Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-5441128-20180214164910/@comment-27700324-20180321182703

It was more everything DC had no power over that was the problem. You see, back then they had the rights to Superman and everything about him. So they self inflicted their "no tights, no flights" policy. Another problem with the show is that it was in the CW's early days. You see back then, they had this idea that the way to make their independant network from WB successful is to appeal to one market and to make sure they are hooked by getting really attractive young stars as the priority and getting good actors was minimal on the priority list back then. So a young Clark Kent being hunky was more important for them than proper characterization.