Smallville season 5

[Just_Hal]

I have watched em all and my kids love it, I have dvr so we can "tape" 2 shows at once so we did that when it was on Wed PM, I have the season saved BUT even if we are excited about it I feel it has gone down hill last season as well overall but we will not stop watching it.

 

[EricNoah]

I agree season 4 wasn't great. I had the luxury of missing the first three seasons almost entirely and catching them on DVD. I also missed all but the middle of season 4 on TV but again DVD to the rescue. There were some stinkers in season 4 (Krypto was the weakest episode ever, I think). But it looks like the end of the "3 stones" story is finally here and with the arrival of another space ship and the fortress of solitude and the start of college life and the establishment of really-evil Lex I think season 5 is going to be quite good. As far as Clark and Lana being "doomed" ... 'tis better to have loved and lost than never loved at all. Besides, they don't KNOW they're doomed, and thus there are some deliciously bitter-sweet undertones to savor.

 

[Steverooo]

Not psyched

I watched Smallville, the "Kryptonite-Freak-of-the-Week" show, for the first three seasons, and part of the fourth, but finally said to myself "I'm missing Lost for this?!?" So I quit... Now I'll be watching, again, only because they admitted defeat, and moved to Thursday nights!

 

[Dragonblade]

I thought Season 4 was generally pretty good. They moved away from Freak-of-the-week and into more continuity, with the whole stone plot arcing across most of the season. I liked that.

 

[drothgery]

I have watched em all and my kids love it, I have dvr so we can "tape" 2 shows at once so we did that when it was on Wed PM, I have the season saved BUT even if we are excited about it I feel it has gone down hill last season as well overall but we will not stop watching it.

DVRs that can do the record-two-shows-at-once thing are nice, aren't they?

 

[Agamon]

MY DVR doesn't do that. Fortunately, Smallville is on in like 5 different timeslots for me.

The show's not bad, but not great. I admit, I prefer the more recent continuous storyline as opposed the earlier "freak-of-the-week" episodic seasons. Out of all the shows I watch it's fairly low on the totem pole. That I watch it makes it better than 95% of what's on TV these days, though.

What I really dislike about the show is the huge dramatic season-enders that make you go "oooh, what's going to happen next?" Then the premiere next season they sweep what happened the last show under the rug or weakly explain it away and all is back to normal.

 

[John Crichton]

DVRs that can do the record-two-shows-at-once thing are nice, aren't they?

Life's essentials go like this...

1. Air/Food
2. Companionship
3. Dual Tuner TiVo

Sometimes 3 seems like it's higher...

Actually, this is the only way I'll be able to watch the show this year. I have to catch the Sunday repeat while still TiVo-ing football and some other random stuff. The original air time puts it behind Alias & Survivor. I'd actually rather watch Smallville over Alias at this point (never thought I'd type those words) but there is no weekly re-broadcast of Alias.

 

[Eosin the Red]

I'm just catching season 4 on DVD and loving it.

 

[Henry]

I'm waiting for Smallville, myself. I found the meteor shower a tad contrived, though, as a way for "Dad" to punish Clark for his actions of helping others, seemingly, and I'm waiting to see how they resolve it. It's still the one show I'm looking the most forward to on the whole shcedule, though.

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

I was reading Television Without Pity's recaps and I think they are better than watching the show itself.