The Direction of Smallville

I've been a huge fan of Smallville since it aired in 2001.  I've always been a huge Superman fan, movies and comic books.  I wasn't a super freak comic book reader so I don't know every line from every comic book ever published.  Truth be told I've probably only read a dozen in my childhood.  At some point the comic books ended because "I was too old for them" according to my parents.

I loved the old black and white series with George Reeves from 1952, I was too young to ever see it back then but it did air in the 70's along with other black and white shows from the 50's and 60's.

When Lois and Clark came out I wanted to see it but I was always working at night and so I never had any time for any TV shows.  I didn't have a VCR to record anything and I probably wouldn't have had any time to see them the next morning anyway.  I did see an episode here and there and thought that it wasn't exactly true to the story.  I mean, Jonathan Kent was still alive?  And Lois and Clark were married and living together?  So, I wasn't that into it anyway because I like shows that are true to the story the way the story was written you know?

So when Smallville came out I was super excited about it and I've watched it faithfully from the very first episode, never missing 1 episode.  But, I've been real concerned with the show.  OK, I like Chloe and Pete even though I'd never heard of those 2 characters before.  I wasn't too sure about Clark knowing Lex before he became Superman because that's pretty much when he meets Lex.  What has concerned me all this time is the lack of glasses.  He wore glasses in 1 episode, that's it.

Also, this whole thing with him dating Lana, when did that ever happen?  And she is wearing a suit of his powers but they can never see each other again because of the kryptonite infecting the suit now?  WHAT?

And, didn't he meet Lois when he first went to work for the Daily Planet?  In Smallville she lives with him and his parents using his bedroom and making him sleep on the couch or in the loft?  Oh and... the loft?  (this was after a couple seasons that I am referring to)

Oh and when did Jonathan Kent ever become a senator in this story?  The only "true to the story" thing about him is that he died at the appropriate time, although he should've been an old man but that's ok.  He still died at the age Clark was in the first movie.  But what confuses me is that Martha takes over his office and is senator then next season she's living in Washington lol.

What is raising some concern with me is that in all these seasons Clark has never learned how to fly.  Why is that?  Why are the writers resisting him ever finishing his training in the fortress which is now BLACK!  UGH!  Come on Smallville writers, what are you doing to this good show?

And where is his costume?  Shouldn't he be wearing it about now?  In the movie when he first started working for the daily planet he was wearing a costume.  There were so many episodes where they referred to the tights and cape, even Lois said that a psychic said that she was destined to be with a guy wearing tights and a cape.  Plus there was that episode with the green arrow, Oliver, wearing the red cape going from 1 building to the next to show that Clark wasn't the red blue blur.

This show is just getting more ridiculous every time I see it.  Don't get me wrong, I'm hooked but it's going so far off track.  Oh, Lex is DEAD?  Jimmy Olsen is DEAD?!?!?  WHAT!  Are you kidding me?  I guess to be fair, at the end of the season finale they showed that strange orb thing in the back of the mansion with a naked bald man, that kinda makes me think that Lex has come back to life.  And then at Jimmy's funeral they show this little boy and Chloe gives him Jimmy's camera and he's wearing a bow tie.  So what, is he the future of Jimmy Olsen?  His last name may be Olsen but what's his first name?  They said that Jimmy's name was Henry James Olsen so is this little kid James Olsen?  That character isn't even credited in IMDB so I couldn't find out what his name was (character name).

I'm just sayin to please be a little more true to the story in the next season.  I know there will be another season because they left too many unresolved issues and it didn't say Series finale, it said Season finale.  So I know it's not over.