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Title: Smallville Season 9
Post by: hmed2390 on October 02, 2009, 08:45:25 AM
I'm not sure if anybody else here watches Smallville(I remember dweez once made a comment about Justin Hartely on Smallville) but I have to say that I am sorely disappointing with the season premier. I just watched it today even though it's been around since last Friday. I think Smallville really got good over the years and then started to take a nose dive from the beggining of the second half of season 8(and maybe a little before that?). And being a supes fan, and well, a fan or the show reagrdless, I'm thinking that even though they got renewed for this season and the next, they may not make it through this season to begin with. It sucks, but the new producers just lack the same charisma and Alfred Gough and Miles Millar.
Also , the direction they're taking with certain themes are lame, even for a show based(loosely) on a comic book.

Few things I think are hurting the show:

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Spoiler (hover to show)
I had lots more to madam about, but I'm too tired to remember the rest  :D

Also, Smallville freakin owns 40 mins of my day whenever I watch it(I download it and watch it when I've got the time), so I'll stay true to it at very least to see if they improve the quality of the show or to see how it all ends(assuming it isn't canceled  :-\ ). Also, the number of viewers dropped by half for this season. That's so not good.

Also, I'm not bitchy when it comes to shows, and I'm hard to disappoint when it comes to plots and main themes and the like.
So if I'm not liking season 9's direction so far, it's really a big thing.  :P
Title: Re: Smallville Season 9
Post by: MisterAJ on October 02, 2009, 03:03:33 PM
-Green arrow killing someone. Seems too dark, not even Batman would do that. I'm thinking they'll change that somehow and/or reverse it , and it's going to tie in with Zatanna somehow. I could be very wrong.

G.A. killed someone in the comics.

was a big whoop-dee-doo...
Title: Re: Smallville Season 9
Post by: hmed2390 on October 02, 2009, 03:07:00 PM
really?

poo. I didn't know. Still, kinda lame for smallville, not because people are dying but mostly because of who he killed and how that contradicts mythos(in excess I mean, since most of smallville is a contradiction anyway) for the comic.
Title: Re: Smallville Season 9
Post by: laama on October 02, 2009, 04:17:28 PM
Smallville is Lameville nowadays,I think.
Title: Re: Smallville Season 9
Post by: MisterAJ on October 02, 2009, 07:15:16 PM
season 8 finale sucked....
Title: Re: Smallville Season 9
Post by: mishca09 on October 02, 2009, 09:34:12 PM
i stopped watch smallville a looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong time ago. i didnt like that alana sp? married lex and then she turned all bad ass.
Title: Re: Smallville Season 9
Post by: hmed2390 on October 03, 2009, 02:31:28 AM
G.A. killed someone in the comics.

was a big whoop-dee-doo...

Nevermind, I remember now. That was self-defense though,not cold blooded murder.

Yes, the season 8 finale was sucky assy. The show took a major nose dive from the second half of season 8 on.

Although most of my friends would argue much before that, but I'm too devoted and hard to dissapoint so I've stood by the show

this long. I am very disappointed though.  :-\

The second episode was aired tonight.

I'm still going to watch it, and see how things turn out.

If for nothing else, at least to see how the show ends. It would be lame that I've been keeping up with it all these

years only to ditch it in its last season. But damn, the show had a really great direction in the earlier days. They just damned it up now.

New producers/writers/possibly CGI artist. It's too clunky and predictable. Even sloppily done.
Title: Re: Smallville Season 9
Post by: hmed2390 on October 09, 2009, 05:48:15 PM
Unrelated(no, not really) I found this pretty good photoshop job of Clark in his primary colors.

It actually looks much better than what the producers envisioned this season.

(http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/9743/s09e01savioralt.jpg)

original "supersuit" for season 9

(http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/1254/clarkkenty.jpg)

I would think, even thought the red and blue one from above lacks the true superman look, it can at least pass as a rebooted more

modern version of superman's suit than the black one.



Title: Re: Smallville Season 9
Post by: dweez on October 09, 2009, 05:54:24 PM
Too much red.
Title: Re: Smallville Season 9
Post by: hmed2390 on October 09, 2009, 05:58:09 PM
I agree.

The pants could have been blue.

Still, at least the suit has superman colors to it.

The black one gets me frustrated to look at.  >_<
Title: Re: Smallville Season 9
Post by: dweez on October 09, 2009, 06:15:17 PM
Don't forget Superman wore this suit for a while after his resurrection.  I believe it helped him absorb energy from the sun better.

(http://i361.photobucket.com/albums/oo51/dw33z/86ea0733.jpg)
Title: Re: Smallville Season 9
Post by: hmed2390 on October 09, 2009, 06:20:06 PM
Right. But in smallville, he's not superman yet, he hasn't died been killed by Doomsday and needed to be resurrected with a suit to cater to his sun absorption needs, and his black suit was a almost replica of his original suit, only black.

I don't think a black leather trenchcoat and a pair of black levis matches that.  :P
Title: Re: Smallville Season 9
Post by: redlandslide on October 09, 2009, 06:46:38 PM
Too much red.

You can never have too much red.  :)








Title: Re: Smallville Season 9
Post by: hmed2390 on October 09, 2009, 07:13:22 PM
You can never have too much red.  :)

on Supes? or in general?  :P

I think the photoshopped suit isn' that bad at all.
Title: Re: Smallville Season 9
Post by: ohcheap1 on October 09, 2009, 07:35:58 PM
You can never have too much red.  :)

Thats not what your wife said......... :P
Title: Re: Smallville Season 9
Post by: MisterAJ on October 09, 2009, 08:29:01 PM
(http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/9743/s09e01savioralt.jpg)

Kinda reminds me of Ronald McDonald...
Title: Re: Smallville Season 9
Post by: mishca09 on October 09, 2009, 10:51:25 PM
he reminds of hugh hefner and tom cruise. Tom crusie becaues of the little heels and hefner because of the red jacket.
Title: Re: Smallville Season 9
Post by: dweez on October 10, 2009, 12:37:14 PM
Right. But in smallville, he's not superman yet, he hasn't died been killed by Doomsday and needed to be resurrected with a suit to cater to his sun absorption needs, and his black suit was a almost replica of his original suit, only black.

I don't think a black leather trenchcoat and a pair of black levis matches that.  :P

If you notice, Smallville is already taking a bunch of creative license with the "Superman story".  Superman put on the black suit after defeating Doomsday (after the battle, he succumbed to injuries and "died" himself).  In Smallville, last season Clark defeated Doomsday, now the black suit.  Coincidence?  I think not.
Title: Re: Smallville Season 9
Post by: MisterAJ on October 10, 2009, 12:51:53 PM
He just wanna be

Spoiler (hover to show)
Title: Re: Smallville Season 9
Post by: redlandslide on October 10, 2009, 03:42:17 PM
The red one reminds me of a Dr Who costume.

(http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd155/redlandslide/other/drwho.jpg)
Title: Re: Smallville Season 9
Post by: hmed2390 on October 13, 2009, 11:54:49 AM
If you notice, Smallville is already taking a bunch of creative license with the "Superman story".  Superman put on the black suit after defeating Doomsday (after the battle, he succumbed to injuries and "died" himself).  In Smallville, last season Clark defeated Doomsday, now the black suit.  Coincidence?  I think not.


Good point. I never really thought of it in that way.

He just wanna be

Spoiler (hover to show)

That's an awesome pic of him.  :)
Title: Re: Smallville Season 9
Post by: laama on October 18, 2009, 06:15:38 PM
Smallville isn't never been my favorite show,so I bypass it again.
Title: Re: Smallville Season 9
Post by: MisterAJ on October 18, 2009, 09:28:27 PM
isn't never

Double negative..?
Title: Re: Smallville Season 9
Post by: hmed2390 on October 18, 2009, 11:56:38 PM
Double negative..?

Isn't that Frankcapri's job?  :D
Title: Re: Smallville Season 9
Post by: ohcheap1 on October 19, 2009, 06:16:12 AM
Quote from: laama on Yesterday at 08:15:38 PM
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isn't never
Double negative..?
Plus I dont think english is his first language either Brick Jr.  :-*
Title: Re: Smallville Season 9
Post by: MisterAJ on October 19, 2009, 06:41:36 AM
I'm a dyslectic, and therefor a web-warrior against grammar-Nazis...

But I wasn't 100% on what that sentence actually meant...

I guess I could guess...
Title: Re: Smallville Season 9
Post by: ohcheap1 on October 19, 2009, 07:22:25 PM
Well I could shut my mouth too but we both know thats not going to happen either.  :-*
Title: Re: Smallville Season 9
Post by: MisterAJ on October 19, 2009, 07:53:52 PM
 ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Smallville Season 9
Post by: dweez on October 19, 2009, 09:56:25 PM
I believe he meant "Smallville has never been my favorite show...".  I'll GN other people on the fora but for our "English as a second language" friends here, instead I try to show them the proper way for their edification, not to laugh at them.
Title: Re: Smallville Season 9
Post by: MisterAJ on October 19, 2009, 11:35:47 PM
not to laugh at them.

(http://images.cheezburger.com/completestore/2009/10/19/129004903565944165.jpg)
Title: Re: Smallville Season 9
Post by: hmed2390 on October 20, 2009, 10:48:49 AM
I believe he meant "Smallville has never been my favorite show...".  I'll GN other people on the fora but for our "English as a second language" friends here, instead I try to show them the proper way for their edification, not to laugh at them.

Agreed.