*Smallville* Friday Love From a Thursday Lover?

[masherscf]

I've watched the CW's "Smallville" since the first episode. I've seen it bounce back and forth from weird Buffy/Dawson mash-up to complete disaster. There have been missteps and triumphs. Yet, the show has always been one of it's network's top shows. Now that "Smallville" may be coming to the end if it's run, the CW moved it from a fairly comfortable Thursday night slot to make room for it's pandering vampire drama "The Vampire Diaries." Indeed, once settled in it's new time-slot, "Smallville" seemed poised for a slow slide into oblivian. Somebody seems to have taken their eye off the ball...

And something amazing seems to have happened...

No longer required to carry the torch of Dawson's CW, "Smalleville" seems to be morphing into something it never was before...A story about a super hero. Instead of refugees from a teen angst drama, the characters are being drawn into their comic book archetypes. The visual style has become richer and more creative. The camera work is much more evocative of the graphic novel roots. Unfettered of banal teenage sexual politics and krypo-freak-of-the-week plot lines that preoccupied the show during the "Dawson" years, the show is moving in a much more interesting direction.

[joeyrock]

Yeah I've watched it from day 1 as well.... a LONG TIME now. Smallville is one of those strange shows which, irrespective of great lameness, somehow it isn't enough to make you turn away. If other TV shows could work out why... we're all doomed.

I agree that it's changed, last season they started this change off with Clark having noticeable personality change due to being powerless. He was funny and sarcastic, it made for some interesting moments. So the first half of that season was actually "good TV" Very weird for years and years of crappy smallville! The actor guy who played Doomsday did excellent work as well. But then it completely dropped the ball for the end of the season. The last episode was possibly the worst hour of TV ever created. There was no ending, no resolution to the entire season's build up of a fight between Clark and Doomsday. They fought off screen! They clearly ran completely out of money and resorted to using stock footage of a random factory blowing up. Inexcusable. I declared then that I quit the show.. but it didn't stick :(

This season has been very hit and miss. The themes have improved, sure but the script is still terrible. Chloe is dam near unwatchable, Olly and Tess (Lara Croft :rolleyes: ) are nearly as bad a actors as Chloe (watch Olly spend ages trying to cry in that last episode.. ridiculous!). BUT! Even through all that, the Lois and Clark relationship has something. That part of the show works well now. If they dumped the ancillary characters (not going to happen.. though they did get rid of that moron Jimmy! :D), then the show would go out on a high. As it is, they are going to continue to keep too many plates spinning.... when they have nowhere near the quality of writers required to manage that. I fear what will happen when we get the Zod stuff starting again after these good few singular stories. It's going to suck. All that twaddle about time travel is going to bite them in the ass.

Side note. Brain Austen Green did a great job a couple of weeks back as the 'monster of the week'. But he's still a douche bag because he gets to do Megan Fox. That's auto hate. Sorry Brian.