The Adventures of Lois and Clark (1993), the narrative weakness of kryptonite, and the newspaper industry
4 min readJan 21, 2021
How can you make an invincible character work dramatically? A walking dues-ex-machina like Superman is much less dynamic then, say, the X-Men who have various strengths and weaknesses.
Ahh, but kryptonite, there’s the rub. So if correctly employed in a script, Superman would either be completely on or completely off. Still kind of clunky, no?
