(Yes, I am talking about this show again)

A couple of weeks ago the Smallville series finale aired on the CW. It was insanely underwhelming for a finale of 10 year long series with a kind of stupid framing device around the whole thing that I will get into later. But for now I want to address one thing: Did no one find Clark’s sudden personality change weird at all?

For, like, two years Clark had been working at the Daily Planet. Everyday he would wear the same style of clothes, walk the same, talk the same. He never once even hinted that he might wear glasses to anyone. I am pretty sure that some people were excited for Clark and Lois’s wedding (I  may be remembering that wrong). Then one day, out of the blue, Clark starts wearing glasses, dressing differently, walking differently, talking differently, acting differently. He is clumsy, nervous and kinda shy, and no one bats an eye. People even start to question why Lois is considering marrying him.

Cat Grant, who was partners with the guy for what I assume is a relatively long period of time, acts like Clark had always been this way, never minding the fact that he saved her from an exploding car which I am guessing the Clark Kent persona would never even dream of doing.

If they had done this personality change a little earlier, like when he started working there, but this is  just ridiculous. Does nobody pay attention to anybody else they work with unless they are star reporters or something?

Now, about that framing device… At the beginning of the episode, we see Chloe Sullivan reading a comic called Smallville to her son. It apparently accounts the events that led to Clark Kent becoming Superman. So, does this mean that Clark sat down with a writer from DC and tell him everything that happened to him over the past 18 years or something? From the panels I saw, it looked like an episode of Smallville (fitting, I guess). This makes me think that after a few years Clark just said fuck it to the whole secret identity thing and decided to make a quick buck.

Two more things and then I will shut up. Why did it take seven years for Clark and Lois to get their weddings rings? Their wedding was interrupted with the Apokolips thing (which look kinda cool), but still. Finally, why was Jonathan Kent appearing to Clark? I may have missed some stuff, but I cannot once remember another time when Clark got a visit from his ghost dad (maybe in the episode he died in, but I cannot remember that far back).

Despite the fact that show was incredibly stupid, I was still a big fan. It’ll be weird not having new episodes to laugh at with a feeling shame, but I am kind of glad it’s over. Now we just have to wait a few for that Batman show and we can start this whole dance all over again.   

(Originally posted here)

For whatever reason, I recently started watching Smallville from the beginning. There are a lot of things in that show that I just do not get. Probably the one thing that bothers me most is Lionel Luthor. When I hear the name "Luthor" I think some kind of malevolent being that raised one of the world's best known super villains. I did not think for one second that it would a homeless man in a business suit. John Glover looks like he should be standing on a corner begging for loose change, not running a multinational billion dollar corporation. Another thing is the kryptonite. Why is it used in freaking everything? Explosives, jewelry, cars. It's in the water, the ground, the air, every other persons pocket. Isn't that stuff radioactive? Now, I know the show is a drama, but another thing I do not get is their serious take on every single superhero. A while back they had the Wonder Twins on the show. Now, I don't know about you guys out there, but when I think superhero drama, the LAST heroes that pop into my head are the Wonder Twins. I may be remembering this wrong, but the last time I saw anything to do with the Wonder Twins, I saw a blue monkey in spandex making super villains slip on a banana peel. Also in the more recent episodes when Clark was running around Metropolis as "The Blur" (seriously!?) he was about as far away from Superman as I can imagine. He was more like a cross between Batman and Zorro. When Zod comes to Earth, along with his army, everyone refers to the Kandorians. Now, I know the capital city of Krypton was Kandor, so the name may be right for some, but how do the characters know that all the Kryptonians were from Kandor. Plus, if you went to an alien planet, I doubt very much that the inhabitants would refer to you as a Torontonian or New Yorker or whatever they call the people who live in your cities. It's just something that kind of bugs me. Finally the characters.Now there have been quite a few DC characters to appear over the course of the series. Green Arrow has become a regular character in the series and he is fine. I like Justin Hartley as Oliver Queen, but I do miss some of the more insane arrow types, like the boxing glove arrow. But then some of the characters really get me in a way. Hawkman, for example. Why does he sound like Batman? Doomsday. Why is so effing skinny? Cyborg. Why does he look like a guy in a really ill-fitting felt vest? Bizarro. Why doesn't he have the name plate or try to steal garbage from banks? Not to mention the stories for the characters. Lana Lang, instead of becoming the Insect Queen (that's an entirely different character) gets nano-armor that gives her powers similar to Clark's. However the armor also absorbs kryptonite, so when a kryptonite bomb (again!) is placed on the roof of the Daily Planet she has to absorb it. But this means she and Clark can never be together. What the hell is that? They also kill off Jimmy Olsen, who was played by Aaron Ashmore, who's twin brother played a villain earlier in the series. But when the flash-forwarded to 2013 in season 9 Lois Lane was calling for Olsen when Superman was keeping a plane from crashing into the Daily Planet building. Is Jimmy coming back? Is there another Olsen that the writers made up? Either way, Smallville is a show that will continue to baffle me for all eternity (with all the Superman chronology, I doubt it will ever go off the air). But what baffles me the most is.... Why do I keep watching it?