"I swear to you, I'm not a criminal mastermind!"

[batskeets]

::adsflaskdfhakldf:: The gods of contrivance are obviously laughing over this one. ;p Silly WB shows and their dorky dialogue. Well, except for Angel. And Buffy, being an ex-WB show and all.

I can't decide if I like Smallville or not. "Hi, I am now a whiny teenager with superpowers. I have so much angst." Eh, leave it to me to oversimplify things. But it's TV, so it wants to be oversimplified. Really. It does!

I am folding laundry. Oh, the excitement. But I'm also chatting with people, which is always good. I don't always have time to do a lot of that.

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AH!

[lunacyslave.livejournal.com]

I can't decide if I like Smallville or not. "Hi, I am now a whiny teenager with superpowers. I have so much angst." Eh, leave it to me to oversimplify things. But it's TV, so it wants to be oversimplified. Really. It does!

*falls over* I watched it last week ^^" And earlier tonight ^^" Heh, my *mom* was all excited about watching it last week, so I did too... And I had to see it again =D And yes, there are some *good* lines in there... But the basic idea is the best.. most powerful guy in the world and he's whining left and right because he's having relationship problems coz he's dorky and his arch nemesis or two (or soon to be.. when's that gonna happen?? I wanna see an Evil Luthor!!!!) is after the same person o.0

I want a TV life =D

[rdorothy.livejournal.com]

I tried watching it last night, but aside from the fact that it was about Icky Bug Boy, I couldn't accept this as being part of the world of Superman, even very much removed. Superman was always about a guy who crash-landed here in the fifties, period, not a nouveau-angst hipster teen. It's just not right and it don't mesh, nor does the concept of Lex Luthor growing up in the same town. Too pooey. I'll give it another try on a non-buggy episode, though.

[skeets.livejournal.com]

That's *so* it. On the one hand, I kind of like the look at what a young Superman might have gone through, but Lex being in the same town, and the time period, and all that other crap... yeesh. Pretty horrendous. (I'm surprised they didn't somehow toss in a teenybopper Lois Lane. I mean, if we're going for glaring inaccuracies, why not go for broke? ;p)

I think the only way I can really dig on it is if I think of it as being independent of the Superman mythos. Which is kind of dumb, then, because the Superman thing is their entire angle. Take that away and you'd have friggin' Dawson's Creek, minus JvdB and his box-shaped head.

[aaron.livejournal.com]

I'm not really into Smallville, and I'm a big Superman fan. As someone else said, It doesn't mesh with the rest of the concept which is superman. It strikes me that it's to Superman as Enterprise is to Startrek. They're playing with fire. The thing that bugs me is that they're stomping all over established stuff (with both smallville and enterprise). It's like they don't care about the fans.

Oh well, I'll be watching Lois and Clark re-runs (which btw, that show wasn't much better about keeping the rules, but it was all right.)

[skeets.livejournal.com]

Eh, I don't find Enterprise as bothersome as Smallville though, for some reason. Maybe because Enterprise isn't full of whiny high school kids? ;p

And they probably *don't* care about the existing fans, honestly. I mean, if they think they can make more cash by writing plots that run in direct conflict with previously established fact, then they'll do it.

[helios.livejournal.com]

I'm watching Smallville mostly because I can't stand Roswell anymore. It was good the first season, got weird last season, and is just plain unpleasant this season. Lois and Clark is still the best Superman incarnation, but Superman is always subject to change, I suppose. The original goes back to the 1930s, which would place his arrival in Smallville around 1920. I'd still like to see the original Superman and the Mole Men (http://us.imdb.com/CommentsShow?44091). In fact I'd like to see the movie serial from the 1940s, too. But, that's me.