Great show. A fun fact is Michael Rosenbaum is the singer of the theme song.
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Great show. A fun fact is Michael Rosenbaum is the singer of the theme song.
The writer's obsession with Lana Lang single handedly destroyed the show.
Lana Lang was a one-note character in the first couple seasons, which is fine, but Kristin Kreuk was responsible for around 50% of the show's ratings, so the writers needed to find "excuses" to keep her around (as opposed to say, having a clear idea of what the show should be and being willing to quit while you're ahead), which was impossible given her established character, the lack of writing talent, and the show's ultimate direction of being a prequel and moving towards becoming Superman.
Hmm, yeah, I remember being annoyed by the episode where Lex gets hauled of to an insane asylum, and Clark has the opportunity to save him but it means revealing his powers. I was actually rather annoyed that he didn't, I thought Lex deserved to be saved and that he was such a strong part of the show the writers should have had the courage to go their own way with it. Instead he not only ditches Lex, the show promptly establishes that rather than an agonizing betrayal of his childhood friend, this was a righteous and moral action because Luthors = evil. Ugh.Lex turned evil because Clark was a dick and no one who knew wanted to share his secret identity with him. They turned into this little circle that Lex wasn't apart of. So yeah, I felt bad for the guy. Silly show.
Even if there was a villainous bent to it, Lex only wanted to be besties with Clark
Great show. A fun fact is Michael Rosenbaum is the singer of the theme song.
Whoa. Mind blown.
What? That's Remy Zero.
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Wow, I've seen every episode of Smallville but nearly all of them surprised me. Especially the Vampire Diaries brothers.Also, Smallville somehow got really good actors at points. Like Pam Grier, or the woman who played Tess. My boy Sam Witwer as Doomsday, James Marsters as Brainiac, Ian Somerholder, Lizzy Caplan, JTT was in it too. Brian Austin Greene, ya know just read this
https://www.buzzfeed.com/caraf5/20-famous-actors-you-didnt-know-were-on-smallvill-eygo?utm_term=.hkM3396l2G#.mfEkkJYqEM
Watching batman vs superman on the plane right now and man on a second watch it really is a tonally abhorrent and almost incoherent disaster. The plot is appalling and the dialog is just horrible,
"you know what the oldest lie in America is senator? That power can be innocent." - what the fuck does that even mean and why is it shoehorned in this scene ? I get it. Superman is too powerful to trust. That doesn't mean you get to make up unconvincing fake cliches that never happened.
Nothing happens in this movie that is even internally consistent, let alone logical. Batman just did his low tech physical training montage for some reason (to train to fight an omnipotent superbeing) then looked at his blob of kryptonite and his collection of wonder woman daguerreotypes.
It's all completely senseless. Now luthor is reanimating sod with his blood after talking to the corpse as if it was his best friend/son and the ai computer is blurting out ridiculously melodrama.
I actually understand the plot and it still makes no sense. The dialog actually makes it less comprehensible.
Everything that comes out of luthors mouth sounds like a 14 year old giving himself douche chills
It's just garbage. Makes man of steel look like a masterpiece.
I realize this is rambling but man it is soooooo bad. I didn't notice first time because I was basically just watching the spectacle.
Worse than Thor 2?
Vastly worse. Even though I can't remember anything about Thor 2 except the commercials, that allows me to remember that the commercials themselves did not contain some of the most atrocious dialog ever typed.
Great show. A fun fact is Michael Rosenbaum is the singer of the theme song.
But dat Lifehouse tho
Gotham ain't shit, but this isn't the place for my intense dislike of that show
Season 4 was great for sheer dumb ass shit happening, was the beginning of the downfall. Show got back to being decent in season 8, kinda. Callum Blue's Zod in season 9 was great though
Even though it was full of CW cheese, it is still the best overall mainstream comic book show ever created. To bad or took so long to get to Hulu or Netflix. Could have been huge 5 years ago!!!
Season 8 I believe is a great example of how much Lana was dragging down the show. You can see what the show is like with and without her in a significant way. That season opens with her being gone, the introduction of Tess and a good 10 or more episodes pass before she shows up for a small arc and causes another downward spiral. Prior to her showing up again the season was really good from what I remember. Then she leaves again and from that point on until the series finale in season 10 the show is pretty much firing on all cylinders. Ignore the Darkseid cloud and bad Doomsday costume though but I'll forgive that for the rest being pretty damn good.
She should have been written out of the show much sooner. It's why I refer to seasons 5 to 7 as the dark times of the series. There is more bad then good there and a large part of it is because of Lana and how she's connected to different things. In addition to budgets being slashed and writer strikes. The show was far to ambitions of what it could afford at a times.
That said I love the show overall and taken as a whole there are far more positives then negatives by a wide margin. Seasons 9 and 10 are still some of my top favorite comic book material on TV.
I don't even blame Lana's actress either. It's just that the writers wanted the character to be more important then she had any right to be and her inclusion was forced a lot of times in stories that simply shouldn't have been done or shouldn't even have included her.
Lex was rendered unconscious 51 times in total apparently.15 years ago! Lex, Chloe and Lana must be suffering now, I mean they each took at least one concussion a week for years.
In all honesty she was the Poochie of the show.
This show man. Such a cock-tease.
Superman flew during his first appearance on Supergirl.
I remember being so hyped for this episode and wishing he would become a regular like Ollie.Smallville really kicked the doors down on the Superhero Tv show genre. I remember watching the flash episode with Bart Allen and i honestly thought way back then that the flash needed his own tv show.
Whenever I rewatch season 8 I always skip those Lana episodes. Her writing really was terrible and really derailed so much of the show.
As of her Season 8 exit, Lana:
was as cunning and ruthless as the Luthors
had martial arts skills on par or better than the Green Arrow
had more advanced computer skills than Chloe
had super powers that are comparable to Clark with out the Kyrptonite weakness
Couple that with her apparently being the single most beautiful woman on the planet and you get a character that pretty much makes the entire rest of the cast pointless much like Ray did in episode VII.
In all honesty she was the Poochie of the show.
Michael Rosenbaum IS Lex Luthor to me, will never be able to see another actor in the role more perfect than him. Same goes for Erica Durance's Lois Lane, too perfect. And can't forget Chloe of course. ��
I know a lot of people didnt like her, but I really enjoyed Tess Mercer, even if she was a cheap replacement for Lex.
^^^^Allison Mack >>>>>>>
Rosenbaum is the best Lex.
I didn't make it through the show but I have mad nostalgia for it.
I always loved that episode when flash and Clark were racing and flash starts running backwards.