Smallville is sort of a guilty pleasure of mine. It's reliable rubbish. Half fun, half annoyance and despite it's more stupid moments can still be enjoyable.
Tom Welling pulls off a fantastic Clark, at moments he's almost as good as Christopher Reeve. Rosenbaumb's (sorry for the SP) Lex Luthor is a fantastic villain. Showing that true evil doesn't recognise itself and is a journey, not a destination. Allison Mack is an amazing actress, making the most unbelievable exposition seem sensible. It explores Kryptonian heritage fantastically well. Making it a rich background rather than a convenient device for explaining Clarks powers. Most importantly of all it shows how Superman became the hero we know. It makes the impossibly powerful and almost godlike Kal-El a human at heart.
Still that doesn't excuse one blistering carbuncle that has festered in the heart of this show for more than eight years. Lana FUCKING Lang. This poster child for recycling plots spent the first six years as the victim, just screaming at anything that moved. "Clark save me!" and all he does is make moon eyes at the empty headed moron.
Kristin Kruek is the most annoying, brain dead waste of screen time I have ever had to sit through. She irritates the crap out of me. She can't act, is no where near as attractive as people seem to think and can't FUCKING act.
I was over the moon when I heard that she wasn't in season 8. At last the story could develop. Seven god damn years of pain and suffering could end. Clark could move on, we'd have development. Sure we'd have to put up with the scars and occasional mentions but that doesn't matter. New stories. It might get better, after all any story was made so much better by not including the hated one.
Now for a lot of reasons I won't go into I don't get digital or any more than the four basic British channels. So I get Smallville and most of the other US shows a little later (a year or so) than if i did. Nothing important, I can catch up on DVD. So I was excited to pick up Smallville season 8 this week. Spacing out episodes I've now see more than half way though this season. Even without Lex it's still showing a massive improvement. No longer running around in plot circles and some nice acting.
It was also good to see the relationship between Clark and Lois blossom.
Then along comes the one actress, other than Megan Fox, that I would insult. Kruek. Get rid of her, do not bring her back. Obliterate the slagging bitch. Okay maybe killing her is a bit extreme. Just the character. I can't stand her anymore, I just want Clark to move on and throw her out. Arse first into a meat grinder. Only then can the stories develop and the show work better. If we learnt anything from X-files it's that a will they won't they, on and off again romance has a limited shelf life. Four or five years. After that it can only go one way.
I just hope before season end she is gone for good.
Edit
She is, only a few episodes later. They found a way to get rid of her. Spoilers here but infecting her body with Kryptonite might not be the most original way to drop kick her out of his life, but at least it was total. Ladies and gentlemen... she's gone and good riddance.
If I'm honest one of my main complaints is the chemistry between Welling and Durance (Lois Lane) and how the constant flittering back to Lana is getting in the way. Those two have great onscreen chemistry and Durance's Lois is one of the best. She's no one's damsel and even when captured/kidnapped/in trouble she's still sarcastic witty and a real match for Clark.
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