Okay. I don’t watch Smallville. I saw the first couple of episodes and didn’t like the show — I remember someone described it accurately at the time as Kal-El’s Creek, and it felt very monster-of-the-week to me. I did somehow end up eagerly watching each episode of the third season, a couple of years later, but that interest flagged pretty quickly into the fourth — maybe because of Erica Durance’s annoying Lois Lane, maybe because of the silly and confusing witchcraft subplot — but, whatever the reason, I stopped watching the show early in year four. It’s now well into year six.
So I don’t know if they’ve actually addressed this or not. But a question in this Friday’s * like Peter David
I only catch the show very intermittently, but I did see it this past Thursday, and just by dumb luck caught a rerun this afternoon. I’ve always had mixed feelings about it. The “monster of the week” label is very accurate; and they are stretching Clark’s high school experience just as MASH stretched the length of the Korean War. (At least, I don’t think Clark is in college yet). But, I do think the idea of taking something as Wonder Bread as the Superboy mythos and giving it a slightly dark WB aesthetic is clever, and I think the show nails Lex Luthor’s personality better than any previous screen version of the character. As far as canon goes… well, thanks to the Crisis and its sequels, there IS no such thing as DC continuity, so the TV writers may as well make up what they like. But you’re right… when it’s all over, Clark must wind up with Lois, start wearing tights, and Lex must become evil. In the comics, Lana married Pete Ross, but Pete seems to have vanished from the show, so I don’t know what they’ll do.
I only catch the show very intermittently, but I did see it this past Thursday, and just by dumb luck caught a rerun this afternoon. I’ve always had mixed feelings about it. The “monster of the week” label is very accurate; and they are stretching Clark’s high school experience just as MASH stretched the length of the Korean War. (At least, I don’t think Clark is in college yet). But, I do think the idea of taking something as Wonder Bread as the Superboy mythos and giving it a slightly dark WB aesthetic is clever, and I think the show nails Lex Luthor’s personality better than any previous screen version of the character. As far as canon goes… well, thanks to the Crisis and its sequels, there IS no such thing as DC continuity, so the TV writers may as well make up what they like. But you’re right… when it’s all over, Clark must wind up with Lois, start wearing tights, and Lex must become evil. In the comics, Lana married Pete Ross, but Pete seems to have vanished from the show, so I don’t know what they’ll do.