There was a reason I didn't watch this show. When I started watching it, I forgot what that reason was. But now I remember...
(Warning: I'm going to geek out for a minute)
Now, even they are taking many liberties with the comic and even Richard Donner's Superman film, the basic premise is that Clark is going to grow up to become Superman and Lex will become his mortal enemy.
But if these two guys grew up together and had such an interaction, especially with Lex constantly suspicious of Clark and the "miracles" that seem to befall the residents of Smallville (especially Lana Lang, Clark's only love), how is Lex NOT going to know that Clark is Superman when they get to Metropolis?
Matter of fact, now that they [the writers/producers] got bored and decided to add Lois Lane to the everyday cast and who happens to be living with The Kents, how is Lois not going to know that this farmboy is Superman when they start working together at the Daily Planet in the future?
(I know that pre-Crisis, Clark & Lex knew each other as children. Thank God that fixed that because that was equally problematic)
The first time I heard of this show being made. The first thing I thought was Clark Kent's disguise is flimsy enough but now he is supposed to have known Lex since he was in high school and this future genius won't be able to put 1+1 together and figure out Clark and Superman are one and the same. Riiiiight.
I'll keep watching but I know that whatever they do to make Clark slip under everyone's radar when they become adults (whether he be collective amnesia or some crystal that Zor-El has left him in the Fortress of Solitude), it will be a HUGE deus ex machina (Not as big as Superman reversing time by flying around the Earth in the opposite direction, but big nonetheless).
I look forward to being disappointed. God knows I love to have things to complain about.
(I should have titled this "No P For Me Part II")
3 comments:
Don't talk bad about Smallville!!! This is a question that *everyone* has wondered since the very begining and at the start of *every* new season...they will find a way to make it work. I'm just hoping this season gets better because they've had a lot of flubs(read: boring eps)so far - Notice: this is not me talking *bad* about Smallville, more than simply pointing out some of it's flaws...i love Smallville (read: I love Tom Welling).
Rotfl
i watch the show not for accuracy but just because it entertains me even when it's really bad. and michael rosenbaum is great as lex
i just wish lana would die. and although your roommates obsession has gotten me to start watching it, i myself am getting quite bored with it. but yeah tom welling is a looker.
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