Super Sidekick

Super Sidekick

Jul 11

Smallville has found their Jimmy Olsen in the form of Aaron Ashmore (Troy Vandegraff to you Veronica Marsians). I used to have a tragic mental block and thought 1) Shawn Ashmore and Shane West were the same person (no, seriously, I thought that for YEARS) and 2) that Aaron Ashmore was either also the same person or the twin of the Shawn/Shane hybrid. I was right about at least one thing (Shawn and Aaron being twins).

Anyway. The Ashmores are the ones with the geekly credentials, and this strikes me as very good casting indeed. I also like the idea of pairing him with sweet Chloe, who really deserves a break after all these years of mooning over Clark. (By the way: is the debate still raging on about Chloe being the REAL Lois Lane? I thought maybe the show producers had squashed this theory at some point, but it remains one of my favorites, even though I like Erica Durance).