The scene where Lois says to Clark, don't fall for me farmboy, I don't have time for it and the look on Clark's face had me hooked, how cute. Not to forget to mention the first time Clark put on the super suit, need I say more.


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hmmmm good question, LabRat...

I've seen this show from the beginning because I've known all the Superman-movies and I was curious about the new TV show. I liked the preview and you know when you are 11 and you see such a good-looking Clark, I knew I can't miss the pilot. I always hated that Clark looks like a dork in the movies. I never missed an episode from then on. But I can say that I totally fell for the show at the end of season 1 when Lois and Clark got romantic feelings for each other. "The House Of Luthor" where Lois was standing in front of the mirror and said "Lois Lane Kent" - I almost cried too. Well I was hoping at the end that Clark admits his feelings for her but NO mad he had to cross his fingers behind his back. And then I had to wait the whole summer for the next episode. grrrr hyper

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I was about 8 when the show first aired in Portugal and I can't recall why or when I fell in love with it.
All I remember is that I really loved the chemistry between Lois and Clark and the fact that she was a very strong and independent woman.


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What can I say? I was bored. And trying to avoid going downstairs where Stuart was watching football. laugh

I've been enjoying your recollections so far!

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Sometime in 1994 (or was it 1995?) my former boyfriend (now husband) and I were at the video store, when I saw the pilot standing in shelf. ohmygod ... A Superman-movie I didn't know? Unbelievable ... Impossible ... Ok, so we rented the video and what to say: I loved it. But to that time I had no idea that there was a complete show behind the movie; I only found that out when I saw that in our TV-guide 1 year later. I've watched every single episode at TV and I loved them all (even the bad ones wink ). So for me the specific moment was, when I saw the front cover of the video at the video store smile


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Right from the start, I think - I certainly saw most of the first series when it first aired in the UK, and I think made an effort to catch it.


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Dean Cain in a towel....HOOKED!!!

Humor was a bonus, so all the costume changes in the pilot that had me giggling were a help.

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I was a freshman in high school on the night of October 10, 1993. I was really bored and there was nothing else on TV, so I turned to the episode titled, "I'm Looking Through You." [It must've been a sign because a couple of years later I became a HUGE Beatles fan. wink ] I was IMMDEDIATELY drawn to the Lois and Clark banter and sexual tension. Dean and Teri had AWESOME on screen chemistry and the rest was history. I counted down the days until LnC aired and I even watched reruns. I would make it a point to let all of my friends to NEVER call me when it was on or I just wouldn't answer the phone. cool

The really kewl thing was that the show followed me throughout high school. It literally ended on the night of my graduation. Granted, I wanted to be sitting in front of my TV instead of getting a dipolma, but I didn't have a choice. lol That's what VCRs were for I guess. :p

I still laugh when I think about the fact that it was my parents who started watching the show before me and once I fell for it, they got bored and walked away. goofy

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It took two moments for me to fall head over heels for the show. The first one was in the pilot where he stops a bus from hitting those nuns...it was so cliche, how could I not love it? I mean all that was missing was them being in a stationwagon. But the thing that just sealed my love for it was in Honeymoon in Metropolis right after he sat on the bomb he got up and his pants were smoldering, and Lois didn't even notice...It was great!


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I used to watch the show with my family when I was around 9 but got hooked 3 years later when I catched the last half of Tempus Fugitive and realized that Lois knew the secret..we all know how it ended but from that day on I didn't miss an ep.

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Like someone else up-thread, I realized that I loved this show when Clark said, "You like to be on top." It was such a revelation to me that Superman could be as snarky and human as the rest of us. Out of all the incarnations of Superman out there, I still like the way they were portrayed on Lois & Clark best, especially in the first season of the show.


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wow not been on here in ages lol

when i wwas very little on a saturday evening after coming hoem from shopping, thats all i remember , i rememebr a few episodes vaguely but dont remmerb actually watching it lol
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As long as I remember, I got hooked with L&C when watched GGGOH. It was even dubbed in our language then. I never really noticed this show because it was a rerun by a new station on our TV, but since it aired on weekends when I really have nothing to do, I have no choice and settled on watching it. After that episode, I started becoming hooked! I was so curious about this show that I started researching about it and would spend long hours in front of the computer.

Well, lucky for me, after the station finished broadcasting the fourth season[[or maybe it was I Got You Under My Skin, I think] they stopped dubbing and I got to hear their real voices. Then, they repeated showing L&C again, starting from Season 2 in English.

L&C also increased my love for Superman that I get giddy whenever seeing something related to Superman or Teri and Dean[most especially]!

Right now, I'm waiting for Season 8 of Smallville 'cause I heard that its upcoming season will be in some kind of L&C format. I'm so excited! jump


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When it first aired. I had been 14 or something at the time. The pilot did me in. Before that I thought Superman was this cheese comic and stuff. But I was like, 'hey, check it out so you know what Superman is about'. Can you imagine my surprise when I noticed it was more of a Lois and Clark deal than the Big Blue Boy Scout. And I really am a sucker for strong B-plots. And the rest is history laugh

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Well, that last post was demoralizing. You were in sixth grade? Time flies...

Well, I was in my late twenties
Well, I don’t think I’ll tell you how old I was, but I saw Superman The Movie on the day it came out and I drove to the theatre. wink


I’ve been a long time Superman lover (since I was about 4), so I was hooked as soon as I heard that the show was coming out. That was before any of the actors had even been cast. I was especially glad that the show was going to be based on the ‘re-done’ Superman comics where Clark was not going to be a wimp. Then when I found out that Clark / Superman was going to be played by Dean Cain, I was aghast that the powers that be would dare to have a brown-eyed actor playing Superman without at least having him wear contacts. I knew I would still watch the show, but I was still wary of a brown-eyed Superman. But as soon as Clark stepped off the bus with the suitcase in his hand, I knew ‘they’ had chosen well and that this brown-eyed actor named Dean Cain would do Clark Kent / Superman proud!

I recorded the pilot, and I think I must have watched it a zillion times before the second episode came on!


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I was 14. There was a cute boy in the previews so of course I was going to watch it. I fell in love with the series in the pilot episode. (I love secret identities on top of that as well).

What can I say? Hormones was a deciding factor here.

*pauses*

Wait... is it sad that not much has changed?

Seriously though, I would have been able to stick with it had it not been for the great dialogue between Lois and Clark. For me that sealed the deal.


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The Pilot episode was really impressive it's damn smart and perfectly paced, just full of small things that are truly adorable.

Liked some other episodes, but I missed most and didn't really get any sense of "must never miss this"

Much of the dialogue stuck however and I checked some pages with quotes like years later (I like quotes).

Then I got access to teh internet, at home, and got the opportunity see all seasons episode after episode, and was completely taken by the continuity and the fantastic interaction between Dean and Teri, I cant recall a couple that managed to ooze that much sex appeal and romanticism.

That coupled with a lot of nice secondary character some really cool plots (and always have had a great respect for someone that can create challenging plots for superman, not involving Kryptonite).

And while I was watching I actually became genuinely interested in Superman, Someone I always found flat, silly and boring with his semi-omnipotence. Here I actually symphatized with him.

From that however there is some really large unsatisfactory twists in the story that really irritates me, like the aftermath of the revelation ,the wedding that is simply a travesty. Some truly missed opportunities like procreation.

And when you start to think in "what if's" the next step is fanfic.


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I watched it from the first episode, so I guess I was kind of hooked after that... it was the only thing that was EVER on in my household on a Sunday night, and it was a family affair.


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I never watched Lois and Clark - not even one episode - before this May. I don't know how that is even possible, but it's true. I was just BUSY on Sunday nights in the 90s and I don't subscribe to cable.

But, in Nov of 2006 I discovered Smallville. I bought and watched all available seasons on DVD. In order. WOW. It's now on a very SHORT list of can't miss shows for me.

It was some of the Smallville fans I knew who kept referring to "Lois and Clark" and I eventually decided to check it out. The DVDs on Amazon were pricey and the promo photos on the DVD covers put me off. Dean Cain with his slicked back hair was just not my idea of how Superman should look... or so I thought. (Heh. Little did I know... wink )

When faced with a long summer of Smallville reruns, I needed a Superman fix and took a chance. I broke down and ordered season one of Lois and Clark.

It took me about 30 seconds (metaphorically speaking) to discover that Dean Cain made a GREAT Clark and he was totally delicious in tights! I was also delightfully surprised to find that Terry was the best Lois I've ever watched and the two of them together were... amazing.

I think at the end of "Strange Visitor" I ordered seasons 2-4 and was gutted that there weren't MORE. (Someone explain THAT to me, please.)

My boyfriend laughed at me... said I was going through this series faster than a dime store novel and he was right. What a great bit of fantasy fluff that never fails to put a smile on my face! I've been watching hardly anything else all summer.

In looking for more information about the series I stumbled across this website and was surprised to find volumes of high quality fan fiction. I guess I've graduated from watching to reading...

From all indications I'm well on my way to becoming a Lois and Clark junkie... My family is considering an intervention. (Kidding.) I got my 11 year-old niece hooked too, which is a lot of fun, but I'm still working on the boyfriend... wink

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Welcome to the party, Captivated! We're always glad to see new faces. wave

Like many other people up-thread, I was hooked before the Pilot had even finished airing. I loved the snappy banter and the fact that Clark was something of a smarta**. It was a revelation to me to see a more adult and snarky version of the characters I had first fallen in love with as a child after the Superman movies.

Sadly, that started to change after the second season when the writing wasn't as tight as it had been. By the fourth season I felt like the characters I adored so much were just shadowy versions of their original selves. I can find moments to enjoy in the later seasons, but not whole eps.

Like Arawn said, it's the "what ifs" for all those missed opportunities that drives my love for fanfic.


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Welcome to the party, Captivated! We're always glad to see new faces. wave

Like many other people up-thread, I was hooked before the Pilot had even finished airing. I loved the snappy banter and the fact that Clark was something of a smarta**. It was a revelation to me to see a more adult and snarky version of the characters I had first fallen in love with as a child after the Superman movies.

Sadly, that started to change after the second season when the writing wasn't as tight as it had been. By the fourth season I felt like the characters I adored so much were just shadowy versions of their original selves. I can find moments to enjoy in the later seasons, but not whole eps.

Like Arawn said, it's the "what ifs" for all those missed opportunities that drives my love for fanfic.
Thanks for the welcome. smile

Speaking of stories... I think I have read all of yours. I am a HUGE fan! notworthy

Yeah... I love how competent Clark is in this show verses other incarnations. He's the REAL deal and Superman's the disguise. Very cool.

But, I was also let down by the direction the show went in, starting with the wedding fake out. It was such a change in tone... Up to that point I would have described the show as a campy, action, adventure, romantic comedy... but you wouldn't use the word "disturbing." But that whole clone/amnesia saga was just painful to watch at times.

And was it my imagination, or by season 4 did Lois/Terry started acting like someone had let the air out of her tires... I mean, except for the love scenes, which were consistently the best part of the show. wink

I've watched each episode several times now and I'm still noticing things. Mostly, I'm diverted by the fact that I don't seem to get tired of this silly show... smile

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Gosh when I fell in Love with the show??
Well I didn't know it existed untill they repeated the show here in The Netherlands... So.. I started watching it one day when I was ill and I lay in bed all the time and I was watching TV and there it was!! I saw the episode "The Inviseble Man" and I thought OMG!! I love it.. so I watched the rest of the episodes and I loved it more and more!!

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When did I fall in love with the show.... I don't quite remember. I use to watch it with my family Sunday nights before bed (granted I was only about 6 when it first aired) The only episode I remember watching back then was Never on Sunday I think cause the snakes scared me (haha). Anyway back 4 or 5 years ago (my sophomore year in high school) my friend told me about it and I was like i haven't seen that in ages and I knew I liked it.

I guess I knew I fell in love when I spent my summers getting up at 8AM because thats when it aired on TBS. Honestly what 15 year old gets up at 8AM during the summer... Apparently me and only Lois and Clark could have done that.

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Not really a newbie. I can't believe how much this message board has grown. I was an avid poster back in 2004 in my days in high school (i was actually member number 421). Didnt really have the time once i moved into college and now im back nad had to re register since i forgot my password but the email i had register is no longer in existence so I had no way to retrieve it. Actually if anyone has any way to help me be able to somehow be part of my old login that be great.

But wow how many fans there really are. Since in 2004 i was member number only 421 and now my new login is member number something of 5000!!!

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You have all the information you need to get back into your old membership, Jessica. I've sent you the login details in PM.

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Actually, I had never known about "LnC" till the movie "Superman Returns" came out and Warner Bros was heavily promoting the previous versions of Superman. The DVDs for LnC appeared in the stores (heavily discounted), and I bought the first season DVDs on a whim.

I was hooked at the Pilot episode. I laughed out loud when Clark tries on all the different costumes - an affectionate mockery to superhero outfits. I loved the leopardskin and the hat with the little wings!

And then (re: Clark's reluctance to wear a cape) Martha explaining, in her matter-of-fact voice, "Oh, honey! It'll look great when you're flying!"

After that I rushed out and bought the other three seasons. I have to agree with Sue S. that by season four, the characters had changed and the magic wasn't there.

One of the DVD's had an interview with Deborah Joy Levine, who was gone after season one. She said that if she'd continued as producer, she would have had Lois and Clark stay apart for at least five years. In retrospect, I think she had a good idea - unresolved sexual tension for another few years would have been great!

After that, it was some months later that I was messing around on the internet and discovered the Archive. What a great site! I spent an entire summer reading some of the excellent fics posted.

The Kerth Awards are marvelous - they are a good resource for the newbie. When you click on a Kerth winner or Kerth nominee, you know you'll get an excellent story. And, after slowly working through the Kerth list, I made my way to the many other excellent fics that just didn't make the Kerth cut that year. There's some very high-quality fiction here, some great authors.

The Archive led me to this site. It's so exciting to read works in progress and to see the feedback. I'm trying to be more than a lurker, and actually contribute some FDK. Also, I'm eagerly anticipating the Kerth voting this year!

I'm so thankful to all those who contribute their time to keeping this site going, doing the Kerth awards, etc.

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Can't believe I never posted to this...

The moment that hooked me... well, it took me a while, honestly. See, I'd seen parts of it ever since the pilot, 'cause my husband liked it, and he was working nights, so if I remembered, I taped it for him. I thought the pilot was fun. But then I saw the end of SV and was crushed when Clark's spaceship had disappeared again, and I thought, nope, not gonna get involved in the angst! Saw bits of the rest of 1st season. Saw most of The Eyes Have It, which I really enjoyed, but then I saw the preview for the next episode, which had Lex Luthor back from the dead, which just seemed *so* cliche. :rolleyes:

The next time I saw it, I was just channel-surfing and came across it near the end of Tempus Fugitive. Clark was leaning against a tree, as Clark, using superpowers, going invisible, while Lois was beating somebody up. Great banter with Tempus and Wells. But then I saw that Lois knew that CK=S. goofy ) and was writing my first (very short) story within two months ( Getting Away from it All , if you're curious). Luckily, I met Chris Mulder, who had every episode on tape, and was kind (or crazy wink ) enough to invite me over to watch them all. L&C 101, she called it.

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I thought I had answered this a long time ago, but I don't see my post. Maybe it was another thread. So, here's my story:

I was visiting my parents house and they were watching TV when I walked in the room. I had no idea what the show was. There was a very good looking actor who I'd never seen before, with his fingers crossed behind his back, talking to a woman and telling her that he was *not* in love. It was so obvious he was head-over-heels, and I was hooked. Unfortunately, we didn't have cable TV back then, so when I got back home I couldn't watch the show. I had to wait until years later, when we finally had cable and I could watch the reruns on TNT.


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Where does one start. Superman has always been a favorite of mine. I grew up reading the comics and watching the cartoons on Saturday morning.

I loved the Richard Donner Superman movie although I didn't like any of the rest of that series.

I watched the premier when it was first shown and loved it immediately. I watched every episode for all of seasons 1 and 2. During S3 I was on a lot of business travel and couldn't watch as regularly. About the time of the clone/amnesia series, got so frustrated that I stopped making the effort to watch the show. I didn't even watch S4.

Last year I was looking around on NetFlix for something to watch and LNC popped up on one of my searches. I decided to try it and very quickly remembered how much I had loved the show. Thanks to the power of having all of the DVDs in hand, I was able to burn through the dreaded clone/amnesia section in one evening. I didn't even make it to S4 on NetFlix. By the time I reached the end of S3 I had purchased the entire DVD series to have at home.

So I guess the answer is that I fell for LNC twice. Once at the very beginning and once again (much worse the 2nd time smile ) in early 2008 thanks to DVDs.

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I started watching because it was on after something on TNT - CHiPs maybe? - that I'd watched as a kid. The teaser narrator guy said something about Superman getting married next so I taped it as I left the house. Watched it and then the next ep and so on. I remembered talking with someone about the 'feasibility' of Superman actually being 'not patient' wink anymore and how 'unrealistic' that was when the show was actually on. I don't know if it was the clone argh wedding or the actual wedding though.

Anyway - I taped it everyday after that. That was in November. Sometime in... Jan or so I was googling around and found the archive and the rest, as they say, is history.

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I actually fell for the fanfic first. The show originally aired during my non-TV days (small kids, time-sucking job, harried husband, weird hours) but I heard about that it was 'fun.' Years later I read a Beauty and the Beast crossover by Becky Bain which was terrific. I wandered over to the Archive, was blown away by Labrat's Masques, and ordered the first season DVD. The pilot was wonderful and I loved every second of it and most especially the notion that Clark had a backbone. And the humor. And the sexiness. The moment I was hooked? Hmm... "You like to be on top. Got it." or maybe it was "One thing's for sure. No one will be looking at your face." followed by Clark's drawn out "Mom." or maybe it was Clark in a towel...

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ever since i can remember. coming home on a saturday thiking its superman time


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Okay, so I'm really, really late answering this, but I've just gotta chime in.

Honestly, I was hooked the moment I heard that Teri Hatcher was cast as Lois... but the moment in the show that *really* had me hooked: "You like to be on top. Got it." Finally, an assertive Clark (who was also really, really sexy) and chemistry that practically set my screen on fire! I was a goner!

And now, here I am, over fifteen years later, still incredibly hooked on the show. This one really is my all-time favorite tv series ever. Long live Lois and Clark!


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When I first laid eyes on Dean Cain? wink I've always been a Superman fan. Growing up I loved Superman 2. I wasn't till I got older that the ending really bugged me. I loved Christopher Reeve and felt he was Superman. Then Dean came along and for the first time, in my opinion, brought the true hero, Clark Kent to life. I also very much enjoyed getting to know Martha and Jonathan. I wish we had seen more of them and Clark's backstory.

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Okay, the first episode I saw of Lois and Clark was Its A small world after all...It was when TNT was still doing the re-runs...I thought it was funny the 'shrinking Superman' idea and I loved the chemistry between Lois and Clark. I liked that fact that Superman's flaws were being shown as well as Lois'....Even Superman's not perfect...

It made Superman more ...real to me and I was hooked...Of course ogling Dean in the shower didn't hurt either...lol..


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Given my age 18 years soon 19, I knew Lois and Clark when I was 5,6 years , I remember having liked the series but I was too small to be really interested in relation between the characters or in so sexy Dean Cain!

But I rediscovered the series in September, 2007 by surfing on the net, and there I saw again all the episodes of the four seasons, and I fell for Dea ... hum, I want to say the series! Lol Then I began to be interested in the universe of the series and in the character of Superman and so I discovered fanfics.

I read at first some rare which had been translated into French, and yes English is not really my mother tongue. I still have difficulty to explain to me clearly, also forgive me the faults which I could make, I do my best! Poor french am I ! wink
But I babble, thus later I began to look for other sites, for other fans, I found on Youtube there where I discovered the videos on our amazing and so cute couple and finally this site as well as annesplace.net, zoomway or LnC fan archive!

I am happy to know you, FOLCs!

Yours, Hannah.

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