After that series finale I felt like I wasted 10 years of my life following that show. Or well at least over 200 hours. Not as if I haven't dumped that much time in other stuff but spreading it out over a decade made it worse.
For the time i thought the makeup and costume was actually pretty good but it was so, so disappointing.
I actually watched the show week-week for 10 years from pilot to series finale as it aired and regret nothing. I loved the show. The show did stay on a steady decline down after Season 2 though.
Bringing on Tess Mercer and Calum Blue's young Zod; getting rid of Lana, and doubling down on Lois Lane made the latter seasons of Smallville far better than those crappy middle seasons.
I love the show I grew up on it. I can rant all day on how Lana is worst character in the show. How Alicia was best for Clark and when she died it had no effect. She was hung to death and it was Clark's fault but no 10 episodes later he is back with Lana "The Snake" Lang. What show have you watched the most?
Pretty much this, but after they brought in Lois Lang and Lana left it got better IMO (cause Lana's character added so much extra drama, not to mention it was a continuous loop of the same thing at times.)
The show was pretty great overall and I have watched it prob 2x completely already. I think seasons 1-4, parts of 5, then parts of 8 then 9-10 were some of my favorites. The series finale's last 20min could have been way better as it was kind of rushed =/.
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As for me shows I have dumped ridiculous amounts of time into watching and re-watching and binge watching again are:
-The O.C. (4 times)
-Friends (3 times, not to mention the re-runs om TBS over the last decade)
-Chuck (3-4 times now)[/spoiler]
-Stargate SG1 (2.5 times now, super excited that my fiancé wants to watch this with me now too!
Thank you Battlestar Galactica for opening her eyes to sci-fi
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Some of you may ask why the OC... Well I never really had any high school drama during high school or middle school and the show's, music, characters, scenery, attractive characters were definitely up my alley for the time. I like to give credit to mybhumor and comic moments to Sandy Cohen and Seth Cohe.
I'd have to say that Friends, The OC, and SG1 all had a hand in shaping my comical personality and the way I sometimes approach situations in life in varying degrees. Probably over thinking this now lol. Just really liked those shows.
I don't watch repeats of shows. Maybe repeats of like Howard stern segments but never shows. I do however regret wasting time on shows like Hereos or The Walking Dead. Straight up garbage. Wish I could get back the time I wasted on them. And I sort of feel like that about 24. 24 was still pretty good when I gave up on it, and I enjoyed watching it whereas I hated watching the walking dead like 90% of the time, but I swear I can't remember the plot(s) of 24 despite watching like 5 or 6 seasons of it.
it was very enjoyable when it aired, it would probably be shit if i rewatch it, so i wont
even if you didn't like it, they were very restrictive of the IP and were given very little to work with from the source material, you should respect what they did with what they had
Oh god, that story arc with Jane Seymore as his mother and writers who didn't know the difference between decedents and ancestors. But Ackles isn't why I to this day haven't seen a single full episode of Supernatural. He had good will from me for his role on Dark Angel. I just never got into it.
This was a weird show. It was never really good. At best it was OK, and at worst it was fucking terrible. The fact that they used getting knocked out/amnesia/possessions as a plot device SO MANY times is fucking hilarious. Can't believe how any of the characters never suffered from brain damage considering how many times they violently hit their head on some kind of hard surface.
But I loved it as a kid and stuck with it until it ended. Then I watched it again twice more. I really don't know why I did that.
How the hell do you watch through a TV show 20 times? I don't think there's even a movie I've seen that many times.
For TV shows I've watched them through twice at most, first the original airing and then later for a second time. And this is just a few shows, like Stargate SG-1. I've watched some individual episodes more than that, though.
The actor left around Season 6 and then came back in the finale - if I recall right. That or it was just body doubles, I can't recall now. It's been too long.
Granted I dont know what they did with "Lex" between that and season 10. (Figured I had to see how it ended so I jumped back in for the final season)
The televisual embodiment of mediocre. The way the writers shoehorned Lana into every major plotline to justify her existence and Tom Welling's horrifying inability to grow as an actor after ten seasons really hampered my ability to rewatch.
Loved Brainiac, though. James Marsters was perfection on that show.
The actor left around Season 6 and then came back in the finale - if I recall right. That or it was just body doubles, I can't recall now. It's been too long.
Granted I dont know what they did with "Lex" between that and season 10. (Figured I had to see how it ended so I jumped back in for the final season)
Lex's actor left the show after season seven, but Lex was seen in some episodes the following season via body double. He was killed by Oliver Queen via bombing in Lana's last episode, the absolute worst hour of Smallville ever aired. He's cloned by Tess Mercer in the last season and thanks her for her resurrection by killing her, but not before she rubbed some gunk on him that completely and permanently erased his entire memory, including his knowledge of Clark's lineage and abilities, all presumably so Clark doesn't have to explain to the world why this lunatic billionaire is calling him an alien.
I've watched it three times. I like it and I don't really care whether people shit on it. There are a few episodes I have to roll my eyes at pretty hard, but I never skip them.
So this started with my GF coming over, and I was watching Smallville. She would get frustrated because I'm always watching Smallville. It got me thinking, not including ABC family re-runs or TNT. I have gone through the show at least 20 times. I started to ball park the numbers and it came out to 126 days which is like 4 months. Is that insane? I love the show I grew up on it. I remember being 7 watching the first episode with my Dad and sadly my father past away 2 months later that year. The show is not perfect and be a Soap Opera. What I love most is how they try play them off as if they are 14. Tom Welling got like 5'clock shadow. I can rant all day on how Lana is worst character in the show. How Alicia was best for Clark and when she died it had no effect. She was hung to death and it was Clark's fault but no 10 episodes later he is back with Lana "The Snake" Lang. What show have you watched the most?
I remember catching this show on TV every now and then during the first few seasons. I don't know when I gave up on it, but I think it was somewhere around when Metropolis entered the picture. It was never good, but it was something to watch on a night where there was nothing else on. Definitely NOT something I'd go out of my way to watch.
Thanks for reminding me how much time I wasted watching this series. There are still some really good aspects to it. The whole farm homely atmosphere is great. Tom Welling is a great fit. Chloe was fun. Lois Lane was cool. Michael Rosenbaum is perfect as Lex. But so man times where the plot goes, like the whole Luther island crap and other filler shit...
After season 5 show took a dose dive in quality, rumor is Tom didn't want to put the Suit on, supposedly they wanted to move from Smallville to Metropolis, and go from young Clark to Superman...
