The CW's Crisis Just Added ANOTHER Smallville Player

I am one of those people that can find middle ground on a lot of things but I have a handful that I don't budge on.  Science, Free Speech and My Personal Favourite Actors in Certain Superhero Roles.

I don't care if others don't think Henry Cavill was the best actor ever cast as Superman.  In my opinion he's tops and that's that.  I feel the same about other actors in multi-use roles like Batman (I still say Affleck rocked the hell out of Batman) and Zorro (Guy Williams will forever BE Zorro to me).  There are few things I'm as passionate about as the Superhero genre in general and the casting coups and missteps specifically.

This is known.

There are other genre characters that have been cast and mis-cast to great of poor effect.  I honestly would have thought Michael Caine would be the greatest Alfred Pennyworth EVER but Sean Pertwee's portrayal of the butler/bodyguard/surrogate father on Gotham blew Caine's away.

This week we learned that one of the longest serving, if not the greatest, Supermen ever, Tom Welling had agreed to join the insanely snowballing cast of the upcoming 5 show crossover on the CW, Crisis on Infinite Earths.  He joins Brandon Routh and Tyler Hoechlin as yet another alternate dimension Superman.  Awesome news!

More awesome is today's announcement that the Lois Lane to Welling's Superman, Erica Durance, has also joined the cast.  There's no word if resident to Supergirl's dimension Lois (Elizabeth Tulloch) will make an appearance.  Given the MASSIVE roll call we've seen shape up over the last two months, I'm doubtful.  There's just no room left on the bus.

Personally Durance is my all time favourite Lois.  She played Lois as totally fearless, sharp, sexy and every bit Clark's equal.  Nobody has ever been more capable, attractive or memorable in the role.  And in a nod to what bugged me when they cast Margot Kidder back in the 70s, Durance actually LOOKS like Lois Lane from the comics.

So my excitement for the BIG crossover is way more than "dialed up to eleven", flown well beyond "through the roof", left "jumping for joy" in the rear view mirror and has now entered a territory I can only term "My 9 year old self's Nirvana".  If you'd have detailed all the characters, versions of characters, nods to history and historic meetings we're going to see in this crossover to me at age 9, I likely would have fallen into a bliss coma. 

And for all the naysayers I run across in message boards who decry the CW's ability to make this crossover great, at this point they could film the massive cast in costume having lunch together and play that on a loop for 5 hours and it would STILL be the greatest DC Superhero event EVER.  Whatever we get I'm going to need medication to come back down at the end of it all.