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more about #clarkkent iCurmudgeon: Wheddon should pitch Dollhouse to the USA Network, or (even better) to Showtime. Broadcast networks will never let shows develop anyway. Cable, on the... more » Colander: I guess I missed the discussion about how the recent lawsuit effects this show's ability to use Clark's backstory. more » TemporalSword: "All you need to know about Smallville" Let me 'splain. No, there is too much. Let me sum up: The show has become a travesty to the Superman charact... more » gorehound: This show is not to good but when you get really stoned it is worthwhile watching.I would not want to follow this show straight. more » Cybrczch: "Kneel before Zod!" "Lay down on your backs before Zod!" "Now, using your lower abdominals, raise your legs and hold on a five-count before Zod!" more » Belabras: So glad I stopped watching after the first season. more » RoboBagins: "Also, this Clark Kent? Kind of a clueless dick." ROFL. So true. It's like they want us to hate him. more » Rasselas: Reading this is depressing. Is Krypto the Super-Dog still on Cartoon Network? more » Lassus: "One is Clark training with Jor-El and for the first time ever embracing what that means to be a hero" -cue Dashboard Confessional song- more » RenRen: And yet, with all these flaws, I'll still be watching Smallville... It's my crack-cocaine. more » WestMantooth: The writer's at this point can't help themselves. Everyone's a hero before Supes, every part of the Superman mythology appears before Supes, and now t... more » TemporalSword: Soooo, they are literally doing everything from being Superman in the comics EXCEPT ACTUALLY MAKING HIM SUPERMAN? Good god. I'm glad I left this show... more » BloggyMcBlogBlog: How come he is only Major Zod, why not a general? Krypton is already blown up real good; I don't think the Kryptonian army is in any position to prom... more » Allen_Richards: Of course I'll watch, I've been doing it out of habit for years. When you have so much time invested in a show, it's hard not to follow it through to ... more » GreyHammer: no tights. no flights.... mullets are cool though we can SO do that. more » Davio: He better bloody kneel at some point. more » Hello Mister Walrus: I heard that there's going to be a scene where Superman and Green Lantern make out. more » Magicant: I thought Stan Lee was cast as Superman for this cameo? more » CaptainKaos: Definitely, Clark should make a cameo. I think there's some kind of storyline where the ring almost chooses Clark before it end up in Hal Jordan's han... more » austin316gb: I've just watched the finale, (thank you newsgroups for providing me in the UK with US TV) and I'm really disappointed. What the crap was that ending ... more » -
#io9backgrounder
All You Need To Know To Watch Smallville
If tonight's episode of Smallville happens to be your first, here's the bad news: You've missed eight years' worth of backstory. Now, here's the good news: We're about to tell you all you need to know anyway. More » -
#smallville
Bad Haircuts And Major Zoddage Awaits Smallville Next Year
Fans of the CW's Smallville should look to Superman comics to see where the ninth season will take them... including the current World of New Krypton storyline, and some potentially disastrous fashion choices. Spoilers! More » -
#greenlantern
Superman Returns In Green Lantern Movie?
Will the upcoming Green Lantern movie feature a cameo appearance from a certain cape-clad Man of Steel, like the script version we reviewed? One of the movie's writers isn't confirming or denying, but not because he's trying to tease. More » -
#smallvillerecap
Death Comes To Smallville
Alas, poor Smallville supporting character. We knew you well, but that wasn't enough to save you from Doomsday (in a very literal sense). But that's not all that happened in last night's finale. Spoilers!
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#secretidentities
Who's Wearing the Mask?: On the Nature of Secret Identities
Secret identities. Do we really need them? More importantly, do superheroes? And how do they really work? (Do they?)
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#smallville
Should Smallville Really Become Superman?
Two characters will die in the season finale of Smallville and (shockingly) not come back to life, according to new rumors. We're kinda hoping they go wild. Speculative spoilers ahead.
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#smallville
Won't Somebody Save Us From Smallville Season 9?
It looks as if the CW is taking Superman's famous Never-Ending Battle tagline a little too seriously, as it's just been announced that Smallville has been renewed for a ninth season starting this fall. More » -
#smallville
Will TV Nostalgia Kill Smallville?
Is the ninth season of Smallville in danger because TV bosses can't let go of the past? That's a rumor going around, as the CW looks to the show's producers to reboot... Melrose Place? More » -
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#superman
Will Celluloid Continue To Be The Man Of Steel's Other Kryptonite?
It was the moment where a million fanboys cheered - I know, that I was one of them - but does Superman The Movie director Richard Donner publicly stating that the Superman movie franchise should be handed over to Action Comics writer (and former assistant to Donner) Geoff Johns actually mean that anything will change for the seemingly-permanently stalled Superman movie franchise? More » -
#smallvillerecap
The Week's Smallville Joins The Lonely Hearts Club Band
There's no way to get around it: this week's Smallville was a return to the campy old days when they'd just steal the plot of a movie, make it a little more family friendly, insert a DC Comics character and then hope that no-one would notice. This time around, Maxima came to Earth searching for her perfect man, but only succeeded in reminding us that Lifeforce (or, if you're younger than us, Species) was pretty bad the first time around, as well. More » -
#smallvillerecap
Everything Old Is New Again On Smallville
Last night's Smallville managed the impressive feat of simultaneously feel like an episode of the first few seasons of the show with their "meteor freak of the week" format while also demonstrating how far (some) characters have come in the last few years of the series. They also introduced the hunky new medic who's may just end up killing the near-Man of Steel and got our fanboy-sense tingling with the (admittedly unlikely) possibilities offered up if a particular spoiler turns out to be true. Has the CW's superhero soap opera somehow become good when we weren't paying attention? More » -
#stealthispitch
How To Make Smallville Watchable Again
As the story of Clark Kent's awkward young adult years heads into its eight year as a television show, it's time to face an even more awkward truth: Smallville kind of sucks. For the last seven years, the show has had its moments of greatness (Yay, the very existence of Chloe!) and it's moments of... well, not so greatness (Hello, almost every subplot that ever involved Lana Lang). With the show's eighth season being its first without Lana and Lex as regular cast members as well as its first without show creators Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, we'd like to take the opportunity to suggest some other changes that could make the show worth tuning in to every week. More »
