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SMALLVILLE To Replace Lex Luthor With New Villains!!
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Michael Rosenbaum will not be a regular during “Smallville’s” eighth season, according to a press release jointly issued Thursday by the actor and the show’s executive producers.
Rosenbaum’s character, Lex Luthor, will be replaced by two new villains. From Friday morning’s Hollywood Reporter:
One of the new villains is Doomsday, who's notable for killing Superman in the DC Comics Superman universe. Another is a female villain producers describe as "intelligent, brilliantly manipulative, and dangerously sinister" whose "attraction with Clark may prove to be as deadly as kryptonite for him."
The actual press release indicates she "will be familiar to many fans."
Rosenbaum may be back as a guest star next season.
The 7th season finale airs May 15 on The CW.
Find all of the Reporter’s story on the matter here.
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Wonder how bad the next season will be?
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Can't wait to see how they fuck this one up...
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this has gone way beyond the point of smallville already. well, it has for a long time now, but to end the series without lex and (maybe) lana is just absurd.
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X-files lasted 9. What the hell? Someone sold their soul to Satan for this.
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ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME??? Jesus Christ, just kill it.
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They announced that Lex as well as Lana and some other characters were not coming back as regulars earlier this year. I was hoping at the time that they WOULDN'T add more characters to the show - and instead focus more on Clark, Lois, and the elder Luthor. I guess they didn't like that idea, cause they killed the interesting Luthor and now they are adding a bunch of other crap........meeeh.
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so i guess the showrunners left for a reason...cuz this seems mighty stupid...oh, and herc, i have a great reality show idea you need to pitch to the networks..."Boxing with Boll"...every week you get uwe to challenge another celeb to a boxing match, and we get to watch him get his ass kicked...talk about a ratings winner
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Knowing the producers Doomsday will either take the form of a super-hot young model or they will save money on actors by having it take the form of Tom Welling....
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Is just Dawson's creek with people named after Superman characters.
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it's also incredibly overrated. ;)
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We got a genius amongst us folks.
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just make it sup vs the charmed girls
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and a strong brow. That's it. Yet exceptionally strong, good-looking and probably making an impression by stealing Chloe/Kara/Lois/Ma Kent/Lana (whoops, never mind)
He will then use her for bait, luring Clark to his abandoned factory before kicking seven shades of shit out of Clark. Then the series will leave a battered/dead/imprisoned Clark under Doomsday's foot while breaking for the season. -
Find it, watch it, love it. Rosenbaum has never been better.
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...actually had the balls to end the series with Clark's death and him exposing himself to the world during the battle, that'd be pretty cool, but it's safe to say they won't do that.
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that Tom Welling has a good grasp of the character. He needs to be cast in a film STAT!!!
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The year is 85232. Mankind has reached the stars, and the Earth is a very different place. Clark, still based in Smallville, has spent 15000 years driving fence posts into the ground in an effort to mark every private and political boundary on the globe with wire fencing (then it's right off to State to get that journalism degree). Will the energy he absorbed from all that sun exposure be enough contend with the powerful villains and bizarre alien races of 853rd century Earth? Decidedly human looking, all of them, except for the occasional eye glow of course... you nailed it Demode... as did dreamweaver13... Doomsday? On Smallville? The show about Superman's youth? He hasn't even freakin' put the cape on!
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May 02, 2008 12:23:09 AM CDT
here here. I think there's a Kent Memorial Wing at Smallville M
by srh1son
I bet the medical files for Lana Lang, Lex Luthor, and Jonathan Kent are a few feet thick.
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I wondered how they would transition to clark in nerd mode and superman looking like clark now, but with the suit. they are going to kill him off. then he'll resurect years later and no one will be around to remember that superman looks just like clark kent without the glasses. that's my guess. what can i say... i'm bored waiting to see Iron Man tomorrow. stupid Age of Conan Beta is too laggy to play.
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a few hours ago. He addressed to Shermdawg. I guess Shermdawg does'nt visit the Lost thread.
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Smallville lost its way a long time ago. Every now and then it gets pretty dramatic and spectacular but its become so much an elseworlds show that you can forget Clark ever becoming the Superman in the costume we're all familiar with. That should have happened a few seasons back if it were ever gonna happen. Now he's simply the guy who runs fast and embarrassed about being one of the few Superheroes on his own show who still can't fly! Anyone wanting to Watch Smalville for the first time here's the bottom line: the first 3 seasons were great, had decent progression for the character and he was learning how to use his powers as they manifested each season. Then cam Season 4 and the one-time only ability to fly but it was poorly handled and they introduced Lois Lane at the same time. This killed the show because now we had both Lois and Lana in the picture yet Clark was still on this "Me and Miss Lang" crap and kept on it for the next three season while Lois simply hung around making a nuisance of herself. Don't watch past season 3, you'll only get annoyed and then more annoyed, but still want to see what happened next like some silly soap opera!
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I'm not watching until they do. I stopped watching this show years ago. It was same old shit week after week.
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..with a grey goetee, im cool with it.
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An ex-WWE superstar however...
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I had waaay too much going on to partake or even lurk in a talkback devoted to an episode focused on my least favorite character on the show.
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Yeah, there were some mishaps along the way, but even Buffy screwed up sometimes. The show is well acted and some episodes have been exellent. Also, the writers get Lex. They understand him. They write him as a cold calculating Mo'fo' and not some pantomine cheeky chappy bumbling idiot as shown in the movie. This is how Luthor should be. His character development has been a masterclass in story and characted development - and kudos to the acting. Brilliant. But now, the mention of Doomsday alarms me. Whats wrong with the show's creators? He is the mother of all villains. He turns up later in supes life - not when supes is a kid!!! What the hell is wrong with you?? Alternative universe of not - are you out of your fucking minds?? Singer fucked up superman on the big screen, why are you so intent of fucking him up on the small screen? I concur with my talkback colleagues...Doomsday will be a human model...male...and probably Clark's new best friend. Spikes will appear every so often...red yes glowing...and knowing glances to the screen at mid season point. Sigh. It's all over.
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its the worst show ever....
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Honestly Smallville should be wrapped up now. All they need to do is end it on Lex standing for presidnet and clark finishing his training at the fortress. Simple. There is NO way that Doomsday can be in the series since his presence can only occur when Superman is at the height of his powers. WB, needs to wrap it up on a positive note. not drag it down with more seasons that just go nowhere.
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Seriously... i've put up with them messing about with DC characters, but Doomsday?? On a TV budget? I doubt it.
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There's not much else you can do here. Supernatural mops the floor with Smallville so bad, it's not even funny anymore. Week after week.
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they are not going any further.
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fascinating protrayal, what a way to bring depth to a 2dimensional character. luthor has always been famous but even then in the comics he's always been cheesy and 2 dimensional, not able to stand up to villains like Dr Doom.
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This "could" be good blah blah blah. Well it's the CW. Between budget restrictions (notice how there are fewer and fewer special effects on this show) and really lazy writing (people constantly say-do things out of charecter or contracdict themselves episode to episode) so out of a season of (maybe) 22 eps 6 might be quite good or enjoyable.
Doomsday will look like a human and probably only be in one or two eps as for the female villian, my money is on Mercy.
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And Clark has to babysit for it, but the baby gets into all kinds of trouble.
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New Super Villianess gets her powers from chewing STRIDE!!!So sad that a show that started with alot of potential went so, so far in the wrong direction.
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Dude, you idea is far too cool/interesting for Television producers to grasp...
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Talk about writers getting Luthor...
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This "drama" is a farce to the source material. It has to be considered a big joke.
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Oh yeah.
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...the Jack Knight version of Starman. That series was a natural for TV. It was actually in development and I have no idea how they screwed that one up, though I did hear it was because the network (I forget which one, but probably the old WB or UPN) wanted to make Jack a high school-aged character. Figures.
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I'm surprised how many folks stuck with this show for so long, considering how off track it has gone from the Superman mythos. It's so all over the place, you might as well consider this show an alternate universe. There is NO way they can do Doomsday justice in this context - and I'm sure they'll butcher it like every other great thing they COULD have done on this show.
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Doomsday? That's hilarious. What's next: will Darkseid be moping around the coffee house warming his latte with his Omega Effect?
Still, it's better than that Singer abortion "Superman Returns". At least they give him superpowered bad guys to fight. -
"Maybe it'll be a Baby Doomsday...
And Clark has to babysit for it, but the baby gets into all kinds of trouble."
........that is fucking hilarious. But seriously, a female villian? Im a comics junkie, and I cant think of any female villians on luthors level. Its just retarded. How hard would it be to try Solomon Grundy or even Darkseid?
Doomsday, at this stage in Clarks (highly bastardized) timeline, is ridiculous.
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How in the world are they going to do Doomsday justice in the world they've created?
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Hey, the Smallville realization of Doomsday can't be any worse than Bane in "Batman and Robin." Now THAT was an abortion.
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Lex walks into the FOS, fights Clark. Jor-El erases all memory of Clark and Smallville from Lex. Clark gets warned, that because Jor-El did that, Doomsday is coming.
Cue music.
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Clark is scared and doesn't want any kind of Doomsday to come. Fights some gum powered douche. End of episode HHH with red eyes bursts through a wall.
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Chloe dies by the hands of HHH/Doomsday.
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Clark flies away from Smallville but before he does, he wipes the memory of Lois, Jimmy, Lana, and Pete. Goes to Africa and reads Superman Birthright.
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Oh and before Clark does all that, he flies HHH/Doomsday into space to only have HHH/Doomsday get all disfurged to actually look like Doomsday.
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Clark's new shop teacher is the Toyman! His P.E. coach is the Parasite! His guidance councilor turns out to be Metallo! The school bus driver is Solomon Grundy! They've all come to Smallville to attack Clark, because he's trapped in some kind of time-warp that won't allow him to grow the fuck up and leave home. Put the cape on him, call the show Metropolis, and give us something real!
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to Doomday, always have him in the shadows with glowing red eyes and every episode someone will say *Doomsday is coming* right up to the end of series then they will say *Doomsday is here!* Everyone looks at the camera horrified, Batman turns up, end credits, thanks for watching.....what the ****! New WB Promo.... Gotham series 1,see how Bruce Wayne became rich!! Noooooooooooo!!!....but I digress :)
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"New WB Promo.... Gotham series 1,see how Bruce Wayne became rich!!"
with that vacant douche from "that 70s show as Bruce Wayne, and "Screech" as the Joker. -
That's the show that needs support. It seems to be one of the best shows nobody is watching.
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Bar Luthor, this show has been Dawson's Creek plus bastardised Superman myth with godawful MTA-style acting from Day One.
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is he already out of college? they need to rename it "Metropolis"
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The WB still exists?! And people still watch this craptastic show?! Damn, I'm glad I've got a life.
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...Talia al Guhl.
She'll basically be a female version of Lex but fan boys won't care because they'll be A) Too busy drooling over the hot, exotic girl they get to play her and B) Too busy drooling over the fact that the Superman and Batman universes have finally crossed-over.
Talia's appearance will help create a spin-off show about Bruce Wayne and his youth while he trains to become Batman (which was the original idea for the show before it became Smallville).
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...you'd all be in here bitching about how "awful" it had been since season four (yet still mysteriously watching).
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his senior year we'd find out that the principal of his high school was Darkseid, and that Clark would get in big trouble for not having a hall pass and the hall Anti-Monitor would be running him down.
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May 02, 2008 11:39:56 AM CDT
A plot hole big enough to drive a Mac truck through
by marvinatmiddleage
That pretty much describes the whole run of the show. That why still watch it. I look for the inconsistantcies and screw ups in all my smug, fan boy glee.
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As a fan of the show, I admit that the focus on the relationships has hurt the show over the past few years, but the last string of episodes have been probably the best in 4 years, and maybe ever.
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but Doomsday is a terrible terrible terrible idea. This show may be my guiltiest of guilty pleasures but good god please re-think this
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Because a regular shark just ain't big enough. Clark goes to Krypton! Yes, for two minutes - we see the red sun, a small planet and... One room! Nearly destroyed! Ah, the glories of Krypton on a high school drama budget! And Doomsday - really? Let's be candid - Doomsday in his first go-round was not very interesting - oh, he was interesting in that he was slowly unmasked, but in the end he was essentially The Hulk with spikes -unreasoning fury and the strength and stamina to kill Superman... How do you make this an interesting character for Smallville? Is he going to be a meteor freak that Clark accidentally makes worse? Then inexplicably the freak is sent into the future where he nurses his wounds and his hatred of Kal-el until Superman finally shows up? Why not bring Titano - he can be a talking gorilla ala George of the Jungle or Planet of the Apes... Maybe a cousin of Gorilla Grodd... He takes up residence in Luthor's mansion until exposure to kryptonite turns him into a raging King Kong wannabe... This show has some amazing moments, but mostly it is Clark whining while the world outside goes down the drain - if Pa Kent was alive he'd smack him one.
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They've lost every original character except for Clark and Chloe. What the hell happened to Petey!? Clark hasn't had a male friend in years! He's just some college dropout living at his Moms farm.
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Smallville's College dropout, moping around his parents farm with one or two friends? Or, Superman Return's dead beat Dad who's creepy and spies on Lois, and is trying to steal her away from a good man that stuck around and is willing to father a kid that isn't his.
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Welling will get thrown across the damn barn into the wall SEVERAL times
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As an exchange student who could give people post hypnotic sugeestions (without hypnosis) Lex squireled him away to 33.1
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i hate all u idiots that keep saying its not following the "source material" , or destroying the "superman mythos".... it was said from day 1 this was a different spin on the superman story...they never said they would follow the source material or the original mythos...they were honest and upfront with that from before season 1.....dont hate now cuz u werent paying attention.
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someone near the beginning of this talkback questioned whether they could do doomsday on "a tv budget?"
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Doomsday will be in the form of a handsome young rogue with a sharp wit. AKA every single DC character that has ever appeared on Smallville. Come on guys....I DARE you....make Doomsday ugly, and not remotely charming.
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We can't even get a decent looking bigscreen Thing or from the trailer that hit last week, Hulk. What makes you think a show with aa small a budget as they have and literally no history of any creature effects would be able to pull off Doomsday? Especially one that resembled his comic form? Unless they brought in some of the Trek or Farscape (unlikely given their location) effects vets, it ain't happenin'.
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the writers take a bunch of superboy/superman comics into the toilet after gorging themselves on six straight hours of taco bell and after the inevitable shit storm that comes, they wipe their asses with the comics and then, whatever is NOT covered in crap, they take and put it into a script.
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How can you call someone a deadbeat dad when they never knew about it? How was he supposed to know that she got knocked up. If you are male, you can't tell me you keep tabs on every girl you sleep with after the relationship ends.
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doomsday? another chic? its over
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Rosenbaum appeared on the Dragoncon guest list this year. The man obviously knew it was time to jump ship and make some scratch hitting the conventions before the show and its fan base completely imploded.
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Doomsday will come into being when a shipment of liquid kryptonite bound for Lexcorp crashes into a Stride gum factory and engulfs the security guard who is using Axe body gel, eating a Dunkin Donut and drinking Mountain Dew... There's still room for about 500 more product placements, as Doomsday will wear a NASCAR-style uniform. Sponsors, please send in your checks and logo stats to Smallville, P.O. Box 0, Crappington, BC 07A 34C.
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next season better involve Lana, Chloe, Lois and Kara + nude pillow fight
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What happened to the bruce wayne crossover?
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What the hell?
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The worst thing about Smallville, like Superman Returns, is that it is boring. Tom Welling is NOT Superman, or even Clark Kent. I've never bought him as either side of the character. The show had an interesting first season, but it should have stopped there. I personally don't believe Superman should even be anywhere near TV. On Screen is another thing. I hated Superman Returns, but Brandon Routh---I believed him as Supes.
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May 02, 2008 9:02:22 PM CDT
Halle Berry's joined the cast reprising her Catwoman role
by groothewarrior
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This is the first instance in comics to film where I hope Hollywood throws the source material out completely. I know Superman doesn't have the greatest Rogue's Gallery, but Geez, talk about scraping the bottom of the barrel.
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or some shit. he was 24 when the series started i thought. which would make him 31 or 32 and he's barely out of college? wtf. i stopped watching during season 4. this is beyond ridiculous. will he be middle aged before he decides to wear his undies on the outside? i bet doomsday is that big show guy with a goatee and darth maul spikes.
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They went passed the point of ending on a high note.
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Doomsday will be a wrestler (probably that Tomko guy from TNA) with a white goatee and white bushy eyebrows. Instead of spikes he'll just have tattoos. For the record though I did love the idea of a baby Doomsday. That would have been hilarious!
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May 03, 2008 3:19:11 AM CDT
fuck this shit. I'm more excited about the DC filmation Justice
by stalkeye
Although the cartoons were before my time,Filmation's justice league was much better than Hanna Barbera's silly Super friends.
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I stopped watching this show after season three. I've picked up a few episodes since then and nothing has changed. Clark and Lana get together, Clark and Lana realize they can never be together, Clark and Lana get together ... End it already.
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Compared to Timm's Supes, Filmation's renditions looks like a stick figure animation, however I could stomach the late 60's series which was more canon thn Stuper Friends.Shit at least they had the balls to kill off Parasite, no way you would see that in SF. But Hanna gets props for the 60's FF cartoons.Now, that being said, I'm off to see IronMan with my fellow geeks.
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"The executive producers are tight-lipped about a new female villain they will be introducing, but they can say she will be familiar to many fans and will set her sights on Clark in ways Lex never could. Intelligent, brilliantly manipulative, and dangerously sinister, our gorgeous new villain has one more weapon in her arsenal: Her mutual attraction with Clark may prove to be as deadly as kryptonite for him."
Sounds like Poison Ivy to me... if you remember the Batman: Hush story, the above description will sound familiar. She can control Superman. -
...of Season 8. You heard it here first!
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seriously. think abotu what he's going to become, someone with the powers of a god who will constantly save the world. This isn't the comic books where Supes has literally said that he has powers so he'll save the world. It would take years to mentally come to that point where you would do such a thing. People don't think about this because Superman comics are so mediocre and that's why he's never been taken as seriously as many of Marvel's characters. Plus what a bunch of dumb fans superman has.
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Because the WB movie devision was prepping what would become Batman Begins. So in season three they threw a wink and a nudge by naming Ian Somalader's charecter "Adam Knight" geddit? geddit?
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Series Finale: Clark's first day in the suit, the world ends. Seconds before being swallowed by an energy wave, special guest star Jenna Jameson shows up, mentions something about "Earth-Prime" and a "Crisis" and drags Tom Welling into a portal. The series ends with the text: "Now Go Read Something, Morons."
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then it went to shit. i kept on thinking why cant trek change their mythology and yet keep the core elements the same, like small ville. because it was really good. it fucking absolute shit. but like a fucking train wreck i cant help but watch.
how do each of these characters get insurance. seriously their internal organs must have turned to shit by now. they each have permanent rooms in the hospital by now surely. it's complete bullshit. this series is crap. yet i cant help but watch. it surely just cant be just me either -
enough with the red jacket and blue t-shirt
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how many times are you going to defy jor-el only for you to come on your knees begging him to help you out.
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Perfect way to deal with no Lex, just send Clark to the future to deal with alien villains alongside the Legion of Superheroes--particularly good time since they just canned the animated show. Hey, give us Saturn Girl and Lightning Lad and Bouncing Boy and Cosmic Boy and Chameleon...boy, uh maybe don't use all those names. No really, they'd be a great change, and their "costumes" would be more space suits than anything else. And hey, you can still use Brianiac. It solves so many problems, and besides I thought they'd have done that by now instead of a fucking Krypton witch possessing Lana, or everyone BUT Clark leaving Smallville, or evil Zor-El(because anyone with a Z in their name must be evil) or Kara flying before Clark--and hey, he can fly without having the power naturally if he's in the Legion! Do whatever, this show is far from perfect, but then no live action Superman show ever has been that. I just think the no tights no flights rule was and remains utter shit. I can live without the tights, but I think this no flying stuff is the pits.
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Just sayin'.
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in Bizarro world? Just in case I need to know......someday.
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Then we could get an episode where American Idol comes to Smallville and Simon Cowell gets poisoned by kryptonite and becomes a super villain. As Randy Jackson would say, that would be mad hot, dawg!
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Everybody knows that in Bazarro World you get your women pregnant through abstinence. "We not have sex if you want be Bizarro baby mama!"
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...it's debatable if it ever was. It was rather monster of the week at first, and I don't think it was ever NEARLY as compelling as Buffy for example.I've seen a FEW episodes I've enjoyed, but only because I'm a DC fanboy...as a whole, this show is clown shoes.
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...this show sucks. Embrace the good Superman that's out there. And as far as you trying to justify the show with Superman canon....FOR SHAME!!!
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I presume
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I bought Doomsday the cartoon thinking I would enjoy it as I did the comics about him and it was even worse than I could have ever imagined.. I don't see how Smallville will be able to do Doomsday justice unless since he isn't supposed to meet Clark until after Lois and him are married..
The only way I would buy this is if Clark gets sent to the future and he witnesses the battle between his future self and Doomsday in Metropolis and he has to stop Milton Fine from killing killing off the "dead" future Superman before the Eradicator excavates him from the tomb... This will be the only way I'll buy into the story.. Like Back to the Future... -
whatevah
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Smallville is great, but while I was on line I saw the trailer for a new movie about a man who takes over the world. He had a pet pig and he was dressed in a military uniform. He made everyone happy. Did anyone else see it? it was called dictatormovie I think.
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John Schneider - gone. Annette O'Toole - gone. John Glover - gone. Looks like Michael Rosenbaum finally rebelled, thought "Screw this, I won't be the one real actor in this show of antitalent", and made the good decision. Now that there are no actors left on this show, and even its designers ratted out, I wonder if it will even survive until 2009. I think not... or if it does, it will be until spring 2009, at most.
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jeepers that one fucking small town gives metropolis a run for its money in villains.
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She took over Lexcorp in the comics, so it wouldn't be a stretch for her to take over in "Smallville". Of course, she could go by her real name: Talia al Ghul!
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Rosenbaum was the best part of this show which has been on a sharp decline in the past few years. I really only feel like I watch because I have since the start. They need to cancel this show before it hits absolute rock bottom.
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It is a possibility that if they do work Doomsday in, he could kill Clark and Chloe uses her power to save him, ultimately sacrificing herself for him. There is a reason that they gave Chloe that freak power.
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