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[daibhidc]

I usually forgive an episode a lot if it's got a "straight from the comics" concept, so when I saw Winslow Schott, looking very much like the comic book version, and realised the dummy he was talking to was based on the animated series Toyman, I thought this couldn't go wrong. Sadly, there wasn't nearly enough done with him, and instead we got the end of the Lana plot, which managed to annoy me even more by getting rid of this storyline than last week's did by initiating it.

Seriously, what is it with Smallville at the moment? Are there two sets of writers, who hate each other? One of them decides that Clark's wiped Chloe's knowledge of his secret, but before they can do anything with it, the other team says it gets casually undone at the end of the Legion episode. One team makes Lana Clark's super-powered partner, the other decides any contrivance is preferable to dealing with that concept. One teases the Return of Lex, the other decides that he gets blown up the first time he does anything.

And I've realised why I find the Lana-and-Clark-get-back-together storyline so dull. It's because I knew something had to happen to stop it going anywhere. Lois and Clark isn't just OTP; it's how the story goes. You might as well spend three episodes in season eight of a Cinderella TV series, long after the ball, teasing that maybe she'll end up with Buttons after all. You don't need some ludicrous storyline where Lana becomes the Kryptonite Woman, you just need Clark to aknowledge that maybe his high school crush isn't the person he's meant to spend the rest of his life with.

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[shriker-tam.livejournal.com]

you just need Clark to aknowledge that maybe his high school crush isn't the person he's meant to spend the rest of his life with

And you need to do that 5 seasons ago. At the end of high school. As would have been logical.

And also would have made room for a college girlfriend of some kind of much less annoying sort. Hey, they could even have actually done something about that Clark/Chloe UST for a couple of seasons, have them gracefully get over it, and then let Chloe get with Jimmy in a non-sucky way.

Man, if I had been excec producer of this show, it would have been so so so much better...

[daibhid-c.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that would have been great.

Clark's college girlfriend in the comics was Lori Lemaris (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lori_Lemaris), who might have come across as a bit gimmicky as a main character

[shriker-tam.livejournal.com]

Maybe just a little :o) They could probably have skipped her, or just the fishtail part perhaps...