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And awesome. Great job Joph!

Ah, I missed that, my comcast cable is horrible, and it was artifacting and glitching throughout the show But even so, the question stands. We've seen characters return from Hell, in flesh and ghost forms, but someone coming back from Heaven is new... I think...

Seriously. I mean, they ended with him without powers, stabbed with a kryptonite knife, and falling off a building, and opened pretty much with him waking up and getting better. Really? ... Really? Thats the best you've got? All those heroes on active patrol and looking for the Kandorians, and not one could have caught him, and eliminated the need to explain away the splatter? The splatter they just decided to not have anyway.

Ditto on the stuff with Jor-El, and evil Lex. I just wasn't feeling that convo at all. And how the hell did Tess save Little Lex, when she was handcuffed to a thingie, and Evil Lex was burning the place down while talking about how he could be the only Lex?

This, and a director who doesn't give us SuperdeadbeatDad.

EDIT: Also, I wouldn't mind the origin story being told in more detail than the intro credits, BUT, if they do, it should tie in to the rest of the story of the film, like how Zod did in the beginning of Superman I, or how Brainiac did in the Superman TAS origin.

Link? Cause whenever I saw him talk about it before, he was always saying he knew angsty and brooding weren't the way to go. I'd be fine with some "grimly realistic" in places/ways.

I'd want to see Lex again. I know everyone is clamoring for Darkseid, or Mongul, or some superbigbads, and I am too, but, as much as I did enjoy Gene Hackman, I don't think Lex has been even close to having been done justice on the big screen. Lex doesn't have to be the first villain, but I want to see him done better than a real estate agent living in the subway, whose clumsy, moronic partner manages to redirect several nuclear missiles, and then playing comedy relief to the real superpowered villain.

I like to hate on it, but I've seen every episode, and plan to see every ep of this coming season. I do enjoy a good bit of it, and they occasionally get lucky, but the part I like to hate on is how schizophrenic the writers are. They're all over the place. Constantly making up new story threads, and then completely forgetting about them, or throwing characters suddenly into completely nonsensical situations, or relationships or encounters, and then totally forgetting it happened by the next episode, and I'm not even talking about things like dream/mind control sequences, where you can say "Oh, it was them, but it wasn't them" which they also do often, and are rather schizo on how they deal with after. Once you get past that, or stop expecting them to have any sort of intelligible plot from ep to ep, or season to season, and just shut off your brain, you can usually enjoy the show.

I don't remember who it was, someone I hadn't heard of, but I'm pretty sure they announced the guy who was doing him already.
EDIT: I just tried googling who it was with "Smallville actor news" and wow... Sam Jones/Pete Ross is... um... lotsa big controversies about him... Anyway, couldn't find the press release, I think Chrome linked it originally, so maybe I should be searching the forums, but I think it was before the forum clean.
Season 1 was weird. It had its moments, but on the whole, it was weird. Season 2 and 3 were probably the strongest, with season 4 probably the worst. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 were all a very low riding rollercoaster of "Oh, I could see how this could get really good" at its high points, and "Whaaaaa? Why am I watching this drivel?" for most the rest of the time. The coaster's foundations sink a little lower if you try and think about any of those seasons or events having any connection to anything else.

All that said, I think season 10 actually looks pretty strong. Season 9 was a total mishmash of random "Whaaa?" moments loosely strung together, but the finale was surprisingly good. In true Smallville fashion I am sure they will unsatisfyingly resolve all of the previous seasons story lines in about 30s of the beginning of the new one, and proceed to pretend they never happened, BUT, they have hinted at some cool stuff coming, so hopefully they will deliver, despite their track record on previous hype.

Many of their best actors they've had are gone (some promised to guess appear this season though). John Glover, Michael Rosenbaum, John Schneider to name a few. Annette O'Toole has been effectively gone for a while, and had a couple appearances at the end of last season, not sure how much she'll be around for the final season. Most their one-shot guest stars are far better actors/actresses than any of the main people on the show, though without SWMNBN, the average quality of the acting jumped up about 250%.

29 kids go into the water, 22 kids come outta the water... the ice cream man, he take the rest...

The monologues that popped into my mind are (or could be considered) the opposite of every one of your criteria...

I really hope that was just a pun

But yeah, feeling sick after watching that. My hands have never sweated this much before, and I've had the video closed for about 5 min already now, and I'm still feeling off. Without the bag and with no wind, I could conceive I could climb quite a bit of that height... but god, I thought he was at the top like 1/2 way through, and it just kept getting more and more extreme. Climbing outside was crazy enough, but the spindles just kept getting smaller and small... yikes.... then he transitioned again and I was like :O And wearing gloves? Mine would be a pool inside. That is so insane, I keep thinking that no one actually does that, in that manner, for a job, and this is like... freelance/prank video or something, and not an actual employee, but, yeah, wow. I need to get my mind off that video, cause I'm still feeling sick...

3, actually. Dark's AoE is far from great, but it is definitely very underrated around here, especially taking saturated Soul Drain into account.

I did nothing of the sort. Q's links have been absolutely awesome. You're a not very intelligent [insertreallymeannamecallinghere] and I don't want you in here thread jacking our thread jack.

And honestly, I'm sorry Dan for the threadjack(s) >.> Once the aforementioned promised reward buff to the trial finally comes, I'll be scheduling a few, and I'll send you a tell.

If you're going to tell me you sent them, then you don't really need to give them cyanide pills and tell them to take them after I catch them and ask who sent them....

Q delivers!

EDIT: And sorry to threadjack :/

Ignoring what I want to say to this, as this thread is pretty offtopic and weird already, and just reiterating that having a reward based solely on the average time of a successful run is silly. There's preparation for teams, there's preparation for temps, lots of coordination, herding cats, lots of failed runs and having the reward be less than that of the Eden trial is mind boggling. It's something that the devs have already commented on, and agreed with, and the purpose of this thread is just, now, after several weeks of silence, check up on where this (relatively simple?) change is in the pipes....

This thread needs more Jensen Ackles, and less Tom Cruise.

Castle? posted a thread asking what animations people would like alts for a little while ago, though I don't think it has any time frame, or was mentioned at PAX.