Wow you think Erica was better looking than Tom in Smallville? Are there others who share this view as well? I never really thought about it that way, I just thought about Lana(Kristen) being prettier than Lois (Erica).
In STAS I think Lois and Clark were very well balanced on the good looking scale. He would be about an 11 she a 9.5.
In regards to Teri Hatcher I thought she was the best to combine beauty and normalcy, but I never thought she was better looking than Dean. But I was a preteen when that show was on and I was floored by his muscles when his shirt occasionally came off.
CR was definitely better looking than Margot
Henry is better looking as well
Brandon and Kate both were dissapointments in the looks category; even though Kate is some people cup of tea outside the film. Poor Brandon just didn't have that BAM IM SUPERMAN quality that the other actors did.
There was something wrong with the color in MOS that I can't describe, it was like it was washed out. Yet despite that Henry still looked good. I wonder if better color would make him look better worse or the same.
Well, it's mostly subjective of course, and there is a difference between what is sexually attractive and what is a good look to star in neutrogena commercials, but ...
Smallville;
I thought Lois was incredibly hot when she showed up, and she actually made Chloe and Lana look bad because she was on a different scale, not just one league removed but several. She was able to pull off that strip club scene in season 5. I recognised Tom Welling was a magnificent specimen of a man at first, in the early seasons, but he was not ageing as well as ED. In later seasons, Erica had no problem putting on funny outfits, but he was afraid to put on a supersuit. It was also obvious that they did not get the same camera angles during romantic scenes. It also doesn't help that Erica dressed like she shopped at Nordstrom's, and Tom like he shopped at Wal-Mart, he was always in those monochrome $5 crew-neck tshirts.
I never found Kristen Kreuk attractive at all. However, they both pulled their roles well. Think of KK and ED as being respectively comparable to Justin Bieber and Ryan Gosling, how attractive each of the two is depends somewhat on your age. Lana Lang was supposed to be the high school crush, and the hottest outfit she ever wore was a one-piece bathing suit ... why do you think that might be?
LnC;
OK, I'm biased too. I contributed to Teri Hatcher's record. Though it varies. In season 3, TH lost about 30 lbs and she looked awful (apparently she was down to 102 lbs, gross), I felt sick every time I saw her bare legs, and the creative staff clearly agreed and compensated by having her wear pants and not skirts, which is not what she wears in other seasons. She looked better in season 4. In season 1, she looked like a glamour model. "They're real, and they're spectacular" is possibly the singularly most famous line of television dialogue from the 1990s.
A friend I went to graduate school with also had a crush on Dean Cain growing up. We always made fun of her for it, and the fact her long-term partner is 6 feet tall with very black hair.
MoS;
I'm pretty sure that the desaturated colour makes Henry Cavill look better. Contrary to what the media tells you, not everybody looks better with a tan, I understand this because I'm naturally a little darker, and I wish the skin colour on my face was as light as that under my shirt, which doesn't see the sun as much.
HC had very dark hair and olive-skin, and the desaturated colour-palette works like a reverse-tan, making him more northern european looking and less mediterannean-looking, and also increasing the colour contrast between his hair and skin.
Amy Adams, on the other hand, looks better with her natural colours. Since her skin is already northern european in tone, and she has red hair, destaturating the colours takes away from her.
STAS:
Hard to tell
But STAS Lois was very coordinated. She wore high heels and a skirt short enough to be a sailor scout yet we'd never know the colour of her underwear, she must have had a perfect walk.
