Hey may or may not have the chops to take a stab at it. (He hasn't shown them yet.) But I doubt very seriously if he can do the body language tricks that Christopher Reeve rolled out whenever he needed to transform. (That long uncut shot in the first Superman movie where Reeve takes off his glasses behind Lois' back and slowly morphs from Clark to Kal-El using only posture and facial expression is still one of the most impressive scenes I have ever seen in a modern film.)

Mainly, as Kakkoister said up top, he's just gonna get clocked as Clark Kent the instant he puts on the spandex. The writers haven't built in a credible suspension-of-disbelief device, and that's something they needed to start working on about four seasons back, if for no other reason to let the regular audience get past how lame it was and finally buy into it.

Also: The classic Superman outfit? With the red underwear outside? No way that fits the style of this show. Maybe a variation of the Kon-El style. (Plus that would fall more in line with the show's costume budget. I waited for weeks to see the Legion roll into Smallville in all their 30th-century finery, and what do I get? Three windbreakers from Target and 30 minutes with a glue gun.)

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