Smallville isn't going to be so Small anymore?

[jdotmi]

So, I have this pseudo-guilty pleasure called Smallville. The first three seasons were actually pretty good television, season 4 was a nightmare, season 5 was mostly good with messy undertones, and season 6 started out with great promise and ended with a shrug. Season 7, however, promises to be more problematic than anything. Why, you ask? Pretty simple. Kara Zor-El.

Yes. Supergirl is showing up when Clark isn't even quite 21 years old yet. Nor, for that matter, able to fly or being called Superman by the public.

I don't like this idea. It's completely contrary to every version of Supergirl that has come before, even the movie version. Granted, I think a lot of people want to forget that movie ever happened. The only version of Kara that could be even remotely this close to Kal-El's age is Power Girl, and she's from an alternate dimension.

*shrug* We'll see what happens. Her first appearance will be in the season premier. $5 says she's the one who stops Bizzaro.

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[marquisdcarabas.livejournal.com]

If it's not Doctor Who, Torchwood or Life on Mars, then it's not good quality TV! >_<

I'm just messin', although I'm really not a fan of Krypton's favorite son, and thus have never watched an episode in my life.

But those 3 shows up there, yeah.. you owe it to yourself to watch em, even if it's on YouTube. Especially if you're a fan of Russell T Davies' writing (Queer as Folk), and sci-fi. ^_^

Wiki' em, you won't regret it.

[jdotmi.livejournal.com]

I do want to see Torchwood and Doctor Who. Life on Mars hasn't gotten my interest, though.

Believe it or not, I've never seen a single episode of QaF. o_O

[celtcub.livejournal.com]

When Smallville first started I watched every episode. Season 1 and 2 I was a die hard fan.

Then awhile back I caught one of the Justice League episodes from Season 6 and it impressed me enought o want to see more, but things had changed SO much that I ended up getting season 5 and 6 for the ipod so I could catch up. I have yet to watch them, but now with Kara showing up on season 7 I may have to sit down and do a Smallville marathon to get caught up.

I am hearing a lot of folks nay-saying her addition to the show and I admit I don't understand. We have green arrow, aquaman, flash, cyborg and brainiac all on the show and none of those were specifically Superboy stories either but no one seemed to mind. Suddenly Supergirl is in the mix and THAT'S the step too far?
Smallville is so far removed from anything established as Superman that it doesn't present me with a problem. I look at it as Ultimate Superman.

My biggest let down on the show is Louis. Why would Clark EVER fall in love with that raging, man hating cunt? I can't stand her and now that Lana has become a horrible person the only redeeming female on the show is Chloe. So they need more Good Female Energy on the show. Not to mention that their little Justice League/Teen Titans crew is ALL boys, they need at least one set of boobs on the team, if not two.
Speaking of which, the JLA/Teen Titans episode of Smallville season 6 was supposed to be a test episode to see if a spin off would generate enough interest. I know *I* was hella impressed and actually liked this team despite it being so off canon. But I have heard nothing more of a spin off. I would love to see them bring Supergirl in, end Smallville and pick up with a group title staring all of the Smallville heroes working together. Most likely too much to ask since Tom Welling wants to go on to become something else (I guess The Fog did better than I thought it did?) so he is wanting to get away from the Clark shadow. Unlikely he'll do a second show with the same character.
*sigh*
Too bad NBC couldn't get in on it. Since Heroes was a success they are pumping quite a few Sci-Fi/Super Hero shows for next season...

yeah, I am a geek.

[jdotmi.livejournal.com]

I am hearing a lot of folks nay-saying her addition to the show and I admit I don't understand. We have green arrow, aquaman, flash, cyborg and brainiac all on the show and none of those were specifically Superboy stories either but no one seemed to mind. Suddenly Supergirl is in the mix and THAT'S the step too far?

Here's the problem. Green Arrow? Not bad. Flash? Pretty cool. Cyborg? Cool. Aquaman? Sucked worse than a $2 ho in a dimly lit bath house. All of them in costume? Pretty neat, thank god they didn't let Aquaman talk. Clark Kent as, well, Clark Kent? With Supergirl showing up? A pretty now nineteen years old Supergirl? He's 20? Nuh uh, no. She has ALL the powers, including the ability to fly before Clark? I don't think so. Way to make Superman the superhero that nobody else is actually aspiring to be.

I think they can do this right. I don't think they will. They can't even keep Chloe's life story straight from one episode to the next Mom left when she was 5, came downstairs to dad trying to make pancakes. Oh wait, no Mom left when she was 12 or 13 and she had no idea why or where she went and she found her living in a nut house. OH WAIT! The men came and took Mommy away because she wasn't well, and Chloe knew that all the time.

I actually have quite enjoyed Lana the last two years. She's grown a lot from the pretty little princess that everyone had to protect to the pretty little princess everyone thinks they have to protect but who will blindside your ass if you underestimate her.

Justice was a freakin' awesome episode. I do hope they are able to get enough steam to get a spinoff when the series ends. I wouldn't mind it being the Justice League with perhaps Supergirl, but only if they make Kara likeable and believable. With how Lois has come out (I like her, but good lord is she abrasive) I'm not counting on it.

[celtcub.livejournal.com]

Ok ok I finally did watch the opener of Season 5. Maybe you can answer a quick question for me?
What was with the Meteor Shower? Did it have some sort of build up? Was it brought on by the other Kryptonians (DL was one of them! Right on!) coming to find Kal-El?
Interesting opener, and apparently this IS the season where Lana and Clark finally break it off, cuz at the end of this episode they were lip locked.

I'll be working my way through the last two seasons over the next few days. =)

[jdotmi.livejournal.com]

Heh. The meteor shower was going to happen one way or the other. The ship was in search of Kal-El to either convert him or kill him. Either way, the reason it came to Earth is finally revealed mid season or so.

Lana and Clark have a rather severe falling out due to 100th episode issues, but it takes a few episodes of drawn out wangst until it's over and done. They don't really recover their friendship until mid/late season 6.

Season 5 starts out nicely. There are a few really good episodes. The clunkers, however (and I'm looking square at Aqua) blow massive chunks. The finale kicks all sorts of ass, though.