# Last night's Smallville - an aneurysm-inducing product of the WB... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 24, 2001, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-nights-smallville-an-aneurysm-inducing-product-of-the-wb/89343 "2001-10-24T17:10:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![broccoli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@broccoli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/broccoli)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-nights-smallville-an-aneurysm-inducing-product-of-the-wb/89343/1 "2001-10-24T17:10:49Z")
Gah! I have a bad disease. I am totally, 100% repulsed by Smallville. The acting is weak. The plots are thin. And last night they rip off Marvel with an evil Spiderman. Despite all this, I am so infatuated with Kristin Kruek that I _have_ to watch the show. The back of my head is sore from the involuntary banging it into the wall behind my couch. But I must see more of Lana. I feel like the Comic Book Guy on the Simpsons. It’s really pathetic. I don’t even lust after her, she’s just so damn pretty. But the _show_… dear lord. It’s horrible. The next thing you know Lex Luthor’s parent’s are gonna die, and he’s gonna fall into a cave and see a bat, and start taking vengeance on the criminals of the podunk town they live in. And what’s with the WB anyways? Every damn show they have is like, well… Here’s my imitation of the casting director… “O.k. - all you 24 year olds on the left side of the room, everyone over 30 on the right. O.k., now left side, you’re all in high school - Yes we know none of you _look_ like high school kids, but our fan base is pretty stupid… Yeah, and all the 30 year olds - you guys go ahead and pick up the scripts for the parents. No one will notice you’re all only six years apart.” But Kristin, woo hoo! The blonde ain’t bad either. I think one day i’m gonna start my own network. **ECN**. The _Eye Candy Network_. It’s gonna be all the shows like Buffy and Smallville, and VIP, and Baywatch, and all the other shit you cant stand to watch but you can turn off the volume and just look at the pretty people while you listen to your favorite CDs or clean the house or whatever. ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-nights-smallville-an-aneurysm-inducing-product-of-the-wb/89343/2 "2001-10-24T17:25:11Z")
Did you notice that Kristin is half-Chinese? I like how she’s half-Chinese. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-nights-smallville-an-aneurysm-inducing-product-of-the-wb/89343/3 "2001-10-24T17:34:19Z")
> [@](#): > > just look at the pretty people while you listen to your favorite CDs or clean the house or whatever. Yeah, or whatever. Perv. Gotta go along with you about the low quality of the show, but I too am sucked in every week by the physical beauty of one of the cast members, but in my case it’s Clark. There hasn’t been a freshman that developed since Saved by the Bell. I’m willing to cut them some slack for a few more weeks, since it’s only the second show. But even pretty boys only have so much influence on me. All right, so it’s near-total influence, still, there are limits. OTOH, Buffy is some serious quality television, which fact tends to get overlooked because it’s serious quality television about popping pointed sticks through dead peoples’ chests. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-nights-smallville-an-aneurysm-inducing-product-of-the-wb/89343/4 "2001-10-24T17:39:38Z")
[wiseass plot-nitpicker hat ON] Glad to see Clark’s clothes are invulnerable, too…I would’ve just hated it if that raging fireball from Whitney’s exploding truck had done anything to muss up his jacket. So there’s kryptonite just lying all around town, huh? No WONDER it’s taking so long for his powers to develop. No WONDER he decided to move away to Metropolis after he graduated high school. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-nights-smallville-an-aneurysm-inducing-product-of-the-wb/89343/5 "2001-10-24T17:45:32Z")
Y’all can have your crushes on the near-jailbait Kristin. I’ll take Annette O’Toole out to the homecoming game any day of the week. Now that’s one fine-lookin’ woman. Yow. Oh, I’m sorry. Was there supposed to be a plot or something? I didn’t notice. I just figured they had lotsa leftover scripts from Buffy that they can’t use now that it’s gone to another channel. ---
**Author:** ![broccoli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@broccoli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/broccoli)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-nights-smallville-an-aneurysm-inducing-product-of-the-wb/89343/6 "2001-10-24T17:51:49Z")
Hey! She’s 19. Back offa my woman! LOL 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Nacho4Sara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Nacho4Sara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nacho4Sara)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-nights-smallville-an-aneurysm-inducing-product-of-the-wb/89343/7 "2001-10-24T17:53:16Z")
I haven’t watched Smallville yet, but I have the same devotion to UC: Undercover. Oded Fehr is talking, his lips are moving, other people say things, but all I hear is the crashing waves of the ocean as we picnic at sunset in the heavenly beach of my imagination. I’m still not exactly sure what the show is about. Every time I see Mr. Fehr’s lovely chiseled deatures, I devolve into a semi-comatose state. Best hour of television ever, if you ask me. ---
**Author:** ![Nacho4Sara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Nacho4Sara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nacho4Sara)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-nights-smallville-an-aneurysm-inducing-product-of-the-wb/89343/8 "2001-10-24T17:56:09Z")
How could I forget a link? I want everyone to experiance the spine-tingling sexiness that is [Oded Fehr](http://www.fortunecity.com/lavender/powell/732/photographs.html). ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-nights-smallville-an-aneurysm-inducing-product-of-the-wb/89343/9 "2001-10-24T18:49:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ukulele Ike \* > \*\* > > So there’s kryptonite just lying all around town, huh?\*\* I caught the last 10 minutes of this last night and that was the first thing I thought of. My husband (who for some reason actually likes this show) said “Oh no that’s just where the meteor crashed.” and I said “Then why does he keep going BACK there? And WHY did he give the chick a hunk of kryptonite on a chain when he knew it was screwing him up?” He went on to explain that it just so happened that the meteor that brought him and the kryptonite to earth also happened to demolish her home and kill her parents (I hate when that happens!) and she made the kryptonite necklace because she thought it was pretty – he was merely _returning_ it to her. Oh for cryin’ out loud! :rolleyes: I think I’ve heard all I need to know, thanks. And the guy who plays Clark is UGGGLY! So there! ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-nights-smallville-an-aneurysm-inducing-product-of-the-wb/89343/10 "2001-10-24T18:51:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Nacho4Sara \* > \*\* > > I’m still not exactly sure what the show is about. Every time I see Mr. Fehr’s lovely chiseled deatures, I devolve into a semi-comatose state. > > \*\* I know what you mean…well-chiseled dentures really get me hot too! ::d & r:: ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-nights-smallville-an-aneurysm-inducing-product-of-the-wb/89343/11 "2001-10-24T19:38:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by voguevixen \* > **WHY did he give the chick a hunk of kryptonite on a chain when he knew it was screwing him up?** The plot contrivance is, Lana gave the necklace to Whitney as a good-luck charm, and Whitney hung it around Clark’s neck in last week’s episode, saying “THIS is as close as you’ll ever get to Lana, you nerd!” (bear with me, here) and when Lex cut Clark down the necklace fell off, and Lex picked it up, and this week he gave it back to Clark (in a lead box) and said “If you give this to Lana, she’ll like YOU instead of Whitney, since he lost it and you got it back for her!” ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-nights-smallville-an-aneurysm-inducing-product-of-the-wb/89343/12 "2001-10-24T20:22:31Z")
**Smallville** is one dark, sick show. Geez, the villain is a nerdu kid who videotapes the female lead (just like in **American Beauty** and keeps lepidoptera (like Jamie Gumm in **Silence of the Lambs** and metamorphoses into a man/insect with greater strength and the ability to stick to walls (like Jeff Goldblum in **The Fly** ). I’m annoyed that you make up the episode by ripping off movies. Plus the villain kills and _eats his mother_! It sure ain’t the Superboy I grew up with. Wayne Boring’s Superman woulda substituted a piece of harmless green crystal for the kryptonite in the jewelry, handling it with long tongs or lead gloves or something. This Superboy doesn’t seem too bright. Or else I’m ruining what will be a continuing plot device. ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-nights-smallville-an-aneurysm-inducing-product-of-the-wb/89343/13 "2001-10-24T20:25:52Z")
All I want to know is, am I the only one that keeps expecting Clark’s dad to drive up in the _General Lee_? ---
**Author:** ![Sunshine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Sunshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunshine)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-nights-smallville-an-aneurysm-inducing-product-of-the-wb/89343/14 "2001-10-24T20:31:34Z")
**Ike** , I gotta agree with you on the nitpicks. When I saw the truck blow up, I was trying to remember if Superman’s…uh…outfit…ever got damaged, or if his powers also extended to the cape and tights, etc. And, according to Smallville, it apparently does. Plus…ok, so a meteor crashes to earth, killing people and depositing a small child. Flash forward 17 or so years and…there are still pieces of the meteor, complete with glowing unknown-to-earth substance riddled throughout still laying about. Right. Back when this happened, wouldn’t there have been at least a couple people, like say…the government or possibly a HazMat team, that might have been slightly iterested in the leavings of this killer meteor? Does Smallville really expect us to believe that this meteor came down and killed people and nobody cleaned up? Not even roadside vendors or science geeks or Area 51 guys? Nobody poked around to get the last of what could possibly be the most valuable and rarest material on earth? Sure. Ok. And last, I was trying to explain to hubby what was going on with the kid with the insects and I referred to him as “Bug Boy” and then laughed hysterically when that’s what the other kids actually started calling him. It wasn’t too bad, though. I still watched the whole thing. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-nights-smallville-an-aneurysm-inducing-product-of-the-wb/89343/15 "2001-10-24T21:09:45Z")
Vixen > [@](#): > > He went on to explain that it just so happened that the meteor that brought him and the kryptonite to earth also happened to demolish her home and kill her parents (I hate when that happens!) and she made the kryptonite necklace because she thought it was pretty – he was merely returning it to her. Actually, as was explained over these first two episodes, Lana’s parents were killed by the meteorite, but they were on “Main Street” or whatever Smallville’s, um, main street is called, not at their home. Lana’s aunt with whom she now lives made her the necklace. Lana wears it as a good luck charm because “so much bad luck has come out of it, there can only be good luck left.” Clark gave it back even after he realized it would harm him because a) it belongs to her and b) he’s in love with her and he wants her to be happy, even if that means she wears a bauble of death-rock. > [@](#): > > And the guy who plays Clark is UGGGLY! Blasphemer. Sunshine > [@](#): > > When I saw the truck blow up, I was trying to remember if Superman’s…uh…outfit…ever got damaged, or if his powers also extended to the cape and tights, etc. And, according to Smallville, it apparently does. Originally, Superman’s uniform was made of the material of his baby blankets that were enclosed in his rocket. Being Kryptonian they were also invulnerable. He treated his regular clothes with some chemical that made them resistant to damage and also amazingly allowed him to compress them into small disks which he would store–after slipping out of them in the Daily Planet suppply closet–in a pocket of his cape. This only worked on clothes that were red, white or blue, which is why he always wore the same suit. This was retconned about 17 years ago. Now, Superman has an “aura” that extends about a half-inch or so from his skin. It protects his uniform but not his cape, and to a lesser extent his civilian clothes. Smallville apparently adheres to the latter formula. ---
**Author:** ![DPWhite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d26b3c/32.png) [@DPWhite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPWhite)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-nights-smallville-an-aneurysm-inducing-product-of-the-wb/89343/16 "2001-10-24T21:26:14Z")
Isn’t this Saved by the Bell meets Dawson’s Creek, meets Buffy meets the X-Files? ---
**Author:** ![HoldenCaulfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/22d042/32.png) [@HoldenCaulfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoldenCaulfield)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-nights-smallville-an-aneurysm-inducing-product-of-the-wb/89343/17 "2001-10-24T23:39:46Z")
This show is addictive and entertaining. Yeah, its got tons of faults and a lot of it is pretty stupid. But there is just something about it that makes me want to watch every episode. I am sucked in. Long live Smallville. What a great show! ---
**Author:** ![Saltire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saltire/32/553_2.png) [@Saltire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saltire)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-nights-smallville-an-aneurysm-inducing-product-of-the-wb/89343/18 "2001-10-24T23:58:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ukulele Ike \* > \*\*The plot contrivance is, Lana gave the necklace to Whitney as a good-luck charm, and Whitney hung it around Clark’s neck in last week’s episode, saying “THIS is as close as you’ll ever get to Lana, you nerd!” (bear with me, here) and when Lex cut Clark down the necklace fell off, and Lex picked it up, and this week he gave it back to Clark (in a lead box) and said “If you give this to Lana, she’ll like YOU instead of Whitney, since he lost it and you got it back for her!” \*\* The thing that was _ **so** _ Clark Kent about the end of this second show was that he let the sadistic jock boyfriend get credit for both saving Lana from Bug Boy’s webs and returning the pendant. She never knew Clark was involved, and I doubt Whitney will fill her in on the facts. I expect Lex will be very disappointed in his young friend for not capitalizing on the situation and getting the girl. By the way, when Lana and Lex spoke in this episode, they seemed to imply that he was several years older than she. Is he in high school like the rest, or is he college-aged? ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2001, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-nights-smallville-an-aneurysm-inducing-product-of-the-wb/89343/19 "2001-10-25T01:10:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Otto \* > **Actually, as was explained over these first two episodes, Lana’s parents were killed by the meteorite, but they were on “Main Street” or whatever Smallville’s, um, main street is called, not at their home.** Ok, my husband is a liar, or just not paying attention. \*\* > [@](#): > > Lana’s aunt with whom she now lives made her the necklace. Lana wears it as a good luck charm because “so much bad luck has come out of it, there can only be good luck left.”\*\* Uh huh. \*\* > [@](#): > > Clark gave it back even after he realized it would harm him because a) it belongs to her and b) he’s in love with her and he wants her to be happy, even if that means she wears a bauble of death-rock.\*\* :rolleyes: Is this show brought to us by the Glurge Foundation of America? ---
**Author:** ![saepiroth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@saepiroth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saepiroth)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2001, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-nights-smallville-an-aneurysm-inducing-product-of-the-wb/89343/20 "2001-10-25T01:22:38Z")
well, it IS from the WB. not much of a difference, is there? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-nights-smallville-an-aneurysm-inducing-product-of-the-wb/89343.md?page=2)