somebody save me...
... from weak writing and plot. geez. the smallville finale was WEAK WEAK WEAK. i've been complaining all season about how things have just gone downhill and season 3 was simply a rehash of season two.. season two was okay, because they're still developing characters and everything. but by this season they should be knocking down walls. in the beginning with clark in metropolis, that was good but could have been amazing. and now.. seriously. if that show took a couple of risks... it's just miserable how predictable everything has gotten. every episode is the same scenes, the same contrite dialog in the same locations, the same plot twists and the same resolutions and explanations. we're dealing with superman here. they could have some incredible stuff happen on that show... but the end of the season was safe. the beginning of s. four will just be a bunch of easily-wrapped-up done-a-million-times scenes.
an example? kill off pete. he's done with the show permanently? take some risks. kill him. don't write him out going to frickin Wichita (which they did in the episode before this week's). have lionel luthor or someone kill him. get clark really mad. get him thinking vengeance. then show how he rises above vengeance and learns how to react justly when someone kills his best friend. i loved pete's character, and they did him a disservice making him go out like a punk, moving to another city, crying. there's your finale.
at least enterprise has been entertaining. not overly powerful but interesting, because for a few minutes you don't really know what's going to happen. you obviously know earth is gonna make it and archer lives because the federation does end up getting formed, but it's a thrill ride on how it happens. the last few episodes have been really engaging, and i've honestly dreaded smallville for the opposite reason - because if i wanted to watch the same dialog between the same characters (lionel/lex, lex/clark, clark/lana, jonathan/martha/clark) for the millionth time i'd pop in the DVD's.
geez, people. don't you know how to make good television? don't you know i'm the expert and i know everything?
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