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Sam Witwer, better known as “Battlestar Galactica” raptor ECO Crashdown, has been cast as the regular villain Doomsday on “Smallville,” according to Entertainment Weekly’s Michael Ausiello.
If you’re wondering how you’ll recognize Witwer beneath all that spiky alien makeup, know that the “Smallville” Doomsday is a handsome, witty twentysomething bartender and occasional serial killer whose real name is Davis Bloome.
The same Ausiello story indicates that an actress named Cassidy Freeman will play Tess, a blonde supergirl Lex Luthor hired to keep an eye on things while he’s away from Smallville. And that Ollie “Green Arrow” Queen will be a regular next season.
Find all of Ausiello’s exclusive here.
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I hope this will be the last season of smallville. It's all going down hill.
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Way to frak up continuity with the established DC universe! Though, they already did that with the faux Zod, right?
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I still love this show. I'll be pissed if Allison Mack isn't back next season ... but I'm fine with more Erica Durance ass time!
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I mean really? Can anyone REALLY get frustrated with Smallville at this point?
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done deal
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Last season finally starts to pick up steam only to have the show crap the bed. Nice. Just fucking end it already.
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Enough said.
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That's what this show is.
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They should have killed this show 5 seasons ago. Seriously, this show lost its charm after year two. At least they won't have Lana and Lex in their recurrent roles as amnesiacs and hospital patients. Lex's insurance is no longer covering anyone admitted to Smallville General. End this crap already!
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I'm sure there's a lot of people here that are interested to see what they do next given they were main reason a lot of us watched the show for so long.
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Jun 19, 2008 12:57:54 AM CDT
This show was the definition of crap from day 1. Yet keeps getti
by ninjarap
I don't understand.
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This Sam Witwer guy is Vader's secret apprentice in the upcoming SW:The Force Unleashed video game. It is released 9/16 on all consoles if my memory is correct. Why they would call this guy "Doomsday" is way beyond me though.
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Herc, is that true?
It was posted on here by "Nukedthefridge"
a second ago, but the post seems to be gone...
I checked it out, can you confirm this....?
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Crashdown was in how many episodes? 2?
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I'm telling you, that name doesn't ring a bell? Every male character on BG looks identical and has the same character: they're all pilots and they all want to have sex with the blond or the Asian girl at some point. Other than the fat mechanic cylon guy.
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I was just asking why you haven't reported on the E.R. story. Geez. I would post it in the E.R. Cancelled talkback if you had one.
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he can't be a regular joe with inner demons...what a terrrrrible idea
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Smallville really needed to up it's game and
embrace the one edge it had over Heroes -
established canon with a fanbase. The DC Universe is rich and familiar and losing Lex and Lionel (the only interesting characters), they need the suit. It's no longer "cute", no Clark seems lazy. -
doomsday a great looking bartender??? smallville jumped the shark years ago...now they just wanna rape my midlifecrisishood
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in fact, that face is a two bagger...alison mack is sexier than she is...bitch is fugly...and shit, without luthor, there really isnt much to watch
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its st elsewhere for the retarded
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I still watch though, as most other stuff is shit too. They should give it a bigger budget (along with some decent writers) so they can turn Clarke into Superman this final season.
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I remember when they first announced Doomsday every said he'd be some young punk kid and they were right! Smallville's writers are so fucking creatively bankrupt they make Berman and Braga look good.
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Jun 19, 2008 3:11:46 AM CDT
I betch Lana/Lois falls in love with "David Bloom" aka DOOMSDAY.
by mike_d
Then Clark will try to warn them about him, then they'll call him a jealous liar...then we'll get into the whole "trust" argument again. BEATING A DEAD HORSE!!!
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Third season was the best, since then, crap. Also who the hell is CRASHDOWN? Can we consider this guy a Battlestar vet?
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Really the prodicers are scraaaping the barrel now. Such a crap and lousy idea. Considering that Doomsday is a kryptonite bio weapon that is a primal reaction to Supermans presence how the hell would a bio weapon hold a job down in a bar? Seriously the producers are mental. Cancel Smallville NOW! Let it have a dignified death.
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I watched every episode of last season and I can't remember a bit of it, that says more about them than me.
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I am right there with you. I am struggling now to remember what happened in the finale.
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too many Kryptonite villians, not enough villians from the comics, shit casting and costumes, etc....Now DOOMSDAY is a bartender. Cancel this show now!!!!
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Mark my words. The producers probably do not appreciate that the dynamic between Rosenbaum and Glover was one of the best things in the show and their screen presence just awesome, they always elevated the material. Ditto Schedier (spc?) and O'Toole. As annoying as she was, the relationship between Lana, Clark and Lex was the crux of the show, three people who have lost parents/guardians at times in their lives trying to get to grips with things. They should have ended the show after season 3, or gone all out in season 4 with him becoming Superman at the end, and having his old man passing away. This show is barely recognisable now.
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Why do they even bother? This is a joke - doomesday a bartender serial killer? well i guess i will no longer be watching this show - I mean what i the point? what will they have next? darkseid as the avon lady? please just end this show before it gets axed - actually maybe they just really want to cancel this show so they just put more and more retarded villains on it!
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life on mars and tru blood
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Soooooooo...they're just gonna go-ahead and directly rip-off the Hulk?
Really?
Really?!
I hope Ed Norton kicks someone's ass for this.
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Its just a really bad show that endlessly rapes the source material. I'm totally hot for the chick who plays Supergirl though.
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I don't remember there being any Veterinary Surgeons in BSG? Did I miss the "All Cylons Great And Small" episode?
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We've known for months that the next season of ER will be the last. Also, I'm disappointed that AICN hasn't reported that the Life On Mars pilot will need to be reshot as the series has been relocated to New York. A lot of the cast is also being changed. It is yet to be confirmed whether Colm Meaney will still be Gene Hunt (as far as I know).
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had the bird form bsg razor in it. as a remake i dunno it felt pretty flat. i don't know if thats because the original has more resonance with me ( Londoner) or the fact that everything just seemed a little forced.
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He morphs into Doomsday when he kills? Not surprising a human btw. Remember we need story not all CGI like Hulk.
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Seriously? WTF!?!
Doomsday was a fucking force of nature, I mean he was forged by generations of genetic manipulation on the harsh surface of a pre-inhabitable Krypton - literally thrown to the dogs and left to fend. Anything that was left of him was cloned - and the cycle repeated... until he/it could evolve on the fly to meet the situation.
FUCK!!!!
This upsets me... Doomsday is the only action figure I've owned in the past 15 years - he still stands in my cubicle to this day (I'm only 31). Does that mean Clark/Kal-el dies this season, only to come back next season as 4 characters? - 1 half cyborg/half man (Man of Tommorow) - 1 pseudo Brainiac (Last Son of Krypton) - 1 Black dude that has powers that are apparently awoken during the fight with Doomsday (Man of Steel/Steel/John Henry Irons) - and finally 1 S.T.A.R. Labs experiment that supposedly wanted to clone Supes but could only get the 'Flight' Aura of his abilities really working well (Superboy). And Lois being as distraught as she is decides to try to sleep with 3 of the 4, the last son of krypton wants nothing to do with her, because you know... he's a machine.
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or make you a gin and tonic
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How good can a site with a name like this be? Do we really need another hatedriven website by "fans"?
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Is coming up 19.95, not 14.95, sir.
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Cant they see what we all can? Do they really sit in meetings and say OK lets do Doomsday, and someone else says yeah but remember the budget, we have to make him look human... oh lets make him a bartender and just have a few rock spikes come out of his back/arms... neat.
its fricking retarded. At least just get a wrestler, a body suit and a mask...If Buffy can do monster effects every week, Smallville can afford one real alien. Especially when it would really be the first monster Clark has fought, this would give him even more reason to doubt whether he can defeat it.
As someone else said above, they need to plan this as the last season, have him learn to fly and then in the finale have him either put on the suit, or as I suggested a couple years ago for the last scene of the show: Cut to 5 years later, Clark turning up for his first day at the Daily Planet, talks to Lois etc. when we hear reports of some big disaster. Lois turns round, Clark is gone. Cut to him running down an alleyway ripping open his shirt to reveal the S shield and CUT TO BLACK. THE END. -
in the tradition of Sci-Fi.
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Was seen fairly regularly in the early going of BSG.
In the ep on Kobol, Crashdown was going to shoot Cally if she didn't follow orders (and probably get killed), so Baltar shot Crashdown in the back. -
How is THAT DoomsDay?! Seriously, is this show still on the air? Why is DC so incredibly f-ing lame and retarded about managing their properties. It's embarrassing (the JLA movie!?)If I was on DC's board I'd sponsor a contest to find a "geek consultant" to come in and get DC back on track.
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...the guy who almost shot Cally on Kobol, but was instead shot by Baltar. He also popped but in The Mist last year as a Corporal who gets killed by Mrs. Carmody and friends for his knowledge of/alleged involvement in unleashing the creatures into our dimension.
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That was dangerously close to having another connotation entirely.
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Jun 19, 2008 8:42:20 AM CDT
the “Smallville” Doomsday is a handsome, witty twentysomething b
by galilee
Of course he is.
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and bring back firefly.
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Jun 19, 2008 9:01:20 AM CDT
Never tell your problems to a bartender named "Doomsday".
by yotzvonfrelnik
I hope they don't have him ONLY looking like a hot human male. I want spikes. Looks like the last holdover drama from WB will be checking out after this year. I don't count Supernatural, because it only was on WB one season.
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It is soo gay it's in California right now getting a marriage licence.
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Doomsday will make Superman-killing martinis.
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So does this mean Superman is going to spend the whole year hanging out in a bar in Metropolis whining that Lana is gone? Doomsday won't kill him but he might try to cut him off.
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We called this glowing green eyes human doomsday about 2 months ago when it was first announced.
We said, he would be just a human, and to show that he is "doomsday" they will flash his eyes a different color every once in a while.
Other then that doomsday will probably develop a huge crush on Chloie or Lois, and Clark will have to stop him! hahahaha Smallville is so retarded now -_-
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It would be cool.
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Pretty good.
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SV has every character fly except Clark. They even tried jacking off the audience and stopped mid stroke with the "Kara teaches Clark to fly" bullshit. I am glad there has been a cast shakeup, maybe it will lead to more intense episodes that aren't circular as before. And they need to allow Clark to fly, now...period.
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I hope they finally answer the most important question of all, "Why do people who are injured in Metropolis (big city)get rushed to Smallville (tiny town (supposedly)) hospital?"
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I find massive entertainment value in MST3King this show with my sweetie. There are some true howlers, though we also have great affection for the long-suffering Allison Mack, and her ability to deliver lines like "Clark, the writing is LITERALLY on the wall" while brandishing a picture of, you know, writing on a wall. What a trooper!
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I stopped watching it when they made Mr. Mxyzptlk into a football game fixing eastern european douchebag. How long ago was that? 3-4 years ago? That was the same season they turned Lana into a witch, wasn't it? Good christ, this show is still on the air and both Angel and Veronica Mars have been cancelled. Way to go, CW! Fucking morons.
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There has to be more to it than that. I have endured every season of Smallville for the few pay offs (Brainiac,Green Arrow,Lex and Lionel)and when I heard about Doomsday I really got excited. But a fucking bartender? You take the only villan that ever really took out the Man of Steel and turn him into a serial killer/bartender? Maybe if it was like Parasite or Toyman that would be ok but Doomsday? The ground work had already been laid, Lex's experiments,Clarks return to Krypton,Lionel annoucing that something awful was coming that would change everything,even Kara trapped in the Phantom Zone..any of these things could have explained the arrival of a kick ass killing machine from space with a hatred of Kal El. Damn, this better be a joke or i'm done.Supernatural is better anyways.
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Mark my words: Doomsday will cock-block Clark *JUST* as he's starting to realize what a hot POA Lois is...
Did you notice how quickly Supergirl was dropped out the back door on her ass, practically days after Gough and Millar announced they were leaving? They realized just like everyone else that she was a worthless character in this show; they introduced her last year, and promptly did...NOTHING with her, proceeding to knock her out or imprison her the rest of the season. Anyone wonder if she was introduced to take over in case Welling went off and did JUSTICE LEAGUE? Seems a little strange that they would introduce this big character and then just dump her ass (and a fine ass it was). I think the Exec Producers at least have SOME sense -- and for that, I'm willing to give them just a bit of credit.
Hopefully they get Martian Manhunter back -- that dude lends some much needed gravity to it.
At least Lana will only be showing up in 5 or 6 (hopefully not until the very end).
Yes, I'll miss Rosey and Glover, but it will be mildly interesting to see how they compensate...
Perhaps Brainiac will show up and claim "It's too late, Kal-El" AGAIN.
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...and yeah, we STILL don't know the full story on that one -- but I'm willing to bet it was a combination of CW wanting to stretch the show out as long as freaking possible, and Gough & Millar's salary demands, and perhaps their idiotic plans for Season 8 (which might have included...a fucking MERMAID).
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was a very awesome part in the movie who ever thought of that is a genius.
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I know there was an issue with the show depicting "Superboy" vs Superman, all due to rights. But they are at the point now of becoming dangerously like 90210. You know, with 30-something playing teens? Tom Welling is 31. It's time that they started making him adult. There is little to nothing else they need to do in the Small town, time to focus on metropolis. And FLY for craps sake.
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Clark must be shaking in his boots.... oh wait, HE'S A PRETTY BOY PUSSY TOO!!!!!!!
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yes doomsday as a bartender is awful...but if bruce banner came in they could have bar fights..or arm wrestling tourneys...but the last couple of seasons have been great...
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Sam played a great psycho in Dexter. His ass looked really hot in a flightsuit on BSG.
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But now that Justin Hartley is back in it I might peek in from time to time (but hate myself in the morning for it)
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I had such high hopes for you... But it seems like the good folks who make TV and movies out of DC characters want to reclaim Marvel's "Touch of Shit" crown from a few years ago -- you know, the Marvel that botced Cap and FF and others before Spider-Man came along... Ironically, only Batman is enjoying a renaissance from his previous incarnations. But Smallville - damn, does anyone there even read the comics? At this rate, everyone on the show will either be dead or a hero before Clark decides to put on a suit and help someone who isn't on his friends and family plan. Of course, starting the show with Clark never having worn glasses immediately trashed some of the mythology from the get-go... It wasn't the glasses that fooled people, but the whole "meek and mild" act - something Chris Reeve did wonderfully - but this Clark has never been meek and mild, just slow to act and pouty. Oh, the show has had moments of greatness, moments that made me realize just how much I love the character of Superman, but those moments come farther and farther apart. If I didn't know better, I'd say they HATE Superman... Doomsday as a bartender? That would be like making Bane a chauffeur... Oh, wait...
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This version of doomsday will not result in the death of Superman. It will be a slap-fight set to some emo music and it will be the first time an opponent makes Clark cry in a fight. Doomsday will then revert to his human bartender form so he and Clark can make it up over cosmopolitans.
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I don't think there was ever a less appealing actor on BSG than this tool. I enjoyed seeing Dualla dumb him and then seeing him blown away all in the same episode. Poor dope.
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Oh, Crashdown. I thought Billy scored another gig. Thank god.
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Jun 19, 2008 7:53:37 PM CDT
Bred and trained among the universe's most dangerous alcoholics
by brandloyalist
On ancient Krypton, long before the rise of the race of Jor-El and Lara, in an era when the world was ruled by the most inebriate and brutally impatient creatures in the universe, the alien scientist Bertron cast a handsome, witty, twentysomething bartender into the wilderness of the planet's most notorious district of bars and taverns. His goal: to create the ultimate barkeep. Each time the nameless young man spilled a drink, underpoured a shot, or missed an order, and was thus beaten to death by the savage, drunken rabble, Bertron scraped up the remains and used them to create a clone who, due to the scientist's poor grasp of the mechanics of natural selection, emerged with ever-greater bartending skills -- and who was, in particular, impervious to the risk of repeating his latest fatal gaffe. Eventually "The Ultimate" escaped Bertron and went on a rampage across the universe, using his unparalleled hosting skills to amass a fortune in tips while leaving planet after planet decimated by the effects of global alcoholism. Then, after thousands of years, the creature intercepted a stray broadcast of Cocktail, the story of a smarmy young bartender purported to be the most skillful of his race, and set off to find the source of the transmission, a tiny blue planet known as Earth...
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SOOOOOOOO LAME!!!! BAAHAHHAHHAHHAHAAHAHAHAH
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I defended this show the first couple of seasons, but damn, talk about a total train wreck that just won't stop. In terms of wasted opprotunity, this show is off the scale. I don't know how you manage to fuck up a concept this simple so badly. Doomsday is a bartender? Any bets as to whether his first appearance he slips clark a Kryptonite laced drink? ugh... please die already...
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This show jumped a Senator Martha, Clark-Lana drama, super hacker Chloe, anyone can get into Lex's mansion any time, kryptonite-laced gum chewing, meteor freak of a Bizzaro shark a long time ago. Trying to pass Doomsday off as a twenty-something emo bartending serial killer will only permanently pull the plug on this turkey on life support.
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wow, each news update just keeps getting worse and worse...
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Hello Everyone!
I've started a petition online to try to encourage Sci-Fi/NBC-Universal to show the final episodes of Battlestar Galactica earlier than a 2009 season.I've never done an online petition before... so anyone with the initiative to make Sci-Fi and NBC aware of this petition your vote and your help would be appreciated ten fold. I'm ready for more!
So Say We All
Josh "HoseNozzle" Evans
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I'm usually the type of guy who likes to reserve judgement on something until I actually see it.
But seriously. What. The. Fuck.
Show has been on a downward slide for awhile now. The show has lost a good portion of it's cast at this point. It's gone beyond the original premise of watching Clark grow into Superman and deal not only with the normal everyday trials of youth and finding himself, but also dealing with emerging super-powers and discovering that he isn't even human. Now it's become something else and the character really isn't finding himself and they stray further and further from mythology.
Maybe all hope isn't lost, but without the Luthors to cause trouble, I can't see the series having the same momentum. I could still see an arc, where Doomsday is not so much an alien creature, but rather a LexCorp experiment (Level 33.1 or whatever the hell it is) gone very wrong. A product of Lex's Xenophobia and a desire to fight back against the alien threat. But without Lex in the picture, I don't really see them going that route. -
I love the way the writers, producers, runners always go on about this stupid ass rule. Like the suit is sacred and they are "unworthy" of touching it, despite the fact they've completely fucked up superman's entire mythology and gallery of villains. bunch of arseholes. Also, i know its been said before, but the whole clark wears a red jacket, blue t-shirt thing has been done to death. Get the guy some new clothes for fucks sake!
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Martha Kent baking cookies and apple pie in seasons 1-5 and then off to work in washington in season 6 and 7? Come on! One of the good things about Buffy was that Joyce Summers never really changed from being a Mother who simply cared for her daughter. can you imagine if the smallville guys did Buffy, she would have been President or a watcher by season 3.
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Agreed. So many changes, and yet everyone else except Clark flies. enough.
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That's a better plot than "Aqua" "Subterranean" and a number of other SV episodes.
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oops
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Jun 20, 2008 10:29:59 PM CDT
"It was those SCIENTISTS that did it, not me...!"
by nasty in the pasty
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..is not the issue in itself. The arguments are: since they already screwed the continuity 6 ways from Sunday, why not make Clark fly? It's the only way I'll bother with season 8.
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according to the CW's Official Press Release concerning season 8 (as posted on Kryptonsite.com) Doomsday will not be a bartender as reported here, but a paramedic instead...which still sucks out loud!
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He can beat people half to death at night, and then rush them to Smallville Hospital during the day.
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Recast as Johnny Darkside, the hunky young hipster barrista at the trendy new coffee place who wear hornrim glasses and uses his Omega Effect to heat your latte.
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Oh no, that means more use of the Smallville hospital set. Cut to Clark walkly quickly down the corridors of this primary coloured mess of a casualty unit "Whats happened? How's Lana/Chloe/Lois?"
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My wife and I watch this show each week (she's got a thing for Mr. Welling), but it's more out of habit than enjoyment at this point. She fell asleep in the middle of episodes half the time this season. I definitely agree with the posts that say Clark needs to fly this season. The show desperately needs to find some traction and move forward already.
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