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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Negative Zero" data-source="post: 660142" data-attributes="member: 3794">i on the other hand was really annoyed by this ep. i thought it was a complete waste of airtime. i've all but given up on watching murder mysteries at all, because they are so hard to get right that most people fail miserably at them. and when that happens you get the agonising rip-your-eyeballs-out nonesense that we saw on tuesday.to do an effective murder mystery, you have to give out just enough clues for the audience to be able to figure out who the real killer is, but mislead them from the truth. not have NOTHING pointing to the real killer and have it be some random person who had nothing to do with anything ever before, and then concot some ridiculous backstory in hindsight that one could have been aware of. awful. that was just awful television.it obviously wasn't gonna be one of the main characters, so Lionel's assistant was the only real suspect. and still, his involvement wasn't even menstioned in the first half of the show. i mean c'mon, everyone knows that Clark's father didn't do it. the only real suspect was Lex, and he already had at least one chance (two if you count last weeks ep) to kill of dear old dad, and he passed. why all of a sudden? made no sense.plus it's really getting on my nerves this amazing phenomenon in smallville and apparently metropolis where, no one and i mean NO ONE, EVER fingerprints ANYTHING! and the fact that no one can ever seem to visually id Clark, is just shoddy writing. i sadly keep watching the show in hopes of seeing something of all the promise it showed, but other than getting to see Kristin Kreuk (which i can do on countless Neutrogena ads now), there's less and less reason to tune in each week.oh well. just my two cents.~NegZ</blockquote>

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