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You betcha i watch smallville! Its like the best show since...ever. I watched another episode of the 2nd season yesterday. its the one

WHERE CLARK SAVES LANA!!!:eek:

. Its an awesome action show but i think lex should die (not the forum lexx :)) because he is annoying. Those people get away with murder!

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My wife and I watch Smallville every Wednesday night ... the kids know it, and we tailor the routine around it (it is at 8PM here). I think some of the stories seem repetitive, but most of it is about subtlety in character development.

 

I think that the acting and action are quite good.

 

It is interesting to compare Smallville to the Star Wars prequels - they are both stories about people whose futures we already know - so there is no fear of Clark Kent dying, or Lex Luthor, for that matter. And, like SW, that fore-knowledge is both freeing and constricting.

 

Mike

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watched a fair bit of the first series. It was a ok, but it was a bit like Dark Angel in that i felt i should like it more, but something never really clicked.

I think it fell into the trap of being too repetetive, with a "monster of the week" kind of thing going on and it also seemed to have a large number of plot holes.

The token black friend who did absolutely nothing was annoying too.

 

I liked the whole idea of the Clark/Lex friendship though. And any programme with Annette O'Toole in is going to have a reason to watch it.

 

Unforunately we have a channel in the UK called channel4 and they tend to buy american tv shows and then completely screw them up by putting them on at inappropriate times, editing them, moving them around the schedules and so on. Then they dump them because they have terrible ratings (suprise suprise). They did this to Angel, Alias, West Wing and i think they did it to smallville too as i think i missed most of the second series as i could never find it.

 

I expect it either got better in the second series, or became desperate and degenerated like dark angel did in it's second series.

 

One programme I did watch recently on VCD was Birds of Prey. This was pretty similar to smallville, but better i felt. Unfortunately it got canceled after 13 episodes. I felt it made a better use of the superhero/comic universe by having known characters like black canary, clayface and so on come in.

That and Ashley Scott was fit. :D

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I find SmallVille awesome, but I've seen some forums about it, its a wonder how people actually speculate upon the show and point out everything bad about it. Just enjoy the bloody show, its Fiction.

 

Though some don't make sense. In the original Superman mythos, Krypton was destroyed thousands of years before Kal-El(Clark Kent) arrived on Earth, it was said he travelled in the ship for thousands of years. Yet, in a show called "Relic", it showed Clark's Father; Jor-El on Earth in 1961, how would that make sense?

 

I loved the episode with Perry White, Michael McKean's acting was hilarious, especially with the part where the tractor fell down and he dropped his drink; "This drink is making me see things".

 

One pet peeve is that almost every episode ends with the loft scene, its so predictable...

 

Cut To: INT- Clark's Loft - Day.

 

Clark

 

Lana!

 

Lana

 

*Throws basketball sized hints at Clark that they should be together*

 

But the last episode, Magnetic didn't have *Throws basketball sized hints at Clark that they should be together*.

 

An upside perhaps?

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Jared is a common name.

 

Another thing on Smallville:

I like how the actors are like movie stars. They actually should be movie stars, make money, and then give 10% of the money to me. They are really good. But smallville is kinda predictable. Did anyone see Smallville: 1962? I didn't like it that much.

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