I aint hatin', but the title card: "SMALLVILLE: THE BEST 10 YEARS OF MY LIFE!" reminds me of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest. Becoming so invested in a piece of entertainment that it's consumes your a lifestyle, an identity statement.
I'm glad Hollywood fucks up most comic book movies. If they got 'em right, the theaters would be full of nerds just like this guy, experiencing orgasms over faithful interpretation.
Despite the quality and nerdgasm, actually a pretty nifty finale that was too long coming. I still think they should have just stuck with this guy for the upcoming reboot.
This show was pretty boring. It got kind of interesting around the end when they introduced Booster Gold and the episode with Blue Beetle. I don't much for DC anyway but I really don't like Superman and a boring origin show seems like a bigger waste of time than followong John Cusack's acting career. I was convinced this show had no fans until this.
I'm pretty sure they had planned the show to run no more than two seasons, which would be enough time to tell a story about Clark Kent and Lex Luthor becoming friends and then enemies, while Clark learns to use his powers responsibly. But the thing dragged on well past its natural life span, and since the entire point of the show was that it was the period before Clark became a superhero, he had to remain mostly passive and leave most of the superheroing to others.
Strangely enough, this led to Lex Luthor being the most likable character on the show, since he was trying to do good more often than Clark, while always being criticized for not being pure and noble enough.
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