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  • #2450
    Jonathan Capps
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    I’m about half way through season 2 of this at the moment. At times it can be hugely entertaining and brilliantly constructed, especially how it’s gradually weaves in the Superman mythology. However, it has this *really* nasty habit of descending into absolute, unabashed shit. Over reliance on green kryptoniste giving people convenient and lazy ‘enemy of the week’ powers, too many stories involving people completely changing their personality (one of the laziest devices ever, and even the first red kryponite story was completely botched) and some really horrible, clichéd dialogue.

    It’s certainly improved, and the wonderful inventiveness is shining through a little, but it’s just so frustrating.

    #82800
    Jonathan Capps
    Keymaster

    Oh, good, now there’s an episode where a parasite is making Chloe and Pete act drastically out of character AND Clark has his red kryptonite and once again Lana is made to think Clark’s a dick. Haven’t we already been through this SHIT? This is TEDIOUS. And just when I thought the tide was a turning a bit.

    EDIT: How, Lana’s annoyed with Clark again! How fresh! Oh, not, not fresh… what’s that other word? Oh, yeah, SHITE.

    #82801
    pfm
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    I watch it every now and then but only if it seems it’s gonna be a good episode. I particularly hate how Clark/Lex/Lana goes round and round in circles season after season as though they think anyone watching actually cares (well some people probably do…). How it’s going into its EIGHTH season I’ll never know!

    #82802
    Jonathan Capps
    Keymaster

    > I particularly hate how Clark/Lex/Lana goes round and round in circles season after season as though they think anyone watching actually cares

    I don’t mind the stuff with Clark and Lex too much, as their constant game of chess is actually interesting most of the time. I want Lana to either fuck off or find out Clark’s secret so he can actually explain to her that all the time’s he’s fucked it’s been because of red kryptonite or whatever.

    > How it?s going into its EIGHTH season I?ll never know!

    I can only assume its problems are ironed out as it goes along…

    #82803
    Jonathan Capps
    Keymaster

    And now the next episode has started up, it looks like it’ll be a good one and I’ll be sucked back in.

    Somebody save me.

    #82804
    Jonathan Capps
    Keymaster

    ARG, WHY IS LANA NOW NOT PISSED OFF WITH CLARK? HE ACTED LIKE A CUNT AND YOU’VE HAD NO REASONABLE EXPLANATION, YOU STUPID BITCH.

    I promise that this now concludes my running commentary on what I’m watching. My point’s been made.)

    #82806
    John Hoare
    Participant

    I can only assume its problems are ironed out as it goes along?

    From what I recall from the SFX reviews, it *does* for a bit… and then gets worse again in the later seasons.

    #82818
    peas_and_corn
    Participant

    yes.

    Yes, it is.

    #82837
    pfm
    Participant

    Aren’t half of the main cast either leaving or becoming recurring guests?

    #82842
    Daff
    Participant

    I gave it about 6 episodes of the first season to try and get into it, never got any farther. Might have to pick up a couple of seasons on DVD when they are ultra cheap to see if I can get further. Might be a while as I’m only 6 episodes into Battlestar Galactica at the moment, and that’s only as HD-DVD is dirt cheap at the moment.

    #82843
    Jonathan Capps
    Keymaster

    I was really unsure about the whole thing until I hit an episode early on season 1 about the old lady who could see the future. All that foreshadowing about Lex Lurther was really nicely handled, I thought, so I stuck with it. They still do some brilliant episodes with the greater mythology (just seen an episode guest starring Christopher Reeve which was excellent) but I am getting tired of some of its worse aspects.

    #82846
    Dave
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    I never watched it consistently, but when I tried the French witch rubbish nearly finished me off.

    I could have phrased that better.

    #82850
    Ridley
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    #82858
    Phil
    Participant

    Stop watching this shit Capps. You’ve got Venture Bros. to catch up on.

    #82888
    Jonathan Capps
    Keymaster

    Into season 3 and blah blah, red kryptonite, blah blah, refuse to let Chloe and Lana know why he’s acting like a dick, blah blah, same old fucking shit. Not even the excellent Christopher Reeve episode can save this show now.

    > Stop watching this shit Capps. You?ve got Venture Bros. to catch up on.

    Plan.

    #112310
    Phil1034
    Participant

    While I imagine I’m alone in sticking with it for ten years, anyone else seen the series finale (or should that be beginning) yet? In short: LOVED IT. Yeah TV budget…not enough Darkseid…mythology changes…blah blah…but fundamentally, the emotional beats and the reverence to the source material and the series past were just perfect. There were tears. Up there for me with DS9, ER and Battlestar as one of the greatest sendoffs ever.

    #112271

    Darkseid’s in it?! I will have to check this show out in more detail now!

    #112274
    Pete Part Three
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    Haven’t watched it in about 7 years. Going to watch the finale cos I’m curious.

    #112317
    Phil1034
    Participant

    > Darkseid’s in it?! I will have to check this show out in more detail now!

    He’s the the tenth season’s big bad & Clark’s final trial (and there have been a lot of those) that pushes him toward being Superman in the finale. However, perhpas unsurprisingly, he doesn’t live up to his comic counterpart. Never physically manifests properly, aside from a kick-ass smoke effect, but a lot of possessions and marking people with the Omega symbol bringing out ‘the darkness’. In terms of a Smallville-the-TV-show villain it’s highly effective but when held up against the source material I can understand why some fans were underwhelmed.

    #112321
    Pete Part Three
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    Watched it. Meh. I guess I really was just watching to see him wear the suit, but I was rather confused by it all.

    Why does everyone know about Clark’s “secret identity”? What happened to the REAL Lex? What happened to Lana?

    #112322
    Phil1034
    Participant

    >Why does everyone know about Clark’s “secret identity”?
    Chloe found out in Season 4, she’s evolved into the Justice League’s Secretary of sorts operating Watchtower. In Season 9 she started boning Oliver Queen aka Green Arrow.
    Lois found out at the close of Season 9, she snogged ‘The Blur’ and knew it was Clark. A mythology devaition but 7 years is a long time for her to not know.

    >What happened to the REAL Lex?
    Rosenbaum left at the end of Season 7. Through the too-complicated-to-explain Veritas journals Lex found out Clark’s identity and the location of the Fortress in his last episode. The Fortress ended up collapsing on Clark and Lex. Lex disappeared, re-emerging in Season 8 paralysed and wearing a mask (not played by Rosenbaum) and was blown up by Oliver Queen because Clark “wouldn’t do what needed to be done”.

    >What happened to Lana?
    She finally left in Season 8. Thanks to Lex she was really fucked up and ended up absorbing kryptonite meaning she couldn’t go anywhere near Clark without him getting sick…..don’t ask.

    This show was my crack, I knew it was no good for me but I kept going back for more!

    #112323
    Pete Part Three
    Participant

    Ta muchly. That Lex thing sounds utterly stoopid. Why kill off Lex Luthor? Having him mysteriously disappear is fine, but bringing him back played by someone else only to kill him…and then bring him back again as a clone who needs to have his memory wiped…DUMB.

    #112993
    cliff
    Participant

    Lets face it it’s Beverley Hills 90210 with super powers.

    #112994
    cliff
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    Henry Cavill dressed to impress in first Superman photo

    I hear there are no red pants??….that right?

    #112996
    Jonathan Capps
    Keymaster

    Ah, 2008. When my entire life was telly.

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