hairy_hen said:

Smallville got really good in its last few seasons, which really made me wish it had adopted that storytelling style far earlier in its run, since it then ended just as I was getting really into it.

The previous years were filled with potential but wasted it on endless rubbish with the insufferable Lana Lang and Clark's inability to ever think straight around her, which was so bad it's a miracle I ever made it through any of that stuff.

But Erica Durance was so awesome as Lois Lane that it kept me going, since I'd heard it would become great by the end, and it definitely did not disappoint.

I actually used to like the show when I was younger, and there are some aspects I still like, but it's hard for me now to ignore how poorly Clark was characterized, how mishandled the Superman mythos was, and how -- for lack of a better term -- "teen chic" it was. The overuse of elements taken from the Reeve films certainly didn't help any, either.

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