Smallville Season 10 Premier tonight
I don't get people saying Clark just jumped. He acknowledged that he felt like he was flying. Also, as he catches the globe, it stops for a fraction of a second before reversing direction. Then as he shoots up the side of the building, he is going fairly straight, only to have his trajectory change as he clears the rooftop.
He very clearly flew. At worst, it was 50% jump, 50% flight.
For me it was just the Chloe business that didn't make sense. Who did she give herself up to and why would they do that prisoner swap?
Also, why does Africa look like the Sahara desert?
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And if you KNOW you're going to get out of it just fine, having seen the future, giving yourself up in a trade isn't a bad idea.
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Is the show a success? Yes. Not that it means much on the station it airs on. Being the best that the WB/CW has to offer is like being the most polished turd. It's still a turd.
But your defense lacks a lot of merit when it disregards the quality of show we had in the first 4 seasons, and the subject material from whence it draws its characters from. Then the fact that it ignores the characterisitics these people SHOULD have. Clark, acts like a buffoon and creep sometimes. Then sometimes, the characters can't act the same from episode to episode. That's what most people are upset about when they complain. The fact that the show completely disregards the things that made it great from the beginning. Now, the writing is just a joke. The only real reason it stays on, is because the CW needs something to carry it along. Oh, and when you say there's been no other prevelant shows in recent decades to be as successful as Smallville, you missed at least one very obvious success. And it's spawned spin-offs and (straight to DVD) movies. And has probably made a lot mroe money. |
SV may be bad at times, and downright horrible at others, but complaining about it at this point, while it's walking out the door with nothing but financial and ratings success under its belt, is just self indulgent whining. There's no point to the complaints other than the typical crybaby nerd nonsense that makes up half the internet.
Well I though his comment was considering all the varied geography of the African continent, they decided to show desert.
Answer, it's cheap. Or the forgot to photoshop in the Pyramids. At least there weren't any vuvuzelas, or guys on camels. Now if they have Lois meet Vixen, that'll be fun.
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SV may be bad at times, and downright horrible at others, but complaining about it at this point, while it's walking out the door with nothing but financial and ratings success under its belt, is just self indulgent whining. There's no point to the complaints other than the typical crybaby nerd nonsense that makes up half the internet.
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Is the show a success? Yes. Not that it means much on the station it airs on. Being the best that the WB/CW has to offer is like being the most polished turd. It's still a turd.
But your defense lacks a lot of merit when it disregards the quality of show we had in the first 4 seasons, and the subject material from whence it draws its characters from. Then the fact that it ignores the characterisitics these people SHOULD have. Clark, acts like a buffoon and creep sometimes. Then sometimes, the characters can't act the same from episode to episode. That's what most people are upset about when they complain. The fact that the show completely disregards the things that made it great from the beginning. Now, the writing is just a joke. The only real reason it stays on, is because the CW needs something to carry it along. Oh, and when you say there's been no other prevelant shows in recent decades to be as successful as Smallville, you missed at least one very obvious success. And it's spawned spin-offs and (straight to DVD) movies. And has probably made a lot mroe money. |
Thankfully...someone who actually watches the show and doesn't just hate.
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I watched it i was just not impressed by it.
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This is crazy.
My comment was about the person who clearly did not fully watch the show. The show has its flaws...and people point them out all the time. That's why I find it ridiculous to make things up about the show to hate on. There is so much to hate on without the need to make things up. |
Yes i guess i blanked out the fates helmet idea, but perhaps just because its once again such a contrived plot device to make sure that the writers dont have to do any writing or plot development. Lets just drop a helmet flash into the game. Oh lets have his dad pop into the scene with no explaination as to why this is the first time in the 4 years since he died he bothered to come back and counsel clark.
And lets be honest, if at the end of last season you didnt think..."hey just pull the knife out, he heals and all is good" then frankly your probably to busy having to conentrate on your mouth breathing to really understand why this episode overall did absolutely NOTHING concerning all the press and leading up to "This season were letting lose" that was pretty much the mantra of all publicity since comic-con. This episode was no more special or deficeit in its value then any other episode of the last 3 seasons.
No he said something like "For a moment i felt like i was flying" indicating to me that he was recognizing the idea he DIDNT actually fly just had the sensation of doing it.
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And no, you don't get to include the whole SG franchise in your numbers, unless you're going to include the entire Superman franchise as well.
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I'm glad ratings equals quality for you. I guess it has to for someone.
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Oh, I didn't realize Smallville was based in the same universe as Lois & Clark. Or the first Superman television series. But that's ok, the SG-1 series was 10 seasons. And sucessful enough to make spin-offs. At best, Smallville will get a Green Arrow series for lolz.
I'm glad ratings equals quality for you. I guess it has to for someone. |
To some it is considered that Birds of Prey is a Smallville spin-off (which if true would interestingly enough put them in an amalgam Bronze/Modern age universe) and there are 2, Supergirl and/or Blue Beetle, propositioned for spinoffs...oh and there was a Aquaman spin-off that fell through, but has or had some record on itunes for like most downloaded single episode.
It's popular. while it's true it might not be of the highest quality possible, it's still good enough to be considered worth while by a nice chunk of people and so there must be some quality within it past what you are seeing.
And besides if you are going to say, it's not quality so it's not good I think you are going to have argue with Star Trek and Star Wars fans as we all know how poor those products actually are in terms of some non-specific "quality."
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Well I though his comment was considering all the varied geography of the African continent, they decided to show desert.
Answer, it's cheap. Or the forgot to photoshop in the Pyramids. At least there weren't any vuvuzelas, or guys on camels. Now if they have Lois meet Vixen, that'll be fun. |
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Aw damn I just looked and apparently they're going to have Hawkgirl and Deadshot next episode. Wish they would have given them their own guest episodes.
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I think some of us have given some pretty specific examples of what we thought was poor quality. Most of it stems -- as it always has in Smallville -- from the writing.
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The show had an idea for 4 or 5 years and was just successful enough to keep going and had no idea where to go so they were wandering around in the dark for a few seasons because they couldn't move forward really with the "no flight, no tights" rule. Those guys dropped from the production staff and a new leadership took over and dropped that...which it started getting better from there... the first of those seasons was just getting on it's feet and a lot of the money for FX was being saved up apparently for this last season (if you take what was mentioned in various interviews) because they knew no matter what season 10 would be the last. This is also why you get such week fights throughout which a lot of people are complaining about.
I don't think it's a bad idea and while the late middle seasons are not the best, they are reasonable and hopefully it will pay off with this last season...
Also as far as Chloe they dropped a hint that it was going to happen and with the Helmet of Fate she knew what to do and she had a reason to do it so it didn't need any more background or story.
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Silverspar on Kelly Hu: A face that could melt paint off the wall *shivers*
Someone play my AE arc! "The Heart of Statesman" ID: 343405