So, has everyone pretty much given up on Smallville?

[Crothian]

I can't believe how much its getting bashed here. I don't watch it, as I never even got into it; but if this attitude is reflective of a lot of people I'm surpridsed that it has been cancelled by now.

the show still gets ratings. This is a gamer site and for some reason gamers really like to complain.

I enjoy the show for what it is. I'm not expecting the show to be something it is not so that helps.

 

[Hand of Evil]

So what season are we on now?

8 rumor is that this is the last but a new rumor is that we may see number 9 if Tom gets a major increase of $$$.

 

[Hand of Evil]

I can't believe how much its getting bashed here. I don't watch it, as I never even got into it; but if this attitude is reflective of a lot of people I'm surpridsed that it has been cancelled by now.

Overall it is not a bad show, they just drag out the "angst" of every little thing. Get tired of each character worrying 'what if...' over their love life, their powers, of right and wrong. This is not always bad but they have fallen in to the route of repeating the same worries and questions. Much, like the freak of the week.

Out of the season, you will have 4 to 6 good shows, 2 very good and 1 great one, the other 13 are crap.

 

[Vocenoctum]

I can't believe how much its getting bashed here. I don't watch it, as I never even got into it; but if this attitude is reflective of a lot of people I'm surpridsed that it has been cancelled by now.

It's entirely possible that the show was and is geared towards folks that only know superman from watching the occasional movie. They could be loving the "melodrama" without caring about the continuity.

Then of course, there's the gamer/ superman fans that were looking for a superman story and are disappointed in what they got. I'm sure most folks are somewhere in the middle.

("melodrama" based purely on what is said about it here, since I've never seen a whole episode.

 

[EricNoah]

I personally don't care a bit about "Superman". I like this version of Clark and his journey. Sometimes I wish there was more action/adventure but I do like the soap-opera lovey-dovey stuff, too, for some reason.

 

[drothgery]

I guess my biggest problem with Smallville was always that Lana and Clark didn't stay broken up after the third or fourth time, especially since Tom and Erica have on-screen chemistry, and Tom and Kristen don't.

 

[Felon]

Well, I suppose you could interpret it that way - is that how you understood the line at the time?

I tend to prefer the simplest, most obvious explanation. But yes, your interpretation isn't contradicted by the line.

I'm not sure what we're meant to take away from the Legion's comments. My guess is that the writers were being as noncommital as possible. If the Legion didn't comment on the cape and such, it's a clincher that that stuff will never happen.

 

[Fast Learner]

I personally don't care a bit about "Superman". I like this version of Clark and his journey. Sometimes I wish there was more action/adventure but I do like the soap-opera lovey-dovey stuff, too, for some reason.

Hear hear!

I'm a comic fan and gamer geek, but I enjoy this show just fine. It's not "must watch every week in time," but I do watch them all eventually. Good stuff.

Oh, and the women of the show were especially stunning in the wedding episode, and I don't normally find any of them but Chloe all that appealing. Even Lois looked good.

 

[Orius]

This season has had some pretty good episodes. I firmly believe one reason is the lack of anything Lana up until recently; the writers just couldn't do anything good with the character. I found myself hitting the fast forward button the second she started talking (the writers seemed to be going for deep and mysterious but IMO ended up with bland boring and irritating).

Oh, I definitely agree. Lana got more and more annoying as time went on, and every time she opened her mouth it was to whine about something. I think she hit her nadir with the ridiculous over-the-top soap opera story arc where she was married to Lex. I mean the producers build up this whole storyline where Lex actually likes her, and then he goes and

Spoiler

pulls that asinine fake pregnancy plot

. Maybe that was something that was meant to resonate with female viewers or something, but it never made any damn sense or logic to me.

And Chloe sometimes comes off as Lana Lite. She has good moments too, but she'd often get over angsty, and this season it's been pretty heavy, probably because there's no Lana around.

And they way they handled Lex overall was just awful as well. They'd go from one week where we was trying to be helpful, and then next he'd be some rat bastard, to go back to helpful again the third week. Totally inconsistant. I guess it doesn't help that Lex genuinely tried to be good to Smallville, but everyone treated him like a bastard everytime he did something. I think the problem is that as the seasons went by, they tried to build Lex up into a villain because they felt he had to be because of the whole Superman mythos, but they did it so ham-fistedly that it fell on its face. I also miss the conflict between Lex and Lionel.

Overall it is not a bad show, they just drag out the "angst" of every little thing. Get tired of each character worrying 'what if...' over their love life, their powers, of right and wrong. This is not always bad but they have fallen in to the route of repeating the same worries and questions. Much, like the freak of the week.

I think it's telling that they introduced Doomsday this season (a sign to me even the writers know its getting bad), and even HE gets angsty.

And the angst is rehashed. Again and again and again. I blame it on being on the CW, too much crap aimed to teens there.

Even stuff that isn't angsty gets old. Like Brainiacs's plots, he's not a bad villain, and he was best with Marsters playing him, but these are starting to get old too.

The show occasionally hit some highs, like everytime they put Clark and Lois together. That relationship works. Not like the Clark and Lana crap that kept getting dragged out, probably to appease fans who actually liked it (where's a barf smiley when you need it? ). Actually, every appearance by Lois seems to work, whether she's with Clark, Jimmy, or just on her own. Probably because she's the only character that isn't angsty at all. Instead of whining, she actually goes out and does something.

 

[The Human Target]

It was never good, but I stopped watching it in the second season when I realized I could be gaming or napping or something during that time every week.

I've seen maybe 30% of the rest of the series when my roommate bought all the dvds and I watched some of them with him.

It never got good.