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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cthulhudrew" data-source="post: 2618434" data-attributes="member: 4090">See, I personally love mainstream comics (and non-mainstream ones), but I just don't dig Smallville. I liked it at first, but it went into such a weird, non-Superman direction. More than that, actually, it just went in a weird, exaggerated teen-angst direction, that I just can't really get into it anymore. Tried again last night, but it just didn't do much more for me than it used to.I just feel the writing is somewhat sub-par. But some things aren't for everyone, I guess. [spoiler]This is one of my problems. I guarantee that as soon as his "abilities" come back, he'll go back to being Mr. Mysterio and break up with Lana or push her away again. The whole dang thing recycles. Honestly, with "Superboy" being this withdrawn and angsty, I really don't see him growing into the big blue boy scout of modern myth. I used to dig his relationship with his father, too, but after the first season that relationship became all about- Clark, you can't do this, you can't do that. Hide yourself from the world. Too much arguing in the Kent household, and not enough nurturing.That said, I did like Pa Kent's "Don't worry about Clark. He can take care of himself," speech in this episode. 'Bout time he started realizing it.[/spoiler][spoiler]Again, I don't know that he needs to go mad to get where they need him. They've done a pretty good job of building his mistrust for Clark (not such a good job of the reverse, sadly), and if they simply go the route of say, the recent Waid penned "Superman: Birthright" series, they could play up the alien angle of Clark and Lex' distrust of alien invaders' motives. IE, build him up as not a "bwahaha! I'm evil!" villain, and someone who does the wrong things for what he perceives as the right reasons- fighting Clark because he believes he represents a threat to mankind. Or something like that.There are tons of ways they could make Lex "bad" without making him a caricature (though many of them should have had the groundwork laid much better). The show seems to lend itself more towards shallow/one-dimensional motivations, though, and not any sort of complex characterization. How many times have they done the "evil" Lex storyline, in one form or another, only to reset later?Then there's the other problem I mentioned, where no one trusts Lex, despite the fact that he's always coming to the aid of everyone else, even when they constantly refuse to let him  in on what's going on. They don't even talk about the meteorite rock situation with him, despite the fact that he obviously knows about the rocks. Even just something like- "hey, Lex. We're battling a freak of the week. Could you and your amazing resources help us out?" Instead they always pretend like- "oh, there's nothing out of the ordinary going on. Why are you looking at us like we're blatantly lying to you?"[/spoiler]</blockquote>

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