spawnjack01 said:
When someone tries to defend something in smallville that clearly doesn't make any sense, it often comes down to After all, this is Smallville. If you don't like it, don't watch it.
I think you may be confusing snarky cheap shots "It's SV; what do you expect?" with the reality that every show has good and bad elements; no show is completely perfect.
But why is it that a big time Warner production has errors that makes it look amateurish at best?
Oh god... LOL. I could SO launch a "snarky cheap shot" right about now.
Smallville has got to have the largest amount of mistakes out of all the series out there.
If that were true, it wouldn't have lasted six seasons. The good must significantly be outweighing the bad.
Fix what? Those examples you list below? Some of that stuff is just laughable, but not egregious. IMHO.
Im asking this question not as a basher but as a huge fan.
No sweat.
But if you have to b***h about it, why don't just stop watching it?
Well, there is some validity there, but *****ing about something doesn't necessarily equate to being so unhappy with it that you don't *want* to watch it any more. I stop watching shows when they bore me *cough*Sopranos*cough*. That doesn't mean the show had an identifiable "flaw" that could or should have been fixed however. It just means that I wasn't entertained by it any more.
I watch it because of the great lead actors, the great lightning, the movie like filming, the superb music from Mark Snow, the often great sfx, and the twist to the Superman lore.
Nice list. I watch it for all those things too.... and TW of course. Gotta say, if it wasn't for him, all of those other things probably wouldn't have been enough to keep me hooked.
But everyone knows that Smallville has serious contingency problem. More so than any show I can think of.
Contingency or continuity?
Its beyond me that the person saying at the script meeting Wouldt it be really cool if lex got shot again?" still has a job.
Meh. It's a show cliché. Sometimes ya just have to laugh...
Having people go from one place to another that are suppose to be three driving hours apart, like they do with Metropolis and Smallville, really takes away the illusion and makes it feel like the character walks between one set to another.
Well, yeah, agreed. But it doesn't bug me all that much. Maybe the writers just want folks to assume Metropolis is closer to Smallville? I know they already established it's three hours away, but they haven't exactly been drilling that detail. In fact, they've been doing just the opposite. [shrugs]
Everyone knows the faults Smallville has. Errors that are just plain old sloppy and often easy to solve.
Given how much they get right and how much I *am* entertained by the show, I'm willing to give that a pass sometimes. If that makes me an "apologist," so be it. Some out of whack story elements don't bother me all that much.
If you have to use stock footage, you have to remove specific events showing that it is stock footage. How about removing that chopper circling the Daily Planet or the shooting star behind lex mansion. For us who follows the show, it is a dead giveaway and at least I am taken out of the show for a sec.
Hah? Those are establishing shots. The mailbox shot, Clark's loft, the Talon, the high school (though that's not used anymore for obvious reasons), Smallville Medical Center, the Daily Planet and Lex's mansion at night or during the day... they all establish location. Do the cows outside the Kent house or the person in the wheelchair outside of SMC bug you too? (Honest question.)
These are things the editors should know.
They DO know that. That's why they use those shots. They establish location.
I have high respect for many of the people working with Smallville, so I don't get why nobody calls the bs misstakes.
Probably because most are nitpics. There ARE a few glaring errors from time to time. The show isn't perfect.
The gaps are visible even to a five year old. Why don't the pros working with it just fix i?
Because some of the things you're complaining about are the kind of things that only kids piss and moan about - or overly critical fans. I notice that stuff too, but I try to laugh at it. I think dialog can be more annoying; the overuse of "secrets and lies" for example KILLS me - especially when uttered by one particular character.
Why are they just settling with making a watchable show when they have all the potential needed to make a superb show?
I think it IS a superb show - even with the continuity gaffs and silly clichés. Could it be better? Sure. But I think there's a lot of shows out there that are a LOT worse, and NO other show is as entertaining as this one for me. But as I like to say, YMMV.
AssMan said:
I wonder how long before it will be for Pat to come in looking for a mod to close it...
Hmmm... I wonder how long it will be before Kane is banned again?
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you can set a watch by this type of stuff I bet & no Morg if you even bothered to look there is no complaint thread
I'll just merge this one with the other complaint thread, one's enough and better for use mods to keep a eye out in it
