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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 1554185" data-attributes="member: 3649">Does anyone else but me realize that the teen drama angle is the only reason this show is still on the air? No straight superhero show has ever done well over the long-term, period; you need buy-in from the mainstream audience for that and the mainstream audience is not going to sit still for an hour of people in tights. You have to sneak up behind them first. Gradually, Smallville has more and more heroic scenes of Clark using his powers.  Lois and Clark approached the idea from the same angle: focus on the relationship between the two instead of on striaght superheroics. It lasted four seasons, which was nothing short of a miracle. esp since it had more heroics than Smallville does, and a costume to boot. They basically survived by giving you both sides in balance; form every scene where Superman flies and saves a bus from hitting a baby carriage, there's a scene of Clark and Lois looking at houses, or in the workplace.  Now, Smallville will being going into it's fourth season. I think we'll see even more heroics in the upcoming season, though I still do think that the very last shot of the very last show of the series will be him taking off his shirt and revealing the Superman costume underneath. Then it'll fade to black and we're done. I hope it's not so, but I think it is.  -- I think the thing with Jor-El is pretty cool. They've probably taken a lot of cues from the comics where, now, it's pretty evident that (ironically, apart from Jor-El), most Kryptonians would see us as ants and treat us accordingly. Though I still think it would be cool as heck if 'Jor-El' turned out to be General Zod <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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