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Not So Smallville

I’ve been watching season one of Smallville, the show on WB about a young Clark Kent (Superman) as he grows up. After watching about the first 7 or 8 episodes last night, there are some interesting things about the show.

It appears that some high school aged kid dies in just about every episode, under strange circumstances. Of course these strange circumstances always seem to be caused by some strange green smoke/rock/liquid/material, and oh my, it’s Kryptonite.

From a Kryptonite necklace to Kryptonite gasses in a sauna, drinking water from a lake with Kryptonite in it, to eating vegetables grown in a patch with Kryptonite in the ground around them, good old Kryptonite is always there to dick things up for the wonderful residents of Smallville. It’s interesting that they choose a population of 45,000 for Smallville, considering that with that many people, it would be like the 4th largest city in Nebraska, hardly small by Midwestern standards, seeing how Kansas is where the show is set at.

Lana’s high school football jock boyfriend Whitney wrecks more pickups than a NASCAR truck series driver. In fact, everyone wrecks their vehicles, a lot. Lana wrecks her Dodge pickup, Lex wrecks his Porche, Clarks parents drove their pickup into a crater. Smallville is riddled with such poor drivers, it’s frightening.

The actor playing Lex Luthor is probably the best actor in the show. He plays the tormented soul so well, torn between his self centered lust for power, and the decent human being who has befriended Clark and tries to help the Kent family whenever he can. But even when he helps there is always a part of Lex that is seeing what he can get for himself out of the deal, as he does with anyone he is trying to ‘help’.

But, anyways, they do a decent job writing the show, there are plenty of characters to keep you entertained, and if the storyline concerning one character is too far fetched or boring in one show, there is always something going on with another character or two to keep your attention. It’s not too bad of a show.

Current Lyrical Ramblings

Passion or coincidence once prompted you to say pride will tear us both apart
Well now pride's gone out the window cross the rooftops runaway
Left me in the vaccuum of my heart
What is happening to me crazy some will say where is my friend when I need you most
(gone away)

Ordinary World – Duran Duran