Smallville

[BusSport]

This is pretty cool: in this time of social distancing, the cast of Smallville has been reuniting for virtual livestream panels. About a month ago, they did one for GalaxyCon...:

...and just three days ago, they did another one for Wizard World:

 

[calsnowskier]

This is pretty cool: in this time of social distancing, the cast of Smallville has been reuniting for virtual livestream panels. About a month ago, they did one for GalaxyCon...:

Where’s Cloe???

 

[BusSport]

Sigh. "Smallville’s Tom Welling Arrested for DUI at California Arby’s".

 

[The Q]

They have a rewatch podcast that just started season 6

 

[UK Cowboy]

That was Allison Mack, not Kristin Kreuk.

Both

 

[The Q]

I have been giving this one a rewatch over the last week or so. I am almost done with S2.

The main thing that is jumping out to me is that Kristin Kreuk was a HORRIBLE actress. She was cute af, but omfg was she a stiff actress.

I actually disagree

She wasn’t given anything to work with

They never could decide what direction to take lana until they wrote her horribly in s5-7 to try to make trashy lois look better

 

[The Q]

They wanted to leave the door open for more Justice related stuff, but at the same time, the more they went there, the less anything else they did would matter.

Remember, they were going to do a bunch of spinoffs (Aquaman, Wonder Woman, I think the original idea for Arrow was as a spin-off).

One thing that is hitting me is that Flash and the Star Labs explosion is a complete bite off of the meteor freaks.

Knowing Alison Mack’s future makes it kinda tough to see her on the show. Where did she break bad? Was she already a freak during this show, or did that all come later. Very unfortunate story.

Too bad Reeves died when he did (as far as this show is concerned). That whole arc had to be abandoned because of it. Not certain why they couldn’t just rewrite it around Kidder’s character instead. Was that about the time that she went completely bonkers as well?

5-12 was a big deal at the time. I remember there being rampant speculation about who was going to die. I also remember originally watching and knowing there was going to be some kind of reset because the reveal to Lana was almost throw-away in the opening scene. Her discovery HAD to be a big deal. No way were they going to gloss over it.

Hartley was such a better Oliver than Amell. Too bad they decided against the Small-verse in favor of the Arrow-verse instead. But I guess they knew they were limited story-wise in a world were Superman was already established. Starting fresh with a non-powered hero was probably the best idea, all things considered.

Throw away??

It’s the single best proposal in tv history imo

It was epic and so annoying that they made it a throw away

 

[The Q]

Sure, it is a big deal. But there was no build up. From a story telling POV, it was throw-away. And she didn’t know about his powers going in, but I think she kinda put it together when he was able to create an already-cut diamond by compressing some coal.

The episode where she officially confirmed her suspicions was OK. The Uber-teen-angst manner in which she did it along with the faux-heel turn for Lionel was all a bit much, but the story telling device used was interesting. Was there a guest director for that episode?

The build up was the entire season clark and lana dealing with him hiding his powers from her and he knew he had to tell her to keep her

5-12 was important but just really poorly done besides the proposal scene

 

[Mebert]

Both

I thought Kreuk was part of the MLM group, but had left before the internal sex cult shit started.

 

[BusSport]

I thought Kreuk was part of the MLM group, but had left before the internal sex cult shit started.

Basically, yeah, that's about right.