Comments on: Rosenbaum Leaves Smallville, Will The Show Get Even Worse?

By: leon

leon — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 06:56:09 +0000

I totally love season 1-5. 6 was ok, bit confusing, 7 was the same. I just watch it for Lois coz she is a sight for sore eyes.

By: Kiran

Kiran — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 12:40:05 +0000

I agree with Frank, Lex Luthor was an asset to the programme. I can’t believe the shows carrying on without him!

By: frank

frank — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:51:38 +0000

It came as a shock to here there are going to be so many changes in season 8. I thought the show could go on and on to be honest. Hope they create a spin off show from this with the Daily Planet format like they did with Lois and Clark:the new adventures of superman. Lex Luthor was so key to Smallville, to let the actor who plays him go is a big mistake. Its sad the show is coming to an end as it seems like it really didnt tie up any of the Clark-Lana-Lex story arks at all. Alot of loose ends.

By: Yaseen Hamid

Yaseen Hamid — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:30:18 +0000

I’m confident about the new producers they have worked together on episodes and wrote some very mythos heavy episodes and one of them said that season 8 will focus more on Clark and Lois’s journey. However, I think the real villain here is the CW itself, they are pressuring the writers to do the whole Lana thing EVERY season because according to K-site the CW president want’s shows targeted 13-35 year old women and added to that they want to bring in the freaking Doomsday. So I don’t think it’s the producers or the writer’s it’s the CW cause she (the CW president) knows who is going to get the blame: the writers and producers.

By: John "Kahless" Taylor

John "Kahless" Taylor — Sun, 11 May 2008 00:19:25 +0000

I thought the last episode was pretty good, at least at lot better than what we have been getting. Next Thursday is the end of the season; let’s hope it goes out with a bang.

By: Bruce Simmons

Bruce Simmons — Thu, 08 May 2008 18:30:28 +0000

Bryant: It’s not your fault. It’s an addiction to the hope that it will get better.. and you want to be there when it does. I get it.

By: Bryant

Bryant — Thu, 08 May 2008 16:54:44 +0000

After the 5th season, Smallville has gone down hill at a consistent speed. The only episodes I enjoyed past that were Justice and Zod. The finale for season six was one of the poorest television finales I have ever seen! And if you’re one of those weirdos who’s like, “no, it was awesome!” then you either don’t know a good story from a bad one, or are too big of a fan to know when to let go. Smallville just sucks right now, and I totally don’t blame Rosenbaum for leaving, heck I wouldn’t be surprised if more of the cast suddenly died. John Glover probably asked to have his character killed! SUCH poor story telling, and HORRIBLE acting the last two seasons. The only reason I still watch it, is for some reason, to either say i’ve seen it, or desperately hoping it’ll get better. I guess. I really don’t know anymore.

By: Smitty

Smitty — Mon, 05 May 2008 23:34:40 +0000

………Vic might find this shocking……..I have a sick feeling that this last season is really going to suck.

DOOMSDAY?!?!?!?!? What the heck are they thinking??? I have supported and followed this show sense way before the pilot.

This is one totally freaked out(not in a good way) Smallville fan.

I hope I am wrong…..but I don’t think so.

Smitty

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 05 May 2008 21:00:06 +0000

I don’t blame Rosenbaum for leaving, c’mon, people showing up at Lex’s mansion unannounced (lana, Clark, etc.)from almost every other episode. That has to be annoying!!!! It seems that they rehash episodes and they think we don’t realize it? How many evil Clarks do we need or evil lana’s, kinda reminds me of some Enterprise episodes where they rehash old themes (been there done that. When it first came out is was great, now it’s tired and run down, move on I say. Heroes paved they way to what a great superhero show should be like (except the last episode). Smallville cannot compare!!! They should go alll out!, why not? They have an awsome franchise but they are always missing the mark!

By: Bruce Simmons

Bruce Simmons — Mon, 05 May 2008 19:23:56 +0000

Jamie, I would not be shocked no matter what they do… no, I take that back.. I’d be shocked if they suddenly produced quality story and character development.. so I’m safe!!

I don’t mind following the show.. I’m just not challenged anymore by the character or storyline developments – that’s my real gripe.

Jessica: Yea, back in the beginning of March of 2007 we uncovered this tidbit about Lex leaving, but it looked like it was tied in with the show ending after seven seasons. It’s a bummer, but then again, Rosenbaum may be doing the right thing for himself. He needs to move on before he’s trapped or type cast. (BTW: It’s weird seeing him in other movies where he A: Has Hair, B: Not plotting the demise of someone.)

Thanks for writing everyone.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Mon, 05 May 2008 03:09:24 +0000

Well I am suprised that Rosenbom is leaving the show. And I am going to miss seeing him on there. Aside from Gene Hacman Rosenbom is my favorite lex luthor. That so called lex luthor played by Kevin Spacy or however his name is spelled he was a joke. But I was hoping that he would be there fir the final season

I mean I know he wants to move on and do other things but for heaven sakes stick around. Its only ONE MORE SEASON!! But anyway he wants to do what he wants to do. I will miss seeing him on the show though!!

By: Endri

Endri — Mon, 05 May 2008 02:40:01 +0000

In the last episode they mentioned that Zod is stil alive, wtf I mean it was cool when they brought him in but by the looks of it it looks like they are doing season 6 all ovcer again.

I really hate the filler episodes but I stil have hope that they might bring Darkseid as the last villain in the series finaly.

IDK there has been a lot of superman tv shows but non of them (thet I know of) has Darkseid in it.

By: Jamie Williams

Jamie Williams — Sun, 04 May 2008 20:09:06 +0000

I give the CW…another 5 years and it’s off the air. Regarding SMALLVILLE, this forthcoming 8th season will probably be its last.

So don’t be shocked if and when they put the suit on Welling during the last 4-5 episodes.

Jamie

By: rob

rob — Sun, 04 May 2008 17:51:35 +0000

this show is rediculous and has been for a few seasons. It has no continuity so everything that happens is stupid. It should of ended in 4 seasons with the ending being him going to the big city. Then they could of continued it as an actual superman show with supervillains seeing how there should be none before that

By: manuel87

manuel87 — Sun, 04 May 2008 17:10:30 +0000

I’ll try and find the link. I remember reading it as a tease or hint in one of the Ask Ausiello’s in TV Guide, after the show was given an 8th season.

By: Screen Rant

Screen Rant — Sun, 04 May 2008 16:52:39 +0000

I think Smallville peaked in it’s 6th season, and they should have done some sort of “closure” episode and called it a day. But then of course, what the heck would CW have to pitch to advertisers?

Manuel, I’d love a link to a quote where G&M stated that Clark will fly.

Dariush, I’m with you. I’m to the point where I’m actively wondering why I tune in ever week. I think it’s the fear of missing something that might actually be “cool” among all the dreck.

I couldn’t believe the idiotic “Jimmy Olsen as super-spy” episode. Like the FBI would use some wet-behind-the-ears photographer to do that sort of work for them.

Yeesh.

Vic

By: Robert

Robert — Sun, 04 May 2008 14:56:38 +0000

I totally agree with Dariush, They should just focus on Clark and move him on with his life and revamp the show and change the name from “Smallville” to “Metropolis” but they are milking it to the very end with the lame stories

By: Robert

Robert — Sun, 04 May 2008 14:50:36 +0000

I agree that Doomsday is waaay too early to bring in, he is still a young superman and hasn’t fully developed his power, why bring in an aswome character far of from his future? it doesn’t make any sense at all. I don’t know why they don’t bring in the legion of Superheroes, that would be more in the superman(boy) timeline or have “Superman” from the future come back in time so that if they use Doomsday it would kinda make more sense. They have great potential but it seems they have been lacking in trying to move his history along,everything just drags along. If the new team after G&M want to revive Smallville they need to really change things and kick it up a notch “Let him fly” for pete’s sake and let us see the famous “S”. So much potential but yet they keep missing the mark.

By: Dariush

Dariush — Sun, 04 May 2008 14:46:06 +0000

I agree. Although even if Smallville would have ended after this season, I wouldn’t have called it “the height of the game”.

In my opinion the quality of the show climaxed a long time ago, but during this season I really wondered why I still keep watching it. I was especially disappointed what they did with the character Kara during the course of the season. After the season premiere, I was pretty excited about the character and thought of what possible storylines they could do with her. But shortly after the show brought me back to reality fast with this crappy “Miss Smallville” episode.

As far as I can see, the authors have clearly run out of ideas for this show. How else can you explain introducing a new character to a show, give her two, three mediocre stories and then let her vanish for half a season? But this is only one example how bad the storylines got. You can’t even count the plot holes or inconsistencies anymore, which the authors obviously don’t even bother to fix anymore.

This is the main problem of the in my opinion. The show was always about sex and action, but in the first years it also had intruiging stories, interesting relationships (Clark and his father, Clark and Lex, and others) and characters you care about. Now most of that is gone: Jonathan is dead, Clark and Lex barely speak and Clark and Lana are a couple (which is by definition boring). Even the thrill, that someone could find out Clarks secret is gone, with most of the main cast already part of the Scooby gang.

After I heared that Rosenbaum would likely leave the show after the 7th season, I assumed that the makers would not honestly consider continuing the show without him and instead close up the storylines and (as a best-case scenario) show how Clark moves to Metropolis and goes on with his live. In fact this was the main reason I was even tuning in this season.

But now knowing that Smallville will continue next season, I can’t seem to bother me watching the show anymore…

jm2¢
Dariush

By: Bruce Simmons

Bruce Simmons — Sun, 04 May 2008 06:29:13 +0000

I understand what you’re saying Manuel, but Doomsday is just too obvious to me as a bad guy to bring in. Doomsday was the end all bad guy and it’s just too easy to do.

Yes, the Lana love angle is old. Do we see Clark and Lois finally cross paths of the romantic nature to match up with the Superman franchise?

I understand I seem too harsh, but teasing us with a mystery woman nemesis and Doomsday just brought clarity to all the details that I’ve been pondering for the last 1/2 season.

Thanks for visiting.. I like seeing the different opinions.