SMALLVILLE: Action

I just can't understand the popularity of this show. The writers have totally destroyed Superman's back story and unless the entire planet loses it's memory how is Clark going to be Superman with his future enemy Lex Luthor being his childhood friend and knowing what he looks like without glasses.
I admit I watch Smallville mainly out of boredom and nothing else on TV to watch and I am glad that they are moving away from the T & A of past episodes and seasons.

What not another episode without F-ing Kryptonite? Thank God. Still pissed off he doesnt fly. Also, it kinda pissed me off that he left the damn cape on the fence. From the Movie I rather like that his mom had his Kryptonian suit since the beginning. When he does make the suit or if he does in the T.V. show its gonna seem second rate, almost as if it wont symbolize anything to be proud of. All that hes gone thru with Jor-El I dont see any reason whatsoever why he would want to bare the emblem of the Family EL.

I'm sad to say this is the direction theyve taken this version of the Superman mythos.

I remember reading somewhere (wiki Maybe) that the writers before thay started the show they said they weren't gonna have him fly, althou they did it once but they put as and excusethat it was Kal-El not Clark.
Also didn't some version of the comics hinted the Clark and Lex were childhood friends?? i remember reading something like that when i was reading supermans history.
Just wanted togive my 2 cents here.
I like the show for what it is, but don't expect it to follow the source material (nobody does anyway).

Essentially agree with you, Mike 10. It's really a riff on the original not his prequel story from comics or the movies. It's pretty bad, and I was watching reruns of Seasons 1, 2 and part of 3 over the summer out of boredom and also because I really liked the Lex Luthor character and especially his dad, who's the only great actor on the show!

Tom Welling is an awful actor who matches Jennifer Garner in his lack of ability to express emotion. Alss, Lana is annoying.

There are some attractive women from time to time, but I don't understand why this series was renewed again and again but WB/CW killed Angel at its apex! That really upsets me!

I personally like Smallville. I like that they are bringing more Justice League character's to the show (next up is Black Canary).
What I didn't get was the final scene in which Clark left the cape tied to the fence as he walked back to the house.
I thought he would of tried the cape on before the scene going to black. That would have been a better ending.

Call me a sucker, but I've enjoyed this series from the beginning. True there have been times when I think "WTF is going on here?" and lately I've wondered if this is a new series called "Smallville Bratz" with all the emphasis on Kara (the totally hot but boring as cardboard and emotionless Laura Vandervoot) and useless female inspired storylines.

I’ve always been a bit miffed at the fact that every other Kryptonian can fly, I know the whole "no tights, no flight” thing but come on the whole running and jumping thing is so....Batman-ish. Let’s see him fly in the finale.

Was it me or was there a bit of “Can You Read My Mind” in the scene when Clark saves Lana (again) when she goes over the building?

In the end when this show ends so will my addiction to the CW.

I think the idea of this episode, like a lot of Smallville episodes was great, but the writing is just horrible. Clark saved the actress in the begining and she said something like "You save me, you're amazing!" and it just sounded so unnatural. Not to mention that nobody questioned exactly how Clark was able to save her.

Then, she stays at the farm because "no one would think to look for her" there. Really? No one would think to look in one of the locations they're filming the movie?

And I really hope they explain how Lana was able to hold Lionel prisoner. That woman just happened to find him? Was it set up ahead of time? Did the woman call all the people who hate Lionel and offer to hold him captive? Did Lana have a plan?

Smallville has (had) so much potential, but they just keep ruining it. It would have been great and a huge step forward if the producers actually let Lana die last week. Then at least Clark could actual move forward.

Nax, I definitely agree with you. The show does have so much potential and there have been quite a few episodes where I`ve been like "This is what every episodes should be like" Last season , to me was very good, in that it did set up Clark`s transition into the man that would become Superman, but this season so far has him going backwards. And while the introduction of SuperGirl might have been a good idea on paper, in practice and execution, it sucks. Vandrvoot is pretty, but she is either a bad actor or whomever is writing her dialogue is a bad writer. I`m hoping that it will get better. They should bring back the JLA because nothing has been really going on with that 318 project stuff. The show is reverting back to it teeny bopper soap opera ways.
I`d also fire the casting director, who cast Christina Millian. She can`t act her way out of a plastic bag.

I was starting to enjoy Lex Luthor's arc a bit, but the explanation in the 3rd season premiere of what happened on the plane and his bride's behavoir were such a cheat to her character and quite unbelievable. I thought it was such a lame resolution that it ticked me off.

Also, the way they kept Lana and Clark apart started to really wear thin. Lana's indignant behavior over the years was ridiculous.

I'm just annoyed that fans flocked to this enough so WB decided ratings were enough to keep renewing it but many people ignored the far superior Angel!

Smallville sooner or later will have to start picking up the pieces and go to the storyline that will wrap up the series. I think it will end with him moving out of smallville and no one but lanan knowing his secret. Then when the Smallville series wraps up--the clark storyline could be continued in the first season of Metropolis--where he finally accepts his role as protector and becomes Superman.