Even though that ethos of the 1950s male is passé (or should be), I think there's something about George Reeves as Clark Kent that's indelible, in the way that 1980s and 1990s comic book characterizations are not. I've watched a fair amount of 1980s and 1990s T.V. lately, during the pandemic, and it's kind of embarrassing that we were ever like that. It's hard to read some Superman stories from that time and not feel creeped out.